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Shaquille O"Neal The "Shaq-A-Claus" Origin Story Will Melt Your Cold, Cold Heart
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Tuesday, November 20, 2018
Shaquille O"Neal The "Shaq-A-Claus" Origin Story Will Melt Your Cold, Cold Heart
Friday, November 16, 2018
Donald Trump Presents Roger Staubach With Award, Tells Epic Golf Story
Did you know Roger Staubach once won a golf match for Donald Trump in absolutely epic fashion??? It’s true … ‘cause when POTUS gave the ex-Dallas Cowboys QB his Presidential Medal of Freedom on Friday — he revealed the pretty crazy tale. Per…
Tuesday, November 13, 2018
Donnell Rawlings Remembers Stan Lee With Hilarious "Spider-Man 2" Story
Stan Lee was supposed to deliver one of the most memorable lines in “Spider-Man 2,” according to Donnell Rawlings … who ended up replacing the late Marvel legend. We got Don at LAX soon after we broke the news that Stan had passed away, and…
Friday, November 9, 2018
Noah Centineo"s Team Did Damage Control Over Busy Philipps" Ghosting Story
Hollywood heartthrob Noah Centineo got called out by Busy Philipps on TV for ghosting her pal, which made his team go into overdrive trying to protect his rep … TMZ has learned. Noah and Busy both appeared on James Corden’s ‘Late Late Show’…
Thursday, November 8, 2018
American Horror Story Recap: Is The Coven Doomed?
The body count continued to rise on Wednesday’s penultimate installment of American Horror Story: Apocalypse.
Before we get to the batch of deaths, let’s speak about The Cooperative aka the elusive company we’ve heard so much about throughout the current season.
In an unsurprising twist, we learned that the company had 100 people who were controlling the world and that they would shut the whole thing down if they got the order.
Vladimir Putin, Warren Buffet and Bill Clinton were just some of the names supposedly attached, and we also learned that it was all a mere code name for the Illuminati.
But how did we get to that ludicrous revelation?
The episode kicked off with Dinah Stevens doing the work of the devil to get her talk show picked up for 13 episodes.
The lengths voodoo witches will go to in order to get their voices heard is pretty darn crazy. In any case, Michael and Mead made their way into Miss Robichaux’s Academy for Exceptional Young Ladies and wasted no time in killing the witches.
Cordelia, Myrtle, Mallory, Madison, and Dinah all escaped unscathed, but both Queenie, Zoe, and some other unidentified witches perished.
They met up in Misty’s shack determined to find a way to bring their sisters back from the dead. But Cordelia was blindsided when she tried to save her girls and learned that they had been wiped from existence.
Remember Madison learned Michael had that ability during her trip to the Murder House? Well, she only told her Supreme about it after Michael obliterated the coven.
In all honesty, Cordelia’s reaction by slapping Madison was ridiculous. What else would the witches have done to stop all of this?
They’re fighting a losing battle, and Mallory might be the key to finding a way to save the world and everyone who is still alive.
Mallory used her abilities to return to Siberia in 1918 with the aim of changing time and saving the Romanoff family from being murdered.
Anastasia was a witch and tried to build a wall to save her family from being murdered, but she got sidetracked and couldn’t complete the spell in time.
Mallory showed up to try and reverse what happened, but the power of the two was not strong enough to save the family.
So Mallory returned to the land of the living without being able to complete the mission. The witches are seriously getting their asses whooped right about now.
The episode closed with Michael confirming to The Cooperative that he was the Antichrist and that they would be following his order from that point on.
Okay then.
What are your thoughts on the latest installment?
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American Horror Story: Apocalypse concludes next Wednesday on FX.
Thursday, November 1, 2018
American Horror Story Recap: The Rise of Satan
Michael Langdon is all about bringing the world to an end.
On Wednesday’s episode of American Horror Story, the spawn of Satan continued to try and come to terms with the path set out for him,
At the top of the hour, Cordelia wasted no time in telling Michael that Miriam was burnt at the stake.
Not one to mince his words, Michael claimed that he would be taking all of the witches down the moment he managed to bring his mentor back into the land of the living.
“It’s over,” said Cordelia. “We know who you are. Your allies are all dead. You’ve failed.”
Just when it seemed like Michael hit rock bottom, he decided to spend several days in a pentagram circle, waiting for his father to tell him what to do next.
