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Pink Villa
9 hours ago
- Entertainment
- Pink Villa
Miley Cyrus Says ‘Dancing in Little Clothes' Impacted Romance With Liam Hemsworth: ‘No One Wanted to Date Me'
Miley Cyrus is looking back at her time as a 21-year-old when she began 'acting out' and losing everything good that was going on in her life. While not mentioning anyone's name, the singer shared how her engagement fell through because she was 'sharing a part of myself that men wanted to be saved for them only,' hinting at the alleged reason behind her 2013 breakup with Liam Hemsworth. In a podcast called Reclaiming with Monica Lewinsky, the 32-year-old went on to share how the troublesome times in 2013, including her leaving Disney and going n*de, massively affected her relationships. "If I kept dressing or acting a certain way, my relationships fell apart. No one wanted to date me,' she shared, hinting at a dry dating spell. How Miley Cyrus' Relationship With Liam Hemsworth Went Astray The singer and the actor began dating in 2009 after starring together in The Last Song. Their tumultuous relationship turned into an engagement in 2012, which was soon called off the following year. The breakup came with a bold moment for her music as one of her most controversial releases, her fourth studio album Bangerz, saw the light of day. Recalling those days, the Hannah Montana star said, "When I was dating, or I was engaged at the time, but that didn't work out because I was sharing a part of myself that men wanted to be saved for them only, and the fact that I would pose n*de or dance in very little clothes or show my body, was making them feel that I was taking something away that was meant to be for them." The Wrecking Ball star added how she had 'really hard times dating.' Miley Cyrus and Liam Hemsworth reunited in 2017, got engaged in October 2016 and married in December 2018. Their relationship came to a close in January 2020 with a finalized divorce.
Perth Now
12 hours ago
- Entertainment
- Perth Now
Miley Cyrus details damaging effect raunchy image had on her personal life
Miley Cyrus' raunchy image caused her relationships to "fall apart". The 32-year-old singer recalled how she had a "hard time" in 2013 after causing controversy with her naked appearance in her 'Wrecking Ball' video and twerking on stage with Robin Thicke at the MTV Video Music Awards, and she found it hard to date because potential partners didn't like her sharing her "sexual expression" with the world. Miley - whose engagement to Liam Hemsworth ended that year before they reconciled three years later - said on the Wondery podcast Reclaiming with Monica Lewinsky: "I lost everything during that time in my personal life because of the choices I was making professionally. "If I kept dressing or acting a certain way, my relationships fell apart. No one wanted to date me because they didn't want to be with a woman [whose] sexual expression part was not for them. It was like shared with the world. "So, like, guys, when I would try to date, when I was dating, or who I was engaged to at the time, that didn't work out because I was sharing a part of myself that men wanted to be saved for them only." And Miley - who has siblings Brandi, 38, Trace, 36, Christopher, 33, Braison, 31, and 25-year-old Noah - admitted her siblings felt "humiliated" by her public persona. She said: "That was the time where I just got hit so hard and I was so embarrassed. "There was even a time where my brother and sister didn't want to go to school because of how humiliated they were to be related to me. "I remember my brother at one point he was saying, 'I don't judge you, but you could understand how hard it is for me to go to school, and you be my sister.' I was a hard sibling to have as a little girl, so I was like 'All right we're even.' " The 'Flowers' hitmaker also found it hard to "go home and see my dad and like look him in the eyes and not feel super embarrassed." Miley recently hit out at the criticism she received over that time period. Asked what she sees when she looks back on that period, she told the New York Times newspaper: "I see adults not acting like it. I would never look at someone that's 18, 19, 20, 21 years old and judge them as an adult, because they're not yet. "At one point, there was even a petition. It was like 'Millions of Moms Against Miley' or something. "Isn't that crazy, this petition? In 2013, maybe that performance felt really shocking, but when you watch it back, it really wasn't that wild. I was dressed as a teddy bear."
