15 Times Celebs Called Out OTHER Celebs In Their Memoirs
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I don't know about y'all, but I live for a celebrity memoir. You get to know more about the figures that interest you from their own perspective, and a lot of times, you get some piping hot tea in the process.
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Some celebrities are definitely bolder than others when it comes to calling people out, but regardless of the process, it's interesting to see how slights are settled in print (at least until the other celeb responds).
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Here are just some of the celebrities who weren't afraid to open up about their colleagues, enemies, and everyone in between:
1.Matthew Perry very randomly (and harshly) shaded Keanu Reeves in his memoir, Friends, Lovers, and the Big Terrible Thing.
While talking about late friend and one-time costar River Phoenix, Perry writes, "It always seems to be the really talented guys who go down. Why is it that the original thinkers like River Phoenix and Heath Ledger die, but Keanu Reeves still walks among us?"
He later apologized for the comment, telling People he's "actually a big fan of Keanu" and "just chose a random name, my mistake."
2.The late Naya Rivera spared no shade when she addressed the end of her engagement to Big Sean, which was shortly followed by his relationship with Ariana Grande.
In her memoir, Sorry Not Sorry, she wrote, "On the one day that he was back in LA, he said he didn't want to see me," explaining that she went to his place and let herself in. ''I walk in, go downstairs, and guess what little girl is sitting cross-legged on the couch listening to music? … It rhymes with 'Smariana Schmande.'"
"I learned that I was no longer getting married from the internet, and at the same time as the rest of the world," Rivera said of their breakup. "Not only were we no longer getting married, but apparently, we weren’t even together anymore."
3.Jessica Simpson detailed going through a lot of ups and downs with her on-again, off-again situationship with John Mayer in her memoir, Open Book.
At one point in her memoir, Simpson writes about deciding to go back to Mayer after Tony Romo broke up with her for emailing with him. "I felt like I was in the closing scenes of an epic, sweeping love story, and the romantic hero had beaten out the star quarterback," she wrote.
She went to Mayer's house, and his reaction was to tell her she didn't "get" him "yet," followed by performing new songs he'd been working on. "I almost puked," she said.
4.Colton Underwood threw some shade at Hannah Brown for her Bachelor antics in his memoir, The First Time: Finding Myself and Looking for Love on Reality TV.
As he tells it, Hannah B. popped up during his date with Hannah G. with drama on the brain. "She was still stewing about not getting a rose and wanted more clarity from me," he wrote. "In reality, it seemed she wanted to lash out and vent."
"She went off on the remaining four girls and told me they didn’t have the qualities that made her so amazing. It was the beast in her, roaring and raging."
5.Rachel Lindsay, another Bachelor-franchise member, wrote in her memoir, Miss Me with That, that former friend and cast-mate Raven Gates described her as having "Black skin" while filming their season.
Rachel wrote that Raven kept a journal while filming Season 22, and while Raven read her journal out loud to some of the women, she said "Rachel — she has Black skin." Rachel then wrote, "What the fuck? Who says that shit? Not only do you think it, but you actually say it out loud for people to hear?"
6.In her memoir, Rachel also revealed behind-the-scenes info on scenes that viewers never saw between herself and season "winner" Vanessa Grimaldi. Mainly, that Vanessa labeled Rachel as a bully when really Vanessa was the actual bully.
“Because my relationship with Nick posed a threat to hers, Vanessa had been complaining about me," Rachel wrote. “I believed that if my conversation with Vanessa aired unedited, the Bachelor audience would recognize that I was not a bully, but a producer made it clear that they would turn on me."
7.Busy Philipps opened up in her memoir, This Will Only Hurt a Little, about not one but two men who clearly wronged her.
One of those men was ex Craig Cox, who wrote Blades of Glory with his brother and writing partner Jeff Cox. The problem? Philipps detailed coming up with the idea and how after the fact, Craig gaslit her into believing she did not.
“I had a hard time recovering. It wasn’t the script. It was that I’d been so easily thrown out, like trash," Philipps wrote about the incident. "I was in the way of their success, I guess? Collateral damage. And in order for them to do this insanely shitty thing to me, they vilified me and told me I was crazy. The story became that I was the one who had tried to STEAL ideas from them, that I was ALWAYS just looking out for myself. THEY had come up with this AMAZING STORY, and I was the less-than-talented girlfriend trying to glom on to their talent and carve out a piece for myself. A piece that I didn’t deserve. I had a hard time figuring out what was real."
8.Philipps also opened up about an incident where James Franco didn't know she was scripted to lightly shove him in Freaks and Geeks.
"He grabbed both my arms and screamed in my face, 'DON’T EVER TOUCH ME AGAIN!'" she recalled in the book. "And he threw me to the ground. Flat on my back. Wind knocked out of me."
Philipps has since said that Franco apologized to her for the incident in the years after, and they became better friends as adults.
9.Jennette McCurdy shaded Nickelodeon (via an Ariana Grande example) in I'm Glad My Mom Died. The actor/pop star's skyrocketing career was accommodated by Nickelodeon while McCurdy herself was held back from other opportunities because of her roles on iCarly and Sam & Cat.
"The week where I was told Ariana would not be here at all, and that they would write around her absence this episode by having her character be locked in a box," McCurdy wrote. "So, I have to turn down movies while Ariana’s off whistle-toning at the Billboard Music Awards? Fuck. This. Ariana misses work in pursuit of her music career while I act with a box."
Later, she continued, "What finally undid me was when Ariana came whistle-toning in with excitement because she had spent the previous evening playing charades at Tom Hanks’s house. That was the moment I broke."
10.Mariah Carey let it be known how she felt about Tommy Mottola — and the other artist (ahem, J.Lo) who he championed over her spitefully after their split — in her memoir, The Meaning of Mariah Carey.
"After hearing my new song, using the same sample I used, Sony rushed to make a single for another female entertainer on their label (whom I don’t know)," she wrote, alluding to her famous J.Lo interview reference.
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