When nothing much of not happened, the villain started roaming the streets and found himself inside a gathering in the Church of Satan because there’s apparently one on every street.
“I’ve seen bad facelifts that are more evil than you!” shrieked the leader of the building to some of her minions.
But the people who attended the church had decided to embrace an evil lifestyle and were somehow being rewarded by getting dates with the likes of Ryan Reynolds.
Michael revealed he was the person they were all waiting for, and everyone inside the church wanted to be as close to him as they possibly could be.
It still wasn’t enough for Michael. He didn’t know what was expected of him, so he continued to take his anguish out on his new allies.
One of his new allies, however, knew the full extent of Michael’s pain after he revealed what happened to Miriam.
The woman then took him on a ride to Northern California to a compound which is all about making the latest sex robots.
The two men running things were coke addicted and had bowl cuts. It was all a little too much, but the saving grace of this installment was learning that Venable was working as the assistant.
Both men complained that Michael was lying about being the Antichrist … until the villain set a woman on fire!
Michael managed to get them to craft a robotic version of Miriam, and all seemed right in the world of Michael Langdon for a hot minute.
What comes next?
We have no clue, but we’ll find out next Wednesday on the next episode.
What are your thoughts on the latest installment?
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Monday, October 29, 2018
Keeping Up with the Kardashians Rekap: A True Story
Keeping Up with the Kardashians finally answered one pressing question this week:
Where the heck did the name True come from?!?
We refer, of course, to the only daughter of Khloe Kardashian and that rotten dirty cheater, Tristan Thompson, who welcomed a child into the world this past April.
A child named True.
On Sunday evening, viewers tuned in to see Khloe (still ignorant to Tristan’s cheating ways) host a grand baby shower for her friends and loved ones.
The expectant parents asked their guests to write down name suggestions on a wall, with Kris Jenner’s mother, MJ, actually be the person we can all blame thank for coming up with this unusual moniker.
“Grandma, do you want to help pick a name?” Kim Kardashian asked her relative. “True, your grandfather?”
“Your grandfather,” MJ corrected. “T-R-U-E.”
So there we have it apparently.
While the name was a major topic of conversation, so was Khloe’s pregnancy itself.
“Out of all my kids, I worried for a second about whether or not Khloe would have a baby,” Kris said at one point, adding through tears:
“It’s such an amazing blessing. We are beyond excited and thrilled to welcome my ninth grandchild, that’s a lot of people.”
Khloe was equally psyched, although she chose to fly out to a pretty boring city in Cleveland in order to be near Tristan when she gave birth.
Scott Disick actually met her there, full of jokes and insults.
“For the longest time, I’ve always wanted to go to Cleveland to see where Khloe lives,” Kourtney Kardashian’s ex quipped. “But I just didn’t know if there was anything to do there.”
The friends came up with a name for their podcast in Cleveland (The Lord and His Lady), but Disick ended up getting on Khloe’s nerves because she wanted to focus on the tiny human set to come out of her vagina…
… not on Scott’s antics.
“I love Scott and I love hanging out with him, but I really want to learn how to give a baby CPR,” Khloe complained to the camera. “He’s hamming it up for the podcast, probably more than usual, but it’s f-cking annoying right now.”
ELSEWHERE, Kylie Jenner recently had her baby and was coming to terms with new new body.
She felt really insecure after posing for a Calvin Klein photo shoot alongside her siblings.
My body’s not, you know, what it used to be,” the 21-year-old beauty mogul explained while baking with sister Kourtney.
“It is a shock to the system to see your body, especially at such a young age, change so drastically, just not be the same size.”
Later, sorting through clothing in her closet to see if anything fits, Kylie confided in Kim.
“We’re getting rid of everything. … Nothing in my closet fits me,” Jenner said. I feel like my hips, they just spread.”
Kim, of course, has been here before.
She’s given birth to two kids and irritated the Hell out of the Internet by talking about only her need to lose weight for many weeks afterward.
“I know it’s really early and Stormi’s so little, but you just have to roll with it,” Kim told her sister, adding:
“You just have to be confident, get some things that make you feel good about yourself and find your balance.”
To her credit, Kim ended the episode by heading to D.C. for the March for Our Lives really.
She talked to students there about the need for better gun control laws in America.
“Seeing these kids taking up their time to talk about issues that are so important, I think is just so selfless and so great of them,” Kardashian concluded.
“I honestly feel like there’s so many adults out there that can learn a thing or two from these kids.”
