Oprah Winfrey Says Trump Tweet Was A Mistake Everyone’s favorite auntie Oprah Winfrey found herself in a little bit of hot water after the election last week, when Trump met with Obama and she fired off this tweet: Well, on Sunday, Oprah ate her words a bit during a Facebook Live discussion with Ava Duvernay on her film 13th. Oprah went into the whys and hows of the tweet, but ultimately conceded that it wasn’t her place: “I couldn’t breathe after the election, I was just like [gasp]. I was expecting tension, awkwardness and strain. So, when I saw them sitting together, and I actually took a picture of the screen that said ‘President-elect Trump honored to meet Obama. And President Obama was being so gracious, and I heard Donald Trump say, ‘He’s a good man.’ I heard Donald Trump say, ‘I’m going to be seeking his counsel.’ I literally went … I can breathe now.” My mistake, and what I know to be true, you can never talk about everybody. Even in your arguments with your husband and your children. Don’t talk about what you should do, what you outta do, what everybody else should do, only speak for yourself.” Aw, y’all leave Oprah alone. She’s been around long enough to fire off a questionable tweet here and there…
As the creator of The West Wing and writer of The American President and A Few Good Men , Aaron Sorkin knows a thing or two about the drama of politics. But like most of us, Sorkin would prefer that his presidents bring him to tears by falling in love with Annette Bening, and not by promising to deport 13 million people. Earlier today, Vanity Fair published a moving open letter that the beloved showrunner and screenwriter wrote to his wife and teenage daughter in the wake of Donald Trump’s presidential election . “America didn’t stop being America last night and we didn’t stop being Americans and here’s the thing about Americans: Our darkest days have always — always — been followed by our finest hours,” Sorkin wrote in the letter, which you can read in full here . He went on to offer words of encouragement and hope, as well as a reminder that those who are feeling outraged and frightened by the election of Trump must lean on one another for support: “First of all, we remember that we’re not alone. “A hundred million people in America and a billion more around the world feel exactly the same way we do. … We’ll f–king fight. (Roxy, there’s a time for this kind of language and it’s now.) We’re not powerless and we’re not voiceless.” While his overall tone was optimistic, Sorkin didn’t mince words when it came to describing the support base that allowed Trump to be elected, writing: “And it wasn’t just Donald Trump who won last night—it was his supporters too. The Klan won last night. White nationalists. Sexists, racists and buffoons.” “Angry young white men who think rap music and Cinco de Mayo are a threat to their way of life (or are the reason for their way of life) have been given cause to celebrate. “Men who have no right to call themselves that and who think that women who aspire to more than looking hot are shrill, ugly, and otherwise worthy of our scorn rather than our admiration struck a blow for misogynistic sh-theads everywhere. “Hate was given hope.” He concluded by reminding his daughter that “the battle isn’t over, it’s just begun.” “Grandpa fought in World War II and when he came home this country handed him an opportunity to make a great life for his family,” Sorkin wrote. “I will not hand his granddaughter a country shaped by hateful and stupid men. Your tears last night woke me up, and I’ll never go to sleep on you again.” View Slideshow: Donald Trump Wins Presidency, Twitter Reacts Many had hoped that after Trump’s election , he would apologize for the more inflammatory and bigoted statements he made during his campaign and do his best to ease tensions among the increasingly divided segments of the American population. He has yet to do so.