New York Post
5 days ago
- Entertainment
- New York Post
Sophia Bush alleges she endured ‘every kind of abusive treatment' on a show from ‘someone old enough to be my father'
Sophia Bush is opening up. During the Tuesday, June 3 podcast episode of Reclaiming with Monica Lewinsky, the former 'One Tree Hill' star, 42, talked about working on a TV show where she she suffered 'every kind' of abuse on the set, with 'someone old enough to be [her] father.' Bush didn't name the older man or the show, but it appeared to be 'Chicago P.D' from the timeline. 'I was in this great place [after One Tree Hill], and I was ready for what was next,' Bush said. 'And I did this comedy that I loved … for CBS. Then I went to work on this other show that was on my bucket list and then I had this whole other trauma. I had a workplace ongoing trauma revolving around an unending situation with someone old enough to be my father. And I was like, what is happening?' 8 Sophia Bush on 'Reclaiming with Monica Lewinsky.' ReclaimingwithMonicaLewinsky/YouTube 8 Monica Lewinsky interviewing Sophia Bush for the 'Reclaiming' podcast. ReclaimingwithMonicaLewinsky/YouTube Following her nine year run on 'One Tree Hill,' from 2003-2012, Bush starred on the NBC procedural 'Chicago P.D.,' where she played Detective Erin Lindsay for 84 episodes, from 2014-2017. Bush said she wasn't able to exit the unnamed show until April 2017, a few months before the #MeToo movement began. 8 Sophia Bush attends American Ballet Theatre's 2025 Spring Gala celebrating its 85th Anniversary at Cipriani South Street on May 28, 2025 in New York City. Getty Images for American Ballet Theatre 'By October [2017], I got a call from an executive apologizing for what they'd done and not done. And [they] said, 'We're very aware we just made it out of that unscathed.' And I was like, 'Glad you did. I'm in so much therapy. I even diagnosed with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder.' She quipped, 'But I'm thrilled you guys didn't get dragged through the press, that's great.' The Post reached out to NBC and Bush's reps for comment. 8 Sophia Bush, Chad Michael Murray, Hilarie Burton, James Lafferty, Bethany Joy Lenz on 'One Tree Hill.' Warner Bros 8 Sophia Bush as Erin Linday, Jesse Lee Soffer as Jay Halstead on 'Chicago P.D.' NBCU Photo Bank/NBCUniversal via Getty Images When Lewinsky asked Bush to clarify if she meant that she was in a professional or romantic relationship with the unnamed older man – and if the abuse was emotional or another kind – Bush replied, 'Professional — and every kind of abusive.' The 'John Tucker Must Die' star recalled waking up in 'physical hell,' having a 'spontaneous illness' and being 'covered in hives' over the stress of that time period. 8 Ashlynn Harris and Sophia Bush attend American Ballet Theatre's 2025 Spring Gala celebrating its 85th Anniversary at Cipriani South Street on May 28, 2025 in New York City. Getty Images for American Ballet Theatre She added, 'As an extrovert who loves people, to be hit with anxiety in such a way that I could barely be out of the house; if people touched me in public, I would jump out of my skin. I couldn't talk to people anymore,' she said. Bush, who returned to network TV for the current season of 'Grey's Anatomy,' added, 'I couldn't talk to strangers anymore. I couldn't be looked at anymore, especially in the work environment.' 8 Sophia Bush on 'One Tree Hill.' ©CW Network/Courtesy Everett Collection She added, 'Because I had to go to work ready for war all the time, I had to learn where to stand to not get elbowed in the ribs or how to block a scene to not be touched. It was just exhausting.' Bush has previously spoken about being unhappy on 'Chicago P.D.' In 2017, she told Refinery 29's Unstyled podcast that she was 'miserable' going to work every day, adding, 'I had to respect myself in a situation where I didn't feel respected.' 8 Sophia Bush as Erin Lindsay, Jesse Lee Soffer as Jay Halstead on 'Chicago P.D.' NBCU Photo Bank/NBCUniversal via Getty Images Bush also previously reflected on her time on 'Chicago P.D' when speaking with the Armchair Expert podcast. She said towards the end of her time on that show, 'I was probably difficult to be around because I was in so much pain and I felt so ignored. 'I feel like I was standing butt naked, bruised and bleeding in the middle of Times Square, screaming at the top of my lungs and not a single person stopped to ask if they could help me,' she continued.
