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CNN
28-05-2025
- Entertainment
- CNN
Nick Kroll ‘produced' John Mulaney's intervention because he ‘was so deeply scared that he was gonna die'
Being the subject of an intervention is never easy, but Nick Kroll is letting it be known that organizing one is no walk in the park either. During a recent episode of the 'Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard' podcast, Shepard, who is a recovering addict, brought up to Kroll how much he loved John Mulaney's Netflix standup special in which the comedian talks about his 2020 stint in rehab. Shepard wondered if Kroll was at the intervention that led to Mulaney's stay. 'I produced that intervention,' Kroll said. The 'Big Mouth' creator and star said it was 'so scary and brutal' to go through given that it was the height of the pandemic, he was living in Los Angeles and Mulaney was in New York at the time. Kroll's wife was also pregnant and he was in the midst of filming the movie 'Don't Worry Darling.' 'John was running around New York City like a true madman,' Kroll recalled. 'And I was so deeply scared that he was gonna die.' There were complicated feelings and many details to attend to, Kroll said, including who the intervention expert would be and where Mulaney would go for treatment. 'You're all of a sudden going back, being like, 'Oh, oh, oh — that's why I've had an inconsistent friend for the last X amount of time. Oh, this explains that,'' Kroll said. 'And so, it gives you both empathy for them and also a tremendous amount of anger because they've been lying to you.' Mulaney has since gotten sober and married actress Olivia Munn with whom he shares two young children. CNN has reached out to representatives for Mulaney for comment.
News.com.au
20-05-2025
- Entertainment
- News.com.au
Michelle Williams makes rare comment about ex Heath Ledger: ‘Special'
Michelle Williams reminisced on her 'special' ex Heath Ledger in an emotional podcast moment. Armchair Expert co-host Dax Shepard 'felt obligated to' bring up the late Oscar winner during Monday's interview with the actor. 'I knew him a little bit when he was getting sober, and I don't know that I've ever fallen in love with somebody so quickly,' Shepard, 50, recalled. He went on to call Ledger, who died in 2008 of an overdose at age 28, 'one of the most special boys' he has ever met. Shepard noted, 'I [could] feel the weight of the world on him in a very special way that kind of broke my heart. I was very, very sad, and I thought he was just so special.' Williams, 44, replied in a whisper, repeatedly calling Ledger 'so special.' She subsequently referenced their 19-year-old daughter, gushing, 'Thank God there's Matilda.' When Shepard added that Ledger had a 'heart that [was] just leaking out everywhere,' Williams agreed that the Dark Knight star was filled with an 'incredible sensitivity.' She recalled welcoming Matilda with Ledger in October 2005, one year after they met on the Brokeback Mountain set and began dating. 'I suppose maybe a good thing about being young is that you don't have so much life experience that you can contextualise things,' Williams said of the experience. The duo ended their romance in 2007. When Ledger died the following year from an accidental drug overdose, Succession star Jeremy Strong moved into Williams' home to support her and Matilda. 'Jeremy was serious enough to hold the weight of a child's broken heart and sensitive enough to understand how to approach her through play and games and silliness,' she revealed to Variety in 2022. The Golden Globe winner did not discuss this time period in Monday's interview, but did share a rare insight into raising the now-teen. 'When I make mistakes in front of my daughter and own up to them and apologise, it teaches her to apologise and say, 'Oops, Mummy, I'm sorry,' and it's not a big deal,' Williams told listeners. 'It's a part of life, and we move on,' the Emmy winner continued. 'No shame, no blame. You made a mistake? Beautiful. I made five already today.' Williams is also the mother of three children with husband Thomas Kail — son Hart, born in 2020, and two more, one born in 2022 and another via surrogate earlier this year, whose names have not been divulged. The couple got married in 2020, less than one year after the Dying for Sex star divorced her first husband, musician Phil Elverum.
