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Meet Alexandra Flamm, a traveling critical care nurse who quit her staff job to provide care in COVID-19 hot spots.

Meet Nicole Abate, a medical surgical registered nurse who found strength and resilience in a time of uncertainty.

Meet Temwa Mzumara, a nurse anesthetist who pushed down fear and leaned on faith to provide care to her patients.

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June 7, 2021

‘Girl, no! I’m never doing this again’

‘Thirty didn’t matter to me. Forty didn’t matter to me. But 50? It’s getting to me because I am sore when I wake up in the middle of the night’

—ISSA RAE, on starring in any show she also writes after Insecure, to Vanity Fair

—LUKE WILSON, on aging, to People

‘I just want people to know that being in Destiny’s Child didn’t make me depressed’

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—MICHELLE WILLIAMS, about having depression since seventh grade, on Dr. Jackie’s Point of V podcast

‘My best friend happens to be Cameron Diaz. And I sent her a video of me getting dressed. And I sent it, turns out, to a 16-year-old boy named Matthew’ —DREW BARRYMORE, on accidentally sending a video to the wrong person, on The Drew Barrymore Show

‘I had to forget everything of my childhood so I could be present, because otherwise I would’ve exploded’ —KATHRYN HAHN, about working with childhood crush Rob Lowe in Parks and Recreation, on The Ellen DeGeneres Show

‘It’s “If You Leave” from the Pretty in Pink soundtrack. . . . We’re both fans of the ’80s—why not?’ —BLAKE S H E LTO N , on plans for his and Gwen Stefani’s first wedding dance song, on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon

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Dear Evan Hansen’s trailer has fans getting emotional The movie version of the heart-tugging Broadway hit (out in September) teams Tonywinning lead Ben Platt with Kaitlyn Dever.

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Angelina poses for a buzzy photo Oh, honey. In honor of World Bee Day on May 20, Jolie let honeybees swarm her for a shoot for National Geographic. “We can certainly all step in and do our part” to protect the insects, she said.

A Cher biopic will turn back time Do you believe . . . Cher’s life is coming to the big screen? The icon, who turned 75 in May, celebrated her birthday by announcing an upcoming film about her journey, to be produced by the team behind Mamma Mia!

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Sara Ramirez joins the Sex and the City sequel series The Grey’s Anatomy alum signed on for And Just Like That . . . as the franchise’s first nonbinary character, playing the host of a podcast on which Carrie (Sarah Jessica Parker) appears regularly.

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STARS ROCK THE BILLBOARD MUSIC AWARDS

Drake’s 3-year-old son Adonis made a rare public appearance when he joined the rapper to accept the Artist of the Decade Award. “I want to dedicate this to you,” he told the toddler.

He “earned it”! The Weeknd was the night’s big winner, taking home 10 trophies, including Top Artist and Top Hot 100 Song (for “Blinding Lights”).

Top Rock Artist winner Machine Gun Kelly and girlfriend Megan Fox (in Mugler) turned heads as they posed for photos on the carpet. The Jonas Brothers (Nick, Joe and Kevin) ended the show on a high note, performing their new Marshmello collaboration “Leave Before You Love Me.” June 7, 2021

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Friends Reunion

Sleepover Nightmare

Michael Douglas & Kathleen Turner

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Naomi Campbell’s baby joy and more news

Sleepover Nightmare Two teens disappeared in 1999 after a birthday celebration. Inside the investigation

Michael Douglas & Kathleen Turner

The Duke of Sussex bares heart-wrenching new details about his mental trauma and how therapy has helped: “There is no shame in this.”

The Hollywood icons get candid about their 40-year friendship

Emma Thompson & Emma Stone The stars became fast friends while filming Disney’s Cruella

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Amazing Life Transformations

Meet five people who made major changes to help themselves— and others

Heroes on Board

When a woman gave birth to a preemie in-flight, strangers jumped in to help

59 Sinéad O’Connor

The singer-songwriter opens up about finding peace after an abusive childhood.

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Elizabeth Hurley

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After posing with her kids Jameson, 4, and Willow, 10, Icon Award honoree Pink took the stage for a medley of hits, including an aerial performance of her duet “Cover Me in Sunshine” with her daughter during the May 23 Billboard Music Awards in Los Angeles.

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ELLIOT’S POOL DAY

“Trans bb’s first swim trunks #transjoy,” Elliot Page captioned a smiley May 24 selfie, which The Umbrella Academy actor shared five months after coming out as trans and undergoing top surgery.

GAGA’S BIG DAY

West Hollywood, May 23 West Hollywood mayor Lindsey P. Horvath dubbed May 23 Born This Way Day on the 10th anniversary of Lady Gaga’s iconic sophomore album.

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FROM 90 DAY FIANCÉ TO NEWLYWEDS!

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The 90 Day Fiancé: The Other Way stars Armando Rubio and Kenneth Niedermeier tied the knot in an intimate ceremony at the Mansarda winery in Mexico. “It’s been a long time coming . . . . We’re excited to finally be here,” Kenneth says.

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A SELLING SUNSET STAR’S BABY JOY

Two days after walking a red carpet, Selling Sunset star Christine Quinn and her husband, Christian Richard, welcomed their first child, Christian Georges Dumontet, on May 15 in L.A. after undergoing an emergency C-section. “I’m thrilled to be a mommy,” the luxury real estate agent says, before quoting Mean Girls: “I’m not like a regular mom—I’m a cool mom!” June 7, 2021

StarTracks

On May 23 Ben Affleck and Jennifer Lopez reunited in Miami, where the actor appeared to rewear the watch he sported in Lopez’s “Jenny from the Block” music video when they first dated.

Michael J. Fox and wife Tracy Pollan enjoyed a courtside date night when they watched the NBA playoff game between the New York Knicks and the Atlanta Hawks in New York City on May 23.

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Neil Patrick Harris and husband David Burtka had some fun in the sun during a beach day in Miami on May 21.

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On May 19 Andy Cohen reunited with his dog Wacha for a walk in N.Y.C. nearly one year after he placed the beloved beagle mix in a new home.

“Tonight’s dinner guests!” Demi Moore wrote on Instagram May 19, sharing a photo of her nine rescue dogs.

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“We take our breaks v seriously,” Queer Eye’s Antoni Porowski captioned a May 18 post of him and rescue pup Neon.

Justin Theroux, who’s in New York filming The White House Plumbers, was spotted out in the Hudson Valley walking his pit bull before hitting up a local diner on May 18.

PRINCE WILLIAM ROLLS UP HIS SLEEVE London, May 20

Prince William received his first dose of the COVID-19 vaccine. “To all those working on the vaccine rollout - thank you for everything you’ve done and continue to do,” he tweeted.

SIMONE MAKES HISTORY

Indianapolis, May 22 Simone Biles landed a Yurchenko double pike—a dangerous vault move that no female gymnast has ever performed successfully in competition—at the U.S. Classic.

SANDRA & THE CITY

New York City, May 11 Celebrity chef Sandra Lee—who recently moved to Malibu— enjoyed a sunny day during a visit back in Manhattan.

June 7, 2021

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ELLIOT’S POOL DAY

“Trans bb’s first swim trunks #transjoy,” Elliot Page captioned a smiley May 24 selfie, which The Umbrella Academy actor shared five months after coming out as trans and undergoing top surgery.

GAGA’S BIG DAY

West Hollywood, May 23 West Hollywood mayor Lindsey P. Horvath dubbed May 23 Born This Way Day on the 10th anniversary of Lady Gaga’s iconic sophomore album.

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More Secrets from the Friends Reunion Proving their chemistry together is alive and well, Friends

stars Jennifer Aniston, Courteney Cox, Lisa Kudrow, Matt LeBlanc, Matthew Perry and David Schwimmer dived right back into the world they had shared for 10 years. For two days in April, the six actors returned to meticulously re-created sets on Stage 24 on the Warner Bros. Studio lot in Burbank—all together for only the second time since the ﬁnale aired in 2004—to shoot the HBO Max special Friends: The Reunion, an unscripted celebration of the beloved series. “After the

Friends Fo r e v e r

LeBlanc was the first to greet Cox on the set and helped wipe away her tears with a napkin from Monica’s table.

initial shock of just being in the same room together, I think we all just fell right into our same old joking around,” Schwimmer, 54, said in the special. “We’re family. . . . We regressed.” Along with reveals of set secrets—like where the cast would stash their scripts and who had reallife crushes on each other—and surprise guests like Lady Gaga, Tom Selleck and Justin Bieber, the special also showcased the stars reading scenes from memorable

June 7, 2021

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Billy Porter Reveals His HIV-Positive Diagnosis

For Billy Porter the past year has been all about embracing his truth. “COVID created a safe space for me to Flipping the stop and reflect and deal with the Script trauma in my life,” the Emmy“This is what HIV winning Pose star told The positive looks like Hollywood Reporter, revealing for now,” said Porter, who plays an HIVthe first time that he is HIV positive character positive. After being diagnosed in on Pose (the 2007—which he called “the worst series finale airs year of my life”—Porter kept his June 6 on FX). status a secret. “The shame of that time compounded with the shame that had already [accumulated] in my

He and husband Adam Smith “are in a mixed-status relationship.”

life silenced me,” he said. For a long time “everybody who needed to know knew” about his diagnosis, he said—except his mother, whom he told recently. Now he’s ready to share his story to change people’s perception about what it means to live with HIV. “I’m the healthiest I’ve been in my entire life,” said Porter, 51, who takes medication and says the virus is “completely undetectable” in his blood. “I am so much more than that diagnosis.” — B R I A N N E T R A C Y

Kim Fields Returns to TV!

June 7, 2021

be able to find something new,” Fields, 52, says of starring in Netflix’s The Upshaws (streaming now) with Wanda Sykes and Mike Epps. “There’s this wonderful sense of adventure that I’m realizing was always there.” Next, Fields will direct and executive produce the dramedy Vicious for UrbanflixTV with a producing team of all Black women. “It’s all about going into uncharted waters right now,” she says. “Life is a trip.”

Looking Ahead

“This year I am showing up present, eyes wide open to take every moment in,” says Fields.

—CHRISTINA DUGAN

2021 The Upshaws

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Kim Fields has been in the spotlight for more than 40 years, but she’s not slowing down. From playing Dorothy “Tootie” Ramsey on the NBC sitcom The Facts of Life (19791988) to sharing the screen with Queen Latifah on Fox’s Living Single (1993-1998), Fields grew up onscreen. “It was a different type of coming-of-age,” she says of working on the trailblazing shows. “You don’t realize, ‘This show is groundbreaking.’ You’re just grateful to show up to a job. I certainly didn’t think that it was as monumental as it would go on to become.” After a stint on Bravo’s Real Housewives of Atlanta in 2015, the actress and director— mom to sons Sebastian, 14, and Quincy, 7, with her husband, actor Christopher Morgan, 45—is back in a TV comedy. “It’s really exciting to

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The retired Olympic skier, 36, is dating Osorio, the founder of tequila brand Lobos 1707. Says a source: “It’s new, and they’re enjoying getting to know each other.”

In the new issue of GQ, the rapper, 32, called the singer and beauty mogul, 33, “the love of my life,” adding: “When you know, you know. She’s the one.” A source confirmed in November that the longtime friends were dating.

New Couple

A n y a Ta y l o r -J o y & Malcolm McRae

Heating Up

D a n i c a Pa t r i c k & C a r t e r C o m s t o c k After splitting from NFL pro Aaron Rodgers last year, the former race car driver, 39, has moved on with Comstock, a cofounder of meal delivery service Freshly. They’ve vacationed in Cabo and posted photos kissing during a workout.

The Queen’s Gambit actress, 25, appears to have a new man in her life. On May 17 she was spotted kissing and holding hands with musician McRae, 27, a few days before her Saturday Night Live hosting debut.

