By Wonderwall.com Editors
5:00pm PDT, Oct 22, 2023
Baby talk
Parenting "doesn't get easier" with age — even when you have plenty of help. That's according to Robert De Niro, who revealed earlier this year that he'd quietly welcomed his seventh child with girlfriend Tiffany Chen. In a recent interview with The Guardian, Robert, 80, was asked "how things are going" with the new baby and whether he still agrees with a past comment he made about how raising kids is "always good and mysterious."
"It's going OK," he replied. As for the mystery? "You never know what's going to happen. They surprise you," said the two-time Oscar winner. "It doesn't get easier. It is what it is," he continued. "It's OK. I mean, I don't do the heavy lifting. I'm there, I support my girlfriend. But she does the work. And we have help, which is so important."
Despite the new baby, the "Killers of the Flower Moon" star also admitted he thinks about his mortality at 80. "Of course I think about it, at my age," he said. "I'm aware of it. You think more about time. Every summer, every new season, everything, you say, 'Well, I'm going to use these few months of the summer to be with my kids, my family.' I can't wait until the next -– I don't know what's going to happen. So each thing becomes more important. Everything I do, time-wise, is important. Whatever I'm thinking about doing in two years, I'd better think about doing it now."
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'Lies and insults'
In her new memoir, "Worthy," Jada Pinkett Smith appears to accuse Chris Rock of sharing "lies and unwarranted insults" about her and Will Smith in his 2023 Netflix special "Selective Outrage." The standup special was the first time Chris publicly addressed the 2022 Oscars incident in which Will took the stage and slapped him across the face over a joke he made about Jada's shaved head, according to People.
"Everybody that really knows, knows I had nothing to do with that s***. I didn't have any 'entanglements,'" Chris said of the slap, invoking the term Jada used while discussing her romance with singer August Alsina during a break in her marriage. (She's since confirmed she and Will secretly separated in 2016.) "I did some jokes about her. Who gives a f***? That's how it is: She starts it, I finish it. … Nobody was pickin' on her," Chris said in his special.
Jada, meanwhile, doesn't specifically name "Selective Outrage" in her book, but she writes at length about the Oscars slap and about Chris, who she says "hurt my feelings in the past."
"What do you do, say, if someone decides to make a comedy special full of lies and unwarranted insults?" she writes in "Worthy," seemingly referencing Chris' special. "You love them as God does, and you say to yourself when people hurt that it could be they believe they will feel better if they lash out," she continues. "Can I honestly say I've never been there? The answer is no. And that's where compassion and well-wishing come in."
A source previously claimed Jada was simply being "heckled" by the comic, telling People, "Chris is obsessed with her and that's been going on for almost 30 years."
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Family medical issues
Pink announced on Monday, Oct. 16, that she's dealing with "family medical issues" and must reschedule multiple concerts as a result. "I am so sorry to inform the Tacoma ticket holders that the two shows October 17 and October 18 (tomorrow and Wednesday) will be postponed," the singer, who shares two children with husband Carey Hart, wrote in a statement on Instagram. Adding that tour promoter Live Nation would be rescheduling the dates, Pink explained, "Family medical issues require our immediate attention. I send everyone my sincerest apologies for any inconvenience this has caused. I am sending nothing but love and health to all."
She didn't elaborate on her family's health situation, though she postponed a show in Arlington, Texas, less than a month ago, citing a "bad sinus infection."
Pink has previously discussed the toll COVID-19 took on her son, Jameson, now 6, after they both contracted the virus in 2020 at the height of the pandemic, telling author Jen Pastiloff in an Instagram Live chat that he still had a 100-degree temperature three weeks after testing positive. At the time, Pink said Jameson "got the worst of it," but she felt so sick and scared that she rewrote her will.
Pink and Carey also share daughter Willow, 12, who joined her mom onstage to help sing "Cover Me In Sunshine" earlier this year.
Memoir bombshells
Britney Spears' new memoir isn't out until Oct. 24, but the book's bombshells — including memories of a secret abortion and of sharing cocktails with her mom in eighth grade — have already started to drop. In "The Woman In Me," Britney delves into her long-running conservatorship, her relationships with her parents and her high-profile romance with fellow pop star Justin Timberlake, among other topics.
The pop star writes that she had an abortion at one point while dating Justin because he "wasn't happy about the pregnancy," according to People magazine. "He said we weren't ready to have a baby in our lives, that we were way too young," she writes. "If it had been left up to me alone, I never would have done it. And yet Justin was so sure that he didn't want to be a father."
Britney also recalls drinking daiquiris in Biloxi, Mississippi, with her mother, Lynne Spears, as a kid. "I loved that I was able to drink with my mom every now and then. The way we drank was nothing like how my father did it," she writes. "When he drank, he grew more depressed and shut down. We became happier, more alive and adventurous."
Elsewhere in the book, the star reveals how being ogled as a child star and fat-shamed by her dad, Jamie Spears, did lasting damage. Jamie's role as the singer's longtime conservator only added to that. "I became a robot," Britney writes. "But not just a robot — a sort of child-robot. I had been so infantilized that I was losing pieces of what made me feel like myself."
Scandal comment
Timothee Chalamet is breaking his silence on the allegations of sexual abuse and cannibalism levied against his former co-star, Armie Hammer. The actors co-starred in 2017's "Call Me By Your Name." In 2021, amid a scandal over a series of disturbing direct messages Armie allegedly sent various women with whom he'd been romantically involved, Timothee was working on a film based on the book "Bones and All" in which he played a cannibal.
The "Dune" star appears on the cover of GQ's November 2023 issue, in which he's described as "reluctantly" recounting what he experienced when he heard about the claims against Armie. "I don't know. These things end up getting clickbaited so intensely. Disorienting is a good word," he told the outlet.
"I mean, what were the chances that we're developing this thing," the actor said of his role in "Bones and All." At the time, a number of outlets incorrectly claimed Timothee's movie was inspired by Armie's scandal. "It made me feel like, 'Now I've really got to do this because this is actually based on a book,'" Timothee said.
Armie has denied the abuse allegations, saying his relationships were consensual, though he conceded he was emotionally abusive with past partners in a 2023 "Air Mail" interview.
