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Perth Now
16 hours ago
- Entertainment
- Perth Now
Scooter Braun 'went to a very dark place' amid divorce
Scooter Braun experienced suicidal thoughts amid his divorce. The 43-year-old record executive has recalled being in a "very dark place" after his marriage to Yael Cohen fell apart in 2020. Scooter said on The Diary Of A CEO podcast: "October of 2020, my marriage was falling apart. The whole world thought I was crushing it. "I had a suicidal thought for 20 minutes where I was like, 'If my marriage is gonna fall apart, I'm not gonna be with my kids all the time. I can't control this. I'm not gonna be this perfect image that I've presented to the world. If I can't be this perfect image, I don't want to be here.' It went to a very dark place, and after 20 minutes I said, 'What the hell was that?' "That's not me, I would never leave my kids." Scooter's divorce taught him some important lessons about himself. The executive - who was married to Yael between 2014 and 2022 - reflected: "I think I was happy because everyone in the world told me I was doing great and I thought that that was enough. "I feel like I was asleep at the wheel. I feel like I didn't know myself at the time and, but I had so much success at such a young age. Everyone was telling me I was doing great. So I just chose to believe them. "It wasn't until the foundation broke and there was nothing underneath it that I was like, oh s***, I'm actually not happy." Scooter now believes that he and Yael were "made to be amazing co-parents". What's more, the record executive suggested that he's become a better man because of everything he's experienced in recent years. Scooter - who has two sons and a daughter with his ex-wife - said: "We were made to come into each other's lives, to help each other be better in different ways. "Through the heartbreak of our relationship ending, we were brought together to make three incredible souls. Now, whoever gets me next is in for a treat."
Yahoo
20-05-2025
- Politics
- Yahoo
'Every day he's doing better': Parents of freed American-Israeli hostage on son's progress
Parents of freed American-Israeli hostage Edan Alexander, Yael and Adi Alexander, join Morning Joe to discuss the release of their son. Edan is believed to be the last living U.S. citizen held captive in Gaza, and he was freed on May 12 after having been captured by Hamas during its Oct. 7, 2023, terrorist attack on Israel.
CNN
19-05-2025
- Politics
- CNN
Edan Alexander's parents ‘never gave up hope'
Edan Alexander's parents 'never gave up hope' Last week, the final Israeli-American hostage believed to be alive, Edan Alexander, was released and reunited with his family. CNN's Anderson Cooper spoke with Edan's parents, Yael and Adi, hours after he was discharged from the hospital. 02:32 - Source: CNN Vertical World News 16 videos Edan Alexander's parents 'never gave up hope' Last week, the final Israeli-American hostage believed to be alive, Edan Alexander, was released and reunited with his family. CNN's Anderson Cooper spoke with Edan's parents, Yael and Adi, hours after he was discharged from the hospital. 02:32 - Source: CNN Vice President Vance meets Pope Leo XIV On May 19, Vice President JD Vance met with Pope Leo XIV at the Vatican. Here, Vance passed on a letter from President Donald Trump, inviting the pope to the White House. 00:35 - Source: CNN Israeli strikes hit last hospital in Gaza's north Israel launched intense air and ground campaigns that health officials say killed hundreds over the last few days and shuttered the last functioning hospital in the enclave's north. The Israeli military's ground operation in northern and southern Gaza comes as international mediators push for progress in ceasefire talks. 00:55 - Source: CNN Daylight shows extent of damage to Mexican Navy ship The Mexican Navy training ship that struck the Brooklyn Bridge Saturday was moving in the 'wrong direction,' according to a senior city official. CNN's Gloria Pazmino, reports from the East River where daylight shows the extent of the damage. 01:10 - Source: CNN Watch Pope Leo XIV's inaugural Mass in St. Peter's Square Pope Leo XIV called for a 'united Church' in his inauguration homily from St. Peter's Square where approximately 100,000 people had gathered at the start of the Mass, according to authorities. 00:55 - Source: CNN Here are the deals Trump signed during his Middle East trip CNN's Betsy Klein breaks down the deals that President Donald Trump has brokered during his three-day trip to the Middle East. 01:17 - Source: CNN Cat caught smuggling drugs into prison Officers at a prison in Costa Rica captured a cat with two packages of marijuana and cocaine attached to its body. According to the Costa Rican Ministry of Justice and Peace, the officers confiscated the drugs and handed over the cat to National Animal Health Service for health evaluation. 