Busy Philipps BLASTS ‘Dumb Motherf**ker’ Chris Pratt Over Controversial IG Post About His Wife Katherine Schwarzenegger https://ift.tt/30pS6ck
It is safe to say that Busy Philipps is not a fan of Chris Pratt anymore after his recent Instagram post about his wife, Katherine Schwarzenegger.
As you most likely know, the Guardians of the Galaxy actor faced controversy when he hopped on social media earlier this month to praise the children’s book author and thank her for giving him a “gorgeous, healthy daughter.” Many people took issue with that line in particular since his son with Anna Faris has suffered numerous health issues over the years after being born two months premature. Take a look at the post again (below):
However, it turns out Philipps had something else to say about the controversial message…
During the latest episode of her podcast Busy Philipps Is Doing Her Best, the 42-year-old actress did not hold back her thoughts on the note written by Pratt, who she slammed for acting like a “dumb motherf**ker.” Philipps, who said she was friends with the Parks and Recreation alum “years ago” and went on vacation with him and Faris when they were expecting Jack, expressed:
“Holy s**t! Either like you’re the dumbest mothef**ker on Earth, or you’re a real righteous a**hole.”
She then said the post was “f**king weird” as she didn’t “understand any of it” before calling out the disingenuous language she felt also objectified his wife:
“My ladies… you’re probably not the type of lady that will laugh enthusiastically if you’re with a man and he starts to make very tired gender jokes about responsibilities and duties and even like, the f***ing tired bit that he’s doing which is, ‘She runs the show I occasionally open a bag of pickles.’ That’s how f**king dumb what he said is. You are a Marvel superhero. You made $480 million last year. You work non-stop. You don’t just open a f**king jar of pickles, you motherf**ker… I hate it so much.”
The Freaks and Geeks alum went on to say that the message especially didn’t sit right with her because it seemed like another example of men “acknowledging their power” and “patronizing their spouse,” explaining:
“What she does in their household is probably a lot. She probably does a lot of the domestic labor. They have a kid and whatever. That is actually legitimately a lot of f**king work. But by the way, he’s talking about himself, putting himself in it, in the center of it, it makes it seem like it’s bulls**t.”
Referencing a line in the post in which he says Schwarzenegger is his “greatest treasure right next to my Ken Griffey Jr Upper Deck Rookie Card,” Philipps added:
“He has possessions, and she is one of them.”
Like we said, she did NOT withhold her anger over Chris’ post! Reactions to what Busy said on the matter? Let us know in the comments (below).
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Meadow Walker Reveals She Had A Tumor Removed Two Years Ago https://ift.tt/3DhKDKW
Meadow Walker spoke out about her secret health battle.
On Thursday, the 23-year-old daughter of the late Paul Walker revealed on Instagram that she had a tumor removed two years ago. Alongside a picture of herself wearing a blue medical hair cover and fiducials markers, which are used for an MRI to make a 3D scan of the brain, on her forehead, she wrote:
“2 years ago today. I’ve come a very long way. Bye bye tumor. Blessed & grateful.”
While Meadow did not provide any more details about her health situation, she did receive a ton of support from her friends and followers in the comments section, including her godfather Vin Diesel, who responded with prayer hand emojis. After seeing all of the positive messages, the model later expressed on IG Stories:
“Sending my unconditional love 2 everyone in the world.”
Meadow’s post comes just weeks after she and actor Louis Thornton-Allantied the knot in a private beach side ceremony, with her dad’s Fast & Furious co-star Vin walking her down the aisle. She confirmed her relationship status on the ‘gram back in October, writing alongside a black-and-white video of her nuptials:
Chris Daughtry’s 25-Year-Old Daughter Hannah Found Dead In Nashville Home https://ift.tt/3ok8p2w
Chris Daughtry and his family are mourning the sudden loss of their 25-year-old daughter Hannah.