Matt Baier and Amber Portwood are seen here in a Teen Mom OG therapy session in which he reveals that he’s been lying about his sobriety. Raise your hand if you’re surprised? Matt Baier Busted Lying About Sobriety on Teen Mom OG If you watch Teen Mom OG online , you know that Portwood used to be the hottest mess on the MTV franchise … and her state prison. Not a small feat, in other words. Since she got out of jail, though, she’s really turned her life around, maintaining her sobriety and being a good mother to her daughter, Leah. The only issue is her gross, sketchy fiance, Matt Baier. And with this new sneak peek clip from next week’s installment, well … It’s looking like he’s even grosser and sketchier than we ever could have imagined, which is also not a small feat at this point. “I did absolutely exaggerate the length of my sobriety,” the recovering addict reveals in a therapy session he attends with Amber. “Even with her when I first met her.” You slimy, slimy douchebag. When Matt was first introduced on the reality show, he was supposed to be this person that had battled with addiction, just like Amber. Their bond, however unlikely on the surface, was largely due to the fact that he had beaten the odds and achieved sobriety, just like Amber. Yeah, apparently not so much. “He wasn’t sober when I met him,” Amber explains in the clip, but says she wasn’t duped by that fact at the time. “And I knew it.” “I can say that he would not have been sober if it wasn’t for me, because I took those f-cking pills, poured them down the toilet and threw it at him.” Matt laughs at the memory of that mental image, and says that when it happened, he “wanted to go swimming after” the pills. However, he claims that “that was the day my sobriety really kicked in … it was either her or drugs, and I wasn’t giving up her.” Well, that’s … sweet? A nice sentiment? Even inspirational? No, it’s just as sad and weird as everything else Matt does. It’s great that Matt is sober these days, and if Amber inspired him, then that’s lovely, sure. But the fact remains that this is a toxic pattern. His sobriety is one more thing he’s lied about, and it’s one more thing that he’s gotten the Teen Mom star to lie about on his behalf. He’s shady, and Amber doesn’t need a shady character in her life. Not with how far she’s come, and after all she’s been through. To her credit though, Amber says in the clip that when she first got with Matt, “I said, ‘you will not be with me if you’re doing this sh-t.'” “He made the decision.” Gary Shirley: Matt Baier’s Life is Trash! “I can’t be with someone who’s using,” she recalls, yet, if she were even in a position where she had to flush his pills down the toilet … That would mean he was using, yes? As illogical and concerning and disappointing as it may be, Amber and Matt Baier are getting married at some point in the near future. “I love Matt because I knew his potential when I met him,” she explains. “He was such a good person, he was so sweet. It was genuine.” “I can usually tell when somebody’s bullsh-tting me. He’s done so much in his life that people won’t let him move forward.” “I’ll let him move forward.” And yeah, that’s great, but she shouldn’t “let him move forward” at the risk of her own health and happiness, or her daughter’s. If he wasn’t sober when they met, and if he lied to her about how many kids he has, and if he made her think he was genuine? Forget the fact that he tried to get with Farrah Abraham and Jenelle Evans first, he’s just not a good dude for her in the end. No amount of these confessions or revelations or whatever is going to change that, no matter what she likes to tell herself. Agree? Disagree? Hit the comments below and tell us what you think of Amber and Matt’s complicated relationship past, present and future: Will this last?!
The ex-wife of convicted sex offender Jared Fogle has opened up in a new interview with CBS This Morning. In a sit-down with the news outlet, Katie McLaughlin says she had no idea that the man who fathered her two children was a pedophile. She found out in the most dramatic, stunning way possible. “You could look up every word in a dictionary or thesaurus for ‘horrible’ and none of them describe what this year has been like,” McLaughlin told Anna Werner. She was married to Fogle for five years and is the mother of a five-year old and a three-year old she had with Fogle. When did she know that Fogle was in trouble with the law? When did she learn about the heinous allegations against him? When FBI agents knocked on the door of her home in July of last year, that’s when. “I knew nothing about his involvement in anything. … They just walk in and you’re just in shock,” she says. “I didn’t understand any of it to be honest. I mean, you just – you float out of yourself because the FBI shouldn’t be in your house.” Fogle, the former Subway spokesperson, was sentenced to 15 years behind bars in November for ogling photos of underage children online and for soliciting sex from them. In a new lawsuit filed against Subway by McLaughlin, she claims that the fast food chain was aware of Fogle’s illegal and disgusting activities while Fogle worked for it. “As early as 2004, Subway’s then Senior Vice President