#celebrity-controversy

#celebrity-controversy

Yes, she is young, beautiful, rich and talented, but she has also been getting it from all sides this week. Her passion project has bombed at the box office; she is still paying for a jeans advertisement she did four months ago, and being called on to address charges of having joked about eugenics; and fellow members of the Hollywood elite are breaking ranks to express their disdain (in one case, with a vomiting emoji).

Yeah. And I think he got screwed over in business. I think a lot of what he said was true, but he'd be like, I'm flying to Austin to come on the show. And then halfway through, he'd call up and say, I think they're gonna kill me. I'm turning back. And then next time, a couple of times he said that, I didn't believe he'd be there.

On Sunday, Smith invited Depp (who sued The Sun, the British tabloid, after it referred to him as "wife-beater" but lost the case) to perform "People Have The Power" (the irony!) at her show. As she began her encore, Smith introduced her entire band to the audience, adding: "And Johnny? And Johnny Depp? The original Johnny." So, not only did Depp get an opportunity to play with the legendary singer,

Hayley Williams is happy to confirm that Morgan Wallen is the "racist country singer" she is referring to in her song " Ego Death at a Bachelorette Party." During a recent interview on the New York Times' " Popcast" to discuss her latest solo album, the Paramore lead singer was asked whether she would like to "name names" to reveal who she means when she sings about being "the biggest star / At this racist country singer's bar" in the title track. "It could be a couple but I'm always talking about Morgan Wallen," Williams said. "I don't give a s-. Find me at Whole Foods, b-, I don't care."

Kanye West making Kim Kardashian cry in a luxury yurt in Uganda. Kanye telling Kris Jenner she makes him feel "demasculated" by urging him back on psychiatric meds. The rapper-producer-streetwear-mogul getting tongue-lashed backstage at Saturday Night Live by Michael Che after an anti- SNL (and seemingly anti-Che) diatribe: "That was fucked up! Why you gonna call me out when I don't have the chance to say anything for myself?"

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If I meet you and you're portraying that you're a man and you're not gay, if I look at you like a man, and we f***ing bitches together and we doing certain s**t, and I look at you in a man light, then I find out you gay, there ain't really nothing you can say to me... I don't look at you the same.