I’m really trying to remember who I’m thinking of. Not Woody Allen, who makes his own movies. My friends call them “WOW” (“Whites-Only World”) movies, and of course all the young women are falling in love with the short, nebbishy lead (including 17-year-old Mariel Hemingway, in “Manhattan” to the Woodster’s 44) but he…

Yeah it was those “RDJ or Not RDJ” blind items that kept cropping up and how much her name appeared in those that I’m remembering. 

I recall something being written about her being “passed around” to various Hollywood Types. No idea what that really means... It seems her family wasn’t interested in more than cashing the paycheck and farming her out for the next role. Even if half of what was written and rumored to been made public by Robert Downey…

There were blind items about her that her dad sexually abused her from an early age, her mom knew but didn’t do anything to stop it. It’s not uncommon for abuse victims to have substance abuse problems and complicated relationships

I remember that too. It said she was abused by her family growing up.

I think that because they have portrayed her as a “bad mother” the tabloids feel free to pile on at every opportunity to prove their point.

There have always been rumors that she enjoys things a little rough. Certainly those are rumors that feed the gossip meters and can’t be proved or disproved, but she does seem to seek out abusive men. I don’t remember any abuse allegations with Klitschko, but being three times her size and a boxer makes him fit the par…

One of the main reasons victims of abuse don’t leave is not some psychological prison but because of the very real fact that violence escalates when they leave or press charges. Most women murdered by intimate partners are murdered immediately following them ending the relationship. It’s not just up to her to leave,…

Calling this “her abuse by Hickerson” is strange passive phrasing. Shouldn’t it be “his abuse of Panettiere”? I understand that she is the focus but phrasing it passively like that takes onus away from the abuser.

I don’t think it’s fair to assume she’s not economically dependant on him at this point. Perhaps not in the same way as a single mother with less than a high school education living in rural West Virginia, but abusers want to control every aspect of your life. As far as I know she hasn’t done much work recently, so I…

No one can force her to leave, she has to do it on her own. I just hope if she does leave him she has a strong support system. 

Amie Harwick. Her name was Amie Harwick.

And yet ... he’s an actor.

I don’t hate anyone for being an addict, I hate the other stuff that goes along with addiction. The lying, manipulation, stealing, abuse, etc are just too much.

addictions hard on everyone, I’ll never hate someone for cutting an addict out of their life, but I’ll also never hate an addict for being an addict. 

Ben Affleck has always been self-destructive. The look on Jennifer Garner's face when he was super out of it and She was handing him a bag of fast food, really said it all. She went through a lot with him and at this point just wants him sober for the kids. I hope she doesn't cave to any of his manipulative crap.…

He took a sharp breath and exhaled slowly, as if to slow himself down.

She was hacked back when Myspace was at it peak. Not so advanced tech was out.

What is with these bad baby names? The name “Braxton” is trending in my area, and all I can think of when I hear it is Braxton-Hicks contractions. Terrible name, IMO.

Great summary here. Commenting to ungray.