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Naomi Campbell’s Baby Joy! From supermodel to supermom: On May 18 Naomi Campbell revealed she is now the mother of a baby girl. “A beautiful New Blessing little blessing has Campbell called chosen me to be herself “blessed her mother. So and grateful” as she honoured to have celebrated her 51st birthday four days this gentle soul in after announcing my life,” wrote she is a mom. Campbell, 51, One of the posting an Instagram photo of herself cradling original ’90s supermodels, the London-born Campbell the baby’s feet. “There are no (who hasn’t revealed details words to describe the lifelong bond that I now share with you about how she welcomed her child) is “more mature” than my angel. There is no greater in the early years of her career, love.” Campbell has had says a modeling source. “She motherhood on her mind for is still busy but fully ready to a while. “She’s wanted a baby take on the responsibility.” for a long time, more than Now, as she settles into her 10 years,” says a source. new life as a mom, Campbell “And anyone who’s surprised feels “happy and fulfilled on Naomi is having a baby on every level,” a modeling source her own, her own way, and on says. “She waited until the time her own timetable doesn’t in her life that was right.” know Naomi Campbell. —DANA ROSE FALCONE Hasn’t she redefined everywith Linda Marx thing she’s ever touched?”

‘SHE WAS ABLE TO ADD SOMETHING TO HER AMAZING LIFE THAT SHE HAS ALWAYS WANTED’ —A MODELING SOURCE

David Duchovny’s New Passion

The actor and author—whose fifth literary venture, the Audible Original audio story The Reservoir, premieres May 27—chats about his past year, including a reunion with his former X-Files costar. What were the silver linings of quarantine for you? My son [Miller, 18, with ex-wife Téa Creative Leoni; they also share daughter Callings West, 22] was with me 24/7. We Duchovny, 60, is weren’t really on each other’s nerves also a musician: He’ll too much. He plays the guitar, and release his third he’s really good. I’m mediocre—not album, Gestureland, this year. “There’s a bunch of stuff I still want to do,” he says.

good enough to play with him! What inspired The Reservoir? I thought about what it would be like if I saw someone from my window who was in trouble and trying to communicate by flashing their lights. It’s a little bit like Rear Window in the pandemic. Your reunion with Gillian Anderson went viral on Instagram. Were you surprised? We were just having lunch and I had no idea that would happen. But it is cool that people are so interested in that show after all these years! — A I L I N A H A S

June 7, 2021

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Billy Porter Reveals His HIV-Positive Diagnosis

He and husband Adam Smith “are in a mixed-status relationship.”

Kim Fields Returns to TV!

June 7, 2021

Looking Ahead

“This year I am showing up present, eyes wide open to take every moment in,” says Fields.

—CHRISTINA DUGAN

2021 The Upshaws

1993 Living Single

then ! w o n &

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Scoop Husbandand-Wife Hitmakers

“Emily and I are still processing the response to the first movie,” says Krasinski (directing Blunt in A Quiet Place Part II).

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John Krasinski on Family, His New Film & Finding Inspiration John Krasinski is back in the director’s chair and ready to give fans another fright with A Quiet Place Part II, the sequel to his 2018 blockbuster. In theaters May 28, the film—which stars his wife, Emily Blunt, 38, as a mom trying to protect her kids from bloodthirsty aliens—was delayed for 14 months due to the pandemic. (See review, page 32.) “It was bizarre for sure,” Krasinski, 41, says of the wait. “We had already had the premiere and everything. But it was the right thing to do.” How is the sequel different from the first film? I wasn’t going to do a sequel. I didn’t think I could do anything as personal as the first one because that was a love letter to my kids. What I realized is this movie gets to be so much bigger

because the family has to leave the farm. Every step could be your last. The steel mill was one of my favorite sets. My dad is from Pittsburgh, so he used to work in a steel mill. His dad worked in a steel mill. So I wanted to do an ode to my dad and grandfather. When will you let your kids (Hazel, 7, and Violet, 4) watch it? Emily says our movie is PG-40 in our house. You can be

40 when you watch this movie. So what’s next on your agenda? Believe it or not, I wrote my next script. It’s a pretty wild idea. I’ll shoot it next spring. It’s not scary, that I can tell you. During the pandemic, you lifted everyone’s spirits with your Some Good News Web series. How did that come about? It was ‘IF THE FIRST Emily. I had thought MOVIE IS ABOUT of this idea five or six A PROMISE TO years ago and was YOUR KIDS, trying to figure out THE SECOND IS the best format to ABOUT WHEN THAT PROMISE IS do it. Then on the BROKEN’ night that we all realized that the lockdown was going to be for a long, extended period, Emily sat me down at the table after we put our kids down, and she said, “I need you to find something to do. You have a weird look in your eye. So you need to figure out something to do because I don’t think you’re going to make it.” And I thought I might as well just shoot it myself and do the whole thing. And it was born from that. Despite the pandemic, you seem to be doing well. Emily and I have conversations with our kids—they’re just now realizing what a job really is— and I said, “The only thing you should be aiming for is that whatever you love, make it the thing you do.” I’m in that position right now, and I’m Krasinski having so much and wife fun. — M A R Y Emily Blunt in 2019.

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passages Jazz Charton, are expecting

their second child. The two welcomed their daughter Kinsey Sioux in September 2019. Riverdale actor KJ Apa, 23, is expecting his ﬁrst child with model Clara Berry, 27.

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Babies

Princess Beatrice, 32, Queen

Elizabeth’s granddaughter, is expecting her ﬁrst child with husband Edoardo Mapelli Mozzi. Mapelli Mozzi also has a young son, Christopher Woolf, from a previous relationship. Singer Jason Derulo, 31, welcomed his ﬁrst child, son Jason King, with his model girlfriend Jena Frumes. Actor Kieran Culkin, 38, and his wife,

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Engaged

Country singer Brooke Eden, 32, and promotions representative Hilary Hoover, 31, are engaged after mutual proposals. The two have been together for ﬁve years. “We haven’t stopped beaming,” says Eden.

Court

That ’70’s Show actor Danny Masterson, 45, must stand trial on three counts of rape after his accusers testiﬁed in a preliminary hearing, a Los Angeles judge ruled. Masterson was charged last June with raping three women in separate incidents occurring between 2001 and 2003.

He pleaded not guilty to the charges against him.

Deaths

Comedian Paul Mooney died at 79 after suffering a heart attack at his Oakland home. The stand-up comic was known in part for his writing contributions on shows like Sanford and Son, Chappelle’s Show, Saturday Night Live and The Richard Pryor Show. The Office actor Marcus A. York died on May 19 at Miami

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Happy Birthday! Heidi Klum, 48 June 1, 1973 Awkwafina, 33 June 2, 1988 Liam Neeson, 69 June 7, 1952

Valley Hospital in Ohio following a brief and unexpected illness. He was 55. York, a paraplegic since 1988, played Billy Merchant on the show and also appeared on CSI: NY and 8 Simple Rules. By ALE RUSSIAN

Darryl ‘DMC’ McDaniels After discovering he was adopted, the rapper, 57, started an organization to help support adoption and foster children

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At the age of 35, I learned I was adopted. It was a traumatic, STORIES ABOUT shocking and confusing revelation for me. At the time I told my GIVING BACK agent what I was going through, and he suggested I meet with [casting director] Sheila Jaffe, who was also adopted. When we met, we talked about how we felt, and I didn’t feel alone anymore. We decided to help others, and 15 years ago started Camp Felix—a camp where we give foster kids opportunities to be empowered and educated. Some of the kids only know the concrete streets of a neighborhood they grew up in, so they get to have the whole camp experience. The Felix Organization also supports foster care youth through programs like our Secret Santa gift-card drive, which gives funds to kids during the holidays, and our Felix Friendship Circle, which provides year-round group outings. The organization, which is located in Los Angeles and New York City, has served more than 12,600 kids, and we have plans to expand and take it to an even more amazing level. —Reported by ALYSSA JOHNSON For more information, go to thefelixorganization.org

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DMC at Camp Felix in Putnam Valley, N.Y., in 2014.

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CHARLES GRODIN | 1935-2021

Farewell to a Comedy Legend

The beloved comedian’s comedian died after decades of funny films By GILLIAN TELLING

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When versatile actor and comedian Charles

Grodin died of bone marrow cancer on May 18 at age 86, some of Hollywood’s most revered comedians immediately paid their respects. “One of the funniest people I ever met,” tweeted Steve Martin. Eugene Levy said, “His performance in Elaine May’s Heartbreak Kid was a masterclass in comedic acting.” Albert Brooks called him “brilliant.” The star of ﬁlms like Beethoven and The Great Muppet Caper, Grodin was often cast as the uptight sidekick character—and when doing the talk show rounds, he’d keep up his cantankerous facade, engaging in fake feuds with people like Johnny Carson and David Letterman. (He was a guest on Carson’s Tonight Show 36 times.) But in reality the father to actor Nicholas and comedian Marion was a softie. “Never meanspirited,” tweeted Kathy Griffin. “Just quick and brilliant.” He was also a passionate activist, working for the Innocence Project to exonerate the wrongly convicted and for several organizations that helped the homeless. Born and raised in Pittsburgh, Grodin got his big break when he played a doctor in 1968’s Rosemary’s Baby, but it wasn’t until his leading role opposite Cybill Shepherd in The Heartbreak Kid that he became a household name. In

Loving Husband

After divorcing first wife Julie Ferguson, Grodin married writer Elissa Durwood (above) in 1983.

the mid-’90s he took a break from acting to host The Charles Grodin Show on CNBC, and in the early 2000s he became a political commentator on 60 Minutes II. In the years before his death, he returned to the screen—most recently in ABC’s Bernie Madoff miniseries Madoff. Despite initially being trained as a dramatic actor, he always leaned toward the funny. Of his approach to comedy, he once told NPR, “I just basically try to be alive in a situation. And I’m not really wanting to do jokes. Most of the humor that comes out of me has nothing to do with a funny line. It has to do with just being there.”

Grodin’s Greatest Onscreen Roles

The Heartbreak Kid, 1972 Grodin (with Cybill Shepherd) played the shallow Lenny, who falls for another woman while on his honeymoon.

T h e G r e a t M u p p e t C a p e r, 1 9 8 1 Grodin played the brother to socialite Diana Rigg (above) in the jewel heist comedy—and falls in love with Miss Piggy.

Midnight Run, 1988

In the Mob comedy Grodin played an accountant on the run and Robert De Niro a bounty hunter tasked with transporting him.

Beethoven, 1992

In the fan favorite Grodin played a workaholic father whose family life is upended by their new pet. June 7, 2021

This rescue pup has a smile that lights up the Internet LOS ANGELES

Known as the Queen of Belly Rubs to her fans, Shortcake “lives a life of leisure,” says Matsushima (below right).

A smile may be worth a thousand words—but for Shortcake, a 6-yearold pit bull with a permanent grin, it’s meant so much more. Five years ago Shortcake was taken in by the Fresno Bully Rescue after she was found wandering the streets with a severe case of mange—and an irresistible smile. Amy Matsushima, a creative director in advertising, saw her photo on the rescue’s website and fell in love. “I saw that she was special and knew I wanted to meet her,” says Matsushima. Now the 40-lb. Shortcake has not only a forever home but also a flourishing Instagram account with 600,000 followers (@theladyshortcake). “She loves going to daycare and playing with her besties, and she loves to cuddle,” says Matsushima, who celebrated Shortcake’s Gotcha Day anniversary on May 14. “She’s brought a lot of awareness to the amazing pets at shelters and rescues. People come to her page to smile, and I love that she makes them happy.”

