Paris Hilton, 40, US reality actress, has spