Hallmark Star's Trauma Reveal, 'My 600-Lb. Life' Tragedy, Amanda Seyfried’s Youth Secrets & Jelly Roll's Jaw-Dropper
Dark confessions, sudden deaths and shocking reveals... oh my.
Hollywood’s shine flickers again – as a Hallmark favorite bravely opens up about a childhood trauma she was forced to bury, a My 600-Lb. Life alum’s comeback ends in heartbreaking tragedy, and an Oscar-adjacent beauty gets candid about how she stays youthful, inside and out.
Add in a country star admitting his weight once killed his sex life, A-listers unpacking complicated family dynamics, and sudden deaths that stun fans, and it becomes clear: the spotlight still offers no protection from life’s messiest truths.
Hollywood 411 By KEEPING TABS has it all… let’s get into it.
HALLMARK STAR'S CHILD ABUSE HORROR
Hallmark Channel star NIKKI DELOACH has made a shocking revelation - she was sexually abused as a child and the trauma sent her into a tailspin of painful silence and drastic, weight-slashing anorexia because she “wanted to disappear.”
The star of A Grand Ole Opry Christmas and Curious Caterer Mysteries is now 46, but recalls she was 10 “when this happened to me, and I was silenced, and wasn’t allowed to actually say what happened to me. At 10 years old, I was told that being a ‘good girl’ was letting boys do anything to you and keeping your mouth shut, to letting adults do anything to you and you just keep your mouth shut and you take it.”
She ended up feeling “not worthy of protection” and that something was “so deeply broken” about her that she didn’t “deserve” to be loved.
“That’s when the disordered eating started,” she says. “I just began to disappear... I was being told, ‘Be small, don’t speak, be pretty,’ no one wants your opinion.’” Nikki credits GLENNON DOYLE’s memoir Untamed with Glennon helping her battle back, noting it took “decades to untangle... and learn to love myself.”
MY 600-LB LIFE GAL DIES
After crushing the scales at 678 pounds and being crowned “heaviest woman alive” by Guinness Records, My 600-L.b Lite star PAULINE POTTER probably thought she was going to live till 90 by shedding a ton – but tragically she was wrong.
The gutsy gal, who dumped 500 pounds through surgery and diet, died at 62 on Nov. 27 from serious medical problems following a car crash. Her son DILLON BROOKS says they were going 50 mph when she swerved to avoid a broken down truck in the road, but “the passenger side of the car hit the side of the trailer and completely spun us around.” Following the crash, Pauline was hospitalized multiple times for medical issues - an esophagus blockage, COVID and respiratory failure - leading to her death, he says.
MAMMA MIA STAR'S SECRETS TO YOUTH
AMANDA SEYFRIED, who was a teen hottie in 2004’s iconic Mean Girls, is smokin’ at 40 and she’s revealed her secret mo the Fountain of Youth - Boox and therapy. The Mamma Mia beauty, mom of two young kids with hubby and The Newsroom actor THOMAS SADOSKI, 49, confesses to getting wrinkles on her forehead botoxed.
She also raves, “I’ve done a lot of couples therapy. I’ve done a lot of therapy alone. I’ve had insane amounts of conversations with psychologists and friends who are psychologists that 1 feel like 1 have a lot of self-knowledge. It’s not everything, but it certainly goes a long way.”
Also – the actress, who took a lot of heat recently for calling assassinated conservative mouthpiece CHARLIE KIRK “hateful,” says she’s sticking to her words.
JELLY'S BELLY RUINED SEX WITH HIS BUNNIE
Dropping more than 200 pounds had a huge plus for 41-year-old crooner JELLY ROLL - it supercharged his sex life with his curvy wife, BUNNIE XO, 45. The 6-foot-1 Save Me singer, who at his highest was a Moby Dick-sized 550 pounds, confesses his bedroom love life was zero due to his incredible bulk.
Despite the fact that Bunnie is a bombshell, “I couldn’t even get aroused, I was so big,” he admits. “I married a f**king big-t*ttied, blond, beautiful woman, you know what I mean? I married the kind of woman that makes you smile when you cry. I mean, it was bad!”
The Wild Ones singer says he felt like a “zombie” until he finally dumped the pounds.
SIBLING TIES, DEATHS... AND MORE!
Horrible Bosses star JASON BATEMAN, 56, says he and his sis, Family Ties star JUSTINE, 59, don’t see each other or talk often - but that’s not because they’re feuding. “Our conversations are the rich conversations you would have with an adult friend, not the kind of petulant back-and-forth you might have with your adult sibling,” he notes. “We hang out, and we’re nice to each other because we respect one another as individuals regardless of the blood thing.”
Part-time actress WENNE ALTON DAVIS, who played a cop on The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel, was fatally struck by a car while crossing a Manhattan street Dec. 8. The 61-year-old worked full-time as a customs agent at JFK airport and was reportedly planning on retiring soon.
Bengals star quarterback JOE BURROW, 29, hinted he might be hanging up his cleats after recovering from a severe toe injury that required surgery. “I’ve been through a lot and if it’s not fun then what am I doing it for? So, that’s the mindset I’m trying to bring to the table,” says the jock, who eams $25M per year plus bonuses.
Like the title of her tune, CHRISTINA AGUILERA now Moves Like Jagger again after dumping 50 pounds. The 5-foot-2 singer was once an itty-bitty 106 pounds, but at age 44 had put on weight. As for buzz she used Ozempic to trim down, the mom of two spouted: “I just don’t give a f”k about your opinion!”