of Marketing received a complaint that Jared had approached a young girl at a promotional event for a Las Vegas Subway franchise for a sex act,” reads a portion of the legal document, obtained by Radar Online. It continues: “Subway exploited his family despite knowing of allegations that Jared was a pedophile and failing to properly investigate those allegations.” As part of this lawsuit, it came out that Fogle allegedly had sex with girls as young as nine years old. Yes, nine years old. A professor at the University of Ottawa in Canada who studied the ex-Subway spokesperson testified that his conclusion was Fogle suffered from mild pedophilia, hypersexuality and alcohol abuse and dependency, according to the Associated Press. “I can’t even think about him at this point in my life,” McLaughlin told CBS when asked if she still loves the father of her kids. “Of course there is anger there … he had two lives going on. He was home with the kids and I in one life, and he was out on the road in a different life. … He was able to keep them very separate in a way I can’t even fathom.” View Slideshow: 21 Celebrities You Probably Want to Keep Away From Your Children Concluded McLaughlin in this interview: “[He ruined] my ability to trust, my ability to think that things will be OK. “I think I was always a pretty happy person who thought if everyone puts in their hard work, things will end up OK. And now I’m not so sure about that.” View Slideshow: 13 Shamed Celebrity Spokespeople
Donald Trump is a disgusting human being. There, we said it. He’s overbearing, ignorant, cocky as hell, and just all-around terrible. He’s proved it time and time again throughout the years, and especially throughout this year as he’s somehow managed to work his way into the presidential race. He proved it when he admitted he doesn’t pay taxes and hasn’t for nearly two decades, he proved it when he told Billy Bush that he could go up to women and “grab them by the pussy.” To be clear, when Donald told Billy that he’s “a star” and he can “do anything” to women, even “grab them by the pussy,” he’s describing sexual assault. That’s not an opinion, that’s a fact. And it’s a fact worth mentioning, considering that Trump’s been accused of sexual assault by twelve different women. In one particularly disturbing case, a woman filed a lawsuit against him for raping her when she was just 13 years old. The suit was filed in June by a woman known only as Jane Doe, and she claimed that Donald, along with his pal and convicted child molester Jeffrey Epstein, “sexually and physically abused” her by making her “their sex slave.” A good amount of time has passed since this incident allegedly took place, but the woman has said that she was unable to file any charges or lawsuits earlier because she was threatened. “Immediately following this rape,” she claimed in court documents, “Defendant Trump threatened me that, were I ever to reveal any of the details of Defendant Trump’s sexual and physical abuse of me, my family and I would be physically harmed if not killed.” And on Wednesday, she was scheduled to come forward for the first time at a press conference to discuss her story. The conference was canceled because she’d received death threats. And now it looks like she’ll never come forward: she’s dropped all charges against Trump. Her lawyer, Lisa Bloom, explained things in a couple of messages on Twitter last night “Jane Doe instructed us to dismiss her lawsuit against Trump and Epstein today,” she wrote. “Tough week for her. We wish her well.” Donald Trump Apologizes for Words About Women “Every woman makes her own choice about what is best for her,” Bloom continued. “Life’s a journey. Most of us get stronger as we get older. I respect women.” What a tragic story, no matter how you look at it. View Slideshow: 23 Times Donald Trump Proved He Hates Women
Khloe Kardashian is on the warpath. Girl just went on a seriously crazy Twitter rant. She’s pissed, and she doesn’t care who knows it. But let’s back up a little bit. Khloe was on Jimmy Kimmel Live on Thursday night, and she opened up about several topics . She touched on her relationship with Tristan Thompson , and she talked about how she loves visiting him in Cleveland. She gave some details about Kendall Jenner’s 21st birthday party , including how a prince the family had never met before gave her a Rolls Royce for the special occasion. And she even discussed Rob Kardashian, Blac Chyna, and their little baby girl who’s all set to be born any minute now . It was a cute little interview, nothing too serious, but apparently some people found some issues with it. Khloe Kardashian on Rob and Chyna’s Baby And Khloe wasn’t about to stand for that. “This is why I f-cking hate interviews!” she tweeted yesterday. And here we go. “You people twist my words around!” she wrote with such palpable fury. “Don’t start f-cking drama! Reaching really hard!” “I try to be nice but frankly you just irritate the f-ck out of me and I would rather be anti social,” she added. Uh, what? We’re not sure what she’s talking about, really, but she has to be talking about the Jimmy Kimmel interview. She did say that Kendall was so drunk that she forgot she drove her new Rolls Royce to