On the field, Steve Smith Sr. appeared to be the most confident NFL player on the planet — but privately, the WR was struggling with depression and admits he felt “trapped, inferior and alone.” The ex-Ravens and Panthers star went public with his…
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Tuesday, August 7, 2018
Wednesday, June 27, 2018
Tristan Thompson: "Trapped" In Relationship With Khloe Kardashian?
Well, here’s a twist that nobody saw coming.
All this time we figured Tristan Thompson was groveling at Khloe Kardashian’s feet, begging her to forgive him for cheating while she was carrying his child.
But according to a new report from Radar Online, Khloe is the one who’s desperate to make this relationship work, despite the many, many signs that it’s time to call it quits.
A source tells the site that Tristan is currently in Los Angeles with Khloe and her familly — and he’s hating every second of it.
“She will not let him leave, telling him that he has months before training season even starts,” says the insider.
Tristan is still in contact with at least one of his side-chicks, and there have been other indicators that he’s eager to return to the single life.
But apparently Khloe has been turning a blind eye to all of them.
It seems Thompson is willing to compromise by allowing Khloe to accompany him back to Cleveland, but she wants no part of that plan.
“Tristan’s more than happy to take True back to Cleveland, but Khloe insists she doesn’t want to go back there for a while,” says the source.
We suppose that makes sense, as Khloe just spent the entire NBA playoffs alone at Tristan’s house while he traveled with the Cleveland Cavaliers.
Khloe’s mother and sisters are all in LA, as well as her livelihood, and sources say she’s been desperate to get back home.
But apparently, Tristan is not at all open to the idea of spending his entire summer on the West Coast.
Khloe’s family has been encouraging her to dump Tristan for months, so not surprisingly, they’re totally on board with letting him head back to Cleveland.
“The best thing for the both of them would be space,” the source says, noting that Khloe has been resistant to that idea, as she “wants the family thing so bad.”
Sadly, it seems Tristan is simply not on the same page:
“He feels trapped in this situation and feels Khloe’s using the baby to manipulate him into staying close to her,” the insider claims.
Complicating the situation is the possibility that Tristan might get traded and wind up relocating to a city that Khloe isn’t willing to live in.
We know they have a daughter together, but really — how many warning signs can one couple ignore?
Monday, January 22, 2018
Duggar Women: "Trapped" In a Dangerous Cult, Source Claims
When the Duggars first made their debut on TLC in 2008, the selling point that was used to attract an audience was the massive size of the family.
But viewers quickly became fascinated by Michelle, Jim Bob and kids for reasons that had nothing to do with fertility.
Reality stardom put the Duggars’ extremely conservative religious views on display, and their belief system and practices drew a mixed reaction from their rapidly-growing fan base.
Some applauded the family’s “old-fashioned” values, while others decried what they viewed as a cult-like setting.
The Duggars are adherents of Reverend Bill Gothard’s Institute for Basic Life Principles, and the debate only intensified when Gothard resigned in disgrace after being accused of sexual assault and harrassment by dozens of young men and women.
Gothard has thus far avoided criminal prosecution, but the scandal has only grown with revelations that he’s not the only member of his church who used his power to coerce the congregation’s most vulnerable members into performing sex acts.
In May of 2015, the Josh Duggar sex scandals became public knowledge after nearly a decade of coordinated cover-up by his parents.
The fact that Michelle and Jim Bob knew their son was molesting his sisters but failed to act led many to wonder about the extent to which this sort of behavior was sanctioned by the IBLP.
Now, a powerful new voice has entered the debate–one with firsthand knowledge of the predatory tactics employed by IBLP leaders.
Rebecca Ishum is a blogger and former IBLP adherent who says she was brainwashed during an intensive “triaining” session at the IBLP’s secretive headquarters.
She opened up about her experiences in a recent interview with In Touch Weekly:
“I still grieve for all of the kids…mainly the girls….who are trapped or have spent their lives trying to rewire their brains once they make it out. Most of the girls who are still in that cult don’t even realize how trapped they are,” Ishum tells the magazine.