Yahoo
12-03-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Molly Ringwald Says Being ‘Sixteen Candles' Director John Hughes' Muse as a Teenager Was 'Peculiar'
Molly Ringwald reflected on being a muse for late writer-director John Hughes in his 1980s comedies while she was a teenager. "It's peculiar," Ringwald, 57, admitted to long-time friend Monica Lewinsky during the Tuesday, March 11 episode of the "Reclaiming with Monica Lewinsky" podcast. Ringwald became an icon of the 1980s thanks in large part to her work with Hughes, who cast her as romantic leads in 1984's Sixteen Candles, 195's The Breakfast Club and 1986's Pretty in Pink. In her latest interview, Ringwald delved into the complexities of Hughes — who died in 2009 at age 59 — writing Sixteen Candles for her based solely off seeing her headshot when she was only 15 years old. Molly Ringwald Says 'Predators' Took 'Advantage of' Her in Brat Pack Era: 'It Can Be Harrowing' "In terms of, did I know that I was a 'muse,' he told me that but when you're that age, I had nothing really to compare it to," she recalled. Ringwald added that despite her age disparity with Hughes, who was in his 30s at the time, she actually had "done more movies" than the filmmaker before Sixteen Candles because she worked as a child actress. "Sixteen Candles was his directorial debut," she noted. "I had done a few movies … I had actually had more experience but I was still only 15 years old so I didn't have a lot of life experience. It didn't seem that strange to me [that I was Hughes's muse]. Now, it does." Ringwald hedged slightly when Lewinsky, 51, asked if she felt her working relationship with Hughes was "weird [or] creepy," before answering with a laugh: "It's peculiar. It's complimentary. I always felt it was incredibly complimentary." "Looking back on it, there is something a little peculiar," she continued. Lewinsky asked what it was like for Ringwald to reexamine her relationship with Hughes as an adult, since it all started with the filmmaker "staring" at her teenage head shot. Gwyneth Paltrow Stuns Fans With Jaw-Dropping 'Sixteen Candles' Milestone "It's complex. It's definitely complex," Ringwald acknowledged. "It's something that I turn over in my head a lot and try to figure out, how that all affected me. I feel like I'm still processing all of that and I probably will until the day I die." Ringwald previously examined the complexities of working with Hughes in a 2018 essay for The New Yorker, where she discussed the power-imbalance in their relationship. "John believed in me, and in my gifts as an actress, more than anyone else I've known, and he was the first person to tell me that I had to write and direct one day," she wrote at the time. "He was also a phenomenal grudge-keeper, and he could respond to perceived rejection in much the same way the character of Bender did in The Breakfast Club. But I'm not thinking about the man right now but of the films that he left behind. Films that I am proud of in so many ways." In her new podcast interview, Ringwald looked back on what it meant to be internationally famous as a teenager, telling Lewinsky that it may have been easier for her than most since she'd had "varying degrees of fame" as a child. "I've been a performer since I was 3. Literally, since I was 3 years old on stage," she pointed out. Since Ringwald acted in community theater from such a young age, she often felt like a "celebrity" to the people who came to watch her perform. "I was written about. It was a sort of fame, a degree of fame," she remembered. "Then, everything I did, I sort of became a little bit more well-known. You move to Los Angeles and, of course, nobody knew who I was until I started to do [movies]." She went on: "I feel like I've never known a world where I haven't been a little famous … At a certain point, then I became really, really famous. I feel like, when you're on the cover of Time magazine … when it gets to that point, it becomes a level of fame that I don't personally feel that comfortable with." Ringwald was initially "happy" with the projects she was making as a teen superstar, but slowly began to feel "all the fame and notoriety" was "really overwhelming and scary." "[The fame] changed me a bit," she said. "Maybe this is just who I am but there's a part of it where I felt like I became very closed and very self-protective." Andrew McCarthy Wishes 'Articulate' Molly Ringwald Added Brat Pack Insight to 'Brats' Documentary In recent years, Ringwald has publicly grappled with the legacy of her films with Hughes, which have been criticized for outdated depictions of sexism and racism. The '80s icon told Andy Cohen in a 2021 interview that, while rewatching her classic films with daughter Mathilda, it was important to put them in the context of the time in which they were made. "I feel like that's what makes the movies really wonderful, and it's also something I wanted to go on record talking about — the elements that I find troubling and that I want to change for the future,' she argued. 'But that doesn't mean at all that I want them to be erased. I'm proud of those movies, and I have a lot of affection for them. They're so much a part of me.' "Reclaiming with Monica Lewinsky" releases new episodes Tuesdays on Wondery.
