In the wake of the Six Days Seven Nights actress’ Aug. 11 death, her familyis sorting out everything that she left behind, and there’s already a heateddispute over who should be in charge and get what.

Heche left behind two sons from two relationships — her 20-year-old son HomerLaffoon, with ex-husband Coley Laffoon, and 13-year-old Atlas Tupper, from herrelationship with her Men in Trees co-star James Tupper. While Homerrequested to serve as special administrator of Heche’s estate late last month,with it noted Heche didn’t have a will, James, on behalf of his minor sonAtlas, is now contesting Homer’s appointment.

Anne Heche with son Homer Laffoon on Nov. 19, 2021. Laffoon, now 20, is fromHeche and Coley Laffoon’s marriage, which lasted from 2001 to 2007. (Photo:Rachel Murray/Getty Images for Christian Siriano)

Yahoo Entertainment has obtained the court document filed by James on Thursdayobjecting to Homer as special administrator. In it, James claims Heche senthim a will on Jan. 25, 2011, when they were still a couple, and asked him tooversee her estate “in case I die tomorrow.” He also outlines numerous reasonswhy he feels Homer is not equipped for the job, including that he lacksexpertise, is unemployed and was estranged from Heche when she died.

In the filing is an email James said was sent from Heche’s email to himself aswell as entertainment attorney Kevin Yorn and his executive assistant. It hadthe subject “Will” and in it she asked it to serve as her word until finalpapers were drawn up. She requested should she die, her assets go to Jameswith the intent for him to raise the boys on her behalf, dividing her assetsamong them equally. She noted each get control of their portion of the moneyat age 25, and at that time could sell her real estate and split the money.(Heche seemingly never filed an actual will. She and Tupper split in 2018after 10 years, but continued to share a home for the next year along with thetwo boys.)

A copy of Heche’s email was in the court documents. (Screenshot: LAcourtdocuments)

In the filing, James’s lawyer says that James should have “priority ofappointment as administrator” because Heche “makes her intent clear by writingthat, ‘My wishes are that all of my assets go to the control of Mr. JamesTupper to be used to raise my children and then given to the children.'”

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James’s legal team argues there’s “no urgent need to appoint a specialadministrator at this time” in the first place as Homer’s filing was trying tospeed up the process. Instead, they should wait for the appointment of anexecutor or administrator under a general probate petition. He then outlines,bluntly, why he claims Homer is “not suitable for appointment as personalrepresentative of this estate,” a job he says should go to someone with”experience and sophistication.”

Anne Heche with son Homer Laffoon and then-partner James Tupper in 2012. Sheand Tupper, who went on to have their own son, Atlas, split in 2018. (Photo:Michael Kovac/WireImage)

“He is only 20 years of age and is unemployed, and was estranged from [Heche]at the time of her death due to his dropping out of university studies and notworking to support himself,” James’s filing states.

James goes on to claim that Homer changed the locks on Heche’s apartment,where Atlas resided with his mother, and “refused entry” to his half-brother.He says Homer “has not responded to Atlas’s request for his clothing andcomputer” at Heche’s home. He also questions Homer listing Heche’s residenceas “vacant” in his court filing, saying it was “concerning” because theactress’s home “was full of her furnishings, jewelry, valuables, files andrecords, and their removal was in no way authorized by this Court of the law.”

James Tupper says Heche’s 20-year-old son Homer is “not suitable” to head herestate because, “He is only 20 years of age and is unemployed, and wasestranged from” Heche when she died. (Screenshot: LA Courts)

He also says Homer agreed to go to grief counseling with Atlas but was a no-show. He also says Homer was a no-show at a scheduled dinner with Atlaswaiting around for 1.5 hours.

“This is particularly upsetting given that Atlas is 13 years old, was with hismother on the day of her death, and he has reached out to Homer repeatedly,”the filing states. “In fact, since their mother’s death, Homer has not seenhis brother, nor had contact with him.” As a result, James is concerned Homer”will not act in his brother’s best interest.”

James also denies Homer’s court claim that James sent him “negativecommunications.” He says, “Both [James] and Atlas have only communicatedmessages of support and love and grieving to Homer. At this time they boththink the presence of an older brother would be an enormously helpfulrelationship for both Atlas and Homer.”

Anne Heche with both of her sons — Atlas Tupper and Homer Laffoon — in 2014.(Photo: Ari Perilstein/Getty Images for Feld Entertainment)

Earlier this month it was reported Homer requested control of the estatebecause Heche died without a will and she has pending projects, including thepublication of her book, call me Anne, next year. Homer’s attorney clarifiedat the time that Homer was in the process of “having a third party appointed’guardian ad litm’ for his younger brother, Atlas, to represent Atlas’sinterests in the probate proceedings.”