According to People, the American Idol star abruptly postponed his tour after law enforcement found Hannah dead in her Nashville home on Friday. No further details about her sudden death have been released at this time. However, Chris reportedly flew home from his concert shortly after learning the news to be with his grieving family. His band was scheduled to perform in Atlantic City, New Jersey on Friday, but all tour dates have been postponed for the next week.
In a statement about the cancellation on Facebook, they said:
“Due to the unexpected death of Chris and Deanna Daughtry’s daughter, Hannah, all currently scheduled shows for the coming week for Daughtry have been postponed. The Daughtry family thanks you for your understanding and respectfully asks for privacy during this very difficult time. Further details will be made available at a later date. The investigation into this tragic death is still ongoing.”
Hannah and her 23-year-old brother Griffin are Chris’ wife Deanna Daughtry’s children from a previous relationship. The couple, who met in 2000, also have 10-yea-old twins together, Adalynn Rose and Noah James.
After sharing an image of a burning candle on her Instagram account, Deanna later spoke out about her daughter’s passing and thanked her followers for the support during this difficult time:
“My first born. I love you endlessly Hannah. Our family would like to thank you all for the outpouring of love as we grieve the loss of my daughter Hannah. We are awaiting the autopsy results to determine how Hannah sustained the injuries that caused her death. Our hearts are broken.”
We’re sending our love and deepest condolences to the Daughtry family at this time.
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When I first suspected that I was losing my hair, I felt like maybe I was also losing my grip on reality. This was the summer of 2020, and although the previous three months had been difficult for virtually everyone, I had managed to escape relatively unscathed. I hadn’t gotten sick in New York City’s terrifying first wave of the pandemic. My loved ones were safe. I still had a job. I wasn’t okay, necessarily, but I was fine. Now my hair was falling out for no appreciable reason. Or at least I thought it was—how much hair in the shower drain is enough to be sure that you’re not imagining things?
The second time it happened, a little more than a year later, I was sure—not because of what was in the shower drain, but because of what was obviously no longer on my head. One day, after washing and drying my hair, I looked at my hairline in the mirror and it was thin enough that I could make out the curvature of my scalp beneath it. I still had enough hair, but notably less than I’d had before the pandemic. Feeling a sense of dull panic at the no-longer-refutable idea that something might be wrong, I tipped my head forward to take a picture of my scalp with my phone’s front-facing camera. When I looked at it, the panic became sharp.
I did what everyone does: I Googled my symptoms. At the very top of the search results, a colorful carousel of vitamins, serums, shampoos, and direct-to-consumer prescription services appeared; a so-small-you-could-miss-it disclosure in one corner signaled that these products weren’t real search results, but advertising. Well below them, the real results weren’t much better—WebMD, a bundle of Reddit threads, medical journals whose articles would cost me $50 a pop, factually thin blog posts, natural-health grifters touting hair-growth secrets that doctors didn’t want me to know, product reviews that weren’t labeled as ads but for which someone had almost certainly been paid. I pressed on to gather whatever reliable-looking information I could find, itself full of terms I didn’t fully understand—effluvium, minoxidil, androgenic.
What I didn’t know at the time was that I had just started a quest for answers that many, many others had also undertaken in the previous year. Only a few months into the pandemic, around the same time when I first thought I might be losing either my hair or my mind, people whose hair was indeed falling out by the handful started to come forward. They showed up in Facebook groups about hair loss, in subreddits dedicated to regrowth, and in the waiting rooms of dermatologists and hair-restoration clinics. First there were a few, but then there were thousands. Some of them had had COVID-19, but others, like me, had not.
At first, the fire hose of products I’d been sprayed with felt like a very American type of reassurance—not only was my problem apparently common, but it was also widespread enough to be profitable, and therefore maybe it had a solution. In hindsight, the products feel more like a warning.
This story isn’t about a medical mystery. The pandemic was a near-perfect mass hair-loss event, and anyone with the most basic understanding of why people lose their hair could have spotted it from a mile away. The actual mystery, instead, is why almost no one has that understanding in the first place.
