Jada Pinkett Smith revealed her husband, Will, felt ‘abandoned’ by her efforts to gain more independence
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Actress Jada Pinkett Smith revealed that her husband, Will Smith, felt “abandoned” by her efforts to gain more independence in their marriage.
Pinkett Smith was joined by her mother, Adrienne Banfield-Norris, as well as the couple’s therapist, Esther Perel, in the latest episode of her Facebook watch series “Red Table Talk.” In the episode, the group gets candid about mending a relationship after infidelity.
Pinkett Smith reveals that, while Will never cheated on her, there were “betrayals of the heart” that caused them to completely reassess their relationship and move forward outside the confines of traditional marriage rules.
“Specifically for me, in regards to redefining my marriage as a life partnership was the necessity of autonomy for myself and for Will, and finding the core of us that wanted to be together outside of the constraints of the traditional ideas of marriage because they weren’t working for us,” she shared.
In the midst of that self-reflection, Jada says she realized that she was living her life in service of Will’s happiness.
“Our whole life looked like his dream. I’m his energy source. That’s great, but I’ve got to create part of this life that is designed and looks like me,” she said.
However, when asked if Will took that news well, Pinkett Smith revealed that it initially caused further strain.
“He felt abandoned at first, he felt really abandoned,” she admitted. “That’s one of the reasons why I stayed in it the way I did for so long. Because I was so terrified. First of all, you never want to hurt the person that you love. You never want to create instability that way.”
“It has been one of the most excruciating processes of my life,” she continued. “I’ve wanted to personally break out of Will needing to be something for me because I felt like that was so unfair. And a lot of it had to do with my father issues. I just realized one day, ‘This man is not your father!”
The star concluded by noting that learning to trust Will to be the man that he is was the work she put in, while Will figured out a way to understand her need for independence.
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Britney Spears accuses paparazzi of editing photos to make her look heavier
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Britney Spears is not happy with newly released images of her vacationing in Miami.
The singer took to Instagram late Monday to accuse the paparazzi of editing photos of her in a bikini to make her appear “40 pounds bigger” than she really is. To prove she’s thinner, she posted a video of herself with this message, “So, this is the day after me on my boat ride. Do I look any different today than yesterday?” she says as she twirls while wearing a crop top. In the caption, she added, “People always say people or celebrities cheat with their images, but never do they question the papparazzi for selling your pic that they have messed with !!!! This was all done within the same 17 hours !!!!”
The photo agency that took the photos, MEGA, had this to say to Page Six. “We think Britney looks great and it’s ludicrous to suggest the photos or video were altered in any way,” a representative for the company said. “They were not. We shot thousands of photos of her over the weekend and are very happy to let her see the original files if she so wishes. It was good to see her happy and having fun and we wish her well.”
Spears’ Instagram post comes in the midst of the #FreeBritney social media movement, driven by some fans who believe she is a prisoner in her own home because of a court-ordered conservatorship that dates to 2008. Under its terms, the singer’s father, Jamie Spears, makes decisions about her day-to-day affairs and medical needs.
Some fans have alleged Spears also cannot access her social media accounts. Sources close to Spears previously have told CNN the claims are entirely false.
The star’s latest Instagram post shows her not only enjoying a sunny vacation but also taking control of the narrative.
CNN has reached out to Spears’ camp and MEGA for additional comment.
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Lee Daniels: I hate f–king being sober
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Lee Daniels says that while it’s “a bore,” his sobriety is very important to him.
“I’m angsty and I’m sober, so that is really weird to be going to the Met Ball and to other social activities not intoxicated,” the “Empire” creator told New York Magazine. “I hate f–king being sober. It’s a bore. It’s a f–king snooze.”
Daniels, 59, said he initially got into drugs and alcohol because his father couldn’t cope with him being gay.
“I don’t do anything. It’s really hard, but believe me, I’ve done enough for everybody,” he shared. “I never really even liked to drink, but I drank because my father told me if he ever saw me with a man, he would kill me. And until I was 22, I had to get drunk to actually go through with the process. And then the drug scene came.”
The start of the AIDS epidemic only furthered Daniels’ addictions, as he turned to drugs and alcohol to help numb the pain of all the people he had lost.
“And then all your friends start dying of AIDS. Not one, not two, not three, I’m talking intimate friends that you’ve had sex with, you’ve had dreams with, hopes with, people that are better souls than you, gone,” he explained. “And you can’t figure out, ‘Why the f–k am I still here?’ So then it was like me on drugs and drinking, not even knowing I was an addict but just erasing all the pain.”
