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SATURDAY, MAY 4, 2013
The ‘X Factor’ USA judge says checking in to a treatment
facility to help her overcome her struggles with
bulimia and self-harming in 2010 was a life-changing
move, especially because it proved who actually cared
about her. She told Company magazine: “A couple of
months before I went to rehab, I had a birthday party, and
there were a couple of hundred people there. It was full of
people who I considered my closest friends. “When I
turned my phone on after being in rehab for three months,
I expected lots of text messages and phone calls. I had four
texts. That was a wake-up call.” The 20-year-old singer -
who used to be friends with her fellow Disney stars Miley
Cyrus and Selena Gomez - has cut most of her old pals out
of her life and now only has a small support group of people
she can rely on. Demi added: “I don’t have loads of
friends. I used to, but then I realized, do any of them actually
care? “Now I have people who, if I break my leg in the
middle of the night, will come to the hospital with me. Or
they’ll answer the phone at 4 am if I need them.”
The 66-year-old singer admitted she was “really strongheaded”
when she was a youngster which often caused
problems with her mother Georgia Holt, who she has
paid tribute to in new documentary ‘Dear Mom, Love Cher’.
She told People magazine: “We were always close but we
fought a lot when I was young. I was really strong-headed
even then. “I did a couple of things like running away when I
was 11. I hopped a train with my friends. I was adventurous
but never disrespectful, She wouldn’t have put up with that.”
Cher also revealed her mother wasn’t entirely supportive of
her relationship with the late Sonny Bono, the father of her
child Chaz Bono, at first. She said: “I had a little problem with
her over Sonny but that didn’t take long to get over. She listened
first before making a judgement so I could always talk
to her about my romances. She stressed the importance of
being sure that person you are with is the person you love.”
The 17-year-old daughter of Alec Baldwin and Kim Basinger is
dating stand-up paddleboarder Slater Trout and revealed
the pair first starting talking to each other on the microblogging
site. She told Vanity Fair: “We met through mutual flirting
efforts on the Internet. Twitter is a modern-day public diary of
your thoughts. You have to be careful, but at the same time it’s
kind of fun not to be too careful.” The model also acknowledged
that people may think her success comes from her famous parents
but she insists she works hard for her career. Ireland explained:
“For any kid raised under the circumstances I was raised-having a
famous family-people often think you have everything laid out for
you and you don’t need to work,” she said. “But everyone has to
work for what they want, and everybody has to make a name for
themselves.” Despite her stunning looks, Ireland went through an
awkward phase but has now learned to love her looks. She said: “I
went through a lot in middle school, and you always try so many
different looks and try to be so many different people. I finally see
that I’m awkward, I’m lanky, and I’m going to embrace it-make fun
of myself and just laugh.”
Lil Wayne is engaged
The ‘Lollipop’ rapper has been dating Dhea Sodano for
two years and in a trailer for Vinny Guadagnino’s ‘The
Show With Vinny’, Wayne says “My fiancee is Italian,”
when asked if he has ever eaten Italian food. However, it
could simply be a joke as on Valentine’s Day 2012 he wrote on
Twitter, “She said yes!” before adding: “Ohhhhhhh now I see
why! I meant “she said yes” to being my valentine!!!
Hahahahahahaha! Y’all krazy (sic).” The rapper - who has confirmed
that he is epileptic and nearly died after his heart rate
decreased to “30 percent” in March - suffered yet another
seizure earlier this week. Speaking about his condition previously,
he said: “[I’m] prone to seizures. This isn’t my first, second,
third, fourth, fifth, sixth, seventh seizure. I’ve had a bunch
of seizures, ya’ll just never hear about them. “But this time it
got real bad ‘cause I had three of them in a row and on the
third one, my heart rate went down to like 30 percent.
Basically, I could’ve died.”—Bang Showbiz