Though she received plenty of backlash following her infamous Saturday Night Live performance in 2004, Ashlee Simpson admits there was one positive takeaway from the experience: She learned how to pick herself back up. During a recent appearance on the Broad Ideas With Rachel Bilson & Olivia Allen podcast, the “La La” singer, 39, reflected on the SNL gig that tested her perseverance. “I had done my rehearsal the night before and then I woke up the next day and I couldn’t speak,” Simpson explained, who was only 19 or 20 at the time. Read More...
Actress Ashley Judd, who previously accused disgraced movie producer Harvey Weinstein of sexual harassment, has slammed what she called "institutional betrayal" after Weinstein's 2020 rape conviction was overturned Thursday in New York. "This is what it’s like to be a woman in America, living with male entitlement to our bodies,” the 56-year-old actress said of the development during an afternoon press conference, before recounting her own allegations against Weinstein, which she said occurred in a hotel room, between her filming the 1997 movie Kiss the Girls. Read More...
Ashley Judd used her time at the Women’s March on Washington to recite a poem called “Nasty Woman,” which refers to President Donald Trump as “a man who looks like he bathes in Cheetos dust.” The poem was written by 19-year-old Tennessee resident Nina Donovan, who first performed her work in December of last year. (At the time, Judd shared a clip of Donovan reciting the poem to her Facebook page. Read More...