Amen.
To see what the teenagers had to say, use the video below to watch Keeping Up with the Kardashians online right here and now:
Thursday, October 25, 2018
American Horror Story Recap: The Traitor
Wednesday’s episode found our favorite coven of witches desperately trying to find some allies as the war against Michael Langdon aka The Antichrist loomed.
Cordelia turned to Dinah Stevens, the witch who we know is in Outpost 3 in the present in this time jumping series, and asked her for a meeting.
The meeting was with Papa Legba, but Dinah was not about to set that up until she got some cold hard cash for the inconvenience of summoning the voodoo devil.
Cordelia parted with $ 100,000 and got a lot more than she bargained for when she realized that Nan was working with the elusive villain in hell.
“I really like hell,” she admitted to Cordelia. “It’s fun! … I make trouble.”
Cordelia’s plan sounded rather simple: She wanted Papa Legba to open the gates of hell long enough to trap Michael in there for the rest of eternity.
While Papa Legba seemed to like the idea of Michael being all locked up in his realm, he said she would need to give him something in return.
All of her girls would have to make their way to the dimension, presumably so he could harness their powers. But that was not enough for Cordelia to agree to the offer.
Instead, she pleaded with Dinah after Papa Legba exited the scene, but Dinah was open about that being the only way out for them.
While Cordelia’s plan fizzled out, we got to witness a whole new plan thanks to the addition of Bubbles McGee, Joan Collins’ second character this season.
The washed-up movie star could tell what people were thinking, so Madison reached out to her in a blatant attempt to make the first strike against the men of Michael’s school.
Myrtle and Bubbles indulged in a dinner party with the warlocks, and that’s when Bubbles learned the frightening truth about John Henry:
He was murdered, and both men knew all about it.
John Henry was brought back to life courtesy of Mallory and Zoe harnessing their magical abilities, and John Henry had a revenge plan in mind.
Cordelia intercepted Ariel and Baldwin’s plan to send powder through the air to kill her and her girls and noted that the idea was stolen from a woman.
Those warlocks switched the gender and set out to steal the idea for themselves. In any case, they were burned at the stake alongside Miss Mead.
John Henry returned to do the lightning, but it didn’t seem to faze Miss Mead who was chanting that it was a rebirth of sorts for her.
This episode was transitional more than anything. It set the tone for what’s to come in the coming weeks as the battle against the Antichrist gets underway.
What are your thoughts on the latest twists and turns?
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American Horror Story continues Wednesdays on FX.
Monday, October 22, 2018
Ex-RNC Chair Michael Steele Calls BS on Saudi Arabia"s Story Over Journalist
The former head of the RNC doesn’t believe a word of Saudi Arabia’s explanation of how journalist Jamal Khashoggi died, and he doesn’t buy Trump’s denial of financial ties there. We got Michael Steele Saturday at the L.A. Convention Center…
Thursday, October 18, 2018
American Horror Story Recap: Return to Murder House
American Horror Story was all about giving fans what they wanted on Wednesday night.
By that, we mean there was a return trip to the Murder House from American Horror Story Season 1 as Madison and Behold continued their mission to find out everything they could about Michael Langdon.
Posing as the most fabulous married couple of them all, they had to fool the realtor into proving they were seriously interested in buying the house.
As such a wire transfer was made, taking the house off the market and allowing the two to enter the walls of the home that housed 36 ghosts.
Behold, and Madison had to do a spell to allow them to see the ghosts because the souls were able to decide when they could be seen by mortals.
We quickly learned that Constance Langdon, Michael’s grandmother, was dead, and there was a huge hint that she took “the coward’s way out,” courtesy of Moira.
“I’m Constance Langdon, and this is my f–ing house!” shrieked Constance, marking Jessica Lange’s first episode with the series in four years.
The mother of Tate went on to say that if they wanted the goods on Michael, they had to do something for her:
Get rid “that insufferable, cloudy-eyed ginger.”
And that they did. The dug up her bones and planted them in the same plot of land as her mother’s corpse. It brought Moira’s storyline full-circle and allowed her to pass on to what came next with someone who was actually happy to see her.
As for Constance’s end of the bargain, she spilled all the beans, and much of it was to be expected. She tried her best to keep Michael’s murderous instincts at bay.
In fact, she went as far as planting a rose bush above every single animal he skewered, but that got difficult when he graduated to the big leagues and started offing humans.
