People are still talking about the Princess of Wales’s rugby event on Wednesday. Or should I say, her Shaping Us/men’s mental health/Early Years/rugby event. Let’s be real, the entire purpose of the event was to showcase Kate wearing a ponytail and playing pretend-rugby for the photographers. And because Kate’s children have to be attached to every event she does, wouldn’t you know that all three of her kids play rugby, and Charlotte is the best rugby player of all.

Like royal mother, like royal daughter! Kate Middleton showed off some serious rugby skills on Wednesday at the Maidenhead Rugby Club — the results of regular backyard rugby sessions with her three children: Prince George, Princess Charlotte and Prince Louis.

“She regularly plays rugby in the back garden with the children — she plays all sports with them,” says Nigel Gillingham, who is President of the governing body of the sport in England, the Rugby Football Union. And 8-year-old daughter Princess Charlotte inherited more than athleticism from her mom.

“Apparently Charlotte is very much in her mold — very competitive as well,” Gillingham adds.

Princess Kate, who supports England as patron of the Rugby Football League and the Rugby Football Union, previously revealed that Prince George, 9, and Princess Charlotte are both playing rugby, noting that her eldest child is tall so “he has the physique.”

And while Prince William has also described his daughter as a “budding star” in soccer, Princess Charlotte revealed her favorite sport is actually gymnastics while attending the Commonwealth Games with her parents last summer.

“She really, really loved seeing the swimming, but she’s interested in the gymnastics, and while they’re trying lots of different sports at home, I understand, when I asked her about sport she answered very easily and said, ‘It’s gymnastics that I like,’ ” said Tim Lawler, the chief executive of Sports Aid, according to Hello! magazine.

Kate added, “Charlotte spends most of her time upside-down, doing handstands and cartwheels,” according to the Daily Mail.

[From People]

The thing is, the one thing we’ve always known about Kate is that she’s terribly keen on tennis, yet we rarely get an update on the kids’ tennis lessons. I’m assuming they have tennis lessons? It seems like Charlotte would be more likely to show interest in sports like gymnastics, swimming and tennis, as opposed to rugby, football, etc. Of course, if Kate mentioned that Charlotte and Louis were into tennis, then there might be expectations that Charlotte and Louis come to Wimbledon and not just George. Anyway, I totally believe Charlotte is sporty, I just don’t buy that Kate is out in the backyard playing rugby with them. I think Kate just feels the need to mention that her kids are so excited about fill-in-the-blank event, whatever Kate or William is doing at the time.

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Last night was the big Hollywood premiere for The Flash, the DC movie which was beset by problems during filming and in post-production. The biggest problem was the star of the Flash, Ezra Miller. Ezra was arrested and charged with multiple crimes in a cross-country crime spree. Their crimes involved everything from assault to kidnapping to grooming to basically starting some kind cult. Their crime spree seemingly ended last summer – Ezra checked into in-patient treatment for “complex mental health issues.” Since then, we hadn’t heard anything directly from Ezra, and the early promotion for The Flash featured an Ezra-sized hole as everyone talked around their absence.

At the premiere, Ezra made their first public statements in nearly a year. They thanked Warner Bros’ leadership and care, which means that the studio absolutely forced Ezra into treatment as the studio tried desperately to save their huge investment in this f–king messy franchise. The Hollywood Reporter also noted that all of the stars of the film were told to not give interviews on the red carpet, so it was images-only. Ezra did walk the carpet, as did Ben Affleck, Jennifer Lopez, Jessica Chastain, Dove Cameron and more.

I’m actually positive that Warner Bros asked Ben Affleck to bring Jennifer Lopez, and for the two of them to spend a lot of time posing for photos. I was even tempted to make them the headlining story: a Bennifer red carpet. That’s what Warner Bros wanted, to focus more on Bennifer and Ben’s return as the Batfleck. Anything to get the heat off Ezra. Fashion notes: J.Lo wore Gucci and she didn’t look too jazzed to be used as a shield for Ezra Miller.