Business Insider
20-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Business Insider
Michelle Williams says you 'can't be equally good' at parenting and work
Michelle Williams knows balancing her acting career with being a mom is tough. During a Monday appearance on the " Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard" podcast, Williams, 44, shared how she juggles life as a mother of four while keeping her acting career on track. "Kids are such great life checkers. They force you to put your best self in front of them," she told podcast host Dax Shepard. "You can't abdicate your life and your work and your own desires, but you do have to put them in check and figure out which master you're going to serve." The " Brokeback Mountain" star welcomed her first child, Matilda, in 2005 with her then-boyfriend, the late actor Heath Ledger. In 2020, she married director Thomas Kail, with whom she shares three children. For her, being a working mom is about striking a careful balance — never letting her kids or her career go "unattended for too long." "Because the truth is, if work is going well, somebody else is taking care of the kids. And if you're in a high point with your kids, the work is shoved to the side," Williams said. "You can't be equally good at them at the exact same time, and you have to allow for that give and take, but then also replenish the other things. If you have a big period of being at home, you need to go back to what you've left unattended and put some light over there," she continued. Williams says she also wants her kids to grow up seeing their mom work, which makes it hard to step away from her career for too long. However, the pull of being a mother is hard to resist. "My best day with my children is better than my best day at work. I am more thrilled with that high than I am with a work high," she said. This isn't Williams's first time speaking about being a working mom. "So you have to figure it out because we have to stay in the workforce, even though it often feels like it's untenable. My heart obviously belongs to my children; they tug at it the most. But I really want to be able to have both," she told Entertainment Weekly in a January 2023 interview. Other female Hollywood stars have also spoken up about balancing their personal and professional lives. Naomi Watts, 56, said she tried freezing her eggs when she was in her early 30s to focus on her career. "Because I came into it late — at least with my launching — I was told to work, work, work because it'll all be dried up at 40," Watts told Katie Couric in a January interview. Cameron Diaz, who took a decadelong hiatus from Hollywood, said she spent those 10 years " trying to stay alive just like every other mother." During Fortune's Most Powerful Women Summit 2024, she elaborated on her decision to stop acting. "It really comes to: What are you passionate about? For me, it was to build my family," Diaz said.
Daily Mail
19-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Daily Mail
Michelle Williams makes heartbreaking comments about Heath Ledger as she gets emotional over him
Michelle Williams made a comment about the late Heath Ledger on Dax Shepard's Armchair Expert podcast. The rare comment about the 10 Things I Hate About You star comes after the Dawson's Creek alum, 44, said that her and Heath's daughter Matilda Ledger, 19, keeps his memory alive. That segued into a discussion about Heath's lasting impact. 'I feel obligated to say that I knew him a little bit when he was getting sober, and I don't know that I've ever fallen in love with somebody so quickly,' Michelle said. Dax shared his thoughts, saying, 'This is one of the most special boys I've ever met, and I can feel the weight of the world on him in a very special way that kind of broke my heart,' he said. 'I was very, very sad, and I thought he was just so special.' Williams got emotional as she said, '[He was] so special, so special,' she whispered. 'Thank God there's Matilda.' Shepard then described Ledger as 'this heart here that's just leaking out everywhere,' and Williams agreed, saying, 'Yeah, an incredible sensitivity.' Heath and Michelle met on the set of Brokeback Mountain in 2004 and welcomed daughter Matilda in October 2005. 'We had a baby. But I suppose maybe it's a good thing about being young is that you don't have so much life experience that you can contextualize things,' Williams added on Monday's podcast episode. 'So you're really just going with the flow.' The couple broke up in October 2007 and three months later, Ledger died of an accidental drug overdose. He was 28. It wasn't until 2016 that Williams publicly commented on Ledger's death and raising Matilda without him. 'In all honesty, for pretty much everything else, I feel like I'm a believer in not fighting circumstances, accepting where you are and where you've been. In pretty much all senses but one,' she told Porter magazine in 2016. 'I would be able to go totally down that line of thinking were it not for Matilda not having her dad. You know, that's just something that doesn't … I mean, it just won't ever be right.' That segued into a discussion about Heath's lasting impact. 'I feel obligated to say that I knew him a little bit when he was getting sober, and I don't know that I've ever fallen in love with somebody so quickly,' Michelle said. Seen here on the set of A Place in Hell in 2025 Dax shared his thoughts, saying, 'This is one of the most special boys I've ever met, and I can feel the weight of the world on him in a very special way that kind of broke my heart,' he said. Heath seen here in 2005 And while Matilda didn't grow up with her dad she has had a strong and consistent father figure in her life – actor Jeremy Strong. 