Hair loss, I eventually learned from my diligent Googling, can be temporary or permanent, and it has many causes—heredity, chronic illness, nutritional deficiency, daily too-tight ponytails. But one type of loss is responsible for the pandemic hair-loss spike: telogen effluvium. TE, as it’s often called, is sudden and can be dramatic. It’s caused by the ordinary traumas of human existence in all of their hideous variety. Any kind of intense physical or emotional stress can push as much as 70 percent of your hair into the “telogen” phase of its growth cycle, which halts those strands’ growth and disconnects them from their blood supply in order to conserve resources for more essential bodily processes. That, in time, knocks them straight off your head.
The pandemic has manufactured trauma at an astonishing clip. Many cases of TE have been caused by COVID-19 infection itself, according to Esther Freeman, a dermatologist and an epidemiologist at Harvard Medical School and the principal investigator for the COVID-19 Dermatology Registry, which collects reports of COVID-19’s effects on skin, nails, and hair. That doesn’t necessarily have anything to do with something unique about the disease, she told me—any illness that comes with a high fever can cause a round of TE, including common illnesses such as the flu. Among the millions of Americans who have been infected by the coronavirus, hair loss has been a common consequence, she said, both for patients whose symptoms resolve in a couple of weeks and for those who develop long COVID. Researchers do not yet know exactly how prevalent hair loss is among COVID-19 patients, but one study found that among those hospitalized, 22 percent were still dealing with hair loss months later.
COVID-19 infections are only part of the picture. Throughout the pandemic, millions more Americans have suffered devastating emotional stress even if they’ve never gotten sick: watching a loved one die, losing a job, going to work in life-threatening conditions, bearing the brunt of violent political unrest. Feelings can have concrete, involuntary physical manifestations, and these traumas are exactly the kinds that leave people staring in horror at the handfuls of hair they gather while lathering up in the shower.
All of these factors have led to what Jeff Donovan, a hair-loss dermatologist in Whistler, British Columbia, described to me as a “mountain” of new hair-loss patients since the pandemic began. What exacerbates the difficulty of dealing with hair loss for many patients, he and the other doctors I spoke with told me, is just how little good, if any, information on the condition the people coming into their offices are able to assemble, even if they broached the issue with other kinds of doctors in the past. “They don’t know what’s going on, they don’t know why they’ve spent so much money, and they’re just so confused," Maryanne Makredes Senna, a co-director of Massachusetts General Hospital’s hair-loss clinic, told me. “It’s like, ‘I don’t know what to believe, and I went to this doctor and they made me feel like I was crazy.’” The doctors I spoke with said that their patients typically come to them after having seen at least a handful of other practitioners, and sometimes as many as 15.
This level of confusion—including my own—is, frankly, infuriating. Eighty percent of men and about half of women experience some form of hair loss in the course of their life. TE was first described in the 1960s, and it has long been a predictable side effect of surgery, changing medications, crash dieting, childbirth, bankruptcy, and breakups. The way TE resolves for almost everyone who doesn’t already have chronic hair-loss issues is that the hair eventually grows back—plain and simple. You would think, at some point, that someone would tell you not to panic if you lose some hair after something intense happens—that even if you shed for months, it will grow back eventually, and there’s no need to do anything but wait.
For several reasons, many people don’t get much straightforward information on any type of hair loss, TE and beyond. For one, hair loss doesn’t really lend itself to the format of the modern American doctor appointment. Finding the right diagnosis can be a detailed, time-intensive process. “You cannot do everything for a hair-loss patient in a 15-minute visit,” Senna said, and that’s all the time many doctors get to have with their patients. Seeing a dermatologist who specializes in hair loss, she said, is more likely to get patients a visit of at least 30 to 45 minutes and a more detailed, empathetic evaluation—if a patient can figure out to go to such a dermatologist in the first place.
