(Photo by Tim P. Whitby/Getty Images) Rihanna Shares Snap Of Her Natural Hair Rihanna has stripped away the wigs, weave and protective styles to show off what’s underneath. The beauty mogul took a boomerang snap of her natural tresses sitting up all over her head. Usually we see the singer with her hair done up, but we guess she was feeling FREE with her bed head. Did you expect her real hair to look like this? Dope! And her edges look HEALTHY. We wonder if she was preparing to get new braids or locs with this style. What is YOUR favorite bad gyal hair style?
We have an update on the condition of Demi Lovato. But it isn’t exactly a positive one. Earlier in the week, multiple outlets reported that Lovato had agreed to check into a treatment facility at an undisclosed location, although the rehab stint would presumably take her far away from Los Angeles. This was viewed as a favorable sign because it meant the singer was acknowledging that she is in dire need of professional assistance. However, here we are… six days after Demi tragically overdosed on some unknown substance and ended up in the hospital. And she’s still there. She’s still under the supervision of doctors. Why is this the case? According to TMZ, Lovato is very sick . She is running a high fever and has severe nausea and is simply not in any kind of shape to be moved at the moment. Just how dire is the situation? Lovato is expected to survive, that’s for certain, but physicians are unable to provide a time table for when she might leave as a patient, considering her painful physical state. Will this diminished state at least hammer home the point to Lovato that she needs to check into rehab? Maybe not. “We just don’t know where her head is at,” an insider tells TMZ. As previously detailed, Lovato was found unconscious last Tuesday morning. An assistant called 911 and, when paramedics arrived a short while later, they had to use Narcan, an antidote to an opioid overdose, in order to revive the artist. This approach worked, of course, and the EMTs had no choice. However, the use of such an antidote, along with the overdose itself and the question of how long Demi’s brain went without oxygen, could mean that Lovato will suffer long-term physical consequences. We just need to wait, see and pray for the time being. Meanwhile, Lovato’s friends are speaking out for the first time since her overdose last week. Previously, close pal Dani Vitale asked trolls to please stop blaming her for what transpired, something folks out there were actually doing simply because Demi was out celebrating Demi’s birthday the night before she was discovered in her bed at home. “I care about Demi just like all of you do,” Vitale wrote, expounding in a lot more detail; “I have not said anything about this situation now because her recovery has been of the most importance. I was not with Demi when the incident happened, but I am with her now, and will continue to be because she means to the world to me just as she does to all of you. “Like all of you, I have nothing but love in my heart for her. “There is no need for any negativity towards the ones who care about Demi at this time. There is too much of it in this world as it is.” Then, on Sunday, actpr Matthew Scott Montgomery, broke his silence on Lovato’s relapse via Instagram Stories Sunday. This is what he wrote: It’s been an incredibly difficult few days, and this year has easily been the hardest I’ve ever experienced. I couldn’t figure out what felt weirder – posting or not posting about this. I will miss hearing my best friend’s laugh, maybe my favorite sound in the world, in the audience for these final shows as she continues to recover. Finally, Sirah, a rapper and member of Lovato’s inner circle, said on Instagram Stories that fans need to band together and stop pointing fingers. Lovato just needs out support. “I hope everyone will focus their energy into more productive things because God knows we need good energy being put forth into the world during a time like this,” she wrote, concluding: “If I return back to the internet in the next few days as I try to continue on with my life, I hope that you guys will be able to understand that no matter what has happened this week it is important for me to live my life so I don’t also end up in the hospital [with] a mental breakdown.” Amen. View Slideshow: Demi Lovato: Stars Shower Her With Love After Overdose
