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Roseanne Barr 'lost everything' after controversial tweets: 'It was a witch-burning'
Five years after her "cancelation," Roseanne Barr still feels singled out … and she's still upset about it.
"I've survived. I've come out on the other side of it, finally. But it was a witch-burning," she told The Los Angeles Times. "And it was terrifying. It was."
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Back in 2018, the comedian was on top of the world, as the "Roseanne" reboot was having wild success on ABC. Then, in the middle of the night, Roseanne typed out the tweet that would have lasting repercussions. In the tweet, she compared White House advisor Valerie Jarrett to the "Planet of the Apes" movies. Amid fierce backlash, Roseanne claimed she didn't know Valerie was Black and said she was on Ambien at the time, therefore not thinking clearly.
In the immediate aftermath, ABC fired her, killed off her character and rebranded "Roseanne" as "The Conners," which still airs.
"Oh my God, they just hated me so badly. I had never known that they hated me like that," she said of ABC. "They hate me because I have talent, because I have an opinion. Even though 'Roseanne' became their number one show, they'd rather not have a number one show."
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She says the network denied her the chance to apologize.
"I'm the only person who's lost everything, whose life's work was stolen, stolen by people who I thought loved me. And there was silence," she told the Times. "There was no one in Hollywood really defending me publicly, except for Mo'nique, who is a brave, close, dear friend."
Roseanne said fellow comedians Dave Chappelle and Louis C.K weren't given the same harsh treatment she received.
"They didn't do it to anyone else in Hollywood, although they always throw in Dave Chappelle and Louis C.K. Well, Louis C.K. did lose everything, but he committed an actual [offense]," she said.
In 2017, Louis admitted to performing sexual acts in front of female colleagues. Dave caught backlash for transphobic jokes made in a Netflix special. Both men have won Grammys since their incidents.
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Amid the fallout of her ousting, Roseanne has lost contact with many of her former sitcom costars.
"I can't know what they think or feel. I don't know why they did what they did. I'm not like them. I realized that. I can't believe what they did, with all the pain that I went through to bring the show back. And it didn't faze them to murder my character, either," she shared.
Although the comedy legend sounds bitter, she says she's not.
"I forgive everybody," she says. "I started thinking that God took me out of there to save me. And once I started thinking that way, I was, like, a lot better off."
On Feb. 13, Rosanne will return to TV with a new comedy special for Fox Nation. In a preview of the special, she asks the crowd, "Has anyone else here been fired recently?"
T.J. Holmes upset about his 'predator' portrayal after alleged workplace affair
T.J. Holmes is well aware of what's being said about him amid his alleged workplace affair, and the negative portrayal is eating at him.
"He's distraught … completely distraught. He has a daughter. He hates that he's been painted as this predator," a source told Page Six on Thursday, Feb. 9. Still, in public he's playing the role of a happy-go-lucky guy.
"You'd never suspect anything was going on," the source said.
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On Nov. 30, 2022, DailyMail.com published a bombshell story alleging that "Good Morning America" co-hosts T.J. and Amy Robach — who were both married to other people at the time — had evolved their friendship into a romantic relationship many months earlier.
"There were rumors they were having an affair about a year ago," a source told People magazine. "A lot of people believed there might have been some truth to it, because you can see there's a mutual affection there. But everyone ultimately chalked it up to friendship because they always said they were both happily married."
Some sources claim the romance didn't begin until after their respective marriages collapsed. Still, ABC pulled the duo from the air soon after the initial report, and they were formally let go on Jan. 27, 2023.
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On Feb. 7, The Cut published a report claiming there was a "rampant culture of sex" at ABC, and alleged that T.J. once had sex with a a low-level associate producer in his office working the overnight shift. The woman told The Cut she "didn't even think about power dynamics."
In fact, The Cut alleged that T.J. actually had three workplace affairs while with ABC, and Amy was reportedly very close with one of his alleged conquests.
Both Amy and T.J. were given severance packages in their exits. But, T.J. fears that publicity from the romance will affect his ability to get another lucrative TV job.
"He's taking his time after what just happened and trying to see what's up next," a second source told Page Six. "He's going to start looking for new jobs and will hopefully be OK."
Women in NXIVM 'cult' detail life after 'The Vow' — and it's not what you think
Angelica Hinojos was prepared and ready to have her flesh branded with the initials of a man she hardly knew, and she was excited about it.
