Frankie Muniz Says His Life Is a ‘Nightmare’ He’s ‘Praying to …

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Over the summer, Frankie Muniz announced that he and wife Paige Price were divorcing after five years of marriage.

The Malcolm in the Middle star revealed the news with a celebratory video in which the couple danced with their young son.

He deleted the post after taking flak for celebrating an event that may well prove traumatic to his kid.

Now, Muniz has definitely changed his tune, and he now says he’s suffering as he never has before.

Frankie Muniz and Paige Price attend People’s “Ones To Watch” at NeueHouse Hollywood on October 4, 2017 in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by Frazer Harrison/Getty Images)

In a shockingly candid social media post, Muniz described his life as a “nightmare” that’s left him feeling as though he has “nowhere to hide.”

“The last 6 weeks of my life have been a nightmare I’m praying to wake up from. Everything felt heavy, unclear, and like it was falling apart at the same time,” he wrote, adding:

“I wouldn’t wish this season on anyone.

“The unexpected gift in the middle of it is that I’ve had nowhere to hide. I’ve had time to sit with myself, do real self-reflection, and finally see the areas of my life that need work if I want to become a better version of me. Not the polished version I show the world…the actual one.”

Muniz does not appear to have any substance abuse issues — in fact, he says he’s never even been drunk — but he describes his current state as “rock bottom.”

The last 6 weeks of my life have been a nightmare I’m praying to wake up from. Everything felt heavy, unclear, and like it was falling apart at the same time. I wouldn’t wish this season on anyone.

The unexpected gift in the middle of it is that I’ve had nowhere to hide. I’ve… pic.twitter.com/CwnqJ7k7Er

— Frankie Muniz (@frankiemuniz) September 18, 2026

“I read that sometimes hitting rock bottom is the thing that wakes you up. It forces the changes you needed to make all along so you can live the best life possible,” he wrote, adding:

“That idea has been sitting with me. In five years I believe I’ll look back at this exact low point and feel grateful for it, because the high I’ll be standing on then only exists because I went through this.

“This isn’t the end of the story. It’s the part where I start doing the work…the uncomfortable, unglamorous, necessary work. I’m choosing to treat this season as the foundation, not the finish line.

“If you’re in a low place right now too, you’re not broken. You’re being rebuilt. Let’s keep going!”

For obvious reasons, Frankie’s post has sparked concern among fans.

Thankfully, he concluded it on an optimistic note.

Frankie has not offered any further clarification, but it feels safe to assume the challenges he’s referring to are the result of either his divorce or the pushback he received for his announcement.

Everybody deals with challenges in their own way, of course. And we hope the public will not continue to fault Frankie for remaining optimistic in the face of life’s setbacks.

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King Charles Told Princess Diana That He Didn’t Love Her One Day Before Their …

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It’s been nearly 30 years since Princess Diana was killed in a car accident while running from paparazzi.

And we’re still learning new details that make her story seem even more tragic.

A memoir by Diana’s brother, Charles Spencer, will be published next week.

And as expected, Spencer shares some highly unflattering recollections of Diana’s ex-husband, King Charles.

The Prince and Princess of Wales attend a welcome ceremony in Toronto at the beginning of their Canadian tour, October 1991. (Photo by Jayne Fincher/Princess Diana Archive/Getty Images)

Spencer writes that Charles sounded “giddily elated – like a lottery winner” on the night of Diana’s death.

Later in the book, he flashes further back and shares a harrowing story about the week of his sister’s wedding.

“On the day of Diana’s wedding I woke early and went to Clarence House, where I found her already in her wedding dress, sitting quietly in front of a mirror,” Spencer writes in an excerpt published by The Daily Mail.

“Only much later would I discover that, as she confided to a close friend, her husband-­to-­be had told her the previous day that she needed to know he was very happy to marry her, but he was not actually in love with her.” he continues, adding:

“Diana had to absorb that hammer blow while also feeling certain that Prince Charles was entering their marriage with his heart elsewhere.”

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This was not the first indication Spencer had had that Diana and Charles’ relationship was less than ideal.

“A month after her engagement, she had been photographed in tears saying goodbye to Prince Charles as he was about to board a plane on official business,” he writes.

“Newspapers cooed with delight at what they thought to be the pain of a lovestruck innocent being parted from her fiancé. The truth was very different. Diana was completely at sea, having found a bracelet that Prince Charles had bought for Camilla.”

Later, Spencer recalls that Diana tried to end the engagement on multiple occasions, but she was told by several people — including her own father — that it would not be possible to do so.