Buzz Feed
12-03-2025
- Entertainment
- Buzz Feed
Here's A Full Breakdown Of Molly Ringwald's Disturbing Experience Of Being An ‘80s Child Star After She Admitted It Was 'Peculiar' To Be Director John Hughes's Muse As A Minor
This article mentions sexual assault. Back in the '80s, there was little more synonymous in pop culture than director John Hughes and teen actor Molly Ringwald, with Molly the star of three of John's biggest movies: Sixteen Candles, The Breakfast Club, and Pretty In Pink. Molly was just 15 years old when she filmed the first of the trio in 1984, and suffice to say, aspects of all of them did not age well. In 2018, Molly actually publicly called out the 'inappropriate' nature of the films in an article for the New Yorker, where she wrote of Sixteen Candles: 'Back then, I was only vaguely aware of how inappropriate much of John's writing was, given my limited experience and what was considered normal at the time.' 'I'm a little embarrassed to say that it took even longer for me to fully comprehend the scene late in Sixteen Candles, when the dreamboat, Jake, essentially trades his drunk girlfriend, Caroline, to the Geek, to satisfy the latter's sexual urges, in return for Samantha's underwear,' she went on. 'The Geek takes Polaroids with Caroline to have proof of his conquest; when she wakes up in the morning with someone she doesn't know, he asks her if she 'enjoyed it.' (Neither of them seems to remember much.) Caroline shakes her head in wonderment and says, 'You know, I have this weird feeling I did,'" Molly continued. 'She had to have a feeling about it, rather than a thought, because thoughts are things we have when we are conscious, and she wasn't,' the star added, before asking: 'How are we meant to feel about art that we both love and oppose? What if we are in the unusual position of having helped create it?' And in a recent appearance on the Reclaiming with Monica Lewinsky podcast, Molly, now 57, has reflected some more on this movie — namely, the fact that then-34-year-old John wrote Sixteen Candles specifically for her after seeing her headshot, with Molly now admitting that it was 'peculiar' for her to be a grown man's muse at just 15. Discussing how the movie came about, Molly said that she'd already starred in the 1982 movie Tempest by this point, and had taken some new headshots for her agency. She said of John: 'He wrote [ Sixteen Candles ] just based on the headshot.' 'He put [the headshot] up on his bulletin board above his computer station, and he wrote this movie,' she went on. 'So, when it came time to cast it, they said: 'Who do you want?' He said: 'The girl that I wrote this about.'' Monica then asked Molly if she was aware of this at the time, and Molly said: 'In terms of: 'Did I know that I was a muse?' I mean, he told me that story but, y'know, I had nothing really to compare it to. I was still only 15 years old, so I didn't have a lot of life experience. It didn't seem that strange to me… I mean, now it does.' The host pressed if Molly meant 'strange' in a 'complimentary' way, or in a 'weird' and 'creepy' way, to which Molly laughed before diplomatically replying: 'Yeah, it's peculiar.' 'It's complimentary,' she quickly added. 'It always felt incredibly complimentary. But, yeah. Looking back on it, there is something a little peculiar.' Molly insisted that she didn't want to 'disparage' John, who died in 2009 at 59 years old, in any way, and acknowledged: 'It's complex, it's definitely complex. And it's something that I turn over in my head a lot and try to figure out how that all affected me — and I feel like I'm still processing all of that, and I probably will until the day I die.' Later in the interview, Molly admitted that she struggled with being famous at such a young age as she recalled a disturbing incident with the paparazzi when she was just a teenager. The star explained that she'd had 'varying degrees of fame' for her entire life, as she used to perform on stage with her dad when she was 3 years old. Ron Galella / Ron Galella Collection via Getty Images "I've never known a world where I haven't been a little famous,' she began. 'At a certain point, I became really, really famous. When you're on the cover of Time magazine, I think when it gets to that point, then it becomes a level of fame that I, personally, don't feel that comfortable with. Even though I was happy with the movies that I was doing and I loved the work of actually doing it, but all the fame and the notoriety outside of that, I found it really overwhelming and scary.' "It changed me a bit,' Molly confessed. 'Maybe this is just who I am, but there was a part of it where I became very closed and very self-protective in a way that a lot of people misinterpreted — people thought that I was aloof or stuck up, and it wasn't, it was fear and being very self-protective. This was when I was a teenager, when I started to make the John Hughes movies.' Asked if there was a specific turning point for her, Molly recalled: 'I was chased by the paparazzi and they trapped me in a revolving door in a hotel. The flashes kept going off, and you know how disorientating the flashes are, but then I was also in a revolving door that just kept turning and turning and turning. That was terrifying for me.' Ron Galella / Ron Galella Collection via Getty Images 'Still to this day, when I go to a red carpet event or something, and there's the flash, my heart starts to race,' she shared. 