Wise grandma.

I’m so sorry. Been there. Immense kudos to you for making the effort to even get in the bath. It’s so hard to keep moving forward with a routine. :/ but I also find that in the worst moments even something that small makes a difference.

As someone who has struggled with severe depression for 2 decades: taking showers and maintaining basic physical hygiene is key to keeping going. My basic response to a bout of depression is: just keep showering. Shower everyday. It doesn’t matter if everything else blows. Just shower and you’ll feel a little better.…

I find it weird that he didn’t even apologize to his ex assistant in this note. He spends the entire “apology” repenting to what seems like the world and doing his own damage control. He said something totally debasing about one specific person and he doesn’t even think to address her specifically? Bro, bye.

But yeah they both seem like pieces of work. Maybe they deserved each other?

My point isn’t that he’s depicted flatteringly in those films or shows, but more that he isn’t depicted for what he is. In all of those instances the script follows the assumption that he abdicated of his own volition because of a woman, and that the family never forgave him for giving up the throne.

“the crown” only covers his later years, but definitely paints an image of him that is less than flattering.

I said “in media.” Most historical movies and tv shows love to romanticize Edward as a would be king who gave up his reign for love. The kings speech, W/E, even the crown. most paint him as a smitten idiot shunned by a disapproving family and do not go deeply into his more dangerous side.

I can’t imagine Churchill was trying to protect Edward, he was for sure protecting the monarchy and himself as pm. If this had come out too close to ww2, it would have made them look weak and exposed the depth of Edward’s nazi sympathies. They would have caught tons of public flack for not disavowing him, and…

Yes the dirt list on him is miles long, and the only thing you hear about in media is “how romantic, he gave up everything for love!” The royal family is way smarter than that. Man, they must have hated him.

That the nazis had vested interest in using Edward as a proxy to stage a British coup has been documented rather substantially, it just has not been acknowledged by the British Govt specifically publicly. is actually but one small part of a set of conspiracy theories around Edward (and I suppose by proxy, members of…

I have to imagine Edward was truly awful. I bet they had been looking for a way to get him out, and when he started to get into the press for associating with nazis / dating a divorced American nazi supporter, they couldn’t ignore it anymore.

Declassified or not this isn’t new info really. Everyone knows Ed was a nazi sympathizer, and his wife certainly was. His abdication ‘scandal’ was the British gov’s way of getting him out before he screwed up and got England on the wrong side of a bad conflict. during the war they had to remove him from his military…

Oh god. I need a drink.

Cool. And we’re supposed to care why?

Yup. I’m the same way/timeline but with restriction. It’s pretty nuts how consistently reductive and formulaic the pop culture narrative is towards bulimia vs anorexia vs binge eaters, to the point where I can call them out easily: the vain and normal-looking bulimia ‘hobbyist’ whose ED is a minor and outgrowable…

This so much. As someone who’s dealt with an ED for 15 years (both visibly and not so much), I long for a film or show that depicts people with EDs first as people - and not some human-ish vessel for a cartoonish caricature of an ED. The biggest reason I’ve been reticent to discuss my own struggle with friends is the…

It’s not a good look and she should have known ahead of time that it would be misconstrued.

This all just makes me feel like this is a PR lie even more.

If you click through to the full (very long) article, lauren painted it a bit out of context. The ex wife doesn’t mention Chloe green til the end and even says “no point in calling her names” when prompted.