He even had a decade-length growth spurt one night, allowing him to become stronger. But Constance realized he was going to wind up killing her, so she headed over to the Murder House with some pills and a bottle of whiskey.
“That’s what I call a bon voyage!” Constance laughed as she told the two witches the chilling tale. Constance decided against revealing her spirit to her grandson because she was too damaged following everything.
However, Ben Harmon was on hand try and make a connection with the child who didn’t exactly have the best start in life.
What followed were heartwarming scenes of Ben trying to make Michael be the best man he could be, but he drew the line for good when Michael opted to slice and dice two women who moved into the house.
As if that was not bad enough, he sent their souls away from the world, thus ousting their lives in both places.
That’s when Viven showed up to continue the trip down memory lane revealing that there was always something amiss with the child and that she believed he was the Antichrist.
“I never stopped loving you,” Ben said after we learned Vivien has been steering clear of him.
“I know, but I never stopped hating him,” Vivien responded.
Everything changed for the worse when a cult showed up at the house to worship Michael, confirming all of their worst fears.
Micheal feasted on the heart of a girl Miriam kidnapped after offering her a ride. That’s when a mysterious shadow appeared behind him, confirming he was indeed the villain of this story.
Vivan decided enough was enough and tried to kill him, but he turned the tables and attempted to take the women who birthed him out of the equation.
In a truly surprising scene, Tate showed up and saved her. We also learned that Tate was not taking anything to do with the child despite him being his father.
“You didn’t spring from my nut sack! Not even I could create something as monstrous, as evil, as you!” he yelled at Michael when he showed up in his room.
Speaking of Tate, he and Violet’s relationship was essentially over. Violet couldn’t look at Tate after everything he did, but Madison managed to talk to her.
She said that Tate was possessed by the evil inside the house. Could that be the case? Maybe, but it all felt a little too convenient.
What are your thoughts on the episode?
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American Horror Story continues Wednesdays on FX.
Thursday, October 11, 2018
American Horror Story Recap: Who Returned from the Dead?
The battle to become the new Supreme continued on Wednesdays American Horror Story, and it resulted in a fan-favorite character returning from the dead, a big death, and the return to the Murder House we’ve been waiting for.
Picking up right where last week’s installment closed off, Cordelia was unconscious following Queenie and Madison returning from the dead.
Hey, it’s not every day someone can do the thing the Supreme could not, but before Cordelia returned to the land of the living, she had a vivid dream of the apocalypse.
Miss Robichaux’s Academy was a pile of rubble, the winter fog was everywhere, and there were people feasting on Cordelia’s intestines.
It turns out; there’s not a lot of protein going around during the end of the world. The biggest shocker was a white-faced man laughing about the destruction he caused.
When Cordelia woke up, she agreed to administer the Seven Wonders for Michael, much to the chagrin of Myrtle. The women have had the power for so long that Myrtle felt like it would be a travesty to give it up.
Once back home, Cordelia admitted that her power was fading, and by being dismissive of Michael, she was going to make the dark future become a reality.
John Henry, who has been jealous of Michael since he learned of his power, worried that there was something more going on here.
That’s why he decided to make his way to New Orleans to hash out his concerns with the witches, but Miriam was hot on his tail, and sliced him up, before setting him on fire.
As expected, Michael passed the Seven Wonders without so much as breaking a sweat. But Cordelia decided to switch things up by asking Michael to do something she could not do:
Bring Misty back from the dead. Michael brought her back, and the Stevie Nicks fanatic wasted no time in telling Cordelia the villain was talking to evil in hell, and that there’s something dark about him.
Cordelia wanted Misty to work with the coven to help save the world, but Misty had been gone too long and didn’t know how to use her magic.
That’s when the White Witch (Nicks) appeared and started singing at Misty about rising up to be the person everyone already knows she is.
With Cordelia’s coven now intact, she should be able to fight Michael. As you may recall, if you watch American Horror Story online, Cordelia was adamant about winning the war in the present.
Misty failed at bringing herself back from the dead during her test of the Seven Wonders, but technically she’s returned from the dead.
That, in theory, could mean that she’s passed the test after all. There was no confirmation of it, but there’s no getting away from it.
As for Madison, she was sent on a mission to the Murder House to round up all the information she could about the spawn of Satan that was going by the name Michael Langdon.
Behold went along for the ride. Yes, that’s his name. Despite advocating for Michael to complete the Seven Wonders, he was concerned about his abilities.