00:31 - Source: CNN Seoul's biggest fish market CNN Travel's Lilit Marcus tastes her way through the many rows of Seoul's Noryangjin Fish Market, famous for its hundreds of vendors and its wide variety of fresh fish and live seafood. 01:32 - Source: CNN Zelensky says Putin was 'afraid' for talks Neither Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky or Russian President Vladimir Putin are attending peace talks in Istanbul after days of confusion. In a meeting in Albania, Zelensky said Putin was 'afraid' to come to Turkey for talks and that Russian delegation in Istanbul is of a 'very low level.' 00:38 - Source: CNN Baby orangutans rescued in Thailand A man suspected of trafficking two infant orangutans has been arrested in Thailand, according to local authorities. Police conducted the raid as the suspect was about to hand over the infant primates to a customer at a Bangkok gas station. 00:49 - Source: CNN Fareed points out Trump's 'strange double standard' CNN's Fareed Zakaria explains why he thinks President Donald Trump's new foreign policy doctrine has a 'strange double standard.' 01:04 - Source: CNN Kremlin gambles with Trump's wrath over Ukraine CNN's Nick Paton Walsh analyzes the power dynamics and explains how Russia is driving the schedule in these latest negotiations. 01:39 - Source: CNN What is femicide and what's behind the rise in incidents? Mexican authorities are investigating the murder of 23 year old Valeria Márquez - which was caught on video during a livestream - as a femicide. CNN's Max Foster speaks with Jillian Peterson, Executive Director of The Violence Prevention Project, about femicide and why it is on the rise. 01:29 - Source: CNN TikTok beauty influencer shot dead during live stream in Mexico Beauty influencer Valeria Marquez was shot dead during a TikTok livestream from her salon in Zapopan, Mexico. The case is being investigated as a suspected femicide, according to local authorities. Just days earlier, another woman – a mayoral candidate in the state of Veracruz – was also shot dead during a livestream, alongside three other people. 00:47 - Source: CNN Qatari PM defends offering plane to President Trump In an interview with CNN's Becky Anderson, Qatari Prime Minister and minister of foreign affairs Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman bin Jassim Al-Thani downplayed the significance of the luxury jet gifted to President Donald Trump, saying it was a "very simple government to government dealing." 01:07 - Source: CNN Zelensky warns 'no time for playing games' Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said he will head to Turkey and wait for Russian President Vladimir Putin for potential ceasefire talks; but he set some minimal goals for the meeting. CNN's Nick Paton Walsh reports. 01:26 - Source: CNN
Yahoo
19-05-2025
- Politics
- Yahoo
Hostage Edan Alexander's parents share the joy of a long-awaited reunion
Tel Aviv — American-Israeli Edan Alexander was among the first Israeli captives taken into Gaza during the Hamas-orchestrated Oct. 7, 2023, terrorist attack. One week ago, he was reunited with his family in a deal brokered by the Trump administration and led by the White House's Middle East Envoy Steve Witkoff. Alexander and his family have credited the Trump team with saving his life, and in a sit-down interview with CBS News, the young soldier's parents told senior foreign correspondent Debora Patta about the remarkable moment they learned Edan would be released, and the moments they've cherished since. Edan Alexander spent 584 days in Hamas captivity. After a number of false starts and false hope for his release, when the call finally did come from the highest levels of the U.S. government, his father missed it — eight times. "So, we were all at home in Jersey after the Mother's Day brunch that we had," recalled his mother, Yael. "I was blowing out some leaves," said his father, Adi. When he put down the leaf blower, he realized he had "missed eight phone calls from Steve Witkoff." When Adi finally got in touch with the senior White House envoy, "he told us in 10 minutes from now, Hamas will be announcing about your son's release tomorrow." "I thanked him. Non-stop; 'Thank you, Steve! Thank you so much,'" Yael recalled saying down the phone line. "It's the happiest Mother's Day ever!" "We were like, yelling, like crazy with the kids," she said. As Yael, Adi and their two other children watched the