her party, so maybe some people got angry that she was trashing her sister for getting wasted. Or maybe she was jealous that Kendall got such an extravagant gift in the first place. When she was talking about Tristan Thompson, she said that no one would think she’d be in Cleveland, so maybe some sensitive locals took offense to that. And then when she was discussing ChyRob’s baby, she said that Chyna had been telling her directly that “we’re about to have a baby,” the “we” meaning Chyna and Khloe, Perhaps some people interpreted that as her saying that Rob wasn’t stepping up. It’s so very, very easy to twist any words however you want to, and Khloe’s been in the business long enough to realize that. Instead of being so touchy and quick to throw out a few F-bombs to her faithful followers, she should consider just chilling out a little bit. After all, she’s only making herself look bad. Or worse, as it were. View Slideshow: 11 Times Khloe Kardashian Taught Us The Value of Tough Love
For the first time since Brock Turner was freed from prison, the woman he raped has released a public statement. Turner, of course, is the Stanford University student who was convicted of rape this past spring, only for a judge to sentence him to a mere six months behind bars. The case made national news after Turner’s victim, who preferred to remain anonymous, addressed her attacker in court. Within four days, her statement had been viewed 11 million times; was read aloud on CNN; and also on the floor of Congress. It also made national news because Turner was found guilty of assaulting this woman behind a dumpster in an alley… and yet his father dismissed the action as nothing more than a drunken mistake. His mother said the same thing and Turner himself blamed both his alcohol intake and even that of his victim for his actions. Turner was released from jail after just three months and was forced to register as a sex offender. But that was a pretty small price to pay for that he did. Now, Glamour has named Emily Doe its Woman of the Year and has given her a platform to share her thoughts on Turner, his conviction, his sentencing, his release and, of course, her role in this sad tale. Out of respect for the victim, we are simply going to run her statement to Glamour in its entirety below. She deserves to tell her story in full, without any commentary or editorializing from our staff… From the beginning, I was told I was a best case scenario. I had forensic evidence, sober unbiased witnesses, a slurred voice mail, police at the scene. I had everything, and I was still told it was not a slam dunk. I thought, if this is what having it good looks like, what other hells are survivors living? I’m barely getting through this but I am being told I’m the lucky one, some sort of VIP. It was like being checked into a hotel room for a year with stained sheets, rancid water, and a bucket with an attendant saying, No this is great! Most rooms don’t even have a bucket. After the trial I was relieved thinking the hardest part was over, and all that was left was the sentencing. I was excited to finally be given a chance to read my statement and declare, I am here. I am not that floppy thing you found behind the garbage, speaking melted words. I am here, I can stand upright, I can speak clearly, I’ve been listening and am painfully aware of all the hurt you’ve been trying to justify. I yelled half of my statement. So when it was quickly announced that he’d be receiving six months, I was struck silent. Immediately I felt embarrassed for trying, for being led to believe I had any influence. The violation of my body and my being added up to a few months out of his summer. The judge would release him back to his life, back to the 40 people who had written him letters from Ohio. I began to panic; I thought, this can’t be the best case scenario. If this case was meant to set the bar, the bar had been set on the floor. The morning after the sentencing, my phone screen was stacked with texts and I turned it over saying, not today, on this day I deserve to sleep. My phone kept ringing and I learned that BuzzFeed was waiting for my permission to publish my court statement in full. As soon as it was posted, I remember thinking, what have I done, making myself exposed and vulnerable again. I texted my sister when it hit 20,000 views, thinking that was it, the comments were actually quite nice, and I closed my computer. I started getting e-mails forwarded to me from Botswana to Ireland to India. I received watercolor paintings of lighthouses and bicycle earrings. A woman who plucked a picture of her young daughter from the inside of her cubicle wrote, This is who you’re saving . When I received an e-mail that Joe Biden had written me a letter I was sitting in my pajamas eating some cantaloupe. You are a warrior. I looked around my room, who is he talking to. You have a steel spine, I touched my spine. I printed his letter out and ran around the house flapping it in the air. There was, of course, the wee sprinkle of trolls. Some photos of me leaked and someone said, “She’s not pretty enough to have been raped.” In response I say, damn I wish the world could see me. I wish you could see my big, beautiful head