Diana struggled with an eating disorder throughout her adult life, and Spencer says the situation was exacerbated by Charles’ remarks about her weight.

“Her insecurity was increased a few days after the engagement announcement when Prince Charles had squeezed her waist and said, ‘Oh, a bit chubby here, aren’t we?’” Spencer writes, adding:

“This was a comment she found devastating (she would later share with me that her waist shrank from 29 to 23½ inches between her engagement and her marriage).”

These days, of course, Charles is king, and he’s married to the woman with whom he carried on an affair while he was married.

We all know that life isn’t fair. But sometimes, the gap between the life a person deserves and the one they get is so massive that all we can do is shake our heads.

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Miley Cyrus Reveals What Everyone Got Wrong About Godmother Dolly Parton

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Only a handful of people were lucky enough to know Dolly Parton as closely as Miley Cyrus did.

Long before she was a music star in her own right, let alone a household name, she was Parton’s goddaughter.

Now, she is thinking back to bittersweet memories of this national icon — and this tremendous loss.

Miley is also sharing one thing that so many people never understood about Parton.

Speaking to Apple Music, Miley delved into her album, losing Dolly Parton, and more. (Image Credit: YouTube/Apple Music)

‘How real she is and how authentic she is’

Miley Cyrus spoke about the late Dolly Parton in a new interview with Apple Music’s Zane Lowe.

The late cultural treasure always wore her larger-than-life wigs and costumes, but Miley stresses that the real woman never changed.

“She’s known for, I guess, the faux, the fake, the hair, the makeup, the show of it,” she acknowledged in the interview.

“But there’s a part of her that’s just what I think everyone gravitates toward,” Miley assessed.

She described that aspect of Parton as “how real she is and how authentic she is.”

Much of the interview had to do with Miley’s new album, Bass Persuades.

“The time that we talked, which was the last time we would talk, it was actually me telling her about this record,” she shared.

She praised her late godmother “because even though we are so different, that’s what made us so perfect for each other.”

And Parton’s counsel was welcome long before adults knew who Miley was.

“There was a time in my life, I mean, we hit on it with Hannah [Montana], so much of my life’s about persona,” she reflected.

And few know more about persona than the late, great Dolly Parton.

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‘You can still have a persona and still be who you are’

According to Miley Cyrus, Dolly Parton was instrumental in helping her to navigate a level of fame that far eclipsed her has-been father or any of her siblings.

“I think a way that I could look at that as, you can still have a persona and still be who you are, is because I had Dolly,” she affirmed.

Music can be very evocative. For Miley, that has meant crying during some performances. Parton felt very differently.

“She was like, ‘Music is escapism. Let them cry. Get through it,’” Miley recalled.

“I know, but this is who I am,” she described telling her godmother, who apparently replied that she “loved me for it.”

To ring in 2023, Miley teamed up with Parton. The two sang a duet of “Wrecking Ball” and “I Will Always Love You.”

It was a mash-up, and Miley felt pretty darn emotional during it. She knew that her godmother would not always be around.

“So many of my really stabilizing peers that I have in my life, they’re generations before me,” she described.

“And they’ve laid down brick by brick the road that I travel now,” Miley continued, “and they aren’t always going to be here for me to call them and say, ‘What do I do now?’”

Thinking back, she praised that Parton was “always right about stuff.”

NBC should bring back that special every NYE, by the way, and broadcast it live on Peacock. C’mon.

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White House Responds to Viral Image of Trump Kissing Natalie Harp: ‘Clearly a …

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By now, you’ve probably heard about the controversy surrounding Donald Trump and White House aide Natalie Harp.

The oddly close relationship between Trump and his “human printer” has been the subject of intense scrutiny in recent months.

Harp rarely seems to leave the president’s side, and her letters to Trump indicate that the bond between them goes beyond the limits of the standard employer-employee relationship.

U.S. Secretary of War Pete Hegseth, executive assistant to U.S. President Donald Trump Natalie Harp and U.S. President Donald Trump attend a dignified transfer at Dover Air Force Base on July 22, 2026 in Dover, Delaware. (Photo by Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images)

That doesn’t mean, of course, that their relationship is sexual or otherwise inappropriate. It’s just weird.

Still, given the rumors surrounding Trump and Hart, many were not surprised when a photo allegedly showing them kissing on a golf course went viral this week.

There was just one problem: It wasn’t real.

The White House has now addressed the image, with an administration official telling The Daily Beast that it was “clearly a fake photo.”