To Angelica, though, the brand wasn't about the man. It was about the personal development she felt she'd undergone during her eight years at a company called Executive Success Program — a program that would go on to be more commonly known to the world by its umbrella company's name: NXIVM. The flesh-scalding brand wasn't necessarily part of ESP but rather a symbol of a secret invite-only women's society within the organization called DOS, or Dominus Obsequious Sororium, which loosely translates to "Master Over the Slave Women."
"I was scheduled to get a brand and I was excited," she says, adding that her husband was "supportive" of her plans to be branded. "The brand to me signified a commitment to my growth, and the commitment that I also was making with the other women to help them grow."
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However, before the Mexico City native was able to get branded, NXIVM and ESP were shuttered after the program's founder, Keith Raniere, was arrested in 2018 on federal sex trafficking and forced labor charges. He has since been sentenced to 120 years in prison for his crimes. Former "Smallville" actress Allison Mack was also sentenced to three years in prison on racketeering charges for her role within the organization.
Via shows like HBO's "The Vow" and Starz's "Seduced," Keith's case soon took on a life of its own, as the word "cult" was thrown around leisurely, and viewers heard salacious stories about DOS, which some former members deemed nothing more than a secret sex club created to fulfill Keith's desires and boost his ego by branding women with his initials.
However, five years after NXIVM — and by default, DOS — disbanded, several women within the secret society spoke to Wonderwall.com about life within the invite-only group, and they maintain that it was about female empowerment, solidarity and love.
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In addition, they all insist that they are not Keith's victims but rather victims of the response to NXIVM.
Nicki Clyne, who gained fame as Cally Henderson on "Battlestar Galactica" in the mid-2000s, has lost friends and jobs due to her involvement in ESP and loyalty to Keith. She and several NXIVM loyalists are also named as defendants in a civil lawsuit brought on by former group members who claim the whole thing was essentially a pyramid scheme.
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"I'm a victim of tremendous prejudice because at the end of the day," the former actress says, "I've done nothing wrong and yet I get attacked regularly. I've lost friends, I've lost career opportunities, I'm being sued because I won't adhere to this narrative that, you know, NXIVM was all bad, Keith is a monster and I'm a victim."
In a legal response to the lawsuit, she argued that her name was only listed for "window dressing."
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Linda Chung, a highly educated former lawyer who was involved in ESP for more than four years, says her reputation was tarnished due to the narrative that she was in a "cult."
"There was a time where people were kicking me out of organizations and trying to get me fired," she says. "I am a victim of that in the sense that people were trying to do bad stuff to me and making up stuff about me that was just simply not true. That had real-life consequences for me."
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The truth about DOS, they claim, is far less sensational than what is being told. And although women were referred to as "slaves" and "masters," this shouldn't gin up visions commonly associated with those words, the women assert.
"DOS was a network of women who were working together to build more discipline, more personal accountability, self-reliance and mindfulness," Nicki insists. "It was a series of relationships where it would be one-on-one type mentorships where you could have total trust, total accountability. The person who invited you is called your master. You're called a slave. I know that those words are very provocative, and they were meant to be, but only in the sense that it brought up questions of freedom and choice."
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Angelica says the women in DOS were all friends and were free to come and go.
"I lived in Los Angeles at the time and my mentor lived in a completely different city. She had no way of monitoring me. She could tell me whatever, but I had choices. I had freedom to come and go as I pleased," she explains. "I think people thought we were living in a commune and not being able to leave, and we were doing some things that were very kind of dark. That just wasn't the case."
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Linda maintains that DOS was "built on a foundation of true friendship."
Nicki adds, "I understand that DOS is not for everyone because it's difficult. I think that we may have been overly enthusiastic too quickly, and I think we may have invited people who thought they wanted it but didn't. Maybe [some of the women] didn't understand the commitment because they hadn't committed to something to that level until that point in their lives. I also think that some people joined more just because they wanted to be part of something that they thought was cool, which wasn't a good reason. So I think that those factors played into why, when things got hard, we didn't stick together."
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Since the group's disbandment, it's become common for former NXIVM or DOS members to speak out against the organization. The thing about DOS that's rather ironic is that it was supposed to be highly secretive. The women all gave "collateral" to ensure that they wouldn't discuss the group outside of the group — "collateral" was essentially described as something you wouldn't want out in the public sphere, including but not limited to salacious pictures, financial records or family secrets.
"The point was never for someone to feel coerced to do anything because of their collateral," Nicki says. There's currently no indication that anyone's "collateral" was ever released to the public.