We got a blink, and you’ll miss it glimpse of the Murder House.
This is going to be fun!
What did you think of the latest installment?
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American Horror Story continues Wednesdays on FX.
Tuesday, October 9, 2018
Kathryn Dennis: I"m a Domestic Violence Survivor. This is My Story.
Over the past several weeks, each time we’ve written about Kathryn Dennis, it’s been in relation to Thomas Ravenel.
That’s what happens when you share two kids with the lead of a Bravo reality show…
… and then that lead gets accused of sexual assault by two women.
In this case, however, we’re here to talk about the Southern Charm star and a different man from her past.
We don’t know his name.
But we do know that this individual sadly has had a major impact on Dennis’ life.
On Sunday evening, the 27-year old posted both the following image on Instagram and included with it a lengthy message about how she is a surivor of domestic abuse.
Dennis proceeded to tell her story via this social media platform, prefacing the emotional post with a caption that reads:
“This is my past, perfectly put…. worth the read. This is the real aftermath.”
The reality star then went into painful detail as follows:
I spend a lot of time thinking about those questions. I never saw myself in these situations and neither did anyone else. I had strong opinions, a sharp mind, and an independent spirit.
But before I knew it, I was left with a broken spirit, mixed opinions, and an anxious and uncertain mind. I didn’t know who I was anymore.
Dennis never names her abuser.
She doesn’t get into specifics about the incident or incidents, either.
Instead, she focuses more on the effects this experience has had on her life — and continues to have on her life.
It was the deepest, darkest secret I kept.
And this wasn’t about any particular situation/relationship as much as it was my relationship with men. It ran deep and dark, and I never realized the impact it had on myself and on my self-worth.
In these depths of despair, I couldn’t see a way out of this cycle. It seemed anywhere I turned pushed me further and further away from getting to a safe place physically, mentally, and emotionally.
I looked around and within and realized that my self-worth had been damaged long before I even realized it was possible. This made me really question myself.
And this is how Dennis concludes:
Was it me? Was this normal behavior, and I was the one in the wrong?
I knew deep down inside that wasn’t the case, but I was stuck in quicksand being guided by those who kept my head above, but my feet locked in.
Powerful stuff, no?
Tragically, there are millions of women out there who can relate to most everything Dennis describes here.
She went on to share a handful of memes, such as the ones below:
Kathryn’s revelation about her past trauma with domestic violence comes just weeks after her ex-boyfriend, Ravenel, was arrested for second degree assault and battery.
The ex-Bravo personality was taken into custody on charges related to sexual assault claims made by his former nanny, Dawn, who cared for his and Kathryn’s two kids, Kensington, 4, and Saint Julien, 2, years ago.
Ugly stuff all around.
Very unfortunately for Dennis, it sounds like she may have more challenging times ahead as a result.
Thursday, September 27, 2018
American Horror Story Recap: Who Survived the Outpost 3 Bloodbath?
American Horror Story: Apocalypse got off to one of the best starts in franchise history, but it all fell apart with a weak second episode.
American Horror Story Season 8 Episode 3 picked up the pace with Michael trying to establish who would be making their way to the elusive Sanctuary.
During a conversation with Mallory, she opened up about feeling like there’s something inside of her trying to claw its way out.
That’s when she unleashed some sort of power that could have brought a fiery end to Michael if he was a human.
What this revealed was that Mallory could be a witch and that Michael was scared of her. He quickly got to work to plead for answers to the person who controls him.
Things got downright weird when we learned that Miriam was having memories of raising a young blonde boy, but she had no idea why.
Desperate for a place in this safe haven, Miriam and Venable made a plan to kill everyone in Outpost 3 meaning they would absolutely have to go to this new place.
Their plan picked up steam when a bunch of flawless apples was delivered by The Cooperative, and the duo got to work in putting snake venom into them.
Unbeknownst to the pair, Coco’s ex actually survived the end of the world and was hiding under the carriage.
He later murdered one of their henchmen to make his way inside to find Coco to get revenge on her.
In a surprising twist, Brock murdered Coco at a Halloween party while posing as Michael.
Venable’s plan worked, and everyone else died as a result of the poisonous apple, but not all of them stayed dead.
Venable and Miriam went on a mission to take down Michael for good, but we learned that Miriam was actually crafted as Constance Langdon, and he gave her the memories she was looking for.