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The unethical behavior of the British media should not be overlooked, especially as they report on Prince Harry’s many lawsuits against them. Instead of merely bowing out of trial coverage given the fact that Harry is literally suing all of them, the British media is instead willfully misrepresenting Harry’s lawsuits and statements and publishing screed after screed about how he’s going to lose, how he can’t “prove” that they’ve done anything to him, how he’s wrong to bring up all of these “old stories.” What’s worse is that I keep seeing the American media pick up parts of those same arguments. So it is notable (I guess) when the New York Times publishes a column about how Harry is actually quite noble for his war against Britain’s press machine. This was written by Tanya Gold, a British journalist who has worked for Harper’s, The Spectator and other outlets. Some highlights:

Harry is not a panda: Harry is determined to define himself, and not to be, in Hilary Mantel’s description in her essay “Royal Bodies,” a “panda”: “expensive to conserve and ill-adapted to any modern environment.” In this refusal to be the prince we wanted, or deserved, he has become something far more interesting.

An instrument all his life: Like his mother, Princess Diana, Harry has been an instrument all his life. The Windsor family is Britain’s national pantomime and he was cast at birth — long before he could give consent — to be the shade to the sunlight of his brother, William. The newspapers chronicled his childhood; his parents’ love affairs, late-night telephone calls and hatred. They photographed his mother as she lay dying in a tunnel in Paris. They filmed Harry as he, aged 12, walked behind her coffin at her funeral, his presence necessary to protect his father’s reputation. Even the British media wouldn’t heckle a faithless husband in front of his son.

Finally, someone admits the press’s treatment of Meghan: Then he married Meghan Markle, and when she was abused by the British media — which happens to all women who marry into the family, but this was a racist, classist and xenophobic variation — he did something sensible and loving for his new family: He left Britain.

Gold hopes he gives up his title: Since then his redemption has been sequential. There was the interview with Oprah Winfrey, in which they described his family’s concern about the skin color of their unborn child. There was a Netflix documentary. There was his memoir, “Spare,” in which he described how his father, probably smelling of flowers and gunpowder, sat down on his bed to tell him that his mother was dead. Now there is the litigation and, eventually, I hope, the day when he lays down his title, accepts that some things cannot be reformed and is redeemed by the application of self-knowledge.

Spare was a whistle-blower’s account: I read “Spare” as a portrait of an abusive childhood and an act of whistle-blowing, but most of the British media did not. They mocked him for writing about a youthful sexual encounter — how crass to mention it, now we must find the woman! — and for his affinity for Stewie, the infant prodigy in “Family Guy,” whom he described as “a prophet without honor.”

Brave Harry: Even to the sympathetic, Harry can seem ridiculous. He is a panda, and pandas don’t usually fight back. And for the moment he thinks he can be meaningfully feminist and antiracist while embodying inherited wealth and power as a royal duke, which is absurd. But Harry is brave, and he has found his battlefield. I think if he could, he would bring it all down — the monarchy, the media, the whole awful dance. We did not have his consent. For that, he will have his revenge.

[From The NY Times]

The thing I agree with the most is that Spare is a survivor’s account of his abuse, and a witness’s account of watching the women he loves be abused. It was also a whistle-blower’s account of the dysfunction and cruelty of the whole institution. What was still so brilliant about Spare though is that… now it’s a historical document. It’s Harry reclaiming his narrative and saying no, it happened this way, all of it without hiding behind palace insiders or royal sources.

Now, all that being said, I don’t really get this stuff: “eventually, I hope, the day when he lays down his title, accepts that some things cannot be reformed and is redeemed by the application of self-knowledge” and “for the moment he thinks he can be meaningfully feminist and antiracist while embodying inherited wealth and power as a royal duke, which is absurd.” Embodying wealth and power… when he literally had to flee his country to protect his wife and children? When his father yanked his security and left him for dead? This idea that “Harry’s “power” comes from his title or the money his dead mother left him in trust” is absurd at this point – people couldn’t care less about his title – what his supporters care about is his journey, his survival story.

