Close ‘dying ’ to see Davidson
It’s an award-winning friendship.
Eight-time Academy Award nominee Glenn Close shared on Siriusxm’s “The Jess Cagle Show” Tuesday that she had been “dying ” to see Kim Kardashian and Pete Davidson at Monday’s star-studded event, held at The Metropolitan Museum of Art in Manhattan.
“It was a room full of very interesting people. But I didn’t get to mingle around and to find — I was dying to find Pete Davidson, who’s my friend, and meet Kim,” the “Fatal Attraction” star, 75, shared.
Close said that she and the “Saturday Night Live” comic, 28, got to know each other when interviewing one another for Variety’s Actors on Actors last year, per Davidson’s request.
“We had the best time. … And we stayed friends,” said Close, noting that Davidson is “great to be around.”
She applauded his vulnerability when it comes to discussing “what he’s going through,” noting she’s confident “that alone … helps millions of people.
“He’s lovely. He has a lovely spirit,” Close said.
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Heard testifies Depp hit her after ’14 gala
Amber Heard described multiple incidents in which ex-husband Johnny Depp allegedly turned physically violent toward her as she continued her testimony in their explosive defamation trial Thursday.
The actress claimed that Depp struck her in the face after accusing her of flirting with a woman at the 2014 Met Gala in New York City.
“We get back to the hotel room, and Johnny shoves me and kind of grabs me by the collarbone area . ... I think at that point, while we were still in the living room, I shoved him back, but I don’t really recall too many specifics,” Heard told the seven-member jury at the Fairfax County Circuit Court in Virginia on Thursday.
“I remember he threw a bottle at me. It missed me but it broke the chandelier . ... At some point, Johnny and I are in a struggle in the living room, and he kind of, like, shoves me down on the sofa,” Heard claimed.
“At some point he just whacks me in the face. I think that was the first time that I was like, ‘Is this a broken nose?’”
Heard claimed another 2014 incident occurred aboard a flight from Boston to Los Angeles, saying Depp became upset after she told him she had a romantic scene with actor James Franco in the movie “The Adderall Diaries.”
“I already know that he’s drunk,” Heard said. “I already know he’s using. He reeks of weed and alcohol.”
She continued of Depp, “He was saying really disgusting things about my body, about how I liked it, how I responded. Then he started straight up taunting me. ‘I know you liked it.’ He called me a go-getter. He called me a s—t.”
Heard claimed Depp slapped her in the face before kicking her in the back, which she says forced her to the floor.
“You could hear a pin drop on that plane,” Heard said. “You could feel the tension, but no one did anything. I just remember feeling so embarrassed. Felt so embarrassed that he could kick me to the ground in front of people, and more embarrassing, I didn’t know what to do about it.”
Depp said he never hit Heard during his testimony last month, and denied blacking out during that flight from Boston to L.A.
Queen to miss garden party season
Queen Elizabeth II will miss the traditional royal garden party season, where she would normally meet with hundreds of people on the grounds of her residences in London and Edinburgh, palace officials said Thursday.
The 96-year-old monarch will be represented instead by other members of her family, Buckingham Palace said in a statement.
Before the pandemic, the queen invited more than 30,000 people each year to the gardens of Buckingham Palace or the Palace of Holyroodhouse in Edinburgh. The guests, who have all served their community in different ways, have the opportunity to speak with the queen and other royal family members at the parties. The parties were set to return for the first time in three years starting next week.
The monarch has missed several major events this year and has been carrying out online engagements instead. She spent a night in the hospital in October and only conducted light duties for several months on her doctors’ orders.