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While Nicki admits that sex was involved in DOS, it was far from a "sex cult" to satisfy Keith. In fact, Angelina and Linda — neither of whom were branded — say they hardly knew or saw the man and viewed him more as the CEO of a corporation. The vow they took wasn't even about the NXIVM leader.
"The vow that I took for life was to commit to my growth and for the growth of others. I still uphold it," Angelica says. "This was something that I really thought about and evaluated. I thought about how it would impact my life. So when I took [the vow] it was serious. It was the same way when I decided to marry my husband, you know, it had the same weight."
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The women — all of whom are highly educated — are unmoved by the negative TV shows about NXIVM and DOS, which Nicki calls "entertaining works of fiction." She even cites a part of "The Vow" in which several DOS members are outside a jail "looking crazy" and trying to get in contact with Keith. The reality, she says, was actually far less about Keith and more about humanity, something she says didn't fit the HBO show's narrative.
"We actually started a movement where we put on parties in the parking lot outside the jail," she explains, adding that weekly gatherings occurred for six months during COVID lockdowns. During this time, she says, Keith's cell window only briefly looked down on the revelry. Still, after a response from inmates, she remembers thinking, "'Wow, this is probably one of the first novel expressions of humanity they witnessed in a long time.' They've been locked essentially in a bathroom 24/7 with another grown-up. So we did it for six months and it was amazing."
To this day, she gets Instagram messages from former inmates. "They thank us and said we made their time more bearable," Nicki says.
Empathy, the women say, was a component of their ESP lessons. Linda insists that the teachings she received within the organization were more beneficial than those she got at Dartmouth College, Cornell Law School and Columbia Business School.
"I attribute a lot of my success now because of the traits that I really learned in ESP," she says. "For that I am forever grateful, and the [return on investment] on these trainings was far better than all of my formal education before, hands down."
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No longer in the legal world, Linda now owns a successful financial services business. But the negative perception of NXIVM — largely attributed to the TV shows, documentaries and news articles — has stayed with her.
"I've lost lifelong friends who really thought that I was either so brainwashed or so stupid or something. They thought I didn't know what I was doing," she says. "I know my intent. I know that I was really trying to help people because I believe ESP was very helpful for me."
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Angelica, who has a degree in psychology and a master's in work and organizational psychology, will never completely move on from NXIVM, nor does she want to.
"It's part of me, the learnings are with me," she says. "I do have a beautiful life and a rich life, and I think a lot of it is because of the learnings in ESP, not just the courses but because of the way I learned to think in those years."
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For Nicki, her post-NXIVM life and mentality has shifted in a way she never could have imagined when she was walking red carpets and promoting mainstream network TV shows.
"There's nothing like having everything destroyed and facing some of your biggest fears to find out who you really are, and as strange as it may sound, I wouldn't trade any of these experiences because I've grown so much," she says. "I've found out who my friends are. I've learned that I'm willing to stand up for what I believe in. I've also found such a strength and a kind of a peace within myself because I'm not so concerned with what other people think, which is hard to overcome as an actor. Your whole idea of who you are and also your value in the world is determined by what's being said, how audiences react, how much people like you."
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Along with five other former DOS members, Nicki, Linda and Angelica are now working with the Dossier Project (the "DOS" in Dossier is no coincidence). The purpose is to share their perspective on what they personally experienced in DOS and with Keith. Suffice to say they had different experiences than former DOS members whose stories are more prominently featured in the news.
"We talk about what DOS really was and what we experienced," Nicki says, "but we also talk about what's going on in our culture and how we view women and how we view women's empowerment and whether some of those ideas are really as empowering as we think."
Adds Linda, "The truth really is that ESP and DOS were really good trainings and really a group of people who all shared the value of personal development. I know that doesn't sound as sexy as sex slave, but that's the truth."
Chrisley children accuse radio DJ Bobby Bones of having 'zero class' for discussing parents' prison sentences
Savannah Chrisley is lashing out at Bobby Bones for emphasizing that her parents were found guilty of bank fraud and tax evasion. Her brother, Chase Chrisley, even said the hugely popular DJ has "zero class."
On the Tuesday, Feb. 7, edition of the "The Bobby Bones Show," the host brought up Todd and Julie Chrisley's prison sentences, saying, "Once somebody is convicted and found guilty, you can kind of go, 'Well, they're guilty of this.'" Bobby added, "And I've even said, look if it comes out [and] turns out they didn't do it, I'll come on and go like, 'Well I've got to eat my crow.' But there's really no crow."
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Those comments didn't sit well with Savannah.