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Kids do the darndest things. Just ask Jennifer Bryant, 37, whose 4-year-old son Noah got hold of her computer last month and ordered 51 boxes of SpongeBob Popsicles from Amazon—for a whopping $2,619.85. “That’s over 900 Popsicles!” says Bryant, a student at NYU’s Silver School of Social Work. “I still can’t believe it.” The boxes couldn’t be returned, and Bryant couldn’t afford to pay for them. That’s when her classmate Katie Schloss, 33, set up a GoFundMe. Within 24 hours the Popsicles were paid for—and the fund has since raised nearly $25,000, which will go toward sending Noah, who has autism, to a private kindergarten this fall. “I’m at a loss for words,” says Bryant. “There are still good people in the world.” Have a story that makes you smile? Send suggestions to storiestomakeyousmile@people.com

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Emma Stone is spot-on as a villainess-to-be FAMILY Cruella de Vil, the vile fashionista who dominated 1961’s animated 101 Dalmatians and every reboot ever since, is one of the sicker Disney villainesses. She’d love nothing better than a coat made of black-and-white puppy pelts to match her black-and-white hair. This version, starring Emma Stone and set in 1970s London, gives Cruella the same makeover that Sleeping Beauty’s nemesis got in Angelina Jolie’s Maleficent (2014)—it’s a deep dive into the trauma that warped her personality, ending with a tilt toward redemption. Emotionally, this makes for sometimes-dark family entertainment, although Cruella is definitely buoyed by cute dogs, a smashing period soundtrack and

eye-popping gowns (at times the movie feels like Phantom Thread for kids). Young Cruella, christened Estella and orphaned, eventually rises to become a staff designer in the couture house of the Baroness (Emma Thompson), a Disney villainess so vicious she Tasers the help: Estella’s transformation into Cruella, a revenge-seeking, nearly militant voguer who outdoes both Madonna and Lady Gaga, is fundamentally a matter of fighting fire with fire. Stone and Thompson, both terrific, play their roles with humor, a fair amount of camp and, near the end, a tortured realism that nudges the movie toward primal psychodrama. (Launches May 28; also in theaters, PG-13)

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HORROR Set for a March 2020 release before being sidelined by the pandemic, this sequel to John Krasinski’s 2018 hit is louder and busier—more monsters! More humans! More foolhardy day trips!—but audiences wanting the release of a scream will be happy. The Abbotts, now minus a father but with the addition of an occasionally fussy baby, ﬁnd a new sanctuary, but it comes with its own nightmarish perils. Krasinski directs with impressive conﬁdence and command. (In theaters May 28, PG-13)

Q&A Katie Stevens

The actress, 28, plays magazine writer Jane Sloan on Freeform’s The Bold Type, back for a fifth, final season May 26 at 10 p.m. Will this all end with the fun, romantic fulfillment fans crave? Everybody loves a happy ending, and I think we have that. We wrap it up in a good way for Jane.

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DOCUSERIES Hosted by food writer Stephen Satterﬁeld and based on Jessica B. Harris’s book, this vibrant show comes with the explanatory subtitle How African American Cuisine Transformed America. Satterﬁeld starts out in Benin in West Africa, in a market heaped with okra, then sets off on an important mission of culinary discovery. (Streaming now)

The Off-Season

RAP Moments into his superb new album, J. Cole slams the bloated “30-song” projects that have become commonplace in hip-hop. Off-Season makes a compelling case for brevity, as Cole ﬁlls 12 thumping, soulful tracks with nimble, dense verses— all without cracking the 40-minute mark. (Available now)

Dee (left), Fahy and Stevens.

Did you and costars Meghann Fahy and Aisha Dee grow even closer as friends this season? After work we would order takeout and watch The Hills. We’re going to be like Courteney Cox, Jennifer Aniston and Lisa Kudrow— friends forever! What’s next for you? I’d love to write music, sing more and do more films. Everything great that comes my way has been unexpected. —MELODY CHIU

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COMEDY-DRAMA For Jan (Toni Collette), a middle-aged woman working in a dreary supermarket in Wales, life has lost its kick. “I need something to look forward to when I get up in the morning,” she says, “to remind me that things can change.” She gets her wish with a racehorse named Dream Alliance, which she trains with the ﬁnancial backing of friends, neighbors and a dogged horse fancier named Howard (Damien Lewis). Nothing happens at a gallop in Dream (based on a true story)— it’s a pleasing, well-acted little movie that takes its time. (In theaters, PG)

HBO | Oslo

DRAMA In this polished ﬁlm based on a true story, The Affair’s Ruth Wilson and Fleabag’s Andrew Scott are Mona Juul and Terje Rød-Larsen, a Norwegian couple helping to orchestrate back-channel peace negotiations between Israel and Palestine in the early 1990s. It’s lamentably timely, to say the least. (May 29, 8 p.m.)

NETFLIX | Master of None

Toni Collette is off to the races.

COMEDY Apart from a few scenes, Aziz Ansari is absent from the third season of his Netﬂix hit—the focus is on costar (and cowriter) Lena Waithe. As Denise, she endures the ups and downs of a relationship with Alicia (Naomi Ackie, who’s fantastic). The tone is often mutely rueful. Episode 4, though, will have you crying. (Streaming now)

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The South African actress, 29, plays an enslaved woman journeying toward freedom on the Amazon series, her first American show. She’ll next star with Viola Davis in The Woman King. “I need to go back to the drawing board and dream bigger,” she says, “because obviously dreams come true.” — C H R I S T I N A D U G A N

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Michael Pollan This Is Your Mind on Plants The author of How to Change Your Mind turns his attentions to three consciousness-altering drugs—opium, mescaline and caffeine (yes, it’s a drug)—in this eye-opening exploration. Brian Broome Punch Me Up to the Gods Growing up poor, Black and gay in small-town Ohio, Broome was despised by whites, some Blacks and even his father, who thought there was only one way to be a man. His memoir is a triumph. Michelle Zauner Crying in H Mart A daughter’s poignant memoir about losing her mother, filtered through the prisms of their Korean American heritage and the love they shared for the cuisine of home. Catherine Raven Fox & I A woman accustomed to solitude forms something that feels like friendship with a mangy fox who keeps showing up outside her Montana home. And this was pre-pandemic! Quirky and moving. Katherine Dykstra What Happened to Paula Investigating the never-solved murder of a young woman in 1970, the author uncovers intriguing truths about her family, her segregated community and the limits on female autonomy.

Fiction Stacey Swann Olympus, Texas A gorgeous debut that conjures one small town and the big emotions of its wealthiest family, the Briscoes, whose saga plays out over six days of pain, rage and love. Diane Johnson Lorna Mott Comes Home After leaving her French husband, Lorna Mott is eager to return to the vibrant San Francisco life she remembers. But things have changed. Can this woman of a certain age change too? Taylor Jenkins Reid Malibu Rising High drama at the beach, starring four sexy, surfing siblings and their deadbeat, famous-crooner dad. It’s like the 1983 Sports Illustrated swimsuit issue came to life, but with a plot. Irresistible. Honorée Fanonne Jeffers The Love Songs of W.E.B. Du Bois Raised in the North, Ailey spends summers in Georgia, unearthing stories of her Black, white and Indigenous ancestors that will profoundly shape the course of her life. Stunning. Elin Hilderbrand Golden Girl Nantucket’s summer shatters when local darling Vivian Howe is killed. Will her murderer be found? Will her deepest secret be exposed? This is beach-book-queen Hilderbrand at her best.

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Kids & Teens S.K. Ali Misfit in Love An elaborate Muslim wedding—katb el-kitab—is the elegant backdrop for a teen’s soul-searching about love, sexism and racism within her own community. (14 and up) Ben Street and Jay Daniel Wright How to Be an Art Rebel A hip cat narrates this playful, irreverent guide to all types of fine art—sculpture, surrealism, selfies (formally called portraiture). Museums, here we come! (6-8) Maureen Johnson The Box in the Woods Teen sleuth Stevie Bell is hired to solve a gruesome, decadesold murder mystery at summer camp. Bugs, romance and near misses with death follow. (14-17) Sarah Kuhn From Little Tokyo, with Love A contemporary fairy tale starring a Japanese American teen raised in L.A. by bossy relatives who becomes convinced that a Hollywood starlet is her long-lost mother. (14-17) Laura Amy Schlitz Amber & Clay Two powerless kids in ancient Greece—the daughter of an aristocrat and the son of a slave—transcend their circumstances in this masterful blend of history and mythology. (10-14)

Mystery & Thriller Mary Dixie Carter The Photographer Photographer Delta Dawn is one disturbing woman, especially when she inserts herself into a wealthy Manhattan family. A breathless psychological thriller about epic mind games.

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Jonathan Santlofer The Last Mona Lisa After a journal surfaces in Florence, a professor obsessed with his great-grandfather’s 1911 heist of the Mona Lisa is in hot pursuit—along with assassins and ruthless art dealers. Zakiya Dalila Harris The Other Black Girl Funny and subversive, this debut about the trials of a Black assistant at a mostly white publishing house uses suspense, horror and satire to bring home the toll of workplace racism. Katherine St. John The Siren A star bankrolls a film on a hurricane-prone island with his fractured family and some shady characters. Good idea? A sudsy, savvy takedown of the Hollywood dream machine. Paula Hawkins A Slow Fire Burning The Girl on the Train author returns with a dark, intricate tale of three women tied to a bloody murder on a London houseboat. You’ll be gobsmacked by the end.

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I NEEDED to HEAL MYSELF FROM the PAST IN A REMARKABLE NEW DOCUSERIES, THE PRINCE B A R E S N E V E R- B E F O R E - K N O W N D E TA I L S O F HIS ANGUISH AND ANGER OVER HIS MOTHER’S D E AT H — M A D E W O R S E , H E S AY S , B Y H I S FAT H E R ’ S ‘ N E G L E C T ’ — A N D H O W H E F I N A L LY F O U N D P E A C E By S A N D R A S O B I E R A J W E S T F A L L

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‘There Is No Shame in This’ Harry (taping The Me You Can’t See) says mental health issues are “not what’s wrong with you but what’s happened to you.”

For years a single dark memory—“always the same one, over and over again”—haunted Prince Harry whenever he thought of his late mother, Diana.

“Strapped in the car, seat belt across, my brother in the car as well. And my mother driving and being chased by three, four, five mopeds with paparazzi on,” he recalls. “She was almost unable to drive because of the tears, and there was no protection.” So vivid is the mental snapshot that the feelings of that little boy in the back seat—of being hunted and helpless—come rushing back every time. “Always there’s the helplessness,” says Harry, “being a guy, too young to be able to help a woman—in this case, your mother.” The harrowing, heart-wrenching scene—not unlike the one the night Diana was killed in a Paris car wreck in 1997—lies at the heart of Harry’s newest and most revealing push to break the stigma surrounding mental illness: an intimate docuseries coproduced with Oprah Winfrey (see box, page 43) called The Me You Can’t See. Defying the stiff-upper-lip code of the royal life that he and his wife, Meghan, so famously quit last year, the Duke of Sussex, 36, bares for the first time the “invisible injury”—severe anxiety, crippling panic attacks, drug use—of the traumatized young man the world saw only through his ﬁshbowl public life: the 12-year-old boy walking solemnly behind his mother’s casket; the 27-yearold man partying drunk and naked in Las Vegas; the dutiful royal smiling through ribbon cuttings. “It was like head-in-thesand and just crack on. . . . But I was all over the place mentally,” Harry tells Winfrey in the ﬁve-part series. Now building his own family with Meghan on the California coast, some 5,500 miles from Buckingham Palace, the Queen’s grandson blames much of his unresolved trauma on the fact that he and other members of the family never really talked about his mother’s death, and that his father, Prince Charles, taught him and William that suffering in silence comes

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A Painful Childhood Life on Display

Harry (with his parents in 1986) has compared his childhood to The Truman Show: “I always wanted to be normal. As opposed to being Prince Harry, just being Harry.”

Stalked

Princess Diana (with William and Harry in 1993) faced a scrum of photographers whenever she left the palace. “That happened every single day until the day she died,” says Harry.

Paralyzing Grief

At his mother’s 1997 funeral, “I’m just walking along and doing what was expected of me,” said Harry (with Prince Philip, William, Charles Spencer and Prince Charles).

with the job of being a royal. “It’s my responsibility,” Harry says, “my duty, to break that cycle.” But Harry’s confessional in the series for Apple TV+ comes at a delicate moment for the royal family: just weeks after Harry and Meghan sat down for a tell-all interview with Winfrey in which the Duchess of Sussex accused unnamed members of the royal family of racism, and at a time when Charles, 72, seemed to be taking a more prominent role alongside his mother, Queen Elizabeth, 95, in the wake of the death of Prince Philip on April 9. It also coincided with an independent investigation’s findings on May 20 that BBC staff used fake documents to trick Princess Diana into a revealing—and damaging to the royal family—1995 interview (see box). After the findings were released, William and Harry issued separate statements, underscoring, says one close royal insider, “the breakage” in the family over Harry’s outspokenness: “They are brothers. They should come together to speak about their mother.” It was all too much royal drama for some, with one British tabloid knocking Harry as “the Prince of Pain.” Says one royal insider: “This is just another thing the Queen doesn’t need. And it’s grossly unfair of Harry. To continue to target your family leaves little room for reconciliation.” But British journalist and mental health advocate Bryony Gordon counters that Harry is undertaking “an important form of duty” by breaking the shame barrier around mental illness. “This is a man who, at the age of 12, was sent out to walk behind his mother’s coffin and console the masses outside Kensington Palace,” she says. “I just don’t understand why we’re now angry with him that that might have affected him.” Whatever the blowback, Harry is not cowed, telling Winfrey, “I will never be bullied into silence.”

