Katherine Heigl won an Emmy for playing a character her writers created. A year later, she said they hadn't given her enough material to deserve a nomination.
She withdrew her name from the race to “maintain the integrity of the academy organization.”
Hollywood started calling her “ungrateful.” “Difficult” and “unprofessional” came right after. She says the label left her with anxiety.
Years later she said she never turned down a nomination: “I just didn't submit my work that year.”
Of the writers, she also said: “I ambushed them, and it wasn't very nice or fair.”
She left Grey's in 2010. She says she asked Shonda Rhimes to let her go.
In the video below, Heigl talks with Ellen Pompeo about leaving Grey's: “I think it was borrowed confidence. I was so naive. I got onto my soapbox and I had some things to say.”
The 2007 win is still her only Emmy nomination.
Was one sentence about the writing worth that label?
@Allx032 Her line "I was following Charlie's orders, because they were Charlie's orders" is the part parole boards should weigh most. It explains the first night, but not why she went again the next one
Gillian Anderson spent years closing the pay gap with David Duchovny on The X-Files. Then Fox offered her half of what it offered him for the revival, she says.
The revival was six episodes.
In the video below, she tells Jonathan Ross about that offer and how she negotiates.
"We knew what David's offer was this time around and it was twice as much as my offer was."
Asked why that would happen, she called it "silly."
She says he earned more at the start because she was "starting from nothing" and he "had just done a big film."
She told The Hollywood Reporter the studio always comes to her with half of what it wants to offer him.
Her system: "David's team does the negotiating and then I just say I want what he's getting."
In the end, anonymous sources told The Hollywood Reporter, the two were paid equally. We found no dollar amounts and no comment from Fox.
She fought for equal pay once. Should she have had to do it twice?
@soboozie Women curling their hair to look like his victims while he's on trial for those exact murders. That's not being fooled, that's attention being the whole point
@Tolot0caw The court tossed the race claims, but the deposition answer did the real damage. Sponsors reacted to what she said, not to what the judge ruled
@rickyrates He read the President's schedule in the paper that morning and wrote Foster a letter. That sounds like planning to me, and the two psychiatrists couldn't agree on what it meant
Norm Macdonald lost $400,000 on one football game. Another time, he says, he had 65 cents and couldn't afford a Coke.
He took the Falcons at about 3-to-1 in Super Bowl XXXIII. They lost.
On Marc Maron's podcast in 2011, he said he went dead broke three times. Each time, he said, felt "very freeing."
His math on $450,000: lose $400,000 and you don't want the last $50,000. "I don't want money to remind me I had more money."
Another time he threw $60,000 in cash into the ocean off the Atlantic City boardwalk, trying to quit.
In the video below, he says he lost everything he owned three times. Then he explains how he tried to turn 65 cents into a Coke on the nickel slots. He got to 95 cents eight times. Never a dollar.
His memoir: "I always took the long shot and it never came in."
Did gambling ruin Norm, or was it the only thing that made him feel free?
@kardinall Ye's side says they paid $240,000, and the bank records only show $120,000 from his personal checking. That gap is basically the whole trial
Ye paid $57 million for a Malibu mansion and sold it for $21 million. Now a judge says he also owes the man who helped gut it about $321,000.
Tony Saxon says Ye promised him $20,000 a week to manage the remodel. He says he was paid once.
Ye's lawyers say they paid him $240,000.
In the video below, a reporter covers Ye on the stand. His eyes are closed, his head drops forward, and Saxon's attorney asks, "Is he falling asleep?" Then come the bank records: $120,000 from Ye's personal checking account.
Saxon sued in September 2023 and asked for $1.7 million. In March 2026, the jury gave him $140,000 and rejected his wrongful termination claim.
On Oct. 13, the judge added about $181,000 in fees and costs. Saxon's lawyers had asked for about $1.23 million.
Ye's lawyer told the court: "He wasn't sleeping, he was bored."
Saxon asked for $1.7 million and got $140,000. Who actually won?
@kuroclips0 Never arrested in a jewelry store, only after leaving one. Nail clippers and a girdle for a $550,000 ring is a pretty hands-on way to run a business
@Tolot0caw Goodell hearing the appeal on his own suspension is the part I'd change first. The union asked him to step aside and he said no. Hard to call that process fair
@KingFuhd01 Honestly, protecting time with his kids over looking polite is the right call. A stranger's photo lasts a minute, family time doesn't come back
@sonofcrest A group chat with your ex and your current partner only works if everyone actually respects each other. Setting the tone first, like she says, is the hard part most people skip