'Matilda didn't grow up with her father but she grew up with her Jeremy,' Williams said in 2022. '[She] was changed by [Strong's] ability to play as though his life depended on it, because hers did,' she said. 'Jeremy was serious enough to hold the weight of a child's broken heart and sensitive enough to understand how to approach her through play and games and silliness.' In March, Michelle welcomed her fourth child – and third with husband Thomas Kail. A source said: 'They couldn't be happier to expand their family, and Matilda has been doting on her younger siblings.' Michelle and Thomas got engaged in 2019 after working together on Fosse/Verdon and got married in March 2020. They have son Hart, four, who they welcomed in June 2020 and another baby who joined the family in 2022. After Heath died, Michelle wasn't linked to anyone romantically for years. And then, in 2018 she ran off and secretly married musician Phil Elverum. Less than a year later, they split up and in December 2019 she got engaged to theater director Thomas Kail. Elsewhere in the podcast she talked about being a working mom, saying that her 'best day with my children is better than my best day at work.' 'Kids are such great life checkers. They force you to put your best self in front of them,' the mom of four said. 'You can't abdicate your life and your work and your own desires, but you do have to put them in check and figure out which master you're gonna serve.' 'Because the truth is, if work is going well, somebody else is taking care of the kids, and if you're in a high point with your kids, the work is shoved to the side,' she added. 'You can't be equally good at them at the exact same time, and you have to allow for that give and take, but then also replenish the other things.
Yahoo
19-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Michelle Williams Praises Her 4 Children as 'Great Life Checkers' as She Opens Up About Balancing Motherhood with Her Career
Michelle Williams chatted with Dax Shepard and Monica Padman about balancing motherhood with her career The Dying for Sex actress is a mom of four children, daughter Monica with her then-boyfriend, the late Heath Ledger, and three other children with her husband Thomas Kail Williams says her children are "such great life checkers" and that her "best day with my children is better than my best day at work"Michelle Williams is opening up about balancing motherhood with her busy work schedule. During a podcast appearance on a recent episode of Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard, the Dying for Sex star, 44, shared her thoughts on being a working mom, sharing that her "best day with my children is better than my best day at work." "Kids are such great life checkers. They force you to put your best self in front of them," the mom of four said. "You can't abdicate your life and your work and your own desires, but you do have to put them in check and figure out which master you're gonna serve." "Because the truth is, if work is going well, somebody else is taking care of the kids, and if you're in a high point with your kids, the work is shoved to the side," she added. "You can't be equally good at them at the exact same time, and you have to allow for that give and take, but then also replenish the other things. If you have a big period of being at home, you need to go back to what you've left unattended and put some light over there." Never miss a story — sign up for to stay up-to-date on the best of what PEOPLE has to offer, from celebrity news to compelling human interest stories. "So, I think it's just this constant back and forth, but making sure that you don't leave one of them unattended for too long," she continued. "My best day with my children is better than my best day at work. I am more thrilled with that high than I am with a work high." For the proud mom, it's all a balancing act. She noted that while she wants to be there for her children's moments, she also wants them to see her working and maintaining a household. "I want them to see their mom working, all of my kids, so it's not something that I want to neglect for too long, but the kids really pull at you more convincingly," she told the hosts. The Greatest Showman actress first became a mother in October 2005 when she welcomed daughter Matilda with her then-boyfriend, the late Heath Ledger. In 2020, Williams tied the knot with director Thomas Kail, two years after the pair met on the set of Fosse/Verdon. Matilda reportedly played matchmaker for the couple, who have now welcomed three kids together including their son Hart, a baby born in 2022 and another baby who arrived in 2025. is now available in the Apple App Store! Download it now for the most binge-worthy celeb content, exclusive video clips, astrology updates and more! In January 2023, Williams opened up to Entertainment Weekly about taking on one of her biggest roles to date in The Fablemans after welcoming her third child. "It's amazing because we all do it. That's how every human gets here, is a woman giving of herself,' she said. "[Babies] have to arrive, and they have to be sustained, all of it. So I'm continuously searching because balance isn't a stable place. Balance means that you're always adjusting." Williams added, 'My heart obviously belongs to my children; they tug at it the most. But I really want to be able to have both. And I think that it requires deep thought and learning and the support of other women to figure out how to get through it.' Read the original article on People