Moreover, hair loss typically isn’t a particularly urgent problem for practitioners who may have many other types of health concerns coming into their office. Most hair loss that isn’t triggered by some kind of trauma is caused by androgenic alopecia, or AGA, often known as male or female pattern hair loss. It’s passed on genetically and has no cure, although some safe treatments are widely available. Doctors busy with other things may shrug their shoulders at patients who have incurable conditions that aren’t physically dangerous or painful. And for panicking patients who hear “Wait it out” or “Buy some Rogaine,” that recommendation may feel dismissive or inadequate, even if it is correct.
Some causes of hair loss vary along ethnic lines, so getting answers can be even harder for certain patients. Susan Taylor, a dermatologist at the University of Pennsylvania and the founder of the Skin of Color Society, told me that Black patients usually land in her office with more advanced hair loss than their non-Black counterparts, which can make treatment less effective. Black patients are more likely to have a type of hair loss called central centrifugal cicatricial alopecia, or CCCA. According to Taylor, many practitioners know little about CCCA, and their advice to patients suffering from it can be especially dismissive. “For Black women in particular, they’re told, ‘Stop your relaxers; don’t straighten your hair,’” Taylor said. “And then they say to me, ‘But Dr. Taylor, I always wear my hair natural. I don’t relax my hair.’”
What makes all of this harder is that hair loss—TE in particular—is a long game played on a wonky, counterintuitive timeline. It’s a nightmare for people trying to distinguish correlation and causation on their own. TE is temporary for almost everyone, but because of the vagaries of hair’s growth cycle, the shedding generally doesn’t start until two to four months after the stressor that triggered it occurred. By then, people are no longer thinking about the flu they had months ago—a new shampoo or medication might get the blame instead. And many people who experience TE have no idea whether their hair will ever come back; the shedding can go on for months before slowing down, and regrowth can take several more months to become visible to the naked eye. By the time people notice their hair growing back, a year may have passed since the process was set into motion. Once it starts, the only effective treatment is patience.
If you’ve never gone from normal hair to bald spots in a matter of weeks, you might be tempted to dismiss this as vanity. But people value their hair because the society they live in tells them it’s important. Women in particular have been told for centuries that their hair is their glory, which paraphrases a biblical edict about long hair as a demonstration of righteousness before God. A full head of hair, Donovan, the Whistler dermatologist, pointed out, is still a crude, unscientific shorthand for youth, for healthy living, for vitality. Losing it can send people into a profound depression, or make them ashamed to leave the house.
So people do what I did. They turn to the internet. Waiting for them is a booming market for nonmedical health products, ranging from the dubiously effective to the obviously scammy. Never does a new product look more promising than when you’re trying to solve a problem you don’t understand. In America, where competent medical care can be hard to access even for simple problems, hair loss—extremely common, highly emotional, absolutely confounding—is a case study in how much money there is to be made in this mixture of desperation and hope.
When I first began my own search for answers, the avalanche of hair-loss products under which Google immediately buried me was disorienting and overwhelming. It wasn’t just the beautiful, full-color photos of luxuriously packaged pills and oils that Google threw at me up front, but how the internet kept the score, using the admission that I was losing my hair to stalk me across time and platforms in a way seemingly designed to wear down my defenses. For months on end, those products and many more followed me around the internet, interrupting my friends’ Instagram stories of their latest cooking projects and slipping between my extended family’s Facebook posts about their kids’ first day of school.
At first glance, many of these products seem promising. Vegamour, a start-up that describes its shampoos and scalp serums as a “holistic approach to hair wellness,” can become practically inescapable if you use the internet to look at mainstream fashion and beauty products. It has a website and social-media presence befitting any luxury cosmetic, complete with videos of models tossing around their impossibly thick hair and promises of clinical proof that its products will grow yours. This clinical proof is not included on the site for scrutiny. (A spokesperson for Vegamour did not respond to questions about its products and website.)