and huge eyes. Perhaps now you are at home imagining me looking like some sort of bloated owl. That’s all right. When Ashleigh Banfield read my letter on the news I sat stunned watching her speak my words, imagining them being spoken on every television set in the nation. Watching women and men at Gracie Mansion, on the floor of the U.S. House of Representatives, girls in their rooms, gathered together to read each segment, holding my words in their voices. My body seemed too small to hold what I felt. In the very beginning of it all in 2015, one comment managed to lodge harmfully inside me: Sad. I hope my daughter never ends up like her. I absorbed that statement. Ends up. As if we end somewhere, as if what was done to me marked the completion of my story. Instead of being a role model to be looked up to, I was a sad example to learn from, a story that caused you to shield your daughter’s eyes and shake your heads with pity. But when my letter was published, no one turned away. No one said I’d rather not look, it’s too much, or too sad. Everyone pushed through the hard parts, saw me fully to the end, and embraced every feeling. If you think the answer is that women need to be more sober, more civil, more upright, that girls must be better at exercising fear, must wear more layers with eyes open wider, we will go nowhere. When Judge Aaron Persky mutes the word justice, when Brock Turner serves one month for every felony, we go nowhere. When we all make it a priority to avoid harming or violating another human being, and when we hold accountable those who do, when the campaign to recall this judge declares that survivors deserve better, then we are going somewhere. So now to the one who said, I hope my daughter never ends up like her, I am learning to say, I hope you end up like me, meaning, I hope you end up like me strong. I hope you end up like me proud of who I’m becoming. I hope you don’t “end up,” I hope you keep going. And I hope you grow up knowing that the world will no longer stand for this. Victims are not victims, not some fragile, sorrowful aftermath. Victims are survivors, and survivors are going to be doing a hell of a lot more than surviving.
Another day, another photo featuring Khloe Kardashian looking virtually unrecognizable, and thusly, like a half-melted wax mannequin. Even sister Kourtney looks super tweaked in this photo … and if the duo hasn’t gotten (more) plastic surgery, then they really need to fire whoever the hell is digitally editing their photos. Kourtney shared the snap on her Instagram page last night, and captioned it, “Last week with my boo,” which we’re gonna take to mean that this is, sadly, a fairly recent pic of the sisters. Honestly speaking, though – ha, as if we’re mincing words today – the two look terrible . Though some comments on the pic read “Please stop getting plastic surgery ,” most of the others centered around Photoshopping accusations. Truth be told, though, only either a really gifted – or a really ham-fisted – digital artist could manipulate their normally-gorgeous faces into something this appalling. It is Halloween, though, so perhaps they’re going as the plastic versions of themselves. … The more plastic versions of themselves, that is. Khloe shared the above pic last week, and she caught a ton of flak for it. If you take a good look at the photo, you’ll see that Khloe’s looking more like Miley Kardashian than anything else, and the overall effect is not good. We like Miley’s face just fine, and there’s nothing bad about Khloe’s either, but when you combine the two? Two words: toothy caveman. Previously, Khloe spoke out about plastic surgery , and said “Let me set the record straight once and for all.” “I haven’t had any fillers or done any plastic surgery.” “Yet,” she added. “Yet,” indeed, we say. Kourtney herself was even rumored to go under the knife in order to impress one-time fling, Justin Bieber . When she was dating Justin, she was said to do it to “hold onto” him. “With all the models half her age that Justin has been with, Kourtney is feeling insecure,” a source reported. “She’s been working super hard on her body and she looks amazing, but she feels like she could look much younger.” If all that doesn’t just translate to stupidity for you, then you, friends, just might be a Kardashian. Or Justin Bieber. Which might be even worse. View Slideshow: Celebrities Who Have Admitted to Plastic Surgery
There’s patriarchy, and then there’s whatever the hell the Duggars have going on. If you watch Counting On online , you know that Jim Bob and Michelle have a tried and true method for ensuring that their kids don’t engage in any pre-marital … … well, anything ! Jim Bob in particular guards his daughters like expensive pieces of property because he somehow got the impression that the Bible wants him to. We think it was in the book of Douche-ronomy. #BibleBurn The Duggars believe it’s their sacred duty to populate the Earth with as many Duggars as possible. An odd mission, considering they can’t even keep the kids they have from molesting people, but they seem to take it pretty seriously. In fact, they’ve devised a clever system: By ensuring that their offspring are beyond sexually frustrated by the time