It is through psychotherapy—now

almost five years’ worth—that Harry has ﬁnally processed some of the most indelible and painful

‘I’m on my way to having healed those younger years’ —PRINCE HARRY

Breaking Point

Meghan, six months pregnant and struggling with tabloid attacks, confessed suicidal thoughts to Harry before this work event at Royal Albert Hall in January 2019. He recalls, “The lights go down, and Meghan starts crying. I’m feeling sorry for her but also really angry that we’re stuck in this situation.”

milestones of his upbringing. When he looks back at his mother’s funeral procession past throngs of sobbing mourners, “the thing I remember most is the sound of the horses’ hooves going along the Mall,” delivering Diana’s casket to Westminster Abbey, Harry says. “It was like I was outside of my body.” His father, brother, uncle and grandfather stood at his side that day, but whatever pain any of them felt, “no one was talking about it,” Harry says.

‘A Culture of Exploitation’ Diana spoke on-air (in 1995) after Bashir falsely convinced her, via her brother, that staff was spying on her.

An independent inquiry by judge Lord Dyson into the making of Princess Diana’s bombshell 1995 interview with the BBC’s Martin Bashir for Panorama ruled on May 20 that “deceitful behavior”—namely, fake documents—were used to help win her trust and that BBC executives covered it up. Prince William (inset), who was 13 when Diana’s interview was the final torpedo to his parents’ marriage, launched an explosive attack, saying the BBC’s trickery “contributed significantly to her fear, paranoia and isolation that I remember from those final years with her.” Separately, Harry said, “The ripple effect of a culture of exploitation and unethical practices ultimately took her life.”

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Thereafter, whenever he left the U.K., he experienced anxiety on the return ﬂights. “London is a trigger,” he says now. “Knowing what I was going to be confronted with and knowing what I couldn’t get away from.” And behind every public appearance were desperate, red-faced and sweaty panic attacks that left him feeling embarrassed. “I was willing to drink, take drugs, try and do the things that made me feel less like I was feeling,” Harry says now. “[Age] 28 to probably 32 was a nightmare time in my life—freaking out.” He describes being exploited “to the point of exhaustion” by the family business—“like, ‘We need somebody to go there, Nepal. Harry, you go!’ ”—and how it “led to burnout, and it was like someone had taken a lid off all of the emotions that I’ve suppressed for so many years.”

Meghan, whom Harry met on a 2016 blind date,

Prince Harry in an EMDR session.

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The couple (with Archie in March and, inset, in the series) left royal life to prioritize their mental health, says Harry, adding that he regrets not confronting sooner the racism Meghan faced: “My mother was chased to her death while in a relationship with someone that wasn’t white.”

“I thought my family would help. But every single ask, request, warning, whatever, just got met with total silence, total neglect.” He revisits with searing emotion the story Meghan, 39, told in March about the day in January 2019 when she conﬁded to Harry that she was contemplating suicide. “I’m somewhat ashamed

What Is EMDR? In The Me You Can’t See, Prince Harry participates in an EMDR (eye movement desensitization and reprocessing) therapy session, in which patients use bilateral stimulation, such as side-to-side eye movement or rhythmic tapping on the arms, to help process traumatic memories. The idea is that the bilateral stimulation allows the person to recall the trauma without becoming overwhelmed by the distressing emotions associated with it. “The goal is for the memory to desensitize,” says Dr. Roger Solomon, program director at the EMDR Institute in Watsonville, Calif. Patients are also asked to describe moments of calm while doing the movement. “We take that positive memory and pair it with the traumatic memory,” says Solomon. “The bilateral stimulation links the two.”

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came into his life—with a wide-open perspective on mental health—just in time. She told him, after an argument early on, that he needed professional help—to, as he puts it, “heal myself from the past.” “I knew that if I didn’t do therapy and ﬁx myself, I was going to lose this woman who I could see spending the rest of my life with,” Harry says. But he was powerless to ﬁx either the family— the royal institution—that ran their lives or the rabid tabloid media. Breathlessly, Harry recounts the couple’s life in the royal spotlight: “Followed, photographed, chased, harassed. The clicking of cameras . . . makes my blood boil and takes me back to what happened to my mom.” Again feeling the helplessness from his childhood, he says,

‘ I D i d n ’ t Wa n t History to Repeat Itself ’

‘They’ve said their piece. That’s it. They’re moving on’

of the way that I dealt with [it],” Harry says. “We had a quick cuddle, and then we had to get changed to jump in a convoy with a police escort to the Royal Albert Hall for a charity event. There wasn’t an option to say, ‘Tonight we’re not going to go.’ ”

—DEAN STOTT, FRIEND OF HARRY & MEGHAN’S

As Harry and Meghan build a life

for themselves, son Archie, 2, and his future baby sister in Montecito, Calif., theirs is a world of backyard tree swings and playtime on the ruggedly picturesque Pacific Coast beaches. Harry keeps a photo of Diana in Archie’s nursery and says one of Archie’s ﬁrst words was “grandma.” “Grandma Diana. It’s the sweetest thing,” Harry says. “But at the same time, it makes me really sad. She should be here.” What kind of father he will be is shaped as much by Diana’s example as by what he unapologetically sees as the mistakes Charles made by not questioning the darker sides of royal life. “My father, when I was younger, he used to say to both William and me, ‘Well, it was like that for me. So it’s going to be like that for you.’ That doesn’t make sense!” Harry says. “If you suffered, do everything you can to make it right for your kids.” (A close royal insider says of Charles, who has not commented on Harry’s interview, “Be angry at him, but don’t tell us. Tell him. Give [Charles] the chance to put it right.”) In the end, Harry says, he bared his scars so that others who are struggling can see “there is no shame” to mental illness. “The world is a better place for what Harry has done,” royal historian Robert Lacey agrees. “But this is another blow for the British crown and royal family.” Whatever the future holds for those institutions, Harry says he has tried to speak his truth with compassion— “therefore leaving an opening for reconciliation and healing.” But now that he is free, he is “solely focused” on the family he’s created with Meghan and a contentment he never dreamed possible. The panic attacks are gone. EMDR therapy (see box) has eased his anxiety. And thoughts of Diana now bear less the darkness of how she was taken from him and more the light of her legacy. “She’s helped me get here, and I’ve never felt her presence more,” Harry says. “I’m living the life that she wanted to live for herself, living the life that she wanted us to be able to live.” With reporting by SIMON PERRY

“Being able to say ‘This happened to me’ is crucial to healing,” says Winfrey.

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OPRAH WINFREY

LADY GAGA

At age 6, Winfrey went to live with her mom in Milwaukee. Her mother’s landlord was a light-skinned Black woman who took an instant dislike to Winfrey because of her dark skin and forced her to sleep on the porch. “That first night, she wouldn’t let me come in the house,” Winfrey recalls in the series. “And my mother . . . did not stand up for me. In that instant, I knew I was alone.” Winfrey also discusses the trauma of being repeatedly raped by a cousin beginning when she was 9 (“It’s just something I accepted—that a girl child ain’t safe in a world full of men”) and how she found solace at school. “My teachers saved me,” she says. “That’s the only place I ever really felt loved.”

When the singer was 19, a record producer threatened to burn her music unless she took off her clothes. “They didn’t stop asking me, and then I just froze, and I just . . . I don’t even remember,” Gaga says in the series. The rape that followed further traumatized the teen, who had already begun cutting herself as a way to deal with pain. “I had a total psychotic break,” she says. “And for a couple years I was not the same girl.” Years later, while hospitalized for chronic pain, she met a psychiatrist who helped her see the connection between her ongoing pain and the rape. Healing remains a process. “Everybody thinks it’s a straight line—that you get sick, and then you get cured. It’s not like that.”

A childhood of abuse

A rape at 19

Cutting herself, says Gaga, “came from a place of ‘I need to show the hurt.’ ”

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FRIENDS UNTIL THE END Ashley Freeman and Lauria Bible (from left) were abducted from the Freeman home as it was set ablaze.

Two Teen Girls Abducted

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THREE SUSPECTS, ONE INCARCERATION

Investigators allege (from left) Phil Welch, Ronnie Busick and David Pennington were present at the Freeman murders and the kidnapping of the teens. Busick is serving a 10-year sentence; the others died before being charged.

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est friends since grade school, Lauria Bible and Ashley Freeman were always inseparable. Even after Ashley’s family moved 13 miles away from Lauria’s neighborhood in rural Craig County, Okla., the two spent as much time together as possible. They shared a love of sports and the outdoors: Lauria was a school cheerleader and raised pigs and lambs for livestock shows; Ashley, a star athlete who also enjoyed hunting and ﬁshing. So when Ashley turned 16 on Dec. 29, 1999, she and Lauria, who’d marked the same milestone eight months earlier, naturally wanted to celebrate together, with cake and a sleepover at Ashley’s. “Lauria didn’t go there very often, but it was Ashley’s birthday, and she wanted Lauria to come to her house,” says Lauria’s mom, Lorene. “You’d never think something was going to happen.” But something did. The next morning, Lorene

got a call from her son Brad, then 18, telling her of a fire at the Freeman home. Unable to reach the Freemans or her daughter, Lorene raced there herself to find the home in ashes. The bodies of Ashley’s parents, Kathy and Danny, were found in the rubble; both had been fatally shot before a fire was intentionally set. What investigators didn’t find was any trace of Lauria or Ashley. For the next 19 years, Lorene held out hope for answers about her daughter, even keeping up the family Christmas tree that Lauria had decorated. “People would give us angels and things to hang on it,” she says. Some of those answers finally came in July 2020, when Ronnie Busick, now 69, pleaded

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A Scary Night with Prince

The spotlight, it turned out, didn’t suit her. “I went through severe child abuse; that is an identity crisis. Fame is also an identity crisis,” she explains. “Then the demands from the industry that I not be myself, that I grow my hair out—I just felt like a square peg in a round hole.” Her 1992 SNL protest helped solve that problem. “I was aware there would be backlash,” she says. “There were a lot of record-company people whose idea for my career got derailed by it. They wanted me to be a pop star. I wasn’t a pop star.” Despite fallout from the controversy, she felt a new sense of freedom to make music and tour on her own terms; however, none of O’Connor’s seven albums after the SNL stunt found mainstream success in the U.S. She says she has worked not to chase fame but to support her four children from four now-ended relationships: Jake, 33, a chef; Roisin, 25, a pastry chef; and Shane, 17, and Yeshua, 14, who are still in school and live with their fathers. She has also worked on her mental health. Diagnosed with bipolar disorder as well as complex post-traumatic stress disorder and borderline personality disorder, she says, she hit a low in 2015 after undergoing a radical hysterectomy to treat endometriosis. The procedure—and the surgical menopause that followed—flattened her. “When I had the surgery, I was terribly triggered,” says O’Connor, who has spent the years since in and out of psychiatric facilities. Today, she has biweekly check-ins with her medical team. “You can never predict what might trigger the [PTSD]. I describe myself as a rescue dog: I’m fine until you put me in a situation that even slightly smells like any of the trauma I went through, then I flip my lid,” she says. “I manage very well because I’ve been taught brilliant skills. There was a lot of therapy.

you can f--- yourself.” This The stars didn’t know each pisses him off. He leaves the other when she recorded his kitchen. [Later] he comes back song “Nothing Compares 2 U.” Here, O’Connor recalls the with two pillows and says, “Why don’t we have a pillow evening they later spent at fight?” All smiles and nice. his house after Prince invited I think, It wouldn’t be every her to “hang out.” day that you’d get to have “You want a drink?” a pillow fight with Prince . . . He smiles. let’s try to make it a fun He turns to the cupboard evening after the sh---y start. for a glass. Then, quick as a Only on the first thump, flash, he slams the glass down I realize he’s got something and says, “Get it yourself.” stuffed in the pillow, designed I’ve seen this before. to hurt. He ain’t I grew up with it. playing at all. I start mentally I make a run checking for exits. for it. I call He commences my friend Ciara stalking up and to pick me up. down, one hand Apparently rubbing his chin, there’s some legal looking me up and proceedings going down. He shouts at on between [my me, “I don’t like the manager] Steve language you’re and Prince. I’ve using in your print been the victim of interviews . . . an attack meant I don’t like you Isolated Icon “I didn’t like the man, to terrorize Steve. swearing.” but I sobbed when he I don’t care. “I don’t work for died,” she says of Prince. I never wanted to you,” I tell him. “The loneliness of fame, “If you don’t like it, I think, was his undoing.” see that devil again. Excerpt from Rememberings by Sinead O’Connor. Copyright © 2021 by Universal Mother, Inc. Available June 1, 2021 from HMH Books & Media.