“I was conditioned to believe anything that anyone in authority told me without question.”
The Duggars often claim that their extremist views on abstinence and “modest attire” are meant to enforce in young women an appreciation for their bodies as gifts from God, but Rebecca says she was taught that she had no autonomy over her physical self:
“I remember learning things like…if I was ever raped, then it would be my fault,” she says.
Duggar women are taught from a young age that procreation is their primary reason for being, and Rebecca says that she was indoctrinated to trust in the philosophical underpinnings of that belief during IBLP training:
“Higher education was frowned on because we were created to raise up a Quiverfull of children to be the salt of the earth. Our main objective was to be the helpmeet (translation: servant) of our husbands and have children,” she reveals.
“People who are still trapped in the IBLP cult are missing out on a whole lot of freedom and life. That type of thinking is a prison. Sadly, most of them don’t know it.”
Rebecca says that while the men responsible for the intellectual imprisonment of the Duggar girls deserve our condemnation, the public should be careful not to blame the victims:
“[If I could talk to the Duggars,] I would start by just listening,” Rebecca says.
“I would just sit down and listen to them talk until I could start to get an idea of who they are at their core. And then I would tell them to dream bigger than the box they’ve been given because they can remain a Jesus-follower, but do so in a way that enables their freedom.”
Ishum concludes:
“These girls need help seeing their worth and value for who they are, not what they do.”
Watch Counting On online for more on reality TV’s most controversial family.
Wednesday, September 20, 2017
Anna Duggar: Is She Trapped In Her Marriage to Josh?!
If you’re fan of the Counting On clan, then by now, you’ve probably heard the news that Josh and Anna Duggar have weldomed her fifth child.
Reactions to the announcement have been decidedly mixed, as a result of the Josh Duggar sex scandals that rocked the family in 2015.
Fans were stunned to learn that Josh had molested five young girls, four of whom were her sisters, and was able to avoid punishment with the help of his parents.
Astonishingly, Jim Bob and Michelle Duggar managed to salvage their lucrative media empire, but their efforts to sweep Josh’s sex crimes under the rug have been met with staunch resistance from critics.
Many former fans turned away from the Duggars in disgust after news of Josh’s transgressions went public.
And for many, the knowledge that he’s become a father for the fifth time has re-opened old wounds.
There’s been an outpouring of concern on social media, not only for Josh’s children, but for his beleaguered wife, Anna Duggar.
Rumors of Anna planning to divorce Josh seem to circulate on social media every few months, and it’s not hard to see why.
Anna has countless valid reasons to leave her husband, not the least of which is that Josh was caught cheating on her just months after word of his sex crimes went public.
But amazingly, Anna has stuck by him through it all, becoming pregnant with her fifth child shortly after Josh was released from rehab, where he was treated for sex additction.
It’s possible that Anna is just an extremely devoted student of the Tammy Wynette school of marital strife.
But what seems more likely is that Anna is unable to leave her philandering spouse.
For starters, if Anna were to cut ties with Josh she would no longer be invited to take place in the various Duggar media projects, which means she would lose her livelihood with five children to feed.
And since Josh already isn’t allowed to appear on Counting On, it’s not as though he would have much to offer her in the way of child support.
On top of all that, as several Duggar obsessives have noted Anna’s family is said to be more strict than Josh’s in terms of their fundamentalist beliefs.
Those who now them best say the Kellers don’t approve of divorce under any circumstances, which means they likely wouldn’t offer any support to Anna if she left her husband.
Yes, if she were to end her marriage, Anna would be left with five children to raise, and no money or support system to aid her in doing so.
The situation is a further reminder that the repercussions of Josh’s actions will be felt for generations.
Watch Counting On online for more from reality TV’s most controversial family.
Tuesday, July 12, 2016
Tom Hiddleston: I Need to Dump Taylor Swift ... But I"m TRAPPED in Fake Romance! [EXCLUSIVE]
A source close to Tom Hiddleston exclusively tells THG that he’s in over his head with his contrived relationship to pop star Taylor Swift.
Moreover, the actor wants to get out ASAP but can’t figure out how, feeling trapped and adrift in a sea of paparazzi and public scrutiny.