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The Department of Justice unsealed Donald Trump’s indictment last Friday, and the federal government seems to have a very strong case. It feels like we’re waiting for the other shoe to drop, right? Like, what will he do, what violence and insurrection will that guy incite this time? Regardless, it feels like seven years after this hellish journey began, we’re in the endgame. It’s very likely that Trump goes to prison for obstruction of justice, mishandling classified documents and violating the Espionage Act. It’s even more likely that he’ll go to prison given the fact that his lawyers are all quitting and he can’t seem to find a half-decent criminal defense attorney to represent him in his trial:

Donald Trump spent the day before his historic appearance in federal court scrambling to find a qualified Florida lawyer willing to join his defense team as he faces the Justice Department’s first prosecution of a former president.

After touching down in Miami on Monday, Trump spent the afternoon interviewing prospective lawyers and meeting with his legal team, along with other top advisers, to discuss the case, in which he is accused of mishandling classified documents and obstructing the government’s efforts to retrieve them, according to people familiar with the sessions. Several prominent Florida attorneys declined to take Trump on as a client after two of the key lawyers handling the documents matter — Jim Trusty and John Rowley — resigned last week, according to people familiar with the matter.

Trusty and Rowley’s departure was sudden and unexpected, leaving Trump jockeying to identify a lawyer ahead of his Tuesday appearance in federal court in Miami, where rules require practicing attorneys to be a member in good standing of the Florida bar or to be sponsored by one before appearing. Veteran Florida litigator Christopher Kise, who joined the team in the fall and has an extensive network in the Florida bar, has led the search for a lawyer and cast a seemingly wide net in the state. Kise declined to comment.

Disagreements over legal strategy have hindered the search for new defense attorneys, according to people familiar with the discussions, who spoke on the condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak publicly. Some on Trump’s team have pushed to pursue an aggressively partisan strategy in which they would accuse the Justice Department of prosecutorial misconduct and weaponizing the legal system against Trump. The other camp, a person briefed on the situation said, is urging the former president to put together a traditional defense team and believes that the case is winnable at trial through careful jury selection — one juror is all a defendant needs to convince to avoid conviction — and that a scorched-earth strategy could alienate a jury and the country.

[From WaPo]

The Post then volunteers some names on Trump’s shortlist, and they are a murderer’s row of Florida’s legal dirtbags, many of whom have faced criminal charges themselves. From what I’ve seen of Trump’s taste in lawyers – plus, he has to take whatever slim pickings he can get – he tends to prefer the “mob lawyer” type – someone who seemed “connected,” someone who is used to taking orders from a made guy. I’m just saying, a lot of mobsters retire to Florida. Anyway, this trial is going to be fun – Trump isn’t dicking around with some outer-borough dime-store lawyer, he’s dealing with the full weight of the DOJ and the Office of the Special Counsel. Special Counsel Jack Smith has spent the past ten months putting together an extremely strong case.

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Kim Zolciak of Real Housewives of Atlanta antagonist fame is getting a divorce from Kroy Biermann after 12 years of marriage. The divorce (and year) seems to be going poorly so far. Their shared home was in foreclosure before the divorce, they were and are having a lot of financial problems, and they’re fighting over legal and physical custody of their minor children. It’s gotten even uglier recently, with Kim asking for Kroy to be drug tested and Kroy accusing her of having a gambling addiction and asking for a psych evaluation. So it any surprise she’s not doing well? Current and OG cast member Sheree Whitfield appeared on Watch What Happens Live recently and told Andy Cohen as much.

Kim Zolciak is “not doing well” amid her divorce from Kroy Biermann.

Real Housewives of Atlanta star Sheree Whitfield made an appearance on Watch What Happens Live With Andy Cohen on Sunday (June 10), where she opened up about the news of the split.

“I am in touch with her, and I was shocked. I thought her and Kroy [were] gonna be forever. I’m really sad for them,” she said.