"So … @mrbobbybones — if you'd like to discuss my family and the case then let's sit down and do it accurately. Yes — BOTH of my parents are incarcerated. That would be one thing that you are correct on," she wrote on social media. "BUT Studies estimate that between 4-6% of people incarcerated in US prisons are actually innocent. If 5% of individuals are actually innocent, that means 1/20 criminal cases result in a wrongful conviction."
She added, "All I ask is for mutual respect and decency. But for now I will meet you where you came for me. Let's sit and chat!"
In a follow up post, she included details of her parents' court case.
"Feel free to do all the research," Savannah said.
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Back in November 2022, the "Chrisley Knows Best" patriarch was sentenced to 12 years behind bars after being found guilty of financial crimes. Julie was sentenced to seven years for similar crimes.
Savannah, however, didn't feel that Bobby should be speaking about her family and let the "Dancing With The Stars" alum know about it in real time. During the "Bobby Bones Show," digital director, Morgan Huelsman, read a comment that Savannah allegedly left on the show's official Instagram account. According to TooFab, Savannah wrote that Bobby had "very inaccurate information" about Todd's prison facility, which is said to be rather posh, by prison standards. She also added, "Laughter at the expense of others isn't the greatest look on you."
Upon hearing this, Bobby reacted, "There is no laughter at the expense of others. There was laughter on if that prison is that fancy and also, expense of others? He went to jail for stealing money."
WGRZ-TV once equated Todd's prison to a "college dorm room." According to a prison expert, "If you have to do federal prison time, that's the place to be." The facility has athletic fields and basketball and volleyball courts.
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Following Savannah's response, her brother Chase also took a shot at Bobby, writing, "Zero class as usual. Also completely false."
Calista Flockhart refuses to fly with husband Harrison Ford piloting after all his crashes and air incidents
Harrison Ford's in-flight air history with vintage planes is so shaky this his wife, Calista Flockhart, refuses to fly with him.
She will, though, fly with the "Indiana Jones" star when he pilots other aircraft.
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Calista's reluctance is based on multiple incidents Harrison has had over the years, particularly his 2015 crash onto a Southern California golf course. In that incident, the acting icon broke his arm and suffered head injuries after crash landing his World War II-era airplane on a fairway at Santa Monica's Penmar Golf Course following an engine failure.
"My wife does not fly with me in vintage airplanes anymore — she will in others," he told The Hollywood Reporter. "I certainly don't want to have to recover from that kind of accident again. It was really hard on my family and it was hard on me. I went back to flying. I know what happened. So that's part of the reason [I went back]."
He added, "There was a mechanical issue with the airplane I could not have known about or attended to in any way. So in the words of the great philosopher Jimmy Buffett: S*** happens."
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That wasn't the only time the "Star Wars" legend had an airborne incident. In fact, he had two runway mishaps within three years.
Back in 2017, Harrison mistakenly landed on the taxiway instead of a runway at John Wayne Airport in Southern California. He flew his single engine plane over an American Airlines airplane which was full of passengers. Harrison quickly knew he made a mistake and called himself a "schmuck" over the radio.
Then, in April 2020, he was involved in another incident at the same airport. This time, according to reports, Harrison was told to hold short of landing because another plane was on the runway. Harrison, however, said he heard the exact opposite, so he landed. Luckily, the other plane was about 3,600 feet away when Harrison touched down. In tower-to-plane audio, the air traffic controller sounded livid at Harrison over the mixup. The actor profusely apologized.
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Harrison was also involved in an incident in 1999 in which he crash-landed a helicopter during a training flight. Then, in 2000, he was forced to make an emergency landing in his single-engine plane in Nebraska due to wind sheer. During landing, the plane clipped the runway and its wing tips were damaged.
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Migos members have physical fight backstage over late member's tribute
Migos rappers Quavo and Offset got into a physical fight with each other backstage at the Grammys awards, and the death of fellow group member Takeoff seems to be the reason, according to a new report.
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At Sunday night's show, Quavo performed "Without You" as a tribute to Takeoff, who was gunned down at a bowling alley in Houston on Nov. 1, 2022. TMZ said the Grammys asked Offset, who is married to Cardi B, to be a part of the "In Memoriam" tribute, but Quavo refused to let him take part.
The site said Quavo started the fight by blocking Offset from joining him on stage. The men reportedly had to be pulled apart.
Quavo was reportedly fiercely close with Takeoff, and wrote "Without You" for Takeoff. Offset had been on the outs with his Migos brethren, and bad blood continues between the two living group members.
In the end, Offset was not a part of the Grammys tribute.
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