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Anna Kendrick admits she spent seven years believing she was the crazy one in a toxic relationship "I had so much love and trust for that person so I thought it had to be me" "Like if one of us is crazy it must be me" "I turned my life completely upside down trying to fix whatever was wrong with me" "It was very very difficult to actually go no this is him this is his stuff" "Am I making that up Am I making everything up" "I'm never getting involved with a man unless you are in or have been in therapy"

Sarah Jessica Parker admits the constant public commentary on her body during Sex and the City felt like a kick in the rubber parts and left her sobbing "I think just discussions of my physical person like stuff that I couldn't change and wouldn't change and had never considered changing" "I was like someone it was like a kick in the rubber parts. It was just like, why why is this a problem? Why is this deserving of your time? And why do you seem to delight in saying it?" "And I called my friends, two of my friends who happen to be male, because I knew that they might know about it. And I was just like, I was sobbing because it felt so purposeful." "And I think that's the only time I really cried about it. And I think it was just like an accumulation of like maybe a season of that kind of commentary"

Megan Fox admits she drank Machine Gun Kelly's blood and prefers toxic trauma bonds over any stable life "You're so offended that I got a drop of Machine Gun Kelly's blood in my mouth" "You guys are out here letting strangers come in their mouth" "I prefer the agonizing psychological abuse of this trauma bond to the prosaic tedium of a regular life" "Stability sounds boring" "I'd rather be in something dramatic and toxic versus something stable" "I did a lot of falling in love with other people all the time" "I would go to work and fall in love because I was a kid"

Shia LaBeouf admits he is in the tribe of the fuck-ups and owns the abuse allegations "I hurt that woman" "And in the process of doing that I hurt many other people and many other people before that woman" "I'm in the tribe of the fuck-ups" "I'm a very public sinner a very fallible person in the public sphere" "I was a pleasure seeking selfish self-centered dishonest inconsiderate fearful human being" "Rock bottom isn't when you experience the worst moment of your life rock bottom is when you change"

Charlize Theron admits she recently had a one-night stand with a 26-year-old and says the sex was better than anything in her 20s or 30s "I've probably had three one night stands in my entire life" "But I did just recently f*ck a 26-year-old and it was really fucking amazing" "And I've never done that" "I was like oh this is great" "I'm having the kind of sex I never had in my 20s or in my 30s" "I found this freedom in my 40s"

19-year-old Ben Francis was still delivering pizzas for £5 an hour when Gymshark did £30,000 in half an hour "I worked at Pizza Hut for four or five pounds an hour" "And Gymshark was doing hundreds of thousands in revenue" "The money I earned from Pizza Hut allowed me to live" "It meant every penny Gymshark made would be reinvested" "Prior to that event we were doing around 300 pounds a day" "In the first half an hour we sold 30,000 pounds of product" "I made two fitness apps beforehand both failed miserably"

Matthew McConaughey turned down a $14.5 million offer and sat out of Hollywood for almost two years just to stop being the rom-com guy "I was the go-to rom-com guy" "They paid well and I enjoyed them" "But I wanted to do dramas and Hollywood would not offer me any" "If I can’t do what I want to do I’m going to stop doing what I’ve been doing" "They came back with an $8 million offer then $10 then $12" "Then a $14.5 million offer for the same script" "I said let me read that again" "I ultimately said no" "I just bought myself a one-way ticket out of Hollywood"

Brad Pitt admits the summer of 1994 was the most unhealthy time of his life after a string of bad experiences left him completely checked out of Hollywood "I would wake up, I would get a bong load, I would have four Coca-Colas on ice, no food" "This particular summer, I watched the O.J. trial, and I was just trying to figure out, What do I do next? What do I do next?" "It was the most unhealthy time. I just needed to check out" "My manager sends the Se7en script over. She says, You’ve got to read this" "I read the first seven pages, I call her up, I go, Are you kidding me? The cliché old cop wants out, the young cop comes in" "She goes, Just finish it. Then I go meet with Fincher and he was just talking about films like I’d never heard anyone speak about film. I just got the jones back"

Ethan Hawke admits his first Hollywood movie as a 14-year-old with River Phoenix was a complete disaster and that failure is the only reason he survived fame "I think celebrity is like a tiny drop of mercury. Or it’s poison. It’s poison for your brain" "To be a professional actor at a young age is… It’s dangerous and in extremely insidious ways that are very, very hard to perceive when it’s happening" "The movie was a big turkey" "River and I going to the bathroom at the premiere… they were all talking about what a turkey the movie was, how terrible it was" "It wasn’t the narrative we thought. We’d bought into the dream that we were going to be whatever teen icon we were thinking of at the time" "And it died a quick and salty death - my dream. I went back to high school and put away my dream of becoming an actor" "It was almost like putting your hand in a flame" "I got it in slow increments… I got to develop resistance to it"

Halle Berry admits she ran and hid while her father beat her mother and sister and still carries the guilt decades later "I saw my mother abused and I saw my sister also abused by my dad but never me" "He never turned that rage toward me" "I always ran and hid" "I didn’t stand up to it where my sister stood up to it and so she got it" "I had a lot of guilt because I didn’t get beaten up I didn’t do anything to defend them" "I was too afraid and I would go in the closet"

Nicolas Cage says television saved his childhood because the people on screen were more interesting than the ones in his living room "I was all about my television" "The Zenith oval television in my living room" "I wanted to get inside that TV" "Those little people in that TV were far more interesting to me than the people in my living room" "The TV was the savior of my childhood" "It was not the calmest domestic environment"

Barbara Corcoran admits her boyfriend loaned her $1,000 to start a business then left her for the secretary and told her she would never succeed without him "He was my boyfriend at the time and he offered to loan me a thousand dollars to start a business with him" "He was my 51 percent business partner" "He ran off with my secretary the seventh year we were in business" "He said you'll never succeed without me" "Insult can really be a wonderful motivator" "I knew I was going to succeed I had to just because I had to show him that he was wrong"