“I’ve been in contact with her, and she’s not doing well. She’s not doing well. No, she’s taking it really bad.”

When asked about the “root cause” of the divorce, Sheree had no answers.

A bombshell police report has revealed details of what happened in the day leading up to Kim Zolciak and Kroy Biermann‘s split.

[From Just Jared]

I’m no Kim sympathizer. She’s a terrible person and it’s no surprise that she’s having a terrible divorce. But of course she’s not doing well; anyone would be doing poorly under such circumstances. It’s really ugly and it’s ugly for their shared children, but that can also be said of most of Kim’s media presence for the past 15 years or so. Like Sheree, I’m also surprised that Kim and Kroy are getting divorced. He always seemed rather hapless and vacant, like he needed someone to run his life for him. So I’m shocked they’re splitting and I also didn’t think he had it in him to fight so dirty. But I guess they were together for a reason. Like Hecate wondered in her past coverage, is Kim looking to make a Housewives comeback? And is Sheree helping her do it? Kim definitely needs the money and she certainly wouldn’t be the first Housewife to go through a messy divorce and head back to the show.

#RHOA OG Shereé Whitfield was shocked by the news of Kim Zolciak’s divorce. @iamSheree @KimZolciak #WWHL pic.twitter.com/freFo7kZ09

— WWHL (@BravoWWHL) June 12, 2023

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60 Minutes ran a repeat Sunday night, I think because of the Tony Awards, but maybe I’m being too New York-centric. The episode included a story on David Byrne that originally aired in early March, before his tone-deaf (literally, not politically) performance at the Oscars (I’d like to think that Anderson Cooper would have canceled the interview based on that performance alone, but I digress). The re-air is timely for Byrne, though, because he has a show premiering on Broadway this summer. Here Lies Love, a 90 minute dance rave co-written with Fatboy Slim about the infamous former first lady of the Philippines Imelda Marcos, has existed in various incarnations since 2007–with a successful run at the Public Theater in 2013–but it’s taken this long to land on Broadway proper so this counts as the debut. The production has had some bad publicity recently, with its tone-deaf (politically, not literally) decision to have all the music be pre-recorded. Why is that controversial? Because, as the Local 802 of the American Federation of Musicians Union reminded Byrne and producers, it violates the show’s contract with the Broadway League to have a minimum number of live musicians based on theater size. An eleventh hour agreement was reached with a week to go until previews. Solidarity forever! Just a little background material for reading these highlights from Byrne’s conversation with Cooper:

Recollections may vary: There was never an official announcement, but eventually Byrne made an off-hand comment to a reporter that Talking Heads had broken up. He neglected, it seems, to tell the band. Anderson Cooper: “Members of the band said that–that you never actually talked to them and said that the band was over. That they read about it in a newspaper.” David Byrne: “I don’t know if that’s the case. But, well, it might be. And I think it is very possible that I did not handle it as best as I could.” Byrne never looked back, and he’s followed his own beat ever since, no matter how off-beat it may be.

He trusts that he doesn’t know what he’s doing: I trust– what I do and what other people do that way, that it’s gonna deliver what it wants to say. But someone else looking at it could go, “What are you talking about? You don’t know what you’re doing? You don’t know why you’re doing it? You don’t know where it’s gonna end up? I just kinda trust it, yeah.”

This sounds like a vanity project: Byrne’s latest theatrical experience may be his most unusual yet. It’s an interactive journey into his past called Theatre of the Mind, produced in collaboration with the Denver Centre for Performing Arts. Audience members get random name tags and are led on a semi-autobiographical tour of Byrne’s memories… like an out of proportion kitchen, that makes anyone in it feel like a child. The show is full of surprises that the audience takes part in… some of them based on neuroscience experiments.

Change the narrative: Theatre of the Mind ends in a replica of his parent’s attic. Like Byrne’s life, the show tells a story about how over time our identities are malleable and how we all have the capacity to change. Cooper: “I like that idea that you can change your story. You can change the narrative.” Byrne: “It would be a horrible world if people never changed for their entire life. Or they were–they were an angry person, or upset person, or depressed person and it’s like, that’s your fate. But that’s not true.”