they get married, Jim Bob and Michelle know they’ll immediately begin copulating like it’s going out of style as soon as they get hitched! Foolproof, right?! It’s called “courting,” and it may be the only aspect of their lives in which the Arkansas family believes in equality. In other words, it sounds like the process of getting to know a significant other is equally hellish for both participants. At this point, the Duggars are almost as famous for their courtship methods as they are for their scandals and their fertility, and new information about this odd custom seems to emerge every few months or so. If you watched last week’s episode of Counting On , you may have picked up on a seriously WTF detail of the Duggars’ courtship process: It seems Jim Bob makes his daughters’ potential suitors fill out a 50-page questionnaire before they commence with the courtship process! This disturbing nugget of information was revealed during the Counting On after show (because every freakin’ show has an after-show in the world of #PeakTV). JB casually mentioned the document while being interviewed by producer Scott Enlow. “I’m sorry, wait a second Jim Bob made you guys fill out questionnaires?” Enlow asked, prompting an eruption of nervous laughter from daughter Jessa Duggar. “I think that questionnaire is pretty thorough,” she interjected. “He is not kidding,” Jill Duggar confirmed. “Everybody did the 30-page questionnaire,” Jill added, noting that it had expanded to 50 pages in recent years. Fifty. Pages. Apparently, the questionnaire primarily focused on the respondents’ religious beliefs and how they pertain to their lifestyle. Jeremy Vuolo, who recently got engaged to Jinger Duggar , and has often been accused of breaking courtship rules, stated: “The major question, where I spent most of my time was ”tell me about how you became a Christian, how you came to the Lord.'” View Slideshow: 13 Things BANNED in the Duggar Family Yeah, we’re pretty sure Jesus was big on judging other people and grilling them about their religious beliefs. Or maybe not. What do we know? Now that we think about it, we’ve never had to take a 50-page test about our religious convictions before. Hmm …
Kim Zolciak is, to put it very mildly, a piece of work. She’s loud, obnoxious, offensive, and those are some of her best qualities. Another one of her charms? That special way she has of trying to make everyone believe she’s never had any plastic surgery on her face . In this new interview she did with Entertainment Tonight, she listed all the things about her appearance that are fake or constructed by the expert hands of plastic surgeons. And, well, it just sounds wrong. She started from the top, saying “We all know that I wear a wig, although I have amazing hair.” “I’ve done my lips,” she continued, and added that “I’ve been getting Botox since I was young, for migraines initially and now it’s the obvious reason.” “I’ve had my boobs done. I fixed by hernia and had a tummy tuck at the same time, you know, it’s one in the same.” You might have noticed that Kim didn’t mention anything about a nose job, or about any other intensive procedures regarding her face. Which is strange, because her face looks remarkably different than it did a few years ago. “Makeup, the contouring and what have you, definitely helps,” she explained. “Why would I not talk about a nose job?” We don’t know, Kim. Why would you advise your own daughter to “try 5-10 penises” before getting married ? Why do you do anything that you do? Kim also said that as of right now, plastic surgery is completely off the table, thanks to that stroke she had last year . “This is the other thing, you idiots!” she so adorably said. “You think I’m gonna have a stroke and then go do something? Go have plastic surgery?” “That’s really smart. You can’t. I’m on blood thinners for at least another year.” Yeah, you idiots. Do you think Kim is some kind of ignoramus or something? Do you think she’d be that stupid? Get real, dummies. (Nice deflection from the nose job conundrum, right?) In the interview, Kim also discussed another thing she’s known for: getting into embarrassing, pointless fights with strangers on social media. “I’m a Taurus, right?” she started, and so you know she’s about to drop some wisdom. “So I’ll take it, and I’ll take it, and I’ll take it, when it comes to me, anyway. When it comes to my kids, you got about a very small window, and then I just blow up.” “It makes me so mad that people take time out of their day to write a nasty comment … You’re making a conscious effort, decision to type this out to me, or my daughter?” To be clear, she’s talking about her oldest daughter, Brielle Biermann. Brielle gets a lot of hate because she’s just as insufferable as her mother , but as Kim tells it, it’s because she’s “very strong, very confident.” And as for her husband, Kroy Biermann, Kim says that he doesn’t have any social media accounts, so he usually doesn’t keep up with what she posts. That’s how she’s free to post nude pics of him . “He doesn’t know what I do,” she said, “Until he gets a Google Alert.” Well, aren’t you just a peach, Kim? What a real and true gem. View Slideshow: Celebrities Who Have Admitted to Plastic Surgery