Miriam/Constance then turned the gun on Venable, ending her reign of terror once and for all.
Downstairs, Cordelia, Myrtle, and Madison appeared and saved Coco, Mallory, and Dinah from a certain death.
Oh yes, the witches are back, and it seems like there are more of them than ever, you guys.
“Surprise bitch, bet you thought you’d seen the last of me,” Madison said to Mallory, confirming they had a history.
What the heck is going on?
So. Many. Twists.
And we have to wait another week to find out how all of this is going to play out.
What did you think of the episode?
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Thursday, September 20, 2018
American Horror Story Recap: Where Are the Witches?!
The latest installment of American Horror Story: Apocalypse was heavy on the rubber, but light on the witches.
We kicked things off with Michael Langdon parading around Outpost 3 with hair that looks very similar to his mother, Vivien’s.
He wasted no time in asserting his power in the lair, and Venable was livid. If you watch American Horror Story online, you know that Venable had a lot of rules about sleeping arrangements.
Primarily, she did not want anyone in the Outpost sleeping with each other. For those at home yelling about how it won’t be possible to repopulate the Earth, we hear you.
Timothy and Emily decided they wanted to have fun, and by that, they wanted to sleep with each other. It’s the end of the world, so why not?
They weren’t buying what Venable was selling about abstinence, so they broke into Michael’s room and found a conveniently placed laptop.
There, they found emails between Michael and The Cooperative. That’s when they found out that Venable was lying about not having sexual contact.
Venable was furious when the two teenagers went forward and had sex with each other. Venable ordered their deaths, but Timothy and Ash fought back.
Miriam wound up shot, but there was something amiss with her flesh. Is she even a real person?
As for Michael, he had a lot of sexual chemistry with Mr. Gallant, so much so that it seemed he was dressing up as the Rubber Man from Murder House and having sex with him.
But Michael was adamant he was not the one dressing up, and that he should try to find out the truth on his own.
Evie, Mr. Gallant’s mother, witnessed the sex between him and the Rubber Man and took the news to Miriam and Venable.
The pair tried to whip him to get the answers, but they realized when they looked down that he was getting off on the pain.
In a truly stunning shock, the Rubber Man showed up again, but Mr. Gallant opted to stab him because he was done with the mind games.
That’s when we learned that Evie had been body-swapped and was dead at the hands of her grandson. Well, at least she won’t be ratting on him any longer.
Elsewhere, Michael confronted Venable for lying to everyone about the rules, but Venable was not ready to back down.
She said that she was sent the rules, and she was following them. However, she did not have a copy of them at hand for Michael to cast his eye on.
Michael said that he was the one who sent the rules, calling her bluff. Oh, yes, there’s a power struggle between these two, and we’re all in for it.
While the episode had a lot of action, the preview for it claimed the witches would make their entrance into Outpost 3.
That did not happen, and the only excuse for that is that FX was trying to stop the typical week two drop the franchise has been known for.
What are your thoughts on this installment?
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American Horror Story continues Wednesday on FX!
Wednesday, September 19, 2018
Mystery Doorbell Ringer Comes Forward, Shares Chilling Survival Story
This woman"s terrifying story gripped the nation before anyone knew her name or heard her reveal what had happened to her.
America first saw her as a nameless woman who, while wearing restraints and a large tee shirt, rang a neighbor"s doorbell late at night.
Her name is Lauren, and her story is every bit as chilling as people feared.
Lauren is 32 years old. She says that one night, she awoke to her 49-year-old boyfriend, Dennis Ray Collins, kneeling on her chest.
He was stuffing some sort of fabric into her mouth.
Her feet and ankles were bound by restraints, and she had duct tape on her head.
She reveals that, at the time, she fully believed that she was going to die.
She says that she tried to cling to hope during the sexual assault that followed.
Lauren says: "I just kept repeating in my head ‘God has more for me than this, I’m not gonna die here tonight,""
She had been living with Collins for 4 months at the time of the rape.
She says that afterwards, he allowed her to go to the kitchen to get some water — because her throat hurt from screaming.
This, she reveals, is when she saw her chance to escape — and took it.
We can never imagine how much bravery it took her to make that dash for the door and leave.
As natural as the instinct to flee is, there is also a powerful instinct in many people to cooperate with a threat in the hopes of survival. Neither instinct is always right, but Lauren made the right choice.
She says that she flagged down a car, asking the driver to help her — but that the driver took one look at her and sped away.