‘My career wasn’t derailed. It was rerailed’ —SINÉAD O’CONNOR

It’s about focusing on the things that bring you peace as opposed to what makes you feel unstable.” She’s also made peace with her childhood. Her mother died in a car accident when O’Connor was 18. “I was so busy surviving [the abuse] that I didn’t have time to feel any of the feelings,” she says. “You learn to live with it, but what helped me live with it was to forgive my mother.” She plans to tour and release an album in 2022. For now, she finds joy in everyday things. “I’m happiest when I’m in bed, the house is tidy, and I can binge-watch detective shows,” she says. Murder in the First, starring Taye Diggs, is a favorite. She’s single, and that works for her. “The last man that touched my body took out my reproductive system,” she notes. “I’ve not let a man touch my body in any way since.” Still, a woman can dream: “If Taye Diggs is available, I’d consider it.”

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M Michael Douglas and Kathleen Turner became one of Hollywood’s most electric onscreen pairings when their 1984 action-adventure romp Romancing the Stone was a surprise hit. But it was their offscreen chemistry—an initially flirtatious bond forged during the film’s treacherous shoot in Mexico, which was marked by mudslides, unruly reptiles and 14-hour days—that endures nearly four decades later. “We know each other so well,” says Douglas, 76, who costarred with Turner, 66, in two more hit films in the 1980s: The Jewel of the Nile and The War of the Roses. “You protect and cherish when you’ve got a good relationship.” Both went on to enjoy still-thriving careers and raise families. Turner has a daughter, Rachel Ann, 33, with ex-husband Jay Weiss, while Douglas has son Cameron, 42, from his first marriage, and Dylan, 20, and Carys, 18, with his wife of 20 years, actress Catherine Zeta-Jones. But the stars always kept in touch. Now they’re reuniting for the third and final season of Douglas’s Netflix series The Kominsky

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“Playing music feels like flying,” says Barksdale (right, in 2016, with the San Diego Chargers).

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lineman at Louisiana State University and a thirdround pick by the Oakland Raiders in the 2011 NFL draft, Joe Barksdale always knew his football talents— and hulking physical stature—exceeded his passion for the game. “The more I played, the more miserable I became,” says the 32-year-old Detroit native, who grew up struggling with undiagnosed autism and anxiety fueled by childhood emotional, physical and sexual abuse. In 2013, following the

death of a high school coach and mentor, Barksdale grew increasingly depressed and occasionally suicidal. At the suggestion of Jeff Fisher, then head coach of the St. Louis Rams, Barksdale took up guitar as a coping mechanism. Around the same time, he struck up a friendship with NBA legend Kobe Bryant, who inspired Barksdale to plot a new course. “We talked about the things that led him to retire,” he recalls. “I decided it was time for me to start doing what I love.” In 2019, after eight seasons, Barksdale—who

also credits therapy with improving his mental health—left the NFL. He released his ﬁrst EP, Electric Soul, and moved to Austin to hone his craft, a high-energy mix of blues, funk and R&B, in the city’s vibrant music scene. He released his fourth fulllength album, The Kyber Tapes, last month. “I’m still trying to get better every day,” says the married father of two daughters, ages 4 and 2. “It’s a journey. But I’m following my North Star, and I’ve got faith it’s going to get me where I need to go.”

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Fr o m Gridiron Giant to Guitar Hero

A standout offensive

THE WAR OF THE ROSES

The stars play a viciously sparring married couple in the 1989 film that landed them on the Feb. 19, 1990, cover of People.

THE KOMINSKY METHOD

The duo (with costar Sarah Baker) reunited to play ex-spouses on season 3 of the Netflix comedy, premiering May 28.

How’s your life been during the pandemic, Michael?

on The Kominsky Method?

I’m a little disappointed in myself. I mean, I anticipated I was going to learn a new language, all the books that I was going to read. Unfortunately, I am a news junkie, and if ever there was a year of current events . . . I probably did five, six hours a day on the news, easy. So there was a little lying around, muscle mass deteriorated to some degree. I caught up on some old movies but did not accomplish even close to everything I’d hoped.

DOUGLAS It was so much fun. It just is a comfort

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DOUGLAS

How is it now that things are opening up and you’re vaccinated?

I have a bunch of lady friends, and we would Zoom every Sunday just to see each other. Once we’d all had our vaccinations, we got together for poker. Just the fact that we could hug each other felt great. D O U G L A S I just came back from seeing my 3-month-old grandson Ryder. And I have a 3-year-old granddaughter, Lua. There’s an added degree of security when you know you’ve been vaccinated. It psychologically frees you up. TURNER

factor. Then you get to see it on the screen, and [realize], “Oh, this is really good.” TURNER The rhythms come right back. Chuck [Lorre] said to me one day, “You guys don’t even have to talk, just time the looks.” Scan this QR code with your phone’s camera to watch People Features: Michael Douglas and Kathleen Turner on PeopleTV.

Neither of you appears to be slowing down.

Well, we love what we’re doing. And I’m not that easy to be around if I’m home all the time. [People ask], “Are you going to retire?” No. I think you do this as long as you’re still standing. DOUGLAS

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What’s an important lesson you’ve learned over the years?

Timing is everything. D O U G L A S The best thing I’ve learned is don’t burn a lot of bridges. Don’t hold on to anger. Don’t hold on to hating. It’s exhausting. TURNER

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Then and Now

Paula (at her Lyons, Colo., home, where she sees patients for pastoral counseling, and, inset, preaching in 2010) says she’s now able to minister “without the harsh bit of evangelicalism in my mouth.”

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PUT Giving Spirit

“We confided in God. He was going to help us through,” says Iraida Ramos (below, with her family, from left: sons Giovanni, 15, and Jonathan, 13, husband Victor and daughter Anastajah, 8). Left inset: They load up Kylee’s Kare Kits. Above: Ramos with Lori Bateman, the charity’s executive director.

y May of last year, fear was setting in for Iraida Sanchez Ramos. After the adult day care facility where she worked as a nurse’s aide was shut down by the pandemic, she and her husband, Victor, a mechanic, were facing painful decisions. “It was scary trying to ﬁgure out how to pay for everything,” recalls Ramos, 31. “Our food budget was cut in half. It was devastating.” As the Fitchburg, Mass., couple negotiated rent payments with their landlord to stay in their four-bedroom apartment and wrangled with the power company over bills they couldn’t pay, they hid from their four children the reason their meals were suddenly so sparse. At the grocery store, Ramos would think: “What foods are cheap and will get the kids full? It’s rice. It’s potatoes.” When the kids would ask why she didn’t bring home their favorite Lucky Charms or Oreos anymore, or why they couldn’t have steak for dinner, she’d lie and say she forgot. When they’d beg for a night of restaurant food, she’d tell them restaurants were closed due to COVID, or she’d blame it on being too busy to go out. Finally, her oldest son asked her, “Mom, is everything okay?” Recalling that moment, “I get teary-eyed thinking about it. You don’t want to tell your kids you are struggling. You don’t want to tell them ‘We don’t have the money,’ ” she says. “You feel shame.” After all, pre-pandemic, “I was a huge giver. I loved helping the community. That’s who I am,” Ramos says. “I don’t like asking for help.” But with her children (ages 15, 13, 11 and 8) in remote school, she couldn’t work full-time, and the family realized they couldn’t make it on their own. Because of June 7, 2021

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‘It’s humbling going through this’

Healthy Help Abrams picking up a food donation.

felt terrible,” says Abrams, who is working toward her master’s degree in elementary education. “A year ago I was successful, and now I could be in line and see someone who used to be a client. It’s humbling.” Last week Abrams’s fortunes changed again—this time for the better. Impressed by her story, Out of the Garden president Don Milholin offered her a part-time job. Abrams accepted: “It helps to have something to look forward to.”

She Gave to Others, Then Needed a Helping Hand

She’s Worked Hard Her Whole Life—and Still Didn’t Have Enough

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Two years ago Vivian Hackett began helping her daughter’s Girl Scout troop maintain a Blessing Box where neighbors in need could pick up free meals. Hackett, 49, a stayat-home mom of five, helped stock the box and saw how demand grew during

COVID shook the family’s stability. With school shutdowns, Abrams had to make up for the free lunches her teen son depended on, and the isolation of remote classes took a toll on him: “He was alone all the time.” But she felt lucky to have her job and day care for her younger boys, so she adjusted, finding temporary assistance through Out of the Garden (outofthegardenproject.org), a local nonprofit offering free produce and healthy her go. “It was awful. foods, until she was I’ve never been given a raise. fired in my life,” she Then—in the blink says. Suddenly “it of an eye—everything was survival mode. changed in March, There were times when her son suffered when my kids were a mental health crisis eating pasta and that put him in the —TASHA butter because hospital, and Abrams ABRAMS that’s all we had.” A faced a choice both job with DoorDash difficult and obvious: helped cover car insurance, rent “My son needed me, and I and the electric bill, but to feed needed to be home with him.” her family she again turned to She asked her employer for Out of the Garden. “At first it flexibility, but instead they let

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the pandemic. “There were people from all walks of life,” she says. “You could tell people were ashamed. They’d wait until I left to go to the box.” Then last October her husband, a Marine Corps veteran, lost his job managing a pizza restaurant, and

the Blessing Box became their own lifeline. “We were blindsided and had no time to prepare,” says Hackett. “But I knew where the resources were. I didn’t have to go far.” In April the family moved to North Carolina, and her husband found a new job.

At 74, Mikel Moore knows that life requires adaptability. After her first marriage ended, she learned to drive a truck to support herself. When her second husband died and she realized her Social Security payments didn’t go far enough, she moved to a senior

community where she volunteered at the senior center and could grab a free meal. And when COVID shut down the center, she turned to Meals on Wheels. The program “makes a big difference,” says Moore, who uses a wheelchair due to arthritis. “When

you’ve had food your whole life, having enough to eat isn’t something you think about. It’s hard getting to that point. It’s like, ‘Where did I go wrong?’ I never thought I’d be in this position myself, but I thank God for what I do have, because there’s always people worse off than I am.”

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In the past few months Tasha Abrams has been reminded of a hard lesson she learned years ago: “Things can be snatched from you in the blink of an eye,” she says. At age 18, she was kicked out of her home for getting pregnant. “I didn’t grow up in a struggle. I didn’t know what to do,” Abrams, now 33, recalls. She ended up sleeping on a New York City park bench with her infant son. Slowly, she found her way to a shelter, then to a job, an apartment and an education, graduating from Briarcliff College. In 2017 she moved to North Carolina, where she got a job making $40,000 a year as a recovery court coordinator, allowing her to care for her three sons—she now has a 1-year-old and a 3-year-old in addition to her oldest. But as a single mom, “I’ve always known I’m just a step away from something putting you in a bad condition.”

COVID AND HUNGER: HOW TO HELP Food insecurity reached a 20-year low in America in 2019—but then COVID hit, and the number of people facing hunger rose to more than 42 million, including 13 million children. Food banks nationwide saw a 55 percent increase in demand, says Casey Marsh of Feeding America, the nation’s largest domestic hunger-relief organization, which runs a network of food banks and partners with food pantries that distribute donations from individuals, as well as food from stores or restaurants that might otherwise go to waste. An extraordinary 40 percent of those seeking their assistance from March and June of 2020 had never needed to use a food bank before. “Many Americans are one emergency, one job loss, one medical crisis away from food insecurity,” Marsh says. “COVID-19 was the perfect storm.” For information on how you can donate or volunteer, go to feedingamerica.org. — w i t h r e p o r t i n g b y M A D I S O N R O B E R T S

A Pledge to Pay I t Fo r wa rd

Before the pandemic, “we never stressed about food,” says Ramos, whose kids help pick up and put away their food assistance packages. After she finishes her nursing degree in June, Ramos says, “I am going to come back to help other families. After all they’ve done for me, I want to do that for somebody else.”

HUNGER BY THE NUMBERS

42 MILLION

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her husband’s salary, they don’t qualify for federal food aid, but the idea of standing in a food pantry line “bothered me,” she says. “I didn’t want to be seen. We were trying to make our money stretch, and when food was getting low I didn’t know what to do.”

Ramos was scrolling through Facebook when she

noticed a post about a program in her area called Kylee’s Kare Kits for Kidz (kyleeskarekitsforkidz.org), which provides a weekend’s worth of lunches, dinners and snacks for children in need. She wrote an email to the group: “I’m really embarrassed. But we’re struggling.” For Lori Bateman, executive director of Kylee’s Kare Kits, the Ramos family’s story is exactly the type of situation the organization was meant to help. “She and her husband have always worked, and they’ve always been able to take care of their children, and then all of this craziness happened,” Bateman says. “I told her that’s what we’re here for.” When Ramos went by to pick up her packages, Bateman invited her to take some extra items from donations to the pantry. “I almost started crying,” Ramos says. “I was like, ‘Are you sure? I don’t want to take too much.’ ” She insisted to Bateman, “It will only be for a little while. I’m going to get back on my feet.” The weekly care kits have allowed the family to weather their crisis, even after Victor was out of work for a month this year when he fell ill with COVID. The organization even provided Christmas gifts for the kids, and the extra help meant Ramos could continue going to school for her licensed practical nurse degree. She hopes to get her license—and a full-time job—by July. “When I’m done with school, my goal is to give back again, like my life used to be,” she says. “I just can’t wait.”

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Dueling Divas

Cruella “is hilarious and dark,” says Stone (right), while her rival, the Baroness, “has attachment issues in a sort of cataclysmic way,” adds Thompson (left).

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Zooming in from L.A. and London, respectively, the stars of Cruella, Emma Stone, 32, and Emma Thompson, 62, were clearly glad to see each other again. Shortly after they wrapped the new ﬁlm (out May 28 in theaters and on Disney+ with Premier Access), which explores the origin story of the 101 Dalmatians’ villain, the two Oscar winners hunkered down with family to ride out the pandemic: Stone with writer-director Dave

McCary, 35, whom she married last year and then welcomed a child with; Thompson with her mom, actress Phyllida Law, 89, daughter Gaia, 21, and husband, actor-producer Greg Wise, 55. Now, as the world begins to open up, the two women are grateful to have become friends. “We did that thing of going, ‘Oh, we’ve got time.’ Then suddenly it was the end of the movie, and we hadn’t hung out nearly enough,” says Thompson. “So now we

‘No dogs were harmed in the making of this movie, but the actresses’ feet were very badly hurt’ —EMMA THOMPSON

Te e n S e n s a t i o n

How They Got Started

After roles in the 2007 movie Superbad and TV series Drive, Arizona-native Stone starred as a geeky sorority girl alongside Anna Faris in 2008’s The House Bunny.

Sketch Comedy

London-born Thompson appeared on the British comedy sketch series Alfresco (1983) before starring in films like Sense and Sensibility and Love Actually.

What was it about Cruella that made you two want to do it? EMMA STONE I was very interested in

the idea of getting to explore Cruella, because she’s so camp and over the top. And I literally jumped up and down when I got a text message saying that [Emma Thompson] was interested in playing the Baroness. EMMA THOMPSON I hadn’t known about the film, and then suddenly it was fully formed with Emma Stone at the helm, like one of those pirate ship ladies going, “Hi, Thompson, it’s our turn to play.” And I was like, “Yeah, I’m in. I’ll do anything. Seriously. I’ll play a vase.” I also thought it was fantastic that Disney was making a very big movie about two women and their work and the fact that they hate each other. There was nothing about it that wasn’t appealing actually— apart from the heels. Speaking of heels, the costumes are amazing. Did you love getting to play dress-up? STONE Once you have this

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ing towards monstrosity year by year. I’m just getting more and more difficult and unpleasant. No acting required really. STONE None. I was like, “You could try to play the character, Emma [Thompson],” and she was like, “Nope. I’m just going to improvise.” I was kind of jealous because the Baroness is monstrous from the beginning. Whereas Cruella, you’re watching how she became this way. THOMPSON The Baroness was clearly not a picnic right from the start. Really, she was so much fun to play. I got to throw vegetables at people. What did you discover about yourselves during the pandemic? STONE At the beginning it was like,

on you and this beautiful costuming, it felt like you could inhabit something so far from . . . Well, it’s not that far from who I am, I guess. . . . THOMPSON No, you’re very like her. We would just come on-set and spend the ﬁrst ﬁve minutes going, “Oh my God, what have you got on? . . . Is that tulle?” I think we did very well, because neither of us is a natural heel wearer. I did get injured once mildly, but that was when I was coming downstairs in heels, carrying a wineglass, with a wig Scan this QR a foot tall on my head, code to watch People Features: a long dress and three Emma Stone and Dalmatians. I mean, Emma Thompson who can survive that? on PeopleTV.

“I’ve got to come up with something to do. Should I knit?” I started making stretchy beaded bracelets. I was just stringing bracelets, watching TV. So I learned that I’m great at those stretchy, 8-year-old bracelets. I have a ton of beads at the house if anybody wants. THOMPSON I probably learned a bit about being more patient. I’m quite an impatient person. So you had to take a lot of deep breaths and work out what you could do usefully and do it, and then be patient with an aging parent and daughter and family. And they all had to be patient with me. Although, obviously, I am perfect in every way. It was a nice opportunity for my family to realize that. STONE Finally. You’ve been telling them for years!

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Thompson and Wise share daughter Gaia and son Tindyebwa Agaba (left, in 2018), a former child soldier from Rwanda whom they informally adopted when he was about 17. Stone and McCary (right, in 2019) dated for three years before marrying last year.

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have to do another one.” Stone chimes in: “We deﬁnitely do. Disney, do you want to call us?” Adds Thompson: “We’ll just call it Two Women Hanging Out.”

Do you enjoy playing villains? THOMPSON I loved it. I feel I’m grow-

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“I didn’t have it in me to try to be what anyone else wanted me to be,” O’Connor (in 1990) says of her early fame. “I wasn’t a pop star in my nature.”

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SINÉAD O’CONNOR

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Sinéad O’Connor would like to set the record straight. No, not about that 1992 Saturday Night Live appearance where she famously tore up a photo of Pope John Paul II. As the Irish singer-songwriter explained at the time, she was making a statement against child sex abuse in the Catholic Church—and she’d do it again. “I grew up in the tradition of punk and protesting,” she says. And not about the sometimes alarming cries for help—“I have taken an overdose,” she announced on Facebook in 2015—she has posted publicly in recent years. “I was mental,” she admits, referring to the struggles with mental illness that have made more headlines than her music ever since the Pope-photo incident. “But I don’t regret those ‘embarrassing’ videos. I’m quite proud, in a weird way, that I was that open.” The misconception she wants to correct? A rumor that, at the height of her pop-star fame, she rejected a come-on from John F. Kennedy Jr. “I’d have to be crazy to have turned him down,” she says. “I would have leapt on the man if I ever met him!” At 54, the enigmatic singer is looking back on all those memories and more in a new book, Rememberings. The memoir lays bare her life, from an abusive childhood to her rise and fall from grace— and all the sex, drugs and rock and roll in between. “There was nothing I was afraid to share,” she says on a Zoom call from her cottage in rural Ireland, where she’s wearing a gray hijab (she converted to Islam several years ago, finding it more “loving and gentle” than Catholicism) and chain-smoking in her kitchen. “The nature of a singer is to be emotionally honest. I’ve always been pretty open. And I have no regrets.” O’Connor’s story began in Glenageary, Ireland.

Clean Living

O’Connor (at home May 10) quit smoking marijuana last year. “I loved it,” she says, “but it made me terribly anxious.”

An Open Book

“Singers don’t do embarrassment, so there was nothing I was ashamed to tell anybody,” says O’Connor of her memoir.

The third of four children born to construction engineer John and dressmaker Marie, she was raised in a fractured family. After her parents’ divorce, she lived with her abusive mother, who she has said was “not well” and would beat and kick her daily, often in the abdomen. O’Connor even wound up in the hospital. “My mother had this obsession with destroying my womb,” says the Grammy winner, who finally went to live with her dad when she was 13. Life was more stable there, but she acted out, shoplifting and skipping school, and was sent to a juvenile center. There she found solace in music, and at 18 she moved to London, got a record deal and shaved her head (“I look stupid with hair”) before finding international fame in 1990 with her hit “Nothing Compares 2 U,” written by Prince (see box).

A Rise to Fame, a Fall from Grace Her First Love

The Backlash

O’Connor and producer John Reynolds (ca. 1980) were married from 1987 to 1991.

Two weeks after SNL in 1992, she was booed offstage at a Bob Dylan tribute concert (here, with Kris Kristofferson).

S t a r Tu r n

Schoolgirl

“I’m a strong little f---er,” O’Connor says of surviving childhood abuse.

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She sang her hit “Mandinka” at the 1989 Grammys.

SNL Controversy

The moment O’Connor ripped a photo of the Pope to call out abuse in the Catholic Church was not shown in reruns.

Proud Mom

“I love performing more than anything . . . apart from my children,” writes O’Connor (with son Jake in 2003).

A Scary Night with Prince

‘My career wasn’t derailed. It was rerailed’ —SINÉAD O’CONNOR

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Brianna lost 127 lbs. during the pandemic

Joe left the NFL to follow his music dreams

These five people made major changes, helping themselves—and others— along the way Megan quit her job to help mothers in need

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A N e w Tu n e

“Playing music feels like flying,” says Barksdale (right, in 2016, with the San Diego Chargers).

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Fr o m Gridiron Giant to Guitar Hero

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BRIANNA OYEWO

Fr o m B i n g e E a t e r t o Wo r k o u t Wa r r i o r Last June, while caring for

her 6-month-old baby at the height of the pandemic, Brianna Oyewo, 33, realized she had to make a change. The employment counselor from Buffalo had hit an all-time high of 281 lbs., qualifying her as morbidly obese. “My journey started with prayer,” she recalls. “I told God that nothing had worked in the past, but I needed it to work this time—for my daughter and for myself.” Working at home during the pandemic, Oyewo found more time to practice self-care, taking walks, journaling and listening to motivational podcasts.

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OYEWO’S ADVICE Take a Headfirst Approach “You have to start mentally. Consider what got you to this place so you can leave in a healthy way and never return. Practice self-care or speak with a mental health counselor.” Celebrate Small Victories “You don’t always see the progress on the scale, but you’ll feel it emotionally or in the way your clothes fit. Treat yourself along the journey with new workout clothes or a fun outing to keep yourself encouraged.” Do Your Research “I figured out my diet and workouts online with the help of magazine articles and nutritionists on YouTube.”

Major Motivation

“I wanted to be here for my daughter and husband,” says Oyewo, who now leads live workouts on Instagram (@beginwithbri).

With her mind “renewed,” she turned her attention to physical health, eating intuitively, following a mostly plant-based diet and working out 20 minutes a day—first dance cardio classes on YouTube, then high-intensity interval workouts and strength training. After six months Oyewo was down 100 lbs., and as the weight melted off, that number began to matter less. “Eating healthy and exercising put me in such a great mind space,” says Oyewo. “I didn’t get too concerned by what the scale read.” Today, Oyewo, 127 lbs. lighter than a year ago, says she’s freer and more confident. In February she became a certified personal trainer to help others struggling with weight loss. “I want to be someone people can see themselves in,” she says.