As we told you Monday, a friend of the British thespian told us, in no uncertain terms, that what we’ve long assumed to be true actually is:
The Taylor Swift-Tom Hiddleston relationship is fake.
Not just exaggerated for the sake of photographers, or flaunted on social media (though there is plenty of both), but full-on arranged.
“Tom is a very passionate actor, and he genuinely loves performing,” says our source, a friend who communicates with the star regularly.
However, he wanted more … stature, so to speak.
Not because he loves the spotlight. On the contrary, in fact. Merely so “wouldn’t have to do auditions everytime he wanted to be in something.”
Enter Taylor Swift and a run-in earlier this spring …
“After the video of Tom and Taylor dancing together at the MET was released, their respective PR teams decided to collaborate.”
“Tom needed to improve his pulling power, and [her] PR team decided to take advantage of that in a way that would also benefit Taylor.”
“Tom is the ‘it’ man right now, so they thought that it would work. Taylor is an attractive girl with a big bank account and a lot of fame.”
“Tom decided that he would go along with it.”
Makes sense on some level, right? Of course.
But man alive, is he regretting that now.
“He, Taylor, and their respective PR teams thought that everybody would love seeing them in a relationship with each other.”
“However, his actual relationship with Taylor wasn’t as well received by the public as he was hoping it to be,” the friend laments.
Not even after (or perhaps because of) images such as this one, which have been viewed tens of millions of times on social media?!
“He is well aware of what all of the media outlets, his coworkers, his fans, his friends, and even his own family are saying about him.”
“He hates that he has become a joke.”
Well, yeah, but couldn’t he have seen fiasco this coming? Yes and no, the insider tells us, because it’s Taylor who keeps upping the ante.
In that respect, this is all very real and true to form – a smitten, swooning Swift is running the show, and running roughshod over Tom:
“It’s hard for him to prove that to everybody because of how insistent Taylor is that everything that they do with each other is photographed.”
“He has worked very hard [at his] acting career, and he hates being referred to as Taylor’s boyfriend as if his acting career didn’t even exist.”
“She insisted on going to Australia with him, and because of how influential she is with everybody, he didn’t feel like he could say no.”
Having seen the interview he just gave after they landed Down Under, it does seem like he’s cracking a bit under the pressure …
“He wanted to work in peace and quiet,” our source continues. “People think that he’s whoring himself out for fame, and that isn’t true.”
“Taylor being with him has drawn all of the attention towards them. She’s already talking about moving in together, getting married, and having kids.”
“That is incredibly unsettling for him. He wants to settle down one day, but not now whilst he has such a busy schedule.”
Gotta be rough, having Taylor Swift throwing herself at you and talking happily ever after after you’ve been together for about 45 minutes.
In all seriousness, though, why go through with it any longer then? What’s to stop him from just walking away? Well, the friend reveals:
“He is feeling very under pressure, because if he bails after just one month with her, he thinks that it’ll prove everybody right.”
There’s also the legitimate concern, given who she is: “He’s just worried about a break up album and about people saying I told you so.”
“He knows that when they do break up, the media will try to make him look like the bad guy who broke Taylor’s heart.”
“He doesn’t want that, nor does he want to hurt Taylor … he does care about her, but it’s more platonic than it is romantic.”
That being said, Hiddleston can no longer live the “low key” (sorry) life he wishes, and would exclaim “Ole” if he could break free.
“He doesn’t want to spend much more time with Taylor either because she doesn’t give him any breathing space,” the source added.
“Somebody saw them on the beach near Taylor’s home one day before the pictures of them kissing were released.”
“They didn’t recognize him at the time, and Taylor was berating him so much, they thought that he was her new assistant.”
“It embarrassed him, but Taylor is used to public scrutiny, so she doesn’t really understand how much it bothered him.”
“He’s in over his head. He wants out of the relationship, but it’s hard for him to pick the right moment to do that.”
Tom just wants to get back to normal, his friend says, and “forget about the time that he frolicked about in the ocean wearing a bad tee shirt.”