Homer also spoke out on behalf of himself and his sibling after Heche, who wasbrain dead, was taken off life support.

“My brother Atlas and I lost our Mom,” he said in a statement. “After six daysof almost unbelievable emotional swings, I am left with a deep, wordlesssadness. Hopefully my mom is free from pain and beginning to explore what Ilike to imagine as her eternal freedom. Over those six days, thousands offriends, family, and fans made their hearts known to me. I am grateful fortheir love, as I am for the support of my Dad, Coley, and my stepmom Alexi whocontinue to be my rock during this time. love you, Homer.”

Caution tape is seen at the site where actress Anne Heche crashed into a two-story home in Mar Vista, Calif. (Photo: Chris Delmas / AFP)

On Aug. 5, Heche crashed her car into a house in the Mar Vista neighborhood ofLos Angeles — a fire erupted and she was critically injured. Blood testsshowed the 53-year-old had narcotics in her system. Six days later, she wasremoved from life support after being declared brain dead. She died ofinhalation, thermal injuries and a sternal fracture due to blunt trauma,according to the medical examiner’s official report.

After Heche’s most famous relationship — with Ellen DeGeneres — ended in 2000,she started dating Laffoon, a cameraman she met making a documentary aboutDeGeneres. They married in 2001, had Homer in 2002, and split in 2007. Hechewent on to embark on a romance with her co-star James. They had Atlas in 2009and remained together until 2018, sharing a home for a year after their splitwith her sons.

Sarah Michelle Gellar says being a young woman in the entertainment industry”was not easy,” but “victim blaming and shaming” keeps her from opening upabout those stories publicly.

the Buffy the Vampire Slayer alum, 45, has resumed acting after a multi-yearbreak in the wake of The Crazy Ones co-star Robin Williams’s death to bepresent for her family with Freddie Prinze Jr. She has a role playing aheadmaster in the high school dark comedy Do Revenge, out now on Netflix,and is in production acting in and executive producing Teen Wolf spin-off_wolf pack_ for Paramount+. She tells the New York Times she feels she’s nowin her “adult career” — and it’s worlds away from where she started.

As for where she started — and what she experienced along the way — it’s beena journey. Asked by the outlet if she had generally good experiences as a teenand young woman in the industry, Gellar — who won a Daytime Emmy at age 18 for_All My Children_ — replied, “No. It was really hard. There weren’t greatfemale roles when I came up. It was the girlfriend role, the wife role. That’swhy Buffy was so spectacular, because she really had something to do, and thenwe had I Know What You Did , where it was the women figuring things out.That was all a new turn of events.”

That was just one part. The other was inappropriate behavior behind thescenes, which she spoke about but made clear she wasn’t going to detail.

“There’s the other side of being a young girl in the business,” she continued.”Growing up in New York, I had a little bit of street sense going into it,which is helpful. But no, it was not easy. And I’ve had my fair share ofexperiences, I have just chosen not — I don ‘t win by telling my stories,emotionally, for me. I look at people that tell their stories, and I’m soimpressed. in here.”

Sarah Michelle Gellar was just 18 when she won a Daytime Emmy for her role onAll My Children in 1995. (Photo: Getty Images)

Of course, while buffy – which ran from 1997 to 2003 — was spectacular asfar as her role, we now know that some of the women on the set felt threatenedby show creator and EP Joss Whedon. Whedon was accused of on-set misconduct byalums Charisma Carpenter, Michelle Trachtenberg and Amber Benson in 2021.Gellar stood with the victims at the time saying she was “proud of them forspeaking out.”

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Whedon broke his silence about the buffy set claims — and other misconductallegations — earlier this year. Two days later, Gellar shared a social mediapost that said, “I can’t take back the past, but I can fight for the future.”in her NYT interview, she was asked if she wanted to elaborate and she spokeabout her efforts to create “a safe space” for young performers on the setsshe is on in the wake of what she’s learned and experienced.

“Especially now, I go into my projects as an executive producer,” she said. “wolf pack , for example. I have these two young girls and two young boys[acting] on it. I have made it very clear from Day 1 that if there are thingsthe production wants to talk to them about, I want them to go through me.Because I’ve been there. And I want [the performers] to always have a safespace.”

Gellar also spoke about marriage to Prinze with the couple recently markingtheir 20th wedding anniversary.

“I think we live in a very disposable world right now,” she said. “When I wasa kid, if your TV broke, you carried it to the repair shop and got your TVfixed. Now, if your TV breaks, you go get a new one. I think sometimes we lookat relationships like that. You have to be willing to put in the work. That’ssomething we’ve always been willing to do. You have ups and downs, but youdon’t walk away.”