[From CBS News]

Well it sounds like Byrne changed HIS narrative by erasing the fact that he dumped his bandmates through the press! For another take, former bandmate Chris Frantz has some blistering anecdotes in his memoir Remain In Love. Look, I wasn’t there, I don’t know how it actually went down. But at Byrne’s age and level of success I do expect a better prepared answer than “I don’t know if that’s the case. But, well, it might be.” I’m not out to hate on Byrne, and I’ll say that his curiosity does seem genuine. There are other qualities, though, that are a little… funny. And by funny I mean potentially problematic. Like being a musician who tries to get out of hiring musicians for his latest show. Any other snark I’ll put down to my still reeling from that Oscars performance.

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Jennifer Lawrence truly went off the radar for a little while, got married, and had a baby. But now she’s easing her way back into the movie-making and celebrity world. She has a new movie coming out, No Hard Feelings, that seems like lowkey spon-con for….wait for it…Buick. Yeah, the old-school luxury imprint for General Motors. This is their marketing strategy, sponsoring a movie where a 32-year-old played by Jennifer Lawrence agrees to date a 19 year old wallflower in exchange for…a used Buick Regal. Is Buick trying to appeal to a younger, hipper consumer by making their car a major plot point in a raunchy R-rated comedy? Lord, beer me strength.

I went off on a tangent there but it is an exceptionally silly corporate gambit that I believe deserves to be made fun of. I think the people making the film were happy to have any help they could get. It’s hard to get original features financed these days. While promoting the Buick Movie, she said something in an interview for Variety that surprised me: she says she’d happily play Katniss Everdeen again–the Hunger Games character that made her a star. I never really got the vibe that she’d be down to return to that world.

Jennifer Lawrence is ready to play the girl on fire again.

The Oscar winner says she is open to returning to the “Hunger Games” franchise after she became a household name for her work as Katniss in the four movies.

“Oh, my God – totally!” Lawrence told me Friday morning during a Zoom video interview while promoting her new R-rated coming-of-age comedy, “No Hard Feelings.” “If Katniss ever could ever come back into my life, 100 percent.”

Looking off camera, she added, “My producing partner just clutched her heart.”

The four “Hunger Games” installments starred Liam Hemsworth, Josh Hutcherson, Stanley Tucci, Elizabeth Banks, Donald Sutherland and Woody Harrelson. The first, released in 2012, was directed by Gary Ross with the following three helmed by Francis Lawrence.

An upcoming prequel movie, “The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes,” stars Viola Davis, Rachel Zegler, Tom Blyth, Peter Dinklage, Jason Schwartzman and Hunter Schafer. The film chronicles Coriolanus Snow’s rise to power to become President of Panem. It is set for release Nov. 17.

[From Variety]

I remember seeing the first Hunger Games movie in college and I won’t lie, I found Jennifer’s performance in it quite moving. It’s probably because I identify with Katniss, the protective older sister. But I think the source material isn’t that good. The fourth book sort of ruined the whole thing for me. I’m sure Jennifer would be great as an older Katniss, maybe just coming to terms with the extraordinary trauma that the character faced as a child. But I cannot stress enough how tired I am of sequels and prequels. And honestly I think Jennifer deserves better. She has been in some questionable projects (remember Passengers?) but when she’s given the right material, she does great work. Everybody deserves better in Hollywood, frankly. Viola Davis, who is a queen and who elevates every single project she appears in, deserves better than a Hunger Games prequel, I’ll just say it. I think audiences are getting tired of nothing but franchises and kids’ films at the multiplex. There’s a sea change ahead, I hope. Streaming isn’t working as a business model, nobody’s going to the movies as often as they did five or ten years ago, and even Marvel movies aren’t always the surest bets…I don’t think Hollywood has been this destabilized since the collapse of the old studio system in the 1950s. Maybe something good will come out of it.

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Novak Djokovic – who is still unvaccinated – made history on Sunday as the first man to win 23 Slams. He ties Serena Williams for the open-era record. [Just Jared]
Ariana DeBose wore Prada to the Tonys. [RCFA]
Tory Lanez tried to ambush Megan Thee Stallion in 2021. [Dlisted]
Alexander Skarsgard was out and about in NYC, and I think he’s got a good shot at an Emmy for his work on Succession. [LaineyGossip]
What do the Ted Lasso shippers think about the finale? [Pajiba]
I also love wide-leg pants! Palazzo pants are my jam. [Go Fug Yourself]
The full trailer for Yorgos Lanthimos’ Poor Things. [OMG Blog]
This photo of Lisa Rinna is crazy! [Seriously OMG]
This is the play which earned Jodie Comer a Tony Award. [Jezebel]
Irina Shayk pretends to be a Virgo for profit!! She’s really a Capricorn. [Egotastic]
These “terrifying home stories” are genuinely unsettling. [Buzzfeed]
Jane Fonda is taking a break to focus on the election. [Towleroad]

Do y’all ever watch Trisha Yearwood’s Food Network cooking show? She’s not really a chef, she’s more of a home cook, but I enjoy watching her cook, make cocktails and hang out with her friends. Her husband Garth Brooks appears rarely, but Trisha references him a lot and they definitely seem to have a solid and fun marriage. Well, I didn’t know that Garth and Trisha are opening a bar in Nashville, but that’s happening this summer. Garth was asked about the bar and whether he would serve Bud Light, and he had some great things to say. Just FYI: the bigots, homophobes and transphobes are “boycotting” Bud Light because they’re mad that Bud Light hired trans influencer Dylan Mulvaney to promote the beer. Several bars operated by bigots have removed Bud Light from their menu. Not Garth.

Country superstar Garth Brooks has stated that his new Nashville bar will sell Bud Light, and that the establishment will not tolerate transphobia. Brooks made the revelation during a panel at Billboard Country Live this week. His “Friends in Low Places Bar & Honky-Tonk” is named after one of his biggest hits, and the venue is scheduled to open in Nashville’s Lower Broadway area this summer. Many country artists have opened bars in the area bearing their names.

“I want it to be a place you feel safe in, I want it to be a place where you feel like there are manners and people like one another,” Brooks said on the panel. “And yes, we’re going to serve every brand of beer. We just are. It’s not our decision to make. Our thing is this, if you [are let] into this house, love one another. If you’re an a–hole, there are plenty of other places on lower Broadway.”

Bud Light has been hemorrhaging customers since its ill-fated marketing decision to team with transgender influencer Dylan Mulvaney, offending some conservatives. In Nashville, bars owned by John Rich and Kid Rock no longer serve Bud Light. Fox News Digital found John Rich at his bar on Friday and asked him about the Brooks statement.

“If Garth is serving Bud Light in his bar, that’s fine,” Rich said. “Garth can do that. Garth might find out not many people are going to order it. And at the end of the day, you have to put things in your establishment that people are going to purchase if you’re going to run a successful business. So, he might find that out.”

[From Deadline]

What’s worse, transphobic bigots boycotting Bud Light, or Bud Light trying to back-pedal on hiring Dylan Mulvaney? Like, I don’t drink alcohol anymore so it’s not like I have a horse in this race, but Bud Light tastes gross, they didn’t take a moral high ground and they’re being boycotted by terrible people. There are no winners in this particular culture war.

All that being said, I love the fact that Garth doesn’t even wade into the dumbf–k controversy. He’s basically putting out a “no a–holes” sign on the door of his bar and I hope LGBTQ peeps feel safe there. Garth has always been a great ally – his late sister was a gay woman, and he was an early supporter of gay marriage, he’s performed at LGBTQ-equality fundraisers, he sang a duet with George Michael and more. Trisha is the same. (Oh, and Garth and Trisha are also Democrats!)