The image showed an older man who appeared to be Trump embracing a blonde woman who was widely assumed to be Harp. A second, higher-quality version of the picture also circulated online.

And while the blurry version was difficult to authenticate, the clearer image offered a rather significant clue that artificial intelligence had been involved.

Namely, the woman appeared to have six fingers.

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That’s generally not something you expect to see in a candid golf-course photo.

Fact-checkers also identified a watermark indicating that the sharper version had been generated using OpenAI tools.

Snopes concluded that the image was AI-generated, while The Daily Beast found no legitimate wire-service photograph showing Trump and Harp together on a golf course in the outfits depicted.

The origins of the image are murky.

One version was reportedly used as a thumbnail for a YouTube video by political commentator Keith Edwards. Edwards told Snopes that his thumbnail team found the image online and that they did not create or alter the underlying photograph. He also acknowledged that they had not independently verified whether the woman was Harp.

Of course, the fact that the photo is fake doesn’t mean Trump and Harp don’t spend an unusual amount of time together.

Harp has become a familiar presence alongside the president, including on golf outings and foreign trips. She has worked for Trump since 2022 after previously hosting for One America News, and she’s known for carrying a portable printer while traveling with him, earning her the nickname “human printer.”

Her close relationship with Trump has attracted additional attention in recent months, particularly after Democratic Sen. Jon Ossoff publicly referenced how frequently she travels with the president.

The Daily Beast also recently published letters Harp wrote to Trump in which she described him as her “Guardian and Protector” and expressed her desire to never let him down.

But whatever one thinks of their unusually close working relationship, there is no credible evidence that the viral golf-course kissing photo depicts a real event.

For once, those extra fingers were actually doing some investigative journalism.

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Ella Beatty: ‘Nepo Baby’ Star of ‘Monster: Lizzie Borden’ Draws …

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After months of anticipation, the latest installment of Ryan Murphy’s Monster anthology series dropped on Netflix on Thursday.

Murphy is no stranger to controversy, of course.

But this time, the discourse has less to do with the content of the series than with its star.

Ella Beatty attends the 79th Annual Tony Awards at Radio City Music Hall on June 07, 2026 in New York City. (Photo by Jamie McCarthy/Getty Images)

As you might have guessed from her name, Ella Beatty has a very famous father. And a very famous mother, for that matter.

She’s the daughter of Warren Beatty and Annette Bening — and she’s become the latest young star to receive criticism for being a nepo baby.

The 26-year-old actress stars as the title character in Netflix’s fourth season of Monster: The Lizzie Borden Story, which premiered September 17.

The series dramatizes the infamous 1892 case in which Borden was accused of murdering her father and stepmother before ultimately being acquitted.

But before Ella could take on one of history’s most notorious alleged killers, she had another distinction to contend with: being born into Hollywood royalty.

Ella is the youngest child of Oscar-nominated actress Annette Bening and legendary actor Warren Beatty.

After graduating from Juilliard in 2022, she made her professional acting debut in Murphy’s Feud: Capote vs. The Swans. She made her Broadway debut in 2024’s Appropriate and appeared in the 2025 film If I Had Legs I’d Kick You.

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Then Murphy came calling again.

Ella landed the title role in Monster: The Lizzie Borden Story, marking her first leading television role and the first season of the anthology to center on a female figure.

Previous seasons focused on Jeffrey Dahmer, the Menendez brothers, and Ed Gein.

But while she may have climbed the ladder much more quickly than most, the role was hardly something Ella took lightly.

She told Netflix that she immediately dove into true-crime podcasts and other material about the real-life case after auditioning (via People).

At the same time, she recognized that the series is a fictionalized dramatization rather than a documentary.

Unlike some nepo babies, Ella doesn’t deny that she’s benefited from her famous last name. But she says she’s benefited even more from her parents’ advice.

According to Ella, Warren and Bening encouraged her to listen, stay curious and “get interested rather than be interesting.”

Not exactly bad advice from two people who have spent decades navigating Hollywood.

And if Ella is lucky, people will find her performance as Lizzie Borden so interesting that they’ll be willing to overlook her not-so-humble origins and focus on her work.

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Taylor Frankie Paul Failed Multiple Drug Tests, Will Lose Parenting Time With Kids: Report

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To the surprise of absolutely no one, Taylor Frankie Paul is at the center of yet another legal controversy.

According to a new report from TMZ, Taylor has failed multiple court-ordered drug tests in recent months.

The nature of the drugs remains unclear, but the outlet reports that “at least one of them is not commonly available as a prescription med.”

Taylor Frankie Paul attends the Los Angeles Premiere and FYC Event of Hulu’s “The Secret Lives Of Mormon Wives” Season 2 at Paramount Studios on May 09, 2025 in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by Araya Doheny/Getty Images)

As a result of her failed tests, Taylor will have her parenting time with her children reduced.

Taylor is currently involved in custody disputes with ex-husband Tate Paul and ex-boyfriend Dakota Mortensen.

And the fact that she failed multiple tests in the past 60 days probably won’t help her secure the outcome she wants.

The news comes on the heels of news that Mikayla Matthews has decided to exit The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives.

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Matthews announced her decision in a lengthy Instagram post in which she referenced “problematic” behavior on set:

“I made my decision over a week ago, after hearing some news, that I will not be continuing the show at this moment,” Matthews wrote.

“I’ve said from the beginning of this that I’m not comfortable being a part of something that continues to platform behavior I don’t agree with, especially given my own experience growing up in a home with multiple forms of abuse,” she continued, adding:

“There’s no amount of money worth going against my morals or changing the stance I’ve had since I first saw and heard the things that made me feel this strongly.

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“And for me personally, continuing to directly profit from this behavior feels wrong and unethical. It feels like a disservice to the children, everyone’s healing and the millions of people watching.”

It’s unclear if Matthews’ decision had anything to do with recent allegations against Paul.

But the decision to allow Taylor to rejoin the cast of Mormon Wives has resulted in significant controversy.

As you’ll probably recall, Taylor’s season of The Bachelorette was shelved earlier this year after footage of her hurling chairs at Mortensen became public.

According to police reports, one of the chairs struck Paul’s daughter, who was on hand for the incident.

For obvious reasons, Taylor’s parenting has come under heavy scrutiny in the months since.

And news that she’s failed multiple drug tests probably won’t do any wonders for her reputation.

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Lindsay Clancy Holdout Juror Breaks Silence, Says He Believed She Was Guilty ‘From …

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In the weeks since Lindsay Clancy’s murder trial ended in a mistrial, there’s been a great deal of speculation about the lone juror who prevented a unanimous verdict.

He’s now come forward to offer his account of what happened behind closed doors.

The holdout juror, identified only as Michael, spoke with Ray Marcel of “Fugitive TV” this week.

People wait on line to enter Plymouth Superior Court during Lindsay Clancy’s murder trial on August 26, 2026 in Plymouth, Massachusetts. (Photo by Mel Musto/Getty Images)

And Marcel subsequently appeared on Chris Cuomo’s NewsNation program to discuss what the juror told him.

Michael spoke to Marcel about his role in the case, and he says he believed Clancy was guilty from the very beginning.

According to Marcel, Michael didn’t gradually come to the conclusion that Clancy was criminally responsible for the deaths of her three children.

“He felt that she was sane when she did it,” Marcel said, recounting his conversation with the juror (per TMZ).

Marcel added that Michael told him “from day one” that he believed Clancy was guilty and that he never expressed reasonable doubt about her criminal responsibility.

That account is notable because the jury ultimately deadlocked 11-1, with 11 jurors reportedly prepared to find Clancy not guilty by reason of lack of criminal responsibility.

The mistrial was declared on September 4 after the jury spent days deliberating without reaching a unanimous decision.

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Clancy’s defense had argued that she was suffering from severe postpartum psychosis when she killed her three children, Cora, 5, Dawson, 3, and Callan, 8 months, in January 2023.

Her attorneys have maintained that Clancy was not legally responsible for her actions because of her mental state at the time.

The lone holdout, however, refused to join the consensus formed by the other jurors.

His position has become the center of an increasingly bizarre post-trial saga, with multiple jurors publicly discussing the deliberations and offering their own accounts of what happened in the jury room.

One juror previously said the holdout could not identify a specific piece of evidence or witness testimony supporting his position. Another juror defended him, saying that several members of the panel had entered deliberations with strong opinions.

Meanwhile, Clancy’s attorney, Kevin Reddington, has asked a judge to enter a not-guilty finding rather than allow the case to proceed toward another trial.

The judge has not yet granted that request, and prosecutors have not announced whether they intend to retry Clancy.

For now, the case remains unresolved, and the latest comments from the juror at the center of the mistrial are adding another layer to an intensely scrutinized legal battle.

And with Clancy’s ex-husband Patrick Clancy preparing to speak publicly in his first major interview since the mistrial, this very complicated case is clearly nowhere near its final chapter.

We will have further updates on this developing story as new information becomes available.

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