Sarah Michelle Gellar brought her rarely seen daughter, Charlotte GracePrinze, 12, to an LA screening of Netlfix’s Do Revenge on Sept. 14, 2022.(Photo: Phillip Faraone/Getty Images for Netflix)

Gellar also talked about her role in Do Revenge and how her character in thecomedy film is modeled after her famous Cruel Intentions character, KathrynMerteuil. While she was the young star in so many aughts projects, she’s theadvice-giving headmaster for the teens played by stars including Camila Mendesand Maya Hawke.

“I wouldn’t want to be 17 again for anything,” Gellar said. “Thirty two maybe,but not 17.”

This week, Gellar brought her 12-year-old daughter Charlotte Prinze with herto a Hollywood screening of the film. The couple’s children — also includingson Rocky, 10 — are rarely seen, with Gellar typically hiding their faces whenshe posts photos of them on social media.

Looks can kill and pictures are worth a thousand words. Body language expertand psychologist Denise Dechamps van Body Language Academy know that like noother. Previously, she analyzed Meghan and Harry’s interview with OprahWinfrey – where it quickly became clear that “they haven’t processed theiremotions yet.” During Queen Elizabeth’s funeral, Denise also noticed a lotabout the expressions on the faces of the British royals.

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There is more to read from an image that appeared last week than from all theimages on this day, Denise Dechamps says when we call her. ‘We can clearly seehere that Kate and William raise their left eyebrows, which often has to dowith disbelief and sarcasm. Meghan and Harry also have a certain expression ontheir faces; in Meghan we see especially sadness. I’m curious what happenedhere.’ On the other hand, there is less to conclude from today’s images. Andthat can be for several reasons, explains Denise. ‘A day like this is full ofprotocols and rules; it is understandable if the members of the royal familyare more focused on this than on their grief. Besides, they have been mourningfor ten days. The hats and veils don’t make it any easier either.’ Inaddition, there was recently rumored that Kate Middleton would have done babybotox. Kensington Palace immediately disproved the suspicion, as is always thecase with this kind of ‘news’. ‘If Kate did do Botox, it would have a bigeffect on how we can read her emotions. Every muscle in your face produces itsown micro-expression. If you paralyze it, which you do with botox, expressionsare harder to read.’

Camilla and Charles seem opposites

What stood out this morning was the smile on Camilla’s face. ‘That smile isfeigned, it comes from courtesy. It’s clearly not a genuine smile of joy.’King Charles twitched his mouth a number of times today, a micro-expressionwith great meaning: ‘This movement may indicate that he feels superior. Itcould also be related to certain pride as we saw the expression several timestoday. In addition, he is clearly emotional in other images, which can be readfrom the position of his face.’

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One thing is clear: Prince Harry is very emotional today. ‘With Harry you cansee a clear ‘inverted U-shape’ between his eyebrows. When you are sad or haveto cry, this is the last muscle you can keep in the fold. Your mouth is easierto influence. So pure emotion emerges from this look.’

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William holds emotions

Prince William also shows emotion, but keeps it clearly. ‘In several photosyou can see that he is actively opening his nostrils and even clenching hisjaw. In addition, at times I saw the “inverted U-shape” with him, just likewith Harry. Based on the images, there is a good chance that William isholding back his tears and doing everything he can to control his emotions.’

Botox or no botox, and protocols or not, it remains a sad affair. Let’s justhope that the royals can give their emotions free space behind closed doors.

Roxeanne Hazes will not be present at the Holland sings Hazes concerts. Thesinger announced this via Instagram. The folk singer’s daughter has adifficult relationship with her mother, who organizes the festival. Last monthRachel Hazes lashed out at Roxeanne.

“There have been some rumors going around, but before I wanted to make thisdecision, I gave myself some time to think,” Roxeanne writes in her InstagramStories. ‘I have decided that I will not participate in next year Hollandsings Hazes.’

The statement of the Hazes scion does not come as a complete surprise. Lastmonth she told in best singers about a nasty form of homesickness that shesays she suffered from a ‘trauma from her childhood’. For example, Roxeannesaid that ‘the biggest blow’ came when her mother Rachel wrote a book afterher father’s death. “Then I didn’t have my mother with me for nine months.Just when you need her so much to mourn.” Roxeanne says she had a ‘huge blow’because her mother would have abandoned her. “You damage someone with that forthe rest of their life. I am a grown woman, but I find it difficult to sleepalone.”

‘Rich fantasy’

Her mother then decided via RTL Boulevard to make a statement out into theworld. “Let’s just say it’s mainly the rich fantasy of a young girl at thetime,” she said. The relationship between mother and daughter Hazes has beenbad for a long time. Rachel tries to get her daughter to testify in a lawsuitshe has filed against two former business partners.