That’s just hilarious, but in fairness to Tom …
… the waterslide photo is even worse:
Tuesday, March 8, 2016
Kim Kardashian: Miserable! Feels "Trapped" by Kanye West!
Dear God. It’s like a bad version of Sleeping With The Enemy.
Or so the tabloids would have you believe about the state of Kim Kardashian and Kanye West’s marriage.
Now is one of those times to apply those vows of “for better or for worse” to their relationship, because according to Radar Online, things are…not great.
“Kim’s trapped in this marriage and it’s dawning on her that he’ll never let her go, no matter how bad things get between them,” a source close to the Kardashians told the site.
“She’s desperately miserable,” said source added. “Kanye’s lost the plot and he’s out of control with his anger right now.
“All communications have broken down and while he’s trying to repair his image online, he’s not doing anything to make it up to her.”
West’s public outbursts, botht in-person and on Twitter, have “humiliated her and her family,” the source continued.
And if last night’s tweets are actually the work of West, then that will make matters worse for the couple.
Yesterday, Kardashian posted a throwback nude selfie, which prompted celebrities including Bette Midler and Piers Morgan to criticize her thirst for attention.
The responses to these tweets from Kardashian’s account were obnoxious and slightly insane, leading many to believe that West had gotten ahold of Kardashian’s Twitter handle.
Yesterday, West tweeted from his own account, “please avoid trying to talk me out of being me in the future.”
Ok, so long as you please (allegedly) avoid hijacking your wife’s tweets, you kook!
Tuesday, December 29, 2015
Anna Duggar: Trapped! Desperate! Begging For Divorce From Covenant Marriage!
Anna Duggar is feeling smothered and trapped by her covenant marriage and is reportedly begging for a divorce, a new report claims.
The mother-of-four allegedly regrets her covenant marriage – a really, really serious, borderline unbreakable marriage – to Josh Duggar.
She wants out ASAP … at least according to this report, which cites several family members encouraging Anna to break free at all costs.
Daniel Keller, Anna’s brother, harbors great deal of animosity towards Josh and spoke out about him to the new issue of Life & Style.
Keller reveals that he advised Anna to leave Josh and bring her four young children to Florida in the wake of his Ashley Madison scandal.
“I told [Anna] I would go get her and let [Anna] and [the] children stay with me. I won’t stop trying to get that pig out of our family,” he said.
It’s not just Anna’s family who has encouraged her to dissolve the covenant marriage, either. Cousin-in-law Amy Duggar is on board.
Amy does not mince words, nor does her husband, Dillon King, who adds: “If I was Anna, I’d be done. I wouldn’t think [twice] about it.”
Regardless of the family’s staunch religious beliefs – they are described as more conservative than the Duggars – there is precedent.
Rebekah Keller, Anna’s sister, recently went through a divorce, and some Keller family members hope Anna will follow Rebekah’s example.
Jim Bob Duggar and Michelle Duggar, of course, are not about to let that happen, pulling out all the stops to make sure she stays put.
Not only are they full-on bribing her with a new home, those who watch Jill & Jessa: Counting On online saw what a huge part she played.
The whole TLC series is a family mea culpa – Josh is torn a new one, politely of course, while not appearing – and Anna is front and center.
She was allowed to air her grievances and now can welcome him back into the fold in the spirit of God. That ought to appease her, right?
What more would you expect from a family who basically said that Anna should be joyfully available for sex whenever her man desires.
Michelle didn’t call her out personally, but her “marriage advice” implies that men cheat because their wives don’t do enough. The end.
Regardless, is there any chance Anna actually leaves? When the whole point of the covenant marriage (or any marriage) is … not?
Adultery is one of the allowable excuses for a split in this stricter form of marital union, but it would be a long road ahead if she proceeded.
Anna would be forced to endure counseling and maintain a trial separation for two-and-a-half years (!) before a divorce would be granted.
She would also be cut off financially – that’s obvious, since Josh has no income for a judge to make him pay and it all runs through Jim Bob.
Yet her family would take her in without a second thought, from what it sounds like. What do you think? Should she finally leave Josh?
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