television, the announcement came that Edan would be released the following day, just as Witkoff had promised. "And we were like, okay, we need to pack! We need to... Get to Israel!" Finally, the reunion they'd dreamt of for more than a year and a half was taking shape. Adi booked a flight immediately. Yael had already booked one for later that same day, in a sheer stroke of luck, planning to go and be with family in Israel right after marking Mother's Day. Neither of the parents got much rest on their flights to Israel. "I couldn't sleep the whole flight," Yael told CBS News. "Like, you're alert ... I couldn't sit even, you know? I was like in full adrenaline, like, ready, to be there and to get Edan back, you know?" As soon as they touched down, they were whisked away to an Israeli military base, where Edan soon arrived after being handed over by Hamas. "Definitely I gave him like, the biggest hug ever," said his mother. "When I came to him, I came in full power! We almost fell, because he was weak, and he was very excited, like he was standing, like shivering, you know, because, wow, it's unbelievable — and I'm screaming, and I am like, you know, holding him. It was — wow." The parents said Edan remains weak, but doctors cleared him for release from the hospital where he's been treated. He's still getting medical attention for some minor injuries sustained during the Oct. 7 terrorist attack, which his mom and dad said, "nobody took care of in those tunnels." Even getting his freedom back was a harrowing ordeal. "The day of release was a very busy day for him," father Adi told CBS News. "It took forever. They moved around and crawled under, and it was a very tough day on him. He didn't sleep the whole night before that, because he was excited, he didn't sleep. He was like, super, super tired, so it took like, almost two days after for him to decompress from the day of the release." Since then, Edan has given them some details about his captivity, but they aren't pushing him. "He talks a lot about it, but no rush. We're not asking. If you want to say something, you say, and we're not pushing," said his father. "He went through a lot of stuff." "He's just happy to be home, you know, just to sit with Mika and Roy [his siblings] and just to hang out and just be with us and watch TV yesterday," his parents said. During his long captivity, Edan saw his parents on the news, pleading for his release. "I think the fact that he saw us, saw us running and fighting and knocking on every door, kept him hopeful," said his father, along with "the fact that he was held with other hostages all together, and not by himself, kept him hopeful. And he's just a strong kid, you know, strong mentally and physically." Hamas has held many of its hostages in tunnels under the Gaza Strip, with many, including Alexander, saying they never saw daylight at all. "I'm so pale," his mother recalled him saying. "I look like a vampire!" Israel has stepped up its war in Gaza, where the Hamas-run Ministry of Health says more than 53,000 people have now been killed since the fighting began, including more than 500 in the last week alone. Families of the hostages — 58 of whom are still believed to be held in Gaza, including about 20 thought by Israeli officials to be alive — have taken to the streets regularly, decrying the renewed offensive as putting their loved ones at even greater risk. "Edan told us, so when they heard the bombing, it was very, very concerning, scary," said Adi. "And at some point, one of the tunnels collapsed." "He told us sometimes he was afraid to go to sleep. Because maybe they are going to bomb this place that he is specifically inside," added the father. "It was very scary." Now back together as a family, their thoughts are still very much with the other hostages. "We are still continuing to speak for all the 58 hostages that are still there," Yael told CBS News. "Whatever Edan told me about hostages [who were] with him, you know, during any time of the captivity, I'm calling their moms and dads, and I'm telling them from the hospital — I've done it already — and I am telling them whatever Edan told me. You know, to give them a little bit hope that their story could end also soon, and with a good ending." She knows better than most how much power that hope can provide. "It's very important, you know. For me, every hostage that got released, it was like, 'Oh my God, maybe he saw Edan. Maybe he can tell me something, and I don't care if it's not from two days, you know. Maybe a year ago he was with Edan, but still, to hear something about my boy, you know, it was very crucial to us." At least one of those previously released hostages came to visit Edan in the hospital last week. Fellow U.S.