Similarly omnipresent are brands of slickly packaged hair-growth supplements, such as SugarBearHair, whose Tiffany-blue gummy-bear vitamins can be found between the lips of celebrities such as the Kardashian-Jenner sisters in sponsored Instagram posts. Social-media influencers are common in this game. Wellness products are a marketing sweet spot for a class of celebrities who are supposed to be more relatable than traditional stars, because they seem to offer a behind-the-scenes look at what it takes to be beautiful, but without really revealing anything at all. They are a simple way to assure an audience that you got hot through clean living, good nutrition, and a little self-care—that your entire deal isn’t one big, carefully stage-directed feminine farce. The catch, of course, is that the professionally beautiful absolutely do not rely on these types of products to ensure that their hair looks thick and luxurious. Celebrities, as Senna told me, generally don’t have incredible hair. Instead, they have incredibly expensive hair extensions and lace-front wigs. (SugarBearHair did not respond to multiple requests for comment.)
In the United States, cosmetics and dietary supplements occupy a separate legal category from drugs. Their efficacy claims are far less regulated, which allows the manufacturers of nonmedical hair-growth products to make enticingly vague promises that would be more heavily scrutinized and caveated when made by a pharmaceutical company. Paradoxically, this freedom from regulatory surveillance can lead potential customers to assume that these products must be superior overall. The difference can seem implicit in the distinction from pharmaceuticals—if this class of products weren’t safer, more natural, and just as effective, wouldn’t the same level of governmental caution be applied to them? Can’t we infer something from its absence?
These assumptions and their attendant fears are explicitly encouraged by many supplement and cosmetic companies as a way to more effectively market their own products. Vegamour’s website, for example, includes a list of medical-grade ingredients that its products do not include, alongside context-free lists of the most unpleasant side effects that have ever been attributed to those ingredients, even if those side effects are quite rare. The site does not mention any potential side effects of its own products. Drug manufacturers are legally required to track and disclose side effects, but cosmetic companies are not.
You can see the effect anywhere that health problems are being discussed online, especially in spaces dedicated to regrowing hair. In one Facebook group with nearly 30,000 members, the same discussion plays out again and again: A new member asks for help, alongside photos of her thinning hair. Well-meaning people post links to buy the vitamins or essential oils that they’re currently using. They suggest a megadose of biotin, which has never been linked to hair growth in those without a biotin deficiency. They recommend an iron-supplementation protocol with its own Facebook group, even though taking iron supplements can be dangerous if you’re not deficient. Suggesting minoxidil can be controversial, even though it’s one of the only effective treatments for hereditary hair loss, has been studied for decades, and is widely available over the counter in cheap generics. People express a fear of side effects without getting more specific about what scares them. The most common side effect of minoxidil is scalp irritation.
When wading through the sludge of the internet’s hair-loss advice, if you’re lucky, you come across someone like Tala, whose last name I’m not using in order to protect her privacy. She’s a 39-year-old moderator of the Reddit forum r/FemaleHairLoss, which has grown from about 3,000 subscribers to more than 14,000 during the pandemic. The subreddit is a relative rarity on the internet: a place to crowdsource information about a tricky health problem where discussions tend to stay based in reality. People post lots of pictures of their head, either to ask whether it looks like they’re losing more hair than they should be or to show before-and-after photos of treatment plans that really work. They talk about minoxidil and finasteride. They trade hair-war stories about scalp injections and laser helmets, and tell newbies how to find a specialist who can actually help them.
Tala has AGA, the hereditary kind of hair loss, and has been losing hair since she was 30, but she considers herself lucky—she lives in an area with lots of good doctors and she can afford to see them, which means she has access to quality information. Passing on as much of it as possible feels important to her and the subreddit’s other moderators because of how vulnerable many of the group’s new members are. “I can’t tell you how many suicidal people come to this group,” Tala told me. “To know that somebody is suffering that much because they lost their hair, it breaks my heart.”