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BOBBIE-JO FLOYD

Fr o m Grieving Wi d o w t o Mom of Eight

TRANSFORMATIONS When Bobbie-Jo Floyd’s

husband, Andre, died in a motorcycle accident on Oct. 19, 2014, her life nearly ended as well. “I curled up in a ball on the ﬂoor,” she recalls of the ensuing months. “I was petriﬁed of moving forward without him.” That changed on the two-year anniversary of Andre’s death, when Floyd—who was raising the couple’s two young boys, Jeremai and Elyjah, alone—got a call from child welfare officials, asking if she could foster sisters who had been removed from their home. But when social workers arrived at her threebedroom home in Phila-

delphia with Destiny, 11, and Serenity, 7, they had the girls’ 9-year-old brother Lysander in tow. “They were going to drop him someplace else,” Floyd, 46, explains. “I asked, ‘If I can get another bunk bed, can he stay?’ ” Not only did he stay, but when Floyd learned there were three more siblings— Honesty, Adrian and August—living in separate homes, she lobbied the court and took them in too. By early May, Floyd had ﬁnalized the adoption of all six kids, and the happy family of nine will move to a larger home in Texas. “I believe this was all Andre giving me a sign,” says Floyd. “He knew what

WHAT TO KNOW ABOUT FOSTERING

Costs, licensing and home assessments vary by state, so consult local agencies for clarity. Prepare for the emotional and financial tolls of fostering, but understand—as Mariel Hufnagel, executive director of CASA of Union County, N.J., says—that no foster parent is ever fully prepared, and that’s okay: “You will make mistakes. Consistency, structure and unconditional love is the recipe for success.” If you’re not ready to foster, consider other ways to help, like volunteering to become a court-appointed special advocate. “Be a voice for a child,” says Floyd.

would keep me going. I thank him every day for giving me these kids.”

New Lease on Life

Floyd with Andre (inset, in 2008) and (below, in 2020, from left) Serenity, 11, Adrian, 7, Elyjah 17, Destiny, 16, August, 6, Honesty, 9, Jeremai, 12, and Lysander, 14.

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Eyes on the Prize

“I told myself, ‘You have to keep fighting,’ ” says Lee (inset, with his mother, Tamara, in 2014, and, right, at SMU law school in 2021).

Kevin Lee was 16 when

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KEVIN LEE

Fr o m Homeless Te e n a g e r to HopeFi l l e d Law Student

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his life was upended. In the spring of 2011, after snow melt from a blizzard ﬂooded the basement of his home in Pittsburgh, he and his mother, Tamara Williams, were forced out when the house became uninhabitable due to mold and carbon monoxide. The issues exacerbated a heart condition that had kept Williams out of work, leaving the two with few options. “We began staying with friends, sleeping on couches and living out of trash bags,” Lee says.

They bounced around area shelters, eventually hoping for a fresh start in Georgia, but went back to Pittsburgh a few months later after learning that Lee’s high school credits wouldn’t transfer. “Can’t is a word my mother never allowed me to say,” recalls Lee, whose lack of a permanent address made returning to school difficult. But after discovering an online program that helped him keep up with the curriculum, the determined teen threw himself into his classes, eventually reenrolling and graduating as

valedictorian. Lee then earned a scholarship to Paul Quinn College in Dallas, where he was elected class president and created an initiative offering jobs and housing to homeless students between semesters. Currently a student at Southern Methodist University’s Dedman School of Law, Lee, now 27, says he wants to become a judge and help others who have experienced similar hardships: “I want to be the voice for those who feel they don’t have one.” June 7, 2021

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MEGAN SOLLENBERGER

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wanted to do [the charity work] full-time,” says the 31-year-old mother of two. “I thought I had a ﬁve-year runway.” Then the pandemic hit—and demand skyrocketed. “I had to jump in with both feet,” she says. Last July she left her job, telling her beloved coworkers in a letter, “I am absolutely terriﬁed. But I’m also excited and hopeful.” The Village Diaper Bank, from which Sollenberger takes no salary, quickly grew from serving 150 kids

a month to more than 700, providing an estimated 60,000 diapers, which are not covered by government assistance. Sollenberger and her husband, Blake, a 35-yearold product manager for a health technology company, have adjusted to single-income living, but every sacriﬁce has been worth it. “It’s a labor of love,” she says. “Something so small can make a huge difference to these families.”

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Close Call

“We really didn’t know until the plane landed that he was going to be okay,” says Glenn (right, working on the infant in the air).

baby’s out, that’s only about half the delivery. A lot of things can go bad after that. The fact that we had a highly trained team at 40,000 ft. over the Pacific Ocean is nothing short of miraculous.” With help from the crew and passengers, the team created a makeshift NICU in the plane’s exit aisle. Beeding cut the umbilical cord with a shoelace; a clean sock turned into a head warmer, while a plastic bag and hot-water bottles kept the baby warm and an Apple Watch tracked his heart rate. “Landing was probably the most relief I’ve ever felt in my life,” says Bamfield. Until the baby, now named Raymond, is strong enough to go home to Orem, Utah, he and his mom have been staying at a Hawaii hospital, where they’ve been joined by Mounga’s boyfriend Ethan Magalei. “The way Raymond came into the world is a little unexpected, but he’s just thriving,” says Lavi. “After getting to the hospital, I realized how amazing it was to have all those medical professionals on the plane. . . . They are so great. I love them all.” Bamfield, Beeding and Ho all visited mom and baby before heading home—and are already making plans to celebrate Raymond’s first birthday with the family. “We’re emotionally invested,” says Ho, 28. “Lavi updates me every morning, to let me know they’re doing okay. . . . This was a huge blessing for all of us.” —RACHEL DESANTIS June 7, 2021

Then and Now

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TRANS ACTIVIST PAULA STONE WILLIAMS

Cast Out by the Church She Helped Build L I V I N G A S PAU L WILLIAMS, SHE WAS A PROMINENT LEADER I N T H E E VA N G E L I C A L CHURCH—UNTIL SHE ANSWERED HER LIFELONG CALLING TO BE A WOMAN By S A N D R A SOBIERAJ WESTFALL

For 35 years she lived her life as Paul Williams and was devoted to evangelical ministry. The child of a conservative pastor, she was not only a preacher but also a fundraiser, magazine editor and TV host for Independent Christian Churches and the denomination’s 6,000 congregations nationwide. So in December 2013, when the married father of three told the all-male board of the church organization she led that she was thinking, at age 62, of transitioning to Paula—the woman she always felt she was meant to be—she knew the church’s anti-LGBTQ teachings meant she had to leave. But she expected they would let her ease out gradually. Naively, as she now realizes, “I thought one option would be for them to think to themselves, ‘Oh, wow. I know Paula’s character, so I probably need to study up on what it means to be transgender,’ ” she recalls. “The other option would be to say, ‘Oh, transgender people are evil. I was wrong about Paul’s character.’ I thought that couldn’t happen because I’ve known these people for centuries.” But it did happen: She was dismissed immediately. “And suddenly,” says Paula, now 70, “to that world, I didn’t even exist.” Today Paula Stone Williams exists boldly and proudly just about everywhere else, a trans-rights and gender-equity activist preaching compassion and acceptance in TED Talks on YouTube, on Jada Pinkett Smith’s Red Table Talk, at President Biden’s Inauguration prayer service—and in her new memoir As a Woman. The book examines her life steeped in, and ultimately severed from, a June 7, 2021

conservative theology and church community that, as Paula puts it, “teaches the LGBTQ+ population will go to hell unless they give up their sexual identity.” Now eight years out, she is on steady ground both with her growing congregation at the “postevangelical” Left-Hand Church (guiding principle: “There’s room for us all . . . no hate here”), which she cofounded in Longmont, Colo., in 2017, and with her ex-wife, Cathy, and three grown children, who each needed time to adjust to Paula’s transition. But she struggles with her yearslong role in propagating the patriarchal church that turned its hate on her. “How,” she asks, “could I have participated in a form of Christianity with such damaging theology?”

Please, God...

Paula (in kindergarten) prayed at night to wake up a girl.

Roots

David and Margaret Williams (with Paula in 1965) cut their transitioned daughter off for a time but made peace with her before their deaths.

Fa m i l y M a n

Paula, daughter Jana (left) and thenwife Cathy in 2006.

Making Choices

that Paula knew when she was living as a boy bouncing among churches in West Virginia, Ohio and Kentucky each time her father changed jobs. She felt from the time she was 4 that she was, as she writes, “in the wrong body” (see excerpt, left), and her bedtime prayer was to wake up as a girl. But aside from seeking comfort—and a thrill—in secretly dressing in her mother’s clothes, Paula buried the confusing pieces of her gender puzzle. “In the culture in which I lived, there was no way I could seriously think about acting on it,” she writes. Instead, she dated women and went to Kentucky Christian University. “Going to a Bible college would save me from eternal damnation,” she writes. In her senior year she married Cathy, the 19-year-old minister’s daughter she loved. After graduating, she was ordained. “I would be a man, and I would be a pastor,” Paula writes. “That was the narrative that had been laid out for me.” By the time son Jonathan was born four years later, in 1977, Paula had a master’s degree in “church planting,” which she turned into a career with Orchard Group (whose slogan was “We want people everywhere to know Jesus”)— raising money for and then starting new churches. As she rose to Orchard CEO and prominence among the churches it supported, the transgender yearnings were unrelenting. To Cathy, Paula conﬁded only the comfort she found in wearing women’s clothes. It wasn’t until the 2010 ﬁnal season of TV’s Lost that Paula stepped onto the path to transitioning. “The episode where Jack knows he’s been called to die to save humanity— it was this overwhelming moment,” Paula recalls. “I thought, ‘Oh, shit. Paul is called to die. I’m called to be who I am.” Cathy, the kids and grandkids were told; Cathy moved out shortly before Paula’s facial feminization surgery in July 2013. After Jonathan and Paula’s daughters Jana and

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Paula’s first inkling of her transgender identity came when she was 4. My family was living in Huntington, West Virginia. I remember being in the bathroom of the house thinking, Before long I will have to decide whether to stand up or sit down when I go to the bathroom. I had fashioned the notion that I got to choose. I pictured a gender fairy holding a white wand. She would say, “Well, my dear, the time has come. Do you choose to be a boy or a girl?” and her wand would do its magic. I did not dislike being a boy. There were days I thought I might remain one. But from as early as I can remember, I knew I was supposed to have been born a girl. . . . When I began dating Cathy [in college], I recognized she was as restless a soul as I was. That is part of what drew me to her. But I was surprised when one day Cathy asked, “Are we going to get married?” I still dreamed about wanting to be a girl, but I also dreamed about making love to Cathy. The most frightening dream was one in which I was a girl, making love to Cathy. I shoved that dream deep into my subconscious self. I was not going to let my life be ruined by being transgender. I was a man and would remain so, and I would marry the girl I loved.

Evangelicalism was the family business and all

‘My life has not been easy since I transitioned, but it has been full of joy’

Jael each, in their turn, “pulled away” from their father to process things, all is now back to a new normal, Paula says. The entire family—including Cathy—ﬂew to Hawaii in May to celebrate Paula’s 70th birthday. “We thought we knew what the trajectory of our family was going to be, and we had to re-create it,” she says.

A New Normal

Paula and Cathy (center) gathered their whole brood (Jana and her two girls are not pictured) in Hawaii for “Grampaula’s” 70th birthday in May.

Coming to terms with her past in the church has been harder. Throughout her work when she lived as Paul—at the megachurches’ pulpits, at Christian Standard magazine and on the Worship TV network—Paula says, she was known as a liberal and, starting in the early 1980s, avoided spreading evangelical theology on LGBTQ matters. “Now I realize it was a cop-out,” she says. “I was a leader. I should have taken a stand.” She hopes that telling her story now will not only give encouragement to trans people but change minds in the evangelical circles she once Finding Support nurtured—and in the GLAAD has compiled an extensive list of state legislatures they information, services inﬂuence, pushing new and resources available anti-trans laws. “I better to transgender people and their allies. Go to: live a long time,” Paula glaad.org/transgender/ says, “because I have a resources lot to make up for.”

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“I really wish I’d kept a journal. It would be phenomenal to look back, but you have to move with the times.”

L i k e M o t h e r, Like Son “He’ll always be my little baby, but he’s a grown-up now,” Hurley says of son Damian, 19, who is also a model.

