Khloé Kardashian's Coachella Nightmare, Kanye West's T-Swift Drama, Will Smith's Court Twist & More
Plus, Cameron Diaz welcomes baby No. 3 & Zayn Malik abruptly scraps his U.S. tour.
Hollywood’s rumor mill is working overtime.
From Khloé Kardashian’s terrifying Coachella drug scare and Amber Rose taking blame for Kanye West’s infamous Taylor Swift VMAs interruption to Hayden Panettiere’s bisexual bombshell and fresh legal drama surrounding Will Smith, this week’s celebrity chaos proves there’s never a dull moment in Tinseltown.
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KHLOÉ SLIPPED A MICKEY AT COACHELLA
KYLIE JENNER reportedly whooped it up at the recent Coachella music festival, but half-sister KHLOÉ KARDASHIAN shuns the popular annual event in California’s desert because of a past bad trip on drugs. “It wasn’t the best experience,” notes the 41-year-old of her only visit, around 2016. She recalls drinking “a juice” at an off-site party and the next thing she knew, she was locked inside a bathroom “for hours” and so stoned, she didn’t even know that she was whacked out.
“I just didn’t realize what was happening until after it happened that I was on drugs and everyone was yelling at me because I wouldn’t get out of the bathroom,” she recalls. “l was so scared.” Khloé doesn’t believe she was targeted because everyone was guzzling the mysterious “juice.”
She adds: “I don’t think anyone, like, drugged me. I just think I was the dumb one and didn’t realize that everyone was on drugs, and I remember drinking this drink and just feeling really crazy. No one wants to feel like that and not know why they’re like that.”
AMBER TAKES BLAME FOR KANYE'S RANT
Disgraced KANYE WEST has given folks lots of reasons to shun him - like his antisemitic rants and put-downs of Black people - but now a former galpal, stripper-model AMBER ROSE, says she’s behind his shameful insult to TAYLOR SWIFT. At the 2009
MTV Video Music Awards, as Taylor was accepting her Best Female Video award, Kanye snatched the mic from her and declared that rival BEYONCÉ deserved the honor. That kicked off a long Kanye-Taylor feud.
Now Amber says she was Kanye’s date at the event, got him “hyped up” on booze beforehand and then egged him on, saying: “You the biggest thing in the world.” But while she “wasn’t expecting” him to do what he did, she says she agreed with him. She also insists there’s no bad blood between her and Swift. Oh yeah!
HAYDEN COMES OUT AS BISEXUAL
Mini-sexpot HAYDEN PANETTIERE has enjoyed high-profile romances with famous hunks, including her Heroes costar MILO VENTIMIGLIA and former heavyweight champ WLADIMIR KLITSCHKO, with whom she shares a daughter. But now she’s dropped the bombshell that she’s bisexual! While promoting her new memoir, This Is Me: A Reckoning, the 5-foot spitfire confesses, “Yes, I am bisexual. This is the first time I got to say it out loud.”
Of course, it’s no wonder the 36-year-old would switch sides following an allegedly abusive affair with BRIAN HICKERSON from 2018 to 2022. But the Nashville beauty insists she was “much more into women even as a child than ... men.” While she kept it secret, she says, “I have explored it, but ... I didn’t really have the courage to throw myself fully emotionally into it.”
WILL WALKS ON SEX SUIT
WILL SMITH did a lot of hocus-pocus in his Aladdin flick, but it’s his lawyers who magically got a judge to toss an ugly lawsuit charging him with sexual harassment. Violinist BRIAN KING JOSEPH filed papers claiming the 57-year-old actor had been grooming him for sex during a tour last year. The musician claims someone secretly entered his Las Vegas hotel room and left a note, saying, “Brian, I’ll be back ... just us” along with wipes, beer and HIV meds. He claims he was fired for reporting the incident. Will’s lawyers called his claims “false,” and the judge ruled the string-plucker failed “to allege conduct... sufficiently severe or pervasive” or show that Will and his people were the only ones with access to his room.
CROC'S SNAKE-BIT KID BUSTED
The troubled 28-year-old son of Crocodile Dundee icon PAUL HOGAN landed in the jaws of the law when he was busted on domestic violence charges. L.A. cops rushed to Hogan’s Venice Beach pad May 1 where a woman, who was not identified, spoke with them about the disturbance. Hogan’s son CHANCE, who had reportedly left before police arrived, was later arrested with bail set at $27,770. Sources say Chance has battled mental health issues and last year posted a message begging for “someone to kill me.” A source says 86-year-old Hogan “is tired” and “doesn’t need to be dealing with this… Paul’s desperate ... [he] feels like he failed his son in some way.” But he’s committed to getting Chance “the help he needs,” adds the source.
BABY NEWS, HEALTH WOES ... AND MORE!
Actress CAMERON DIAZ, 53, and hubby BENJI MADDEN, 47, are happy parents for the third time, welcoming son NAUTAS to their brood of daughter RADDIX, 6, and son CARDINAL, 2. Cam has talked about becoming a mom later in life, saying: “When you’re my age and you decide to do it, it’s a real choice. You really have to work hard for it. The only pressure for me is I have to live to be, like, 107, you know? So - no pressure!”
Bad news for U.S. fans of Kiss You crooner ZAYN MALIK. The 33-year-old has canceled the U.S. leg of his tour. Concerts will now be limited to England, Mexico and South America. Although music insiders whispered low ticket sales may have led to the scrapped dates, the former One Direction singer insists he’s just recovering from an undisclosed illness. “I’m doing well and will be better and stronger than before,” he says.
Singer-songwriter MAREN MORRIS, who has collaborated with TAYLOR SWIFT and sang with her during her Eras tour, says she got an invite to her wedding with TRAVIS KELCE, but it was bogus. “It was like, You’re invited to Taylor and Travis’ wedding.” She realized it was spam, adding, “I was like, ‘I’m blocking this,’ because there’s no way they would send an invitation through a text like this.”