'And I get scared. I've done it enough now, nothing bad is gonna happen. It's just people taking my picture, but there was just something really frightening for me at that age because I was still, like, a baby." After completing work on Sixteen Candles, John cast Molly and her costar Anthony Michael Hall in The Breakfast Club, which was released the following year. While this is widely regarded as one of the most iconic films of the '80s, it also has some problematic aspects that Molly addressed in her 2018 essay after watching the movie with her then-10-year-old daughter Mathilda in 2018. Molly was 16 when she played so-called 'princess' Claire in The Breakfast Club, the most popular and beautiful girl in school. Throughout the movie, Claire is relentlessly teased and harassed by John Bender, played by Judd Nelson, who detests everything Claire represents. Despite this, Claire kisses him at the end of the film. And in her New Yorker piece, Molly called out Bender's behavior and the example that it set, writing: 'Bender sexually harasses Claire throughout the film. When he's not sexualizing her, he takes out his rage on her with vicious contempt, calling her 'pathetic,' mocking her as 'Queenie.' It's rejection that inspires his vitriol.' 'He never apologizes for any of it, but, nevertheless, he gets the girl in the end,' she added, also recalling that her mom was upset with a scene where Bender looks up Claire's skirt and seemingly touches her inappropriately without her consent. Referencing the fact that a body double was used for the upskirt shot of Claire's underwear, Molly wrote: 'They couldn't even ask me to do it — I don't think it was permitted by law to ask a minor — but even having another person pretend to be me was embarrassing to me and upsetting to my mother, and she said so. That scene stayed, though.' Universal / ©Universal/courtesy Everett / Everett Collection Molly previously said that her experience as a child star prevented her from letting Mathilda follow the same path, despite her desperately wanting to. She told the Times: 'She fought us on that — she's still kind of mad about it, but it was the right decision. I don't think that professional acting is a great way for kids to grow up. It's way too stressful, and it's a crap shoot on whether or not the kids can make it through.' And Molly reflected on her complex feelings towards her experiences as a teen actor during her recent podcast appearance, where she said: 'I wouldn't have the career I have if it wasn't for those movies, and I feel like I have a lot of privilege being in those. I don't want to come across as corny; I'm very conscious that people [are] dealing with much bigger issues than me, but it's still a lot to grapple with.' Monica then mentioned Molly's 2017 New Yorker article 'All The Other Harvey Weinsteins,' which was written in response to the #MeToo movement. In the article, Molly said that she only worked with disgraced movie producer Harvey once, at 20 years old, but was 'lucky' as she believes that, at the time, she 'was the one with more power' because Harvey was yet to reach the level of acclaim that he eventually became renowned for. However, this does not mean that Molly got away unscathed, and she added: 'I have had plenty of Harveys of my own over the years, enough to feel a sickening shock of recognition. When I was thirteen, a fifty-year-old crew member told me that he would teach me to dance, and then proceeded to push against me with an erection." "When I was fourteen, a married film director stuck his tongue in my mouth on set," she went on. "At a time when I was trying to figure out what it meant to become a sexually viable young woman, at every turn some older guy tried to help speed up the process. And all this went on despite my having very protective parents who did their best to shield me. I shudder to think of what would have happened had I not had them.' In another disturbing experience from her 20s, Molly said that during an audition, a director asked the lead actor to put a dog collar around her neck — despite nothing of the sort being mentioned in the script that she'd been given, or making sense in the context of the story. Molly wrote: 'I sobbed in the parking lot and, when I got home and called my agent to tell him what happened, he laughed and said: 'Well, I guess that's one for the memoirs…' I fired him and moved to Paris not long after.' Speaking to Monica, Molly said: 'I've had many Harvey experiences with different people at a young age, and I'm still processing. I've processed it in a private way, and eventually, I'm going to be able to talk about it and write about it. I'm still grappling.'
