Lawrence laments loss of privacy
Jennifer Lawrence says she knew being a movie star would bring with it a certain loss of privacy. What she didn’t know, she says, was the deep emotional and even physical toll it would take.
“I knew the paparazzi were going to be a reality in my life,” the 24-year-old Oscar winner said in an interview Saturday. “But I didn’t know that I would feel anxiety every time I open my front door, or that being chased by 10 men you don’t know, or being surrounded, feels invasive and makes me feel scared and gets my adrenaline going every day.”
Lawrence was recently in the news when private nude photos of her and other celebrities were hacked, then posted online. She took the forceful position then that the hacking was not a scandal but “a sex crime.”
And yet, she added with her typical candor, the general public isn’t very sympathetic to such celebrity complaints: “Nobody wants to help us because it seems like, you know, ‘Shut up, millionaires!”’
Dempsey gets cancer award
Maine-born actor Patrick Dempsey returned home to accept an award for his work helping cancer patients.
Dempsey — most famous for his role as Dr. Derek Shepherd in the TV series “Grey’s Anatomy” — and the Jackson Laboratory were awarded the Maine Creative Industries Award in Portland.
Dempsey, 48, was inspired by his mother’s battle with ovarian cancer to help found the Patrick Dempsey Center for Cancer Hope & Healing at Central Maine Medical Center in Lewiston. His mother, Amanda Dempsey, died in March. The Jackson Lab is a genetics research facility in Bar Harbor.
Lambert proud of weight loss
Country singer Miranda Lambert has slimmed down noticeably and talked about how she took off the pounds.
She refused to give up drinking so instead she swapped chicken for steak and watched her portions.
“I spent my 20s on a roller coaster — my yo-yo weight, working all the time and partying. I just wanted to get healthier and go into my 30s in the best shape I could be in,” she told People. So what does hubby Blake Shelton think of his wife’s slimmer figure? “He said, ‘I have never had a problem with any way you look at any point – you are beautiful to me at any size and every size,’”she explained. “But he has been proud of my hard work on this. He brags on me. That makes me feel great.”