PewDiePie has issued a mea culpa for being a misguided, insensitive, offensive moron. Three days after Demi Lovato was hospitalized for a drug overdose, the YouTube star thought it would be funny to make fun of the singer and her situation. How could it not be, right? This is a young woman who has batted self-esteem issues and mental health issues for years… who had admitted to having suicidal thoughts at the age of seven… and who nearly died after a night of hard and dangerous partying this week. Talk about prime material for a joke, right?!? Yes, according to PewDiePie. Shortly after news broke about Lovato’s overdose, PewDiePie (what kind of name is PewDiePie?!?) shared a meme online that depicted the trouble artist asking her mother for money in order to buy a burger. After receiving the money, however, Lovato turns around and buys heroin instead. Here is the since-deleted image: A couple of quick thoughts come to mind: FIRST, this simply isn’t funny. Like, at all. If you’re going to go out on an offensive limb to crack a joke, you better make sure it’s a funny joke. This is just dumb and non-sensical. (Why would Lovato need to borrow cash from her mother? The whole thing makes no sense.) SECOND, what the heck is wrong with you, PewDiePie?!? We weren’t the only ones asking this question, as the YouTuber was forced to take down his stupid meme and then issue a statement in the wake of severe backlash. “Deleted meme,” he wrote to start his apology, which concluded as follows: “I didnt mean anything with it and I didnt fully know about the situation. I realize now it was insensitive, sorry!” Please, dude. You knew that Lovato overdosed on heroin (it has since been reported that the substance actually was NOT heroin) and you went ahead and posted that meme. What misinterpretation about the situation are you claiming here? Lovato, tragically, was found unconscious by her assistant around 11 a.m. on Tuesday morning. This assistant then dialed 911 (listen to the call HERE ) and paramedics revived the star prior to taking her to the hospital. It is believed that Demi will soon head to a treatment facility somewhere far away from Los Angeles, but this has not yet been confirmed by the singer or anyone close to her. It is simply what various anonymous insiders have reported. In the meantime, practically everyone in Hollywood has sent his or her best wishes, as an entire industry worries about a young woman who has been so open over the years about her substance abuse issues. We are all just praying she gets better. And hoping she knows how many folks out there love her. View Slideshow: Demi Lovato: Stars Shower Her With Love After Overdose
Source: Independent News and Media / Getty You can’t talk about great revolutionaries of the world without mentioning the GOAT of the movement: Mr. Nelson Mandela . The former South African President had a long, tumultuous life trying to end apartheid and bring peace to homeland — not to mention he was the country’s first Black head of state. Despite being deemed a controversial figure for most of his life, Mandela, a Nobel Peace Prize, is also viewed as an icon and “Father Of The Nation” to most South Africans. The Legacy of Madiba lives on WATCH this pic.twitter.com/zRo7n0wnWG — Fikile (Mr Fearfokkol) (@MbalulaFikile) July 18, 2018 In honor of the late legend’s 100th birthday , check out these beautiful rare photos of Mandela throughout his life. [ione_media_gallery src=”https://globalgrind.cassiuslife.com” id=”4273175″ overlay=”true”]
Source: Independent News and Media / Getty You can’t talk about great revolutionaries of the world without mentioning the GOAT of the movement: Mr. Nelson Mandela . The former South African President had a long, tumultuous life trying to end apartheid and bring peace to homeland — not to mention he was the country’s first Black head of state. Despite being deemed a controversial figure for most of his life, Mandela, a Nobel Peace Prize, is also viewed as an icon and “Father Of The Nation” to most South Africans. The Legacy of Madiba lives on WATCH this pic.twitter.com/zRo7n0wnWG — Fikile (Mr Fearfokkol) (@MbalulaFikile) July 18, 2018 In honor of the late legend’s 100th birthday , check out these beautiful rare photos of Mandela throughout his life. [ione_media_gallery src=”https://globalgrind.cassiuslife.com” id=”4273175″ overlay=”true”]
Source: Frank Trapper / Getty Singer and entertainer DeMille Cole-Heard is bringing all the laughs with his musical parodies of popular movies. He first gave fans a taste of his skills last year when he put music to a Friday clip . Now, DeMille has gone all out, remixing classics with hilarious musical arrangements. Everything from White Chicks to The Color Purple has gotten the DeMille treatment. He even did a sequel to his Friday clip: If you want more DeMille Cole-Heard productions, swipe through for the laughs!