Maintaining a safe, truthful environment is an uphill battle. “To keep this group running and to keep it free from shills and people who are trying to take advantage of it and spammers, it’s a lot of work,” Tala said. She and the other mods walk a difficult line: For the group to be helpful to as many people as possible, it has to feel welcoming and nonjudgmental, and it has to be free of people who might be trying to sell something. For the group to actually help, the moderators and regular commenters have to find ways to tell people who have spent so much money on “natural” cures that they maybe have been duped, without making them feel stupid or defensive. They teach people the basics of hair’s growth cycle, what to look out for when evaluating a scientific study, and which treatments are known to be effective for the type of hair loss they suspect they have.
Several of the doctors I spoke with think that communities like r/FemaleHairLoss, which encourage rigor and evidence-based treatment options, provide a useful port in the storm of internet health marketing and misinformation. Nonmedical products, the doctors said, are basically all useless for expediting the growth of existing hair—which is not possible in already healthy individuals—or reviving dormant follicles. Dietary supplements themselves can be useful, Senna said, but only for patients whose hair loss is caused by a nutritional deficiency, which is rarely the case for people eating a standard American diet. If you’re not medically deficient, more isn’t better—and it can certainly be worse. Senna mentioned biotin, large doses of which are extremely common in hair-growth supplements. Too much biotin can lead to an incorrect thyroid-disease diagnosis, she said. Thyroid disease can also cause hair loss, so the misdiagnosis can send doctors on a wild-goose chase. The whole problem becomes bigger than if you never took the supplements in the first place.
The myths commonly passed on as facts in some online hair-loss groups are a constant impediment to getting patients on treatment regimens that actually have some chance of helping their hair. “It can be very, very challenging to convince the patient that the diagnosis that she came up with from the internet is not the correct one,” Taylor, the University of Pennsylvania dermatologist, told me. With some types of chronic hair loss, the time that people spend trying things that don’t work is precious—the longer someone goes without effective treatment, the less effective they can expect that treatment to ultimately be.
In the case of TE, hair loss’s timeline is on the side of the wellness industry. Think about how all of this feels to the average person, who has no idea what’s happening to them or why, and who may not even realize that dermatologists treat hair loss—I didn’t. After a couple of months of shedding, they may get worried enough to start looking for remedies as their scalp becomes more visible. They pick up a bottle of hair vitamins and a vial of scalp oil, with the understanding that results will take a few months to see. Down the line, when they spot short little hairs filling back in around their hairline, they’ll attribute that regrowth to the things they bought, not their natural hair-growth cycle. Suddenly, they’re evangelists for their vitamins and oils, which seem like a miracle cure but did nothing at all.
The pandemic likely put this process into motion thousands—if not millions—of times. It’s a challenge that the supplement and cosmetic industries were well positioned to meet; beauty supplements and topical cosmetics are now often sold alongside each other, not just in luxury department stores and beauty emporiums such as Sephora and Ulta, but at Target or via Amazon’s recommendation algorithm. That these products don’t work matters very little to their profitability. In that way, this is a story that predates the pandemic by at least a century. When real, reliable information is hard to come by—in this case, when it is cut off from the general public by the structural limitations of the American health-care system—there will always be a market for new products with hollow promises.
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Travis Scott's Lawyer Now Claims Rapper Didn't Learn Of Astroworld Deaths Until The NEXT DAY https://ift.tt/3qumzAV
Travis Scott apparently had no idea about the “mass casualty event” going on in the crowd at his Astroworld Festival show last Friday night until… the next day?!
That’s what his lawyer, Ed McPherson, is now claiming. McPherson explained as much in a new interview with GMA that aired Friday morning, one week after the horrible crowd surge tragedy that has claimed the lives of nine people so far and injured hundreds more.
According to McPherson, the 30-year-old rapper was allegedly left in the dark when it came to not being informed about the horrific spate of deaths at his show in his hometown of Houston.
Of course, we were already aware that Scott actually hung out after the concert with Drakeat an after party at Dave & Buster’s, so the groundwork has been laid to claim that Kylie Jenner‘s partner wasn’t aware of the deaths for at least some time after the tragedy occurred. But McPherson is now taking things a step further and claiming the awareness only came about the next day.
