That’s exactly how I read it. He has a reputation for being a dick to women on set and elsewhere. I think the author of this piece can’t see past her dislike of Ellen Pompeo to realize Denzel’s statement isn’t the burn she thinks she is.

His truth was selective and he pinned the blame on his marriage and in a way, his ex wife and his kids for whom he insinuated he stayed for. I wonder, was the truth that he banged the nanny because he felt trapped? Alcohol? Or a bit of both? That’d be a perfectly fine thing to say as well, yes? Because the truth was…

He said he was trapped because of his kids..  ie he felt trapped but he also had kids, so he just turned to alcohol and slept on the couch. And while that may be what he was feeling, that’s something he should have shared with a therapist, not on a radio show.

His kids are 16, 12 and 9 years of age. Here are his words:

There are ways of sharing the fact that he struggles with depression and alcoholism, without saying that he felt “trapped” by his wife and kids. Imagine being those kids.

About a week ago, when Alec Baldwin gave that incredibly tone-deaf interview following the shooting on the Rust set, another commenter and I joked about creating a PR firm whose main strategy was a roll of duct tape to keep these people from walking into such easily avoidable problems. It should not be this hard to…

Saying “I can’t leave because of my kids, but I’m not happy” and then talking about how what he did was to down a bottle of scotch was his solution.. It’s not a good thing to say. His kids, his not leaving because of his kids, should never be uttered as the reason he turned to alcohol. He turned to alcohol because he…

PR person here: “I was unhappy, and I didn’t know why. I had great kids and a great wife and a great career. It was inconceivable to me that I was unhappy given all I had. I fell into a crisis of self-doubt, self-destruction and alcohol. I’ve learned since that THIS is what depression and addiction feel like. Since…

First, this isn’t going to keep him from being asked about it for the rest of his life.  Second, he can answer without giving this specific answer.  “I drank to avoid confronting my problems and issues” is a perfectly cromulent thing to say that doesn’t appear to place the blame on his wife and children for his own…

She has absolutely enabled a lot of horrible, horrible people.

So now can we all just admit the Oprah is evil?

Fringe medicine? He’s well on the way to murder a la ex-doctor Andrew Wakefield and Jenny McCarthy.

The Witching Hour is far and away her best single book, but boy does it go off the rails pretty quickly in the sequels. 

The Witching Hour is fantastic, and then it quickly goes off the rails after. 

"O Holy Night" is fucking amazing. I'm not religious at all but I get chills every time it explodes out the way it does.

O! Holy Night is my favorite religious carol. If someone really nails it? Shudders.

mountain goats tho

"What Child Is This?" is pretty dang minor-chordy, too.

For a pop act, The Carpenters were great. Karen's voice had the right blend of vulnerability and achiness that made a lot of their songs a step above the usual am lite crap.

This is the only of the version of that song that matters to me.