It’s been three weeks since the world learned that Demi Lovato relapsed after six years of sobriety , and it seems the recovery process has been a long and difficult one for the troubled pop songstress. To her credit, it wasn’t the tabloids that publicized her latest struggles with substance abuse but Demi herself. In June, she released the song “Sober,” which detailed her fall from the wagon with heartbreaking and surprisingly personal lyrics. Unfortunately, the release of the song did not signal the start of Demi’s long road back to sobriety, as many had hoped. Instead, those who know her best say Lovato is still drinking and has no immediate plans to get clean. “Demi has gone off the rails,” a source tells Radar Online. Equally troubling is the fact that the singer has reportedly been severing ties with those who wish to help her. Demi fired her manager earlier this week, and it seems she’s ended her relationship with several other staffers in the days that followed. “She’s completely dropped her family members, friends and everyone in the sober community, including all of the people at CAST [Demi’s former recovery program],” the source claimed. “And now she is cutting off her staff who have worked with her forever.” As Radar reports, Lovato also shut down her website earlier this week. The site is now back up and running, but the hiatus left many with the impression that Demi is badly in need of some time away from the spotlight. The fact that Lovato is cashing in on her relapse by actively promoting “Sober” on her social media pages has led some to label her a hypocrite: “She is making money off her relapse,” says the insider. “But she is a walking contradiction, because she is does not have a game plan to get clean right now.” Friends and family already staged an informal intervention, but sadly, it seems their concerns fell on deaf ears. “[They] suggested to her that she should get some help and go to rehab,” the source claims. Clearly, Demi didn’t heed that advice. On social media, Lovato has been the subject of a massive outpouring of concern, but unlike in years past, she seems to have little interest in communicating directly with fans. Here’s hoping she’s able to find the help she needs before it’s too late. View Slideshow: Demi Lovato: 19 Candid Confessions from Her Documentary
It’s been three weeks since the world learned that Demi Lovato relapsed after six years of sobriety , and it seems the recovery process has been a long and difficult one for the troubled pop songstress. To her credit, it wasn’t the tabloids that publicized her latest struggles with substance abuse but Demi herself. In June, she released the song “Sober,” which detailed her fall from the wagon with heartbreaking and surprisingly personal lyrics. Unfortunately, the release of the song did not signal the start of Demi’s long road back to sobriety, as many had hoped. Instead, those who know her best say Lovato is still drinking and has no immediate plans to get clean. “Demi has gone off the rails,” a source tells Radar Online. Equally troubling is the fact that the singer has reportedly been severing ties with those who wish to help her. Demi fired her manager earlier this week, and it seems she’s ended her relationship with several other staffers in the days that followed. “She’s completely dropped her family members, friends and everyone in the sober community, including all of the people at CAST [Demi’s former recovery program],” the source claimed. “And now she is cutting off her staff who have worked with her forever.” As Radar reports, Lovato also shut down her website earlier this week. The site is now back up and running, but the hiatus left many with the impression that Demi is badly in need of some time away from the spotlight. The fact that Lovato is cashing in on her relapse by actively promoting “Sober” on her social media pages has led some to label her a hypocrite: “She is making money off her relapse,” says the insider. “But she is a walking contradiction, because she is does not have a game plan to get clean right now.” Friends and family already staged an informal intervention, but sadly, it seems their concerns fell on deaf ears. “[They] suggested to her that she should get some help and go to rehab,” the source claims. Clearly, Demi didn’t heed that advice. On social media, Lovato has been the subject of a massive outpouring of concern, but unlike in years past, she seems to have little interest in communicating directly with fans. Here’s hoping she’s able to find the help she needs before it’s too late. View Slideshow: Demi Lovato: 19 Candid Confessions from Her Documentary