It was then that Lauren was famously recorded ringing a doorbell. She rang several doorbells.
Lauren explains that she was in fear for her life, but convinced that if someone saw her and made eye contact with her, that she woudl be safe.
In the end, Lauren was able to go back for her car to drive away. It was 3 in the morning, and her chances of getting someone to answer the door were slim.
Again, we cannot imagine how much courage it took for her to return to the one place where she knew that Collins might be.
Lauren drove to safety while the homeowner"s whose doorbell caught Lauren on video contacted law enforcement, fearing for this mystery woman"s life.
It was five days after the video surfaced that Collins committed suicide.
In his suicide note, he apologized to Lauren — which, obviously, doesn"t mean much, considering what he had done to her — and swears that he had not planned to kill her.
"I never would have killed you like you thought," Collins claimed. "I’m sorry for what I’ve done and I wish I could turn back time."
He died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound.
Lauren is grappling with powerful emotions in the aftermath of this trauma. She even feels a misplaced sense of guilt over Collins" death.
But, speaking to Inside Edition, she admits that she believe that he would have taken her life.
"I worry if this video didn’t come out," Lauren admits. "And if he were not gone — then I eventually would be."
Friday, September 7, 2018
Audrey Roloff Shares Ember"s Birth Story, Keeps It Very Real
Audrey Roloff is nothing if not an open book.
The former Little People, Big World cast member talks often about her faith and her family and how the two nearly always intertwine.
The mother of one also talks about parenthood on a frequent basis, ever since welcoming daughter Ember into the world in September of 2017.
Now, in a very personal and impressive blog post, Audrey has opened way up about her actual birthing experience.
It"s a bit graphic in detail and you can read the full entry HERE.
But we"ve shared a handful of excerpts below in order to help Audrey relay her experience to the fans and followers who are either interested or who may even benefit from this kind of information…
1. This is How Audrey Opened Her Lengthy Post:
I am just now finally getting around to sharing her birth story. WOW! It has taken me an entire year to finish it. Sigh. Guess that’s just reality as a new mom, going through two remodels, writing our first book, keeping always more and beating50percent a float, while trying to maintain sanity and some resemblance of a social life. The past year has been exhausting, thrilling, tearful, and full of treasured moments. But perhaps the most treasured moment was September 10th, 2017
2. I Will Not Be Sugar Coating the Messy Reality of Birth…
So Audrey warned, prior to getting into said details as follows: “By the time I was 10 days overdue, I was trying whatever the internet suggested about naturally inducing labor. Pineapple, spicy food, bouncing on the ball, taking baths, long walks, raspberry leaf tea, acupuncture, and sex, but still no baby. I remember reading comments on social media, and even receiving texts from friends, who had some opinions about my desire to wait for our baby to come naturally… Of course. I would not put our baby in danger if I did indeed need to be medically induced. But I also knew lots of women who were impatiently or unnecessarily induced early, and I wanted to avoid that. So I kept surrendering and trusting in God’s timing for our daughters birth.”
3. She’s Finally on the Way!
“I woke up at 2:30 am to what I thought was just intense cramping. I had experienced some pretty intense cramping the past couple of nights so I didn’t think too much of it at first, but after a few minutes I quickly realized this was different. MUCH different. This was the blinding ambush. IT WAS TIME!!! I reached over into my nightstand drawer and grabbed a sharpie to write my life mantra on my arm – ALWAYS MORE. I knew that this day, more than any other day, I needed to be reminded that I ALWAYS had MORE strength, endurance, and hope through Christ.”
4. What They Decided:
“Jeremy and I wanted our labor and delivery experience to be a calm, low stress, and intimate experience between the two of us. That meant no family, friends, or cameras in the delivery room. We wanted to bring our daughter into the world together without having to think or worry about anything or anyone else. Just Jeremy and I, intimately experiencing the most defining moment of our lives together.”
5. More Specifics:
“Our birth plan was essentially to have a low-intervention, unmedicated birth at the hospital with the help of our doula Echo, essential oils, prayer, and a jammin’ Spotify playlist.”11
6. Why Did She Opt for an Unmedicated Birth?
“I didn’t want labor to solely be something I went through, while Jeremy watched from a chair. I wanted for him to be an active participant. I wanted for him to feel needed and important during the whole process – and he was. Laboring with Jeremy was was the most intimate, unifying, God-empowering, thing we have ever done together.”
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