Roxeanne writes: ‘I used to sing my father’s songs once a year. This had beensomething I looked forward to every year for ten years, a special event tohonor my father. The audience is fantastic. You make sure it’s always a party.Thanks for that. For now I’m going to focus on other beautiful things I’mworking on in the near future. Lots of fun! And who knows until another time.’

During the performances with Holland sings Hazes her brother André is makinghis comeback on stage. After a long time in which he completely withdrew fromthe spotlight, he will perform there again for the first time. André alsolashed out at his sister after her comments in Dear singers. He said helooked with ‘vicarious shame’.

The statement of Roxeanne Hazes. © Instagram Stories Roxeanne Hazes

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Henry Silva, an actor with a striking look who often played villains and hadcredits in hundreds of films including “Ocean’s Eleven” and “The ManchurianCandidate,” died of natural causes Wednesday at the Motion Picture Picture andTelevision Country House and Hospital in Woodland Hills, Calif., his son Scottconfirmed. He was 95.

One of Silva’s most memorable roles came in John Frankenheimer’s classicthriller “The Manchurian Candidate” (1962), in which he played Chunjin, theKorean houseboy for Laurence Harvey’s Raymond Shaw — and an agent for theCommunists — who engages in a thrilling, well -choreographed martial artsbattle with Frank Sinatra’s Major Bennett Marco at Shaw’s New York apartment.

Silva appeared in a number of other movies with Sinatra, including theoriginal, Rat Pack-populated “Ocean’s Eleven” (1960) with Dean Martin andSammy Davis Jr., where he was one of the 11 thieves, and 1962 Western“Sergeants 3 .”

His death was first reported by Dean Martin’s daughter Deana Martin, who wroteon Twitter,“Our hearts are broken at the loss of our dear friend Henry Silva, one of thenicest, kindest and most talented men I’ve had the pleasure of calling myfriend. He was the last surviving star of the original Oceans 11 Movie. Welove you Henry, you will be missed.”

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In later years, he appeared in Burt Reynolds vehicle “Sharky’s Machine”(1981), the Chuck Norris movie “Code of Silence” (1985), Steven Seagal movie“Above the Law” (1988), Warren Beatty’s “Dick Tracy” ( 1990) and JimJarmusch’s “Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai” (1999); Silva’s final screenappearance was a cameo in the “Ocean’s Eleven” remake in 2001.

A 1985 article by Knight-Ridder journalist Diane Haithman headlined “HenrySilva: The Actor You Love to Hate” began this way: “His face looms on screen.A face with sharp, high cheekbones and a blunt, tiny nose, a face that lookslike it was cut out of steel and always is behind a gun. And eyes that seeonly the next victim. cold eye. The eyes of a psychopath. He doesn’t have tosay a thing before you know you hate him. … Silva has made a lifelong careerwith that face (which, by the way, looks fatherly off-camera).”

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Silva told Haithman that growing up in Spanish Harlem helped prepare him forthe kinds of roles he would later play in movies. “’I saw a lot of things inHarlem,’ he recalled in an accent rich with his New York origins. ‘It was thekind of place where if you lived on one block and you wanted to go a fewblocks away, you had to take a couple of guys with you, or else you would getyour ass kicked.’ “

Speaking of his career, the actor told the journalist, ” ‘I think the reasonthat I haven’t disappeared (as a popular “heavy”) is that the heavies I playare all leaders. I never play a wishy-washy anything. They’re interestingroles, because when you leave the theater, you remember these kinds of guys.’”

Silva first made an impression as the henchman to Richard Boone’s villain inBudd Boetticher’s 1957 Western “The Tall T,” starring Randolph Scott. He alsoappeared in Westerns including “The Law and Jake Wade” (he played Rennie, oneof the Confederate ruffians led by Richard Widmark) and “The Bravados.”

In Fred Zinnemann’s “A Hatful of Rain” (1957), starring Don Murray and EvaMarie Saint, he played Mother, the supplier to Murray’s piteous morphineaddict; Silva had created the role of Mother in 1955-56 in the originalBroadway production of the play upon which the movie was based in which BenGazzara and Shelley Winters starred.

In Audrey Hepburn-Anthony Perkins vehicle “Greens Mansions” (1959), he playedthe evil son of the chief of a primitive tribe in the Venezuelan jungle; healso played a Native American in “Five Savage Men” (1970) and “Sergeants 3”(1962).

Silva starred as the title character in the 1963 crime drama “Johnny Cool,” inwhich his character assassinates Mafia bosses in order to gain control of anempire of his own. He also portrayed the title character, a Japanese secretagent earlier played by Peter Lorre, in 1965’s “The Return of Mr. Motorcycle.”