-Israeli dual national Sagui Dekel-Chen, who was released after 498 days in captivity, said in a statement released Monday by the Hostage Families Forum that he and Edan were together for a while in captivity. "Our fates became intertwined in the most complex situation one could imagine," Dekel-Chen said in the statement. "It was important for me to come and welcome Edan upon his return. I know what he went through and what he still has ahead of him. I am very happy for him and his family. I hope that soon I will be able to embrace all the other hostages who remain behind as well." Yael Alexander said "it was unbelievable to see" the two men reunited in freedom. "It was a miracle. This is the victory — to see the hostages together." Asked what their family wanted the world to know now, as rumors swirl once again of potential progress in ceasefire talks despite the ramped-up Israeli military operations, Adi said the message was simple: Act now. "The urgency," he told CBS News. "Just the urgency. Our son, he was lucky to get out … Listen, you can't treat agony with more agony. This war needs to end." For the time being, however, there is no end in sight. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu reiterated on Monday that Israel intends to keep pushing its offensive in Gaza, to seize complete control of the Palestinian territory. "We're grateful for Steve [Witkoff], for President Trump, and for Adam Boehler," said the relieved father. "Great job. But the job is not done. We still have more to do." "It's time for them to come home. All of them," said Yael. "Not in small pieces, just, to bring everyone back home." Raw Video: Mexican navy training ship hits Brooklyn Bridge Italy's Trulli: From Past to Present Car bomb outside Palm Springs fertility clinic was act of terrorism, officials say
Yahoo
19-05-2025
- Politics
- Yahoo
Family of Hamas hostage Edan Alexander recalls dramatic Gaza release
Edan Alexander -- the American-Israeli hostage freed from Gaza last week -- was "weak and exhausted" upon his dramatic release, his mother Yael told ABC News, recalling her son's first moments of freedom after 584 days as a Hamas captive. "I was screaming and running until I bumped into him," Yael said of her reunion with Edan at Israel's Re'im military base near the Gaza border. Edan "was so weak that he almost fell because he was also so excited, but he was so exhausted," Yael continued. "I start crying like crazy. Because, that was the moment, you know? That's it. I got it. My son is here. He's in my arms." Edan, from New Jersey, moved to Israel at the age of 18. He was serving in the Israel Defense Forces when captured from his base close to the Gaza border during Hamas' Oct. 7 attack. He was 19 when abducted and spent two birthdays in captivity. Edan was the last living American citizen still believed to be held hostage by Hamas. The terror group is believed to also be holding the bodies of four dead American hostages, according to U.S. officials. His father Adi told ABC News that Edan was "held in a facility" consisting of "a very dark and narrow room" with steel construction rebar. "You can call it the cage if you think about it," he said. News of a possible release broke on May 11, Mothers Day, but Adi nearly missed it. When he finally glanced at his phone he said he noticed eight missed phone calls from Steve Witkoff -- President Donald Trump's Middle East envoy -- who was involved in direct negotiations with Hamas. "My phone was on silent and I was working with the blower outside and it was too noisy," he recalled. "I saw those eight missed calls and called them back immediately," Adi continued, saying Witkoff then told him and Yael that within 10 minutes they would be hearing good news. MORE: American-Israeli hostage Edan Alexander freed from Hamas captivity, in IDF custody Fifty-seven hostages remain in Gaza, including over 20 who are believed to be alive, according to Israeli officials. The IDF has now launched a new expanded operation in Gaza which Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said is intended to both free the remaining hostages and conclusively defeat Hamas in the strip. The families of remaining hostages, though, have criticized the new operation, saying it puts surviving captives in danger. While the IDF pressed its new offensive, Netanyahu said Israel would simultaneously allow the resumption of a "basic" level of humanitarian aid to Gaza after a 10-week freeze, citing pressure from the U.S. as a key driver in the decision. Family of Hamas hostage Edan Alexander recalls dramatic Gaza release originally appeared on