I’m sick of cooking . . . I’ve spent

my whole career being away from home for months at a time, and I always miss cooking in my own kitchen. But in lockdown, I’ve fed my mother and my son three times a day, cooking very English things like toad-in-the-hole. I don’t care if I never go into my kitchen again!

Counting Blessings

My son and I have been doing themed binge viewing . . . We’ve been watching

“I’ve been lucky to be in the country, to be in the garden,” says Hurley (at her home in Herefordshire, England).

retrospectives of actors I love. We did a Julia Roberts one, one with Cate Blanchett. We’re in the middle of a Richard Gere one now. Everyone asks where that Versace dress is today . . . It is in the Metropoli-

tan Museum! It was just the perfect dress at the perfect event at the perfect time. The next day [my then-boyfriend Hugh Grant and] I saw all these pictures, and it was like, “Crikey!”

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Hurley with her family’s newest addition, Labrador Shivraj, one of her three dogs.

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But I don’t know if I’d do [another sequel]. I mean, whenever James Bond comes back, he always comes back with a younger woman, doesn’t he? I’m still good friends with Hugh . . .

We haven’t been romantically involved for 20 years. It works because we’re very aware that there are other people in our lives: partners, children. You can’t live in the mist of the past. You have to be respectful of the present. I’ve been a face of Estée Lauder for 26 years . . . They signed me in 1995,

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The quickest way to get dull, dry skin in warm-weather shape is with a body scrub, says Beverly Hills dermatologist Dr. Tess Mauricio. She recommends using one weekly— choose a salt-based formula (which tends to be grittier and more abrasive) or a sugar version (which is gentler).

Drunk Elephant Sugared Koffie Almond Milk Body Scrub, $28; drunkelephant.com Mio Heavenly Body Purifying Scrub, $35; mioskincare.com June 7, 2021

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Nail an At-Home Pedi

This kit—which can be used as a footrest while you paint your toes—comes with everything you need to prep your feet for sandal season, including a polish color of your choice. It’s no wonder Drew Barrymore called it “an at-home luxury that I absolutely love” on her daytime talk show.

Maintain a Clear Complexion Three ways to prevent breakouts when the heat is on.

Olive & June The Pedi System, $70; oliveandjune.com

Indie Lee Energize Deodorant, $19; credobeauty.com

Double Cleanse

Try a Clean Deodorant

To find the best one for you, check the ingredients, says Michelle Connelly, VP of merchandising and planning at Credo, a clean beauty store. Arrowroot helps absorb moisture if you are prone to sweating, while tapioca starch or cornstarch and magnesium help fight odor. We love these formulas.

Hello Products Sweet Coconut Deodorant, $7;

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Get a Skin Check Make an appointment for a total body sweep with your derm at the beginning of the summer. After any tanning, “your moles may also look darker and raise a false alarm,” says Seattle dermatologist Dr. Heather D. Rogers. And don’t forget to remove your nail polish before your checkup. “Skin cancers like melanoma can present as a dark vertical band on your nails, so we like to look at them,” she says. By JACKIE FIELDS

To thoroughly remove everything— sweat, pollutants, oil, sunscreen— from your skin, you may need two different cleansers, says N.Y.C. dermatologist Dr. Whitney Bowe. She recommends an oil-based formula followed by a waterbased one.

Sweet Apple Clean Cleansing Balm, $34; farmacybeauty.com

Josie Maran Pineapple Enzyme Cleanser, $28; ulta.com

Ta r g e t Tr o u b l e S p o t s

Fight the bacteria that causes blemishes in friction zones like under your mask or on your back with this tea-tree-oil mist. Renée Rouleau Rapid Response Detox Maskne Spray, $17;

“A n y t h i n g n e w or that doesn’t heal in a month deserves a c h e c k u p,” s a y s D r. R o g e r s .

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C y c l e Yo u r Skin Care

Dr. Bowe suggests a “two nights on, two nights off” routine: The first night use a chemical exfoliator and the second, a retinol. The next two nights, use a nourishing mask.

Glow Recipe Watermelon Glow Hyaluronic Clay Facial, $40; sephora.com

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Infused with prestige skin care ingredient Retinol, Olay transforms skin from dry and stressed to bright and smooth.

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FEARLESS IN MY SKIN

Over the past year, we’ve all experienced a shift in our daily routine—for better or worse! With warm weather on the horizon, now is the perfect time to start small habits that can lead to rewarding results. From sunrise to sunset, here are three easy rituals to help you start fresh this summer and achieve soft, touchable skin with our favorite Olay products.

“We tend to sweat more during the warmer months than we do in the winter. Try to drink plenty of water and avoid caﬀeinated drinks, which can be dehydrating.” – Dr. Sheila Farhang, Board-Cer tified Dermatologist

MORNING: Take advantage of quiet mornings with a ritual that you’ll look forward to each day. A few minutes of meditation, journaling, or gentle stretching can transform your outlook and start your day off on a positive note.

NOON: The secret to powering through busy afternoons? Always keep water within reach! Not only is hydration essential for radiant skin, but it can also help you maintain energy. At lunchtime, zero in on healthy options like green veggies, whole grains, and lean protein to reap beautiful skin benefits!

NIGHT: Ease into your evenings with a regimen that hydrates skin while you unwind. Olay’s two-step body care duo combines super skincare ingredient retinol with nourishing Vitamin B3 Complex to moisturize and reveal smoother, brighter skin. Start with Olay Cleansing & Renewing Nighttime Body Wash to gently cleanse without stripping skin. Follow up with Olay Nighttime Rinse-Off Body Conditioner, a renewing in-shower moisturizer that works overnight to stop dry skin before it starts. Simply massage into skin, rinse, and pat dry for glowing results.

“Many people focus on caring for the skin on their face, but it’s just as important to develop a body care routine.” – Dr. Sheila Farhang, Board-Cer tified Dermatologist

LEGAL NOTICE

If you bought qualifying Diamond Pet Food Products before May 3, 2021, you could get money from a Settlement. Para una notificación en Español, por favor llame o visite nuestro website. There is a Proposed Settlement in a class action lawsuit that claims Diamond Pet Foods violated state laws regarding the labeling and marketing of certain pet food products. Diamond denies the claims in this lawsuit.

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WHO IS INCLUDED? You are included in the Settlement if you live in the United States or a U.S. territory and bought qualifying grain-free pet food between March 12, 2017 and May 3, 2021. Visit the Settlement website or call the tollfree number for a complete list of products included. WHAT DOES THIS PROPOSED SETTLEMENT PROVIDE? If the Proposed Settlement is approved and becomes final, it will provide Benefits to Class Members. Defendant will make payments to those Class Members who file Valid Claims by submitting a Claim Form by the deadline, as well as pay for costs associated with the notice and administration of the Settlement, attorneys’ fees and costs to the attorneys for the Class, and an Incentive Award to the named Plaintiffs. HOW CAN I GET A PAYMENT? In order to get money from the settlement, you must submit a Claim Form online at GFfoodSettlement.com or by mail by October 4, 2021. You could get up to $5.00 (without Proof of Purchase) or $10.00/ purchase (with Proof of Purchase) up to $100.00. WHAT ARE YOUR OPTIONS? • Do nothing, you will not receive money from the Settlement, but you will be bound by the decisions of the Court. • Exclude yourself from the Settlement. You will not be eligible to receive money, but you keep the right to sue about the claims in this lawsuit, at your own expense. You must exclude yourself by July 30, 2021. • Object to the Settlement. You can tell the court why you don’t like something about the Settlement but stay in the Settlement. You must object by July 30, 2021. The Detailed Notice, available on the website, provides full instructions on how to Exclude or Object to the Settlement. The Court will hold a hearing on August 20, 2021 at 9:00 a.m. in Courtroom 13016, before the Honorable Richard A. Jones, of the United States District Court for the Western District of Washington, United States Courthouse, 700 Stewart Street, Seattle, WA 98101-9906, to consider approval of the Settlement, a payment up to a total of $1,200,000 for Class Counsel. for attorneys’ fees and expenses and incentive awards up to $5,000 for the four named Plaintiffs, and related issues. All motions filed by Class Counsel will be available on the Website. You may appear at the hearing, but you do not need to. This is only a summary. More details about the Proposed Settlement, products included and instructions on how to file a claim, object, or exclude yourself are available at GFfoodSettlement.com or by calling 844-367-8809.

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2 large egg yolks 3 Tbsp. fresh lemon juice (from 1 lemon) 1 Tbsp. Dijon mustard 1 garlic clove, sliced cup extra-virgin olive oil tsp. fine sea salt 3 jumbo romaine lettuce hearts (from 1 [16-oz.] pkg.), halved lengthwise and trimmed 6 oz. Parmesan cheese, grated (about cups) Black pepper

FOOD STYLIST: ALI RAMEE; PROP STYLIST: AUDREY DAVIS; INSET: NIGEL PARRY

quick tip! After washing your romaine, wrap each lettuce half in a clean kitchen towel, and shake it over the sink. The towel will absorb the water trapped within the leaves. Photograph by VICTOR PROTASIO

1. Process egg yolks, lemon juice, mustard and garlic in a blender, slowly and gradually drizzling in olive oil until oil is fully incorporated and dressing resembles a thick mayonnaise, about 1 minute. Season with salt. (Dressing may be stored in an airtight container in refrigerator up to 3 days.) 2. Preheat oven to broil with rack 6 inches from heat source. Arrange romaine halves, cut side up, on a baking sheet lined with aluminum foil. Brush romaine evenly with dressing, making sure dressing gets between the lettuce leaves. Sprinkle romaine evenly with cheese. Broil until cheese is bubbling and golden brown, 3 to 4 minutes. Remove from oven. Sprinkle with pepper, and serve immediately. Serves: 4 to 6 Active time: 15 minutes Total time: 20 minutes

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23 Beyoncé’s “___ Don’t You Love Me” 24 Fish eggs 25 Philanthropist Hogg 26 15 Across appeared in nine episodes of Masters of ___ 27 “Cry ___ River” (2 wds.) 28 Lebanon neighbor, for short 29 Snoop Dogg’s “Drop It Like ___ Hot” 31 Grand Coulee or Hoover 32 Drenched 34 ___ a dragon 35 The ___ on the Train features 15 Across 36 Took a praying position 37 Niagara ___ 38 Flat-bottomed barge

39 Swiss river 40 Russian mountain range 41 Weeknight newscaster David 42 Leer at 43 Pro ___ (proportional) 44 Clove hitch, for one 46 Me, to Miss Piggy 47 Scottish crime novelist Rankin

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1. The gold knobs on the cabinet under the sink are lowered. 2. A second vase is added to the windowsill. 3. The word “Milk” is gone on the gallon Liu holds in his right hand. 4. The plant on the top shelf behind Liu is bigger. 5. One of the apples in the basket on the island is blue. 6. The cap on one of the milk bottles on the island is white. 7. A single banana is added to the corner of the island at right. 8. A book on the standing shelf, far right, has turned yellow. 9. The object on the wall near the arch, far right, is gone. 10. One of the white-cloth baskets on the floor in the pantry behind Liu is brown.

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Marvel’s Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings— hitting theaters in September—stars Simu Liu, who is promoting his partnership with the California Milk Processor Board (creators of Got Milk?) and No Kid Hungry for a campaign to give 1 million meals to needy kids in California. “Helping kids and uplifting children has been one of the things that I’ve been looking forward to the most since stepping into this role,” he says.

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Last time I sang out loud That’s frequent when I’m riding my motorcycle. I don’t like the distraction of music, so it will just be a song stuck in my head. Helps me keep myself company. Last DIY project There was a wall that had some holes that needed to be filled and painted, so I worked out how to do that. It got me some brownie points [with wife Rebecca]. I’m handy with mechanical things but not so great around the house. Last thing I discovered about myself I swear too much. It’s gotten really bad. So I have two choices: Stop swearing or try and change the behavior of every single person that annoys me. Last irrational fear I don’t love traveling down a staircase quickly, which is about the only stunt that I don’t like to do in a movie. It’s a weird aversion that will help me when I get older. Last guilty pleasure I’m a sucker for cheesecake. But my local bakery sells very, very large slices, so I have to share it among the family. I would let out a very large curse word if I ate the whole thing.