A sizeable number of Facebook users are Black, but many of its employees are not Black. In fact, a staggeringly low number of the social media giant’s workers are Black and Latinx women, according to the company’s latest diversity report released July 12. There are only six Black women who are senior managers and executives. Less than one percent of those 769 positions belong to Black women, who fare worse than their Latinx counterparts at 1.3 percent. The data is alarming, to say the least. “We are definitely concerned,” Maxine Williams , Facebook’s chief diversity officer who is Black, told USA TODAY . Facebook Diversity Chief: 'We Still Have More Work To Do' https://t.co/AMQxINH078 pic.twitter.com/wC2DrBEc3T — KQED (@KQED) July 12, 2018 Facebook is 3.5 percent Black, compared to just 2 percent in 2014, in the U.S. White people are, unsurprisingly, still the single largest population of employees at 46.4 percent, as opposed to 57 percent in 2014. Also, Black employees only make up one percent of employees in technical roles. African-American employees only grew from 2 to 4 percent in the last five years, according to the report. The company is moving slowly toward progress — especially as technology companies have been challenged to reverse decades of discouraging and discriminatory hiring practices. But what’s the good news here? Black employees increased their presence from 2 to 8 percent in business and sales. In addition, there were higher gains for Latinx employees, who went going from 6 to 8 percent in those areas. There is still more work to do at Facebook, which is a big piece of the Silicon Valley pie. Perhaps the work will finally get done if Facebook forms major partnerships with Google — also struggling with diversity, though faring better than Facebook — as well as if it works with Black politicians and activists. Facebook’s fifth annual diversity report shows slow improvement https://t.co/61ORn4gCEC pic.twitter.com/K2M2fVhdM5 — The Verge (@verge) July 12, 2018 SEE ALSO: Gospel Singer Le’Andria Johnson Rips Into Bishop Marvin Winans And ‘Church Politics ‘ Former UCLA Star Billy Knight Who Apparently Committed Suicide Allegedly Sexually Assaulted A Child [ione_media_gallery src=”https://newsone.com” id=”3815656″ overlay=”true”]
As you’ve no doubt heard by now, Justin Bieber is engaged to Hailey Baldwin . And unlike the many, many other times that the media has claimed Justin is getting engaged, this time it’s the real deal. Yes, Bieber and Baldwin have confirmed their engagement , which means the Summer of Wealthy Early-Twentysomethings Getting Engaged to People They’ve Only Been Dating For a Few Months is in full swing. And it’s just as annoying as it sounds. Naturally, fans have been wondering what Justin’s most famous ex, Selena Gomez, thinks of all this. We’ve heard rumors that Selena is pissed about the engagement , which would certainly make sense. Then again, there also been reports that Gomez is glad to be rid of Bieber for good and actually feels bad for Baldwin. As is so often the case with this sort of thing, it seems that the truth is less interesting than the rumors. According to People magazine — probably the most reliable outlet to report on Selena’s reaction — the singer simply couldn’t care less about the state of Justin’s love life. “They haven’t spoken in months,” a source tells the publication. “She hasn’t been talking about him since they ended things again earlier this year.” Obviously, no one will know for sure what Selena makes of the situation unless she decides to speak out on the matter herself. But this take sounds about right. By most accounts, Selena wasn’t too broken up following her latest split with Justin, and she finally realized they just weren’t right for each other. After the sixth or seventh breakup, you probably stop thinking of the other person as your one and only. Besides, Selena’s career is going better than ever these days, and sources close to the singer says she’s the happiest she’s ever been. She may have experienced a pang of sadness upon realizing the ex she dated longer than anyone else is getting married. But we’re guessing it didn’t last long. And if Selena ever doubts that she dodged a bullet, she need only look at a pic of the mustache Bieber is rocking these days. That thing is truly unfortunate. View Slideshow: Justin Bieber: All His Sexual Conquests, RANKED!