The lawyer simply said:
“That never got to Travis, that never got to Travis’ crew.”
Wow.
Honestly, it’s kind of hard for us to believe that alleged timeline of events, if for no other reason than news of the tragic scene was ALL OVER social media as it happened. People were posting videos and personal accounts as the horrible crowd surge unfolded, and they were rapidly going viral all over TikTok, Twitter, and Instagram.
So does the rapper’s counsel mean to allege that Travis never checked social media after his show?! And even if he didn’t personally check it, none of his team saw what was going viral worldwide and brought it to his attention Friday night after the concert?? None of his friends saw the situation unfolding online and messaged him personally about it??? Momager Kris Jenner didn’t see the situation unfolding in real time and loop Travis in on her crisis mode communications?!
Come on…
Not only that, we previously heard that he did learn about the deaths while at the party and left immediately. Shifting stories are never a good sign in a situation like this.
McPherson is really running interference for his client, that’s for sure. Elsewhere in the interview with GMA, the lawyer argued that Scott couldn’t have known about what was going on in the crowd:
“He’s up there trying to perform. He does not have any ability to know what’s going on down below. … Understand that when he’s up on the stage, and he has flash pots going off around him and he has an ear monitor that has music blasting through it and his own voice. He can’t hear anything, he can’t see anything.”
OK, that’s obviously one of the issues here. Travis Scott really might have been unable to see what was going on in the crowd because of all the on-stage stuff.
However, we’ve seen lots of videos resurfacing over the past week of artists seeing things going on in the crowd and pausing shows for safety reasons. And in the very same GMA interview, McPherson also mentions this:
“[Scott was] on a riser at one point and he sees one boy down… stops the show, [and] he asked security to get to that person.”
Sooooo which one is it, then? Travis could see into the crowd well enough to stop the show for a distressed fan, or he couldn’t see into the crowd, and so he’s not liable for anything that happened??
Here is McPherson’s full interview with GMA (below):
BTW, that’s not the first interview McPherson has given on the tragedy.
He actually spoke out for the very first time one day earlier, on Thursday, in a local news interview with ABC 13 in Houston.
In that conversation, the lawyer claimed “finger-pointing” by city officials and crowd control personnel has made the whole situation even more difficult:
“There has been multiple finger-pointing, much of which has been by city officials, who have sent inconsistent messages and have backtracked from original statements.”
He also alleged that it was on the police department to stop the show, and them failing to do so exacerbated the situation.
When asked by ABC 13 whether Scott would have stopped the show if the police had asked, McPherson responded:
“Of course. What possible reason would we have for keeping it going? In fact in 2019, I believe it was during Astroworld, when it went past the curfew, like five minutes, the police went and pulled the plug. They certainly could have done that if they wanted to.”
Whatever may come from legal battles over liability, the fact of the matter remains that nine people are dead, hundreds more are injured, and thousands more have been seriously emotionally and psychologically affected by the events of that night.
Those people are the ones who truly deserve our sympathy and support.
According to DailyMail.com, Kim quietly attended the nuptials with… wait for it… close friend Kimora Lee-Simmons as her date! AH-mazing!
The outlet reports that the reality TV star’s attendance itself was “a surprise appearance,” as “many guests did not expect” the A-lister to show up for the event in the first place. Inneresting!
One guest at the wedding even reports that Kim and Kimora did things the low-key way: by arriving “via a secret entrance” in Paris’ late grandfather’s Bel Air-area estate about 20 minutes before the wedding ceremony began. Sounds like fun!
Of course, as we’ve been reporting, Hilton and Reum said “I do” in a lavish, beautiful, star-studded affair on Thursday night in El Lay.
A-list guests included Emma Roberts, Ashley Benson, and Bebe Rexha, among others. And Kim and Kimora, of course.
What a night!
TBH, just a little bit sad that Pim didn’t make an appearance…