Still sober, “The Butler” director didn’t use when dealing with the fallout from Jussie Smollett’s allegedly staged racist and homophobic attack, though he certainly struggled in dealing with it.
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Mistrial declared on 8 counts in Winslow Jr. trial
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A California jury that convicted former NFL player Kellen Winslow Jr. of raping a 58-year-old homeless woman was unable to break a deadlock on eight other counts Tuesday and a judge declared a mistrial on those charges.
The judge earlier denied a defense motion to dismiss the undecided charges involving the alleged rapes of a 54-year-old hitchhiker and an unconscious teen.
Prosecutors did not immediately say whether they would retry those charges. Winslow currently faces up to nine years in prison. Conviction on all charges could bring a life sentence.
The San Diego County Superior Court jury on Monday found Winslow guilty of an attack last year on the homeless woman in Encinitas, north of San Diego. The jury also found the 35-year-old former tight end guilty of indecent exposure and lewd conduct involving two other women, but jurors found him not guilty of one count of a lewd act.
The jury told the court Monday that it was deadlocked on the other charges, but the judge had ordered them to resume deliberations on Tuesday.
All five women testified during the nine-day trial. Winslow, who played for Cleveland, Tampa Bay, New England and the New York Jets, did not take the stand.
Defense attorneys pointed out inconsistencies in the accusers’ testimonies and argued the women invented the allegations to prey on the wealth of Winslow, who reportedly earned over $40 million during his 10 seasons in the NFL.
The five women testified that they didn’t know Winslow was famous when they met him.
Prosecutors said Winslow — the son of Pro Football Hall of Famer Kellen Winslow — felt empowered by his fame to abuse the most vulnerable. Prosecutor Dan Owens told the jury of eight men and four women that Winslow is a “wolf in sheep’s clothing.”
The homeless woman in Encinitas testified that Winslow befriended her and attacked her next to his vehicle after inviting her for a coffee in May 2018.
The 54-year-old hitchhiker said he drove her to an Encinitas shopping center parking lot and raped her in his Hummer in March 2018.
A 57-year-old woman said he exposed himself to her while she tended to her garden in May 2018. The jury found him guilty of that charge Monday.
After news of the attacks broke, a woman came forward and said Winslow had raped her when she was a 17-year-old high school student in 2003. He was 19 at the time and had come home from college for the summer.
A 77-year-old woman who went to the same gym as Winslow in the nearby beach community of Carlsbad said he committed lewd acts in front of her, including touching himself, while Winslow was free on $2 million bail in February. The jury found him guilty of touching himself in front of the woman while she exercised, but not guilty of committing a lewd act in front of her on a separate occasion in the gym’s hot tub.
Defense attorney Marc Carlos questioned the credibility of the women’s claims, saying they had lied, misconstrued things or were unable to initially identify Winslow correctly. Defense lawyers also said the sex was consensual and that Winslow had cheated on his wife repeatedly with no-strings-attached sex.
Prosecutors said the crux of the women’s accusations didn’t change and that evidence included traces of Winslow’s DNA on one of the accuser’s pants and GPS locations placing him where the women said the assaults occurred.
Jurors on Friday sent a note to the judge indicating they were struggling to reach agreement.
“The jurors could benefit from an explanation as to what being under oath means,” the note said. “Additionally, how we should follow the law and not what we think the law means.”
The judge told jurors that being under oath means telling the whole truth and that they should follow the law how it is written.
Yung Miami Announces She’s Pregnant!
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We might soon be losing both City Girls. Right now, JT is out of action as she completes her prison sentence for fraud. Yung Miami has been holding down the crew with their growing popularity but it looks like she might also need to take a break. As reported by The Shade Room, the rapper is currently expecting a baby, which she revealed in a new documentary.
Yung Miami, whose real name is Caresha Brownlee, already has one child but she’s expecting another. She admitted that she will soon be giving birth to another baby during a phone conversation in the City Girls’ documentary. She was seemingly in the middle of a private conversation with her boyfriend, mega-producer Southside, when she dropped the bomb on him. “I’m pregnant,” she said. The man on the other end of the call asks her to confirm and she starts crying, answering in the affirmative.
A good number of City Girls fans claim to have known about the pregnancy all along. A few days ago, rumours started flying around on gossip websites about Caresha’s possible pregnancy and now that we’ve heard the news directly from the source, we can finally celebrate. There is currently no timetable on when she’s due.
As we said, this muddles up the girl group’s schedule for the near future. Yung Miami has been keeping herself busy with promo and videos as she awaits JT’s return but now, she will likely need to take some time off as well.
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Missouri woman accused of buying lingerie and condoms for a 12-year-old girl and encouraging her to have a sexual relationship with an 18-year-old man
The Springfield News-Leader reports that 66-year-old Jo Garrison, of Springfield, was arrested last week and freed after posting bond. Charging documents say Garrison bought condoms for the girl and told her not to get pregnant when she was diagnosed last year with chlamydia.
The 18-year-old, who is charged with statutory rape, allegedly told police he tried to end the relationship, but Garrison manipulated him into continuing and bought lingerie for the girl.
Documents say Garrison told officers she was fine with the relationship. Her attorney didn’t immediately return a phone message from The Associated Press.
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Missouri man says grandmother’s ashes dumped out by officer during arrest
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (WDAF) – A metro man is searching for a way to move forward after he says Kansas City police officers dumped out all he had left of his grandmother.
“You should’ve asked before you did what you did,” Deonta Words said.
Words is asking questions after he said a KCPD officer poured his grandmother’s ashes in the dirt during an arrest.
“I’m trying to figure out why was it dumped on the ground and scooped backup,” Words said.
Her ashes were kept close to his heart – in a necklace he wears every day. Words says what’s left of his grandmother is now mixed with grass and dirt.
“He never asked me what was in it, or what was it. He just went ahead and dumped it on the ground. If you thought it was some type of drug or anything you should’ve put it on a drug testing thing,” Words said. “You didn’t do that. You just dumped it out on the ground next to my money.”
Words said he was walking to a friend’s near 39th and Topping when police took him into custody on a warrant. Words said he understands the arrest, but he can’t wrap his head around a police officer dumping his grandmother’s remains on the ground.
“I don’t got nothing to say to them, at all. Nothing at all,” Words said. “They didn’t apologize about it and I ain’t got nothing to say.”
He said it brings back the pain he felt about a year ago when she passed away.
“That was the last of what I had of her,” Words said. “This is my grandmother she raised me all my life.”
He says she was like a mother.
“I miss her. I think about her every day,” Words said. “That’s my heart, that’s my baby. I’m her baby.”
Words said it seemed like police didn’t know what was in his necklace, but wishes the officer would have asked because now he’s left with nothing.
“I can’t get her back. I can’t get her ashes back. I’m going to forever think about this.”
FOX4 reached out to KCPD. They said they’d get back to us about this case specifically.
Detectives did say over the last decade, they’ve seen an increase in people wearing jewelry that conceals illegal items.
Words said he was wanted for resisting arrest.
By REGAN PORTER
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Florida man claimed cocaine on his nose ‘was not his,’
HILLSBOROUGH COUNTY, Fla. – A Florida man tried to avoid arrest by telling deputies that the cocaine allegedly found on his nose “was not his,” according to the Hillsborough County Sheriff’s Office.
During a recent traffic stop, deputies noticed that the passenger, 20-year-old Fabricio Tueros Jimenez, had white powder around his nostrils, according to a news release. A field test came back positive for cocaine.
Jimenez had a small bag of powder cocaine “concealed on him,” deputies said, and a search of the car turned up a backpack containing 250 grams of marijuana and 13 Xanax pills.
Jimenez was arrested without incident, the sheriff’s office said. It’s not clear who the driver of the car was.
Deputies arrested Jimenez on unspecified drug charges.
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Three-year-old dies after shots fired into group standing on St. Louis sidewalk
ST. LOUIS, Mo. — Two young children were shot in south St. Louis Sunday night. Police say that the shooting happened in the 4600 block of Michigan. The six, and three-year-old victims were taken to the hospital. The three-year-old later died from the injuries.
The deceased child has been identified by police as Kenndei Powell. The six-year-old was grazed by a bullet and is in critical condition at the hospital.
A police report says that seven adults and children were standing next to a vehicle occupied by a 28-year-old woman Sunday at around 8:30pm. A white four-door vehicle drove by and fired shots at the group, injuring some of the youngest members. Two six-year-olds, a four-year-old, an eight-year-old, and two other 28-year-olds were not hit by the bullets coming from the vehicle.
Homicide investigators are working on this case. They have not released any information about possible suspects in this shooting. Anyone with information is urged to call CrimeStoppers at 866-371-TIPS (8477).
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