The world of celebrity is often associated with glamour, success, and adoration, but behind the polished façade lies a tapestry of life experiences, struggles, and revelations.
Bored Pandaoffers a glimpse into the lives of the stars, showing us that even in the midst of fame and fortune, they too grapple with the same human experiences as the rest of us.
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In his 2022 book, Friends, Lovers, and the Big Terrible Thing, Matthew Perry shared that his relationship with alcohol began when he was just a teenager.Hewroteof his experience as a 14-year-old with substance abuse: “I realized that for the first time in my life, nothing bothered me.“The world made sense; it wasn’t bent and crazy. I was complete and at peace. I had never been happier than at that moment.“This is the answer, I thought; this is what I’ve been missing.“This must be how normal people feel all the time. I don’t have any problems. It is all gone.“I don’t need attention. I am taken care of; I am fine. I was in bliss.“I had no problems for those three hours. I wasn’t abandoned; I wasn’t fighting with my mom; I wasn’t doing poorly in school; I wasn’t wondering what life was about or my place in it.“It took away everything.”
In her new memoir, Finding Me, Viola Davis shared her experience growing up in extreme poverty in Central Falls, Rhode Island.The How To Get Away With Murder starwrote: “We were ‘po’. That’s a level lower than poor.“I’ve heard some of my friends say, ‘We were poor, too, but I just didn’t know it until I got older’.“We were poor and we knew it. There was absolutely no disputing it.“It was reflected in the apartments we lived in, where we shopped for clothes and furniture—the St. Vincent de Paul—the food stamps that were never enough to fully feed us, and the welfare checks. We were ‘po’.“We almost never had a phone. Often, we had no hot water or gas.“We had to use a hot plate, which increased the electric bill. The plumbing was shoddy, so the toilets never flushed.”
In her memoir in 2016, The Princess Diarist, Carrie Fisher disclosed that during the filming of their initial Star Wars movie in the 1970s, she engaged in a romantic relationship with Harrison Ford.Back then, she was 19 years old, while he was 33, and already married with two children.Harrison was, Carrierecalled, “just so handsome. No. No. More than that. He looked like he could lead the charge into battle, take the hill, win the duel, be leader of the gluten-free world, all without breaking a sweat.”She also remembered him as emotionally distant, monosyllabic and a bit boring, though this didn’t stop her falling for him.The late actress revealed that during the weekends, they engaged in intimate encounters, while on set during the week, they maintained a facade of being complete strangers.She wrote: “If Harrison was unable to see that I had feelings for him (at least five, but sometimes as many as seven) then he wasn’t as smart as I thought he was – as I knew he was.“So I loved him and he allowed it. That’s as close a reckoning as I can muster four decades later.”
In his new memoir, If You Would Have Told Me, John Stamos reflected on the instant he received the news of the passing of his dear friend and fellow Full House cast member, Bob Saget.He detailed his initial reaction, mentioning that he had come across reports but harbored doubts about their authenticity.Consequently, he opted to send a text message to Bob. As he received no immediate response from Bob’s wife, Kelly Rizzo, his concern deepened.He wrote: “When I switch callers over to Kelly, all I hear is a wailing scream.“I hit the ground in the parking lot and my knees slam down on the asphalt. ‘Nooooooooooooooooooooo.'”
Holly Madison’s 2015 Down the Rabbit Hole memoir left no stone unturned, offering readers an unfiltered look into her seven-year tenure at the iconic Playboy Mansion under the wing of Hugh Hefner.Once Hugh’s top girlfriend, Madison, now 43, disclosed the intricacies of life there, including the house rules, interpersonal dynamics, and more, before her departure.In several passages, sherecountedepisodes of severe depression while living at the Playboy mansion.In one chapter, she shares a moment when she considered committing suicide in a bathtub.Recalling a conversation with Bridget Marquardt, who was also one of Hugh’s girlfriends, Holly wrote: “‘I told him he should really talk to you about it’.“If I had any doubts about my decision to leave, what Bridget said had just squashed them.“Hef knew how desperate, sad, and broken I was, but didn’t do a damn thing about it. I’d given seven years of my life to a man who couldn’t even have a conversation with me.”
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In her memoir, unSweetined, which was published in 2009, Full House star Jodie Sweetin shed light on her drug and alcohol addiction as a teenager.Sherevealedthat she was “high as a kite” after snorting meth in a bathroom stall during the 2004 premiere of Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen’s movie New York Minute.“I was pulling off the deceit. It was hard for people to believe I was doing that much drugs,” Jodie wrote.“I look at photos from that event, and I didn’t even look strung out!”The actress also admitted that she got so drunk at her costar Candace Cameron’s wedding in 1996 that she vomited and had to be carried out.She wrote: “I probably had two bottles of wine, and I was only 14.“That first drink gave me the self-confidence I had been searching for my whole life. But that set the pattern of the kind of drinking that I would do.”
In her recently published memoir, Thicker Than Water, Kerry Washington shed light on her struggles with an eating disorder while she attended George Washington University in the 1990s.The Scandal star wrote: “By the time I got to college, my relationship with food and my body had become a toxic cycle of self-abuse that utilized the tools of starvation, binge eating, body obsession, and compulsive exercise.”
In her memoir, Tell Me Everything, Minka Kelly reminisced about the unhealthy relationship she experienced with her high school sweetheart, Rudy, and how he wanted to make a sex tape.The 43-year-old actresswrote: “I hardly even remembered making the tape,” calling it “raunchy.”She continued: “I’d become such a master at leaving my body when things were uncomfortable.”Under Rudy’s influence, she was persuaded to have a tattoo of her own lip print inked “on the side of my pubic mound.”Of the tattoo, she wrote: “Little did I know I’d spend the rest of my life explaining to new lovers what the mark was, lying to everyone … I was too ashamed to admit the truth.“I’d been so dependent on a man I’d let him brand me as [if] I was a member of the NXIVM cult.”
In her memoir, Down the Drain, Julia Fox shared her whirlwind relationship with Kanye West, whom she referred to as “the artist.“Juliawrotethat a friend asked her a few days after Christmas in 2021 if he could give her number to the artist.According to her account, they conversed for hours over the phone, and he extended an invitation for her to join him in Miami for New Year’s Eve.Initially declining, citing pre-existing plans, he suggested flying the author down on a private jet, and Julia ultimately agreed, with the condition that she could also bring the friends she had originally intended to spend the evening with.The Uncut Gems star revealed that her group faced a delay in gaining entry to the party venue, and as a result, she didn’t encounter Kanye until the early hours of New Year’s Day.However, Julia vividly remembered sensing an instant connection at that moment.After they talked for a while, she continued, he brought her outside while he took a quick pee in a parking lot behind the club and then kissed her “passionately.”
In her memoir, Worthy, Jada Pinkett Smith disclosed that she resorted to engaging in drug-related activities as a means to secure financial resources for herself.“I knew that anything that I needed was something I needed to provide for,” the actresswrote.Jada continued: “I decided to sell drugs.“Growing up, the drug dealers were the ones that had affluence.“That’s what we readily saw as success. And so for me, considering my circumstances at the time, my mother was not doing well. She was a high-functioning heroin addict. We didn’t have the things that we should have.“The home we lived in was not taken care of.”
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