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To be honest I’m not Amy Schumer’s biggest fan. I’ve never loved her comedy. But one thing I respect her for? She’s up-front about things other celebrities would try to keep secret. She’s talked openly for years about her cosmetic treatments, including getting liposuction, and about getting fillers, then having them dissolved. It’s not that I think female celebrities should have to give us a complete breakdown of everything they had done–I just wish they’d be honest and say, yes, I’ve had cosmetic enhancements, I’ve had professional help. Because public curiosity about celebrities’ bodies can be pretty invasive. But when stars say they owe their taut, chiseled, un-wrinkled faces to olive oil or sweet potatoes, it’s just insulting our intelligence. People are too savvy for that nowadays. Amy is breaking the latest treatment taboo, and sharing about taking Ozempic, including the side effects. She was on Watch What Happens Live and she told Andy about her experience. She says she’s not on it anymore because of how it made her feel.

During an appearance on Thursday’s episode of Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen, the comedian and actress, 42, said that she previously tried Ozempic, an FDA-approved prescription medication for people with type 2 diabetes.

It’s one of the brand names for semaglutide and tirzepatide — also known as Wegovy and Mounjaro — which works in the brain to impact satiety, and is the latest Hollywood weight loss trend.

“Like a year ago, I tried it,” she told Cohen, 55. “I was one of those people that felt so sick and couldn’t play with my son. I was so skinny and he’s throwing a ball at me and [I couldn’t].”

The most common side effects with medications like Ozempic, Wegovy and Mounjaro are nausea and diarrhea, and sometimes it can cause vomiting or constipation, Ania Jastreboff, M.D., PhD., an obesity medicine physician scientist at Yale University, previously told PEOPLE.

Because of the side effects, Schumer decided the medication wasn’t for her. “And you’re like, ‘OK, this isn’t livable for me.’ But I immediately invested [in it] because I knew everyone was going to try it,” she added.

The Life & Beth star then shared her opinion on fellow celebrities “lying” about taking Ozempic for weight loss, noting her own transparency when it comes to her health journey and cosmetic procedures.

“Everyone has been lying saying, ‘Oh smaller portions.’ Like shut the f— up. You are on Ozempic or one of those things or you got work done. Just stop,” she said. “Be real with the people. When I got lipo, I said I got lipo.”

[From People]

Major props to Amy for talking about this. I’m sure she’s always faced pressure to lose weight in her industry, and Ozempic seemed like something worth trying. The fact that it made her feel too weak and sick to play with her son casts it in a new light for me. If there weren’t a shortage of Ozempic that is making it hard for people who truly need it, and if it weren’t a thousand dollars a dose, I’d be tempted to take it, too. But between the side effects, the cost, and the ethical considerations, I think the negatives outweigh the positives. Amy’s story only makes me more sure of that. I also have pretty bad body dysmorphia and a decade-long history of problematic eating so I have no business thinking about weight loss drugs. All I’m saying is, I empathize with people who try to get their hands on this stuff when they don’t have a medical need for it. It’s ultimately about acceptance and belonging. That’s how it is for me, and how it sounds like it was for Amy. She knew everyone else would be taking it and didn’t want to be left out. If there were something that would make my body more “acceptable” in our society, and all it took was a weekly injection? Yeah, it’s tempting. I know that probably makes me seem mercenary and cynical. But when looking good is part of your job, as it is for celebrities, the pull must be even stronger.

What I worry about is how Ozmepic use in Hollywood is going to make the beauty standard even more restrictive and impossible for regular people to achieve. These are people whose job is to be beautiful. They already have every advantage and resource available, from personal trainers, chefs, plastic surgeons, aesthetic injectors, dermatologists, facialists. Hollywood men have access to steroids and human growth hormone, probably, as well as the other drugs bodybuilders have used for decades to lean out. They have the money, and the time, to make looking good a priority. Now they have one more arrow in their quiver that the rest of us can’t get. I like that Amy is calling other celebs out for lying, to be honest. It’s getting super old.

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