According to an article on the website Cool Ass Cinema, Silva’s “talents as aleading man weren’t fully appreciated till he went to Europe, where Italianfilmmakers put his wild eyed, intense face to good use after a fiery, scene-stealing performance in Carlo Lizzani’s exciting ‘The Hills Run Red’ (1966).“Silva really found his calling in European action thrillers as evidenced inEmilio Miraglia’s taut political thriller ‘Assassination’ (1967),” where he isreborn with a new identity, Chandler, trained as a political assassin and usedto defeat an international crime syndicate . The actor starred the next yearfor Miraglia in “The Falling Man,” in which he played a cop framed for killinga police informer.

Silva got even busier in the 1970s, playing tough customers on both sides ofthe law in movies made in Europe. He had prominent roles, said Cool AssCinema, “in two of Fernando Di Leo’s most accomplished works — ‘Manhunt'(1972) and ‘The Boss’ (1973) — the second and third of his Mafia trilogy thatbegan with the superb genre classic ‘Milan Caliber 9’ (1972).” In ‘Manhunt,’Silva and Woody Strode played American assassins out to silence a pimp who’swrongfully blamed for the disappearance of a shipment of heroin; ‘The Boss’saw one of Silva’s best performances, playing a hitman working for a Mafioso.“His role here,” said Cool Ass Cinema, “defined the signature Silva persona asan infallible, near indestructible presence bearing a cool and calculatingdemeanor.”

Other European credits during the ’70s include Andrea Bianchi’s brutal crimedrama “Cry of a Prostitute,” Umberto Lenzi’s “Almost Human,” “Manhunt in theCity” and “Free Hand for a Tough Cop,” “Weapons of Death” and finally 1979’s”Crimebusters.” “Manhunt in the City” showed a somewhat more vulnerable sideof Silva as an ordinary man driven to seek vengeance when the law fails topunish the killers of his daughter.

In the 1980s he sometimes showed a humorous side as he appeared in rolesparodying his earlier work, such as in “Cannonball Run 2.”

Silva was born in Brooklyn and grew up in Spanish Harlem. According to thebook “Hispanics in Hollywood,” his parents were Italian and Puerto Rican. Hequit school when he 13 and began to take drama classes while supportinghimself as a dishwasher and eventually a waiter. Silva auditioned for theActors Studio in 1955; he was one of five students accepted from a field of2,500 applicants.

He’d made his television debut on “Armstrong Circle Theater” in 1950 and hisbig-screen debut, uncredited, in Elia Kazan’s 1952 film “Viva Zapata!”starring Marlon Brando.

Silva was married twice in the 1950s; his third marriage, to Ruth Earl, lastedfrom 1966 until their divorce in 1987.

He survived by two sons, Michael and Scott. Scott Silva asked that fansremember his father by commenting on his social accounts: Instagram:henrysilvaofficial; Twitter: @MrHenrySilva and Henry Silva official onFacebook.

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Unapologetically is a Yahoo Life series in which people get the chance toshare how they live their best life — out loud and in color, without fear orregret — looking back at the past with a smile and embracing the future withexcited anticipation.

Cheryl Burke is stepping into a new phase of life. the Dancing With theStars pro, 38, recently split from her husband Matthew Lawrence. Now, she islearning how to feel comfortable in her own company after “grieving” the endof her marriage. For now, she’s “choosing not to date,” she says.

“It’s just me and my Frenchie,” she tells Yahoo Life. “I’ve been sober now forfour years, and with that comes self-reflecting. I’m like a sponge and I’mjust learning to love myself and really learning to be alone instead oflonely. I think it’s very important for me to establish that relationship withmyself so that I don’t continue on that same pattern of men andrelationships.”

When the time comes for the Dance Moms alum to date, she says she’s shunningthe dating apps in favor of a more old school approach to meeting someone.

“I’m all about matchmakers,” she says. “I know statistics show that they havea high rate. It’s not just about swiping left to see who looks good and whatoccupation they do — it’s deeper than that.”

The relationship she’s most focused on at the moment, however, is the one withherself. Burke, who previously opened up about her past with sexual abuse, hasa self care routine that includes meditation and therapy. One important thingshe has learned through both practices was the idea that “we are not ourthoughts,” but rather “observers” of our thoughts.

“It’s not trying to define yourself by outside sources,” she notes. “So yourjob, your friends, your family, your name … it’s developing this foundationwithin yourself and knowing your self worth without all of that.”

That includes shutting down people-pleasing tendencies she’s relied on in thepast.

“I used to put everybody else in front of me and my needs, and I realize thatthat I’m doing myself a disservice,” she explains. “I think it’s veryimportant to just take a breath and be kind to yourself because this is noteasy.”

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Burke, who struggles with body dysmorphia, says that what she sees in themirror “isn’t necessarily what everybody else sees.” While she is trying tochange the “vocabulary” around her self-criticism, her body is something shethinks about often.

“I think it’s really hard for women to accept who they are today,” she muses.”Especially if you’re in a business like I am in the entertainment industry …comparison is the devil.”

“I hope one day my body dysmorphia goes away,” she adds. “But I also have to …give it grace, and same thing with age. It’s like, you gotta accept it forwhat it is and just know that you’re working to be better…And I think the moreyou own it internally, the more you’ll see it externally.”

When it comes to feeling sexy, Burke says, “What makes me feel sexy every dayis loving myself, is really giving back to me and putting me first.”

She has also spoken out recently about never having had an orgasm throughsexual intercourse — a story, she says, that has been “misinterpreted” a bitby the press.

“I’ve had an orgasm before through sexual acts,” she explained. “But when itcomes to me being molested, when I was a little girl, [there are] sexual actsthat I don’t want to necessarily be performed on me, because it’s a triggeringthing when it comes to my mental health. I know a few women who have gonethrough something similar who also feel the same, or you just completelydisconnect and sex just becomes the act, and there’s nothing meaningful behindit.”

Now, Burke says she is “most unapologetic” about sharing her “life story” —even when some people complain she is “oversharing.”

The reason, she says, is b because of the “amount of feedback and emails andcomments I get from people saying, ‘Thank you. I know I’m not alone.’”

“That to me… means the world,” she shares. “It takes away any shame, even justspeaking it, because I’m hopefully leading by example.”

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In recent years, since Prince Harry married Meghan Markle in 2018, hisrelationship with the rest of the British royal family has become quitestrained.

But the Prince has always maintained that his relationship with hisgrandmother, Queen Elizabeth, has never suffered!

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The Duke of Sussex celebrated his 38th birthday a few days ago. But in thecurrent situation, there probably won’t be much celebration. The Duke, who wasin England on work-related matters, discovered his grandmother’s ill healthjust before performing at an awards ceremony with his wife Meghan Markle.

The young couple canceled their previous commitments, after which Harry flewto Scotland to see his grandmother for the last time. Unfortunately, PrinceHarry’s flight landed only a short time after the Queen’s death and he wasunable to have a final conversation with her.

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While preparing for the Queen’s funeral, the family has little time tocelebrate the Duke’s 38th birthday.

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On his birthday, the royal family’s official account on Twitter uploaded fourimages of the Duke from different times and events in his life, with abittersweet birthday message from the late Queen to him: “Happy Birthday tothe Duke of Sussex today! ”

It is an emotionally difficult time for the family as they recently took partin the Queen’s coffin procession from Buckingham Palace to Westminster. TheQueen’s son, King Charles III, led the procession, closely followed by hissons the Prince of Wales and the Duke of Sussex.

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The family stood in a predetermined formation facing the coffin and thepurple-covered catafalque.

Prince Harry was seen wiping tears from his eyes during the ceremony,seemingly emotional as he said goodbye to his beloved grandmother.

Prince Edward and Sophie, the daughter of the Countess of Wessex, Lady LouiseWindsor, were also among the members of the royal family who got emotional andwiped their tears.

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After it was the turn of the Sussexes to bow and bow to the queen’s chest,they held each other quite tightly. According to body language expert JudiJames, this was a good sign, she said: “Within the service, the women joinedtheir husbands, but again, the large spatial distances seemed intentional tocreate an air of formality.”

“As the couples walked away, they seemed to stick to this formation, apartfrom Harry and Meghan, who came closer and stretched their arms across the gapto hold hands in a mutual gesture to reconnect,” she continued. .

Building on her thoughts, she said: “They used their clasped hands as a methodof offering each other support, comfort and reassurance and, as they walkedbehind Prince William and Kate and presumably were about to talk, linked back.turned out to be extremely important to them.”

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Harry is having a hard time with this loss. The Duke of Sussex paid a movingtribute to his late grandmother with some lovely words. He said: “As wecelebrate the life of my grandmother, Her Majesty the Queen – and in mourningher loss – we are all reminded of the guiding compass she was to so many inher dedication to service and duty.”

“Grandma, although this last goodbye brings us great sadness, I am forevergrateful for all our first encounters – from my earliest childhood memorieswith you, to the first time I met you as my commander in chief until thefirst moment you met my lovely wife and embraced your beloved great-grandchildren,” he finished.

The royal family has had some ups and downs in the recent past, buthopefully this loss will bring them closer together again.

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Ezra Miller is the subject of a new Vanity Fair __ exposé, which looks atthe 29-year-old actor’s “dark spiral” over the past few years. More than adozen people were interviewed for the lengthy report, some of whom claimMiller suffers from Messiah delusions.

Miller’s erratic behavior first spilled into the public while they were inIceland in 2020. The Flash star, whose pronouns are they/them, choked twostrangers with one incident going viral after it was caught on film. Aninsider who was with Miller around this time told Vanity Fair : “[They’d]talk about the metaverse and the medicine and how they’re the Messiah and what[their] work is here. They say their spiritual practice is to be among thepeople — which means party. So, when in Iceland, [they were] out nonstop.[Their] favorite were raves, where [they’d] go on benders for two or threedays at a time.”

Miller has been accused of cult-like behavior and grooming young women.Activist Tokata Iron Eyes is among those who has been traveling around withMiller in recent months. Tokata’s parents went public and accused the actor ofbrainwashing and assaulting their daughter. (Tokata has denied this ininterviews.) Tokata’s mother, Jumping Eagle, said she has heard about Miller’ssupposed Messiah complex.

“They say they are some kind of messiah, and they’re going to lead anIndigenous revolution,” Jumping Eagle told Vanity Fair. Miller is not NativeAmerican, but has frequently spoken out against people appropriating theculture.

“[Miller] professionals that [they walk] through this world with an Indigenoushumility and spiritual awareness,” one “Indigenous insider” alleged. “But,point of fact, [they don’t] at all. because [they don’t] care.”

Multiple sources claimed to the magazine that Miller was verbally andemotionally abusive while referring to themself as both Jesus and the devil.According to one insider, the actor invoked the superhero they play “claimingthat the Flash is the one who brings the multiverses together just likeJesus.”

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Another peculiar anecdote buried in the investigative report involves SusanSarandon. While describing the Miller’s Vermont farm, where weed, guns andFlash figurines are purportedly rampant, there is an altar they like to use.

“A lot of times [Miller] makes the women put their cellphones on the altarwhen they come in, and other offerings,” a longtime friend claims to themagazine. “Ezra freaked out recently… demanding that Susan Sarandon come paytribute to [their] altar because she didn’t invite Ezra to a dinner party.”

A rep for Miller countered to Vanity Fair that Sarandon and the actor “aredear friends” and that Miller “would probably call this [anecdote] totalbullshit if asked.” (A rep for Sarandon did not respond to YahooEntertainment’s request for comment.)

Miller’s former fiancée, Erin, participated in the story and said that Miller”wasn’t violent or physically abusive toward anyone” when they were together.The couple dated in 2016.

“For years [they] convinced me and all our friends that I was abusive…. Butlooking back, I would be calling out [their] disrespect and [they] wouldn’ttake responsibility and just call me abusive because of my reaction. I couldhave handled it better. I didn’t know the term gaslight back then. I wasemotionally f***ed up for years,” Erin shared. She added that Miller broke upwith her after a spiritual advisor told them that she was a parasite.

“I can make excuses for [them] all day, but I don’t want to anymore,” sheadded. “The illusions of grandeur need to be called out. I will love Ezraalways, and I don’t want [them] to continue down this dark road.”

Last month, after Miller’s most recent judgment, the actor announced theystarted “ongoing treatment” for “complex mental health issues.” According tothe magazine, the treatment just involves therapy.

“They are taking their therapy and treatment very seriously,” Miller’s repsaid.

The move was a last ditch effort to save next year’s blockbuster movie TheFlash , which will be Miller’s biggest movie yet. Warner Bros. is movingforward with the tentpole despite the mounting negative press about its star.

“The notion that The Flash was at risk was a wake-up call,” Miller’s repadded.

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Parliamentary questions about abortion song by punk band Vulva

MPs from the ChristenUnie and SGP ask the Minister of Health (VWS) inparliamentary questions about the legal options for taking action against theRotterdam punk band Vulva. That band praises the freedom to have an abortion,and the way in which they do that repulses the MPs.

“Are there administrative or legal options to take action against this?” ChrisStoffer of the SGP and Mirjam Bikker of the governing party ChristenUnie askMinister Ernst Kuipers (VSW). They are mainly concerned with the song ‘Killthe Baby’, about abortion. Stoffer and Bikker find the way Vulva expresseshimself “about something as vulnerable as abortion” “downright shocking”.

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Consciously rude

The band Vulva organized a mini-festival in the Arminiuskerk in Rotterdam atthe end of August, in honor of the release of their first album, Woe to theWicked. Their music and lyrics are deliberately rude, said Kim Hoorweg of theband earlier in NRC : „It is playing hard and kicking against everything. Wewant to make a subject such as abortion, still in the penal code, open fordiscussion. (…) Find it difficult or ridiculous what we say. I feel thetension you feel now every day.”

‘ Kill the baby / I ‘m not your mommy / just kill the baby / my uterus‘Hoorweg and fellow band member Nadya van Osnabrugge sing in ‘Kill the Baby’.In the music video accompanying the song, a plastic baby doll is set on fire,thrown out of a window, given to a dog to chew and then placed on an electricchair.

“The parliamentary questions show that the right to abortion must be removedfrom the penal code and protected as soon as possible,” says Hoorweg. “You seea relatively small but loud group taking political action and attemptingcensorship. This shows how easily we can end up in a similar situation toAmerica that now seems absurd.”

Anti-abortion protesters

The two band members have also been threatened since their album presentation,and at their concert in the dB’s hall in Utrecht, some anti-abortiondemonstrators handed out flyers and held a prayer circle. According to the_Reformation Newspaper_ __the protesters were pelted with tomatoes, apples anda stone.

It also disturbs the MPs of SGP and ChristenUnie that the AVA organization wasinvolved in the event in the Arminiuskerk. AVA, an initiative of the HumanistAssociation that provides information about contraception and abortion incollaboration with foundations such as Rutgers, FIOM, the Dutch Associationfor Obstetrics and Gynaecology (NVOG) and the Dutch Association of AbortionDoctors (NGvA), was invited by Vulva. The MPs ask the minister whether thismeans that AVA and its partners also support the message of ‘Kill the baby’.

And because Vpro website 3for12 published a piece about Vulva, the two MPsalso want to know whether there are limits for public media to report on”violent and offensive artistic expressions”.

Shutterstock Penny Lancaster trained to become a special constable with theCity of London Police after appearing on the reality TV show Famous andFighting Crime

Penny Lancaster had a unique perspective during the world’s farewell to HerMajesty.

The British model and TV personality, 51, who is married to Rod Stewart,credited “great training and preparation” for a smooth day as she spoke to SkyNews about being part of the police detail on Monday for Queen Elizabeth II’sstate funeral.

“With all that planning going ahead, you can never quite predict how the crowdis [going to] react and the dangers that might lay ahead,” Lancaster said.”But we’ve had great training and preparation, and fortunately, everybody paidtheir respects in the proper manner and we didn’t have any incidents to speakof. So, I’m very grateful for that.”

She explained that Operation London Bridge “came into action immediately”after the Queen’s death, and they were alerted of duties via phone.

Lancaster, who is a special constable with the City of London Police, saidthat she’s “very proud to be able to serve” during such a “historic moment”for the country as she announced her state funeral duty last week on GoodMorning Britain.

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The coffin of Queen Elizabeth II carried by pallbearers at the State Funeralof Queen Elizabeth II, held at Westminster Abbey, on September 19, 2022 inLondon, England. Elizabeth Alexandra Mary Windsor was born in Bruton Street,Mayfair, London on 21 April 1926. She married Prince Philip in 1947 andascended the throne of the United Kingdom and Commonwealth on 6 February 1952after the death of her Father, King George VI. Queen Elizabeth II died atBalmoral Castle in Scotland on September 8, 2022, and is succeeded by hereldest son, King Charles III.

_Jack Hill – WPA Pool/Getty _ Queen Elizabeth II died at age 96 on Thursday,Sept. 8 and her state funeral was held Monday at Westminster Abbey before shewas laid to rest at Windsor Castle

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“It was a great privilege to work at the Queen’s memorial service at St.Paul’s Cathedral on Friday,” she said. “I signed the oath of Office ofConstable to Her Majesty the Queen just over a year ago, April last year, andjust as the seamless tie between Her Majesty and King Charles III, my oathwill now be with the King.”

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Stewart, 77, detailed his wife’s eight-month journey toward becoming a cop toPEOPLE last year after she was inspired by her appearance on Famous andFighting Crime a reality show in which celebrities ride along with realofficers.

“She got absolutely absorbed by it and loved it,” he recalled in November.”She said, ‘I’m going to do this. I’m going to do all the training, all theexams.’ The nicest quote she said [is]’I want to give something back, fine,but I want to look after the city that I love, which is London.'”

Penny Lancaster and Rod Stewart attend the Upstart Crow press night at theGielgud Theater on February 17, 2020 in London, England

Dave J Hogan/Getty Rod Stewart has been married to Penny Lancaster since2007 and they share two children

“She’s a part-timer, she works one day a week and patrols the Tower Bridgearound London. She makes arrests, and she’ll go out in front… She’s tough.She’s 6′ 2″. [You] can’t argue with a big blonde,” Stewart added.

Queen Elizabeth died at age 96 on Thursday, Sept. 8. Her death follows herhusband of 73 years, Prince Philip, who died at age 99 in April 2021. She issucceeded immediately by her eldest son, King Charles III, 73, who is now themonarch.

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The Queen’s coffin traveled to Westminster Hall in a solemn procession onWednesday, and it has since been lying in state for mourners to pay theirrespects.

More than 2,000 people from around the world gathered Monday at WestminsterAbbey for the Queen’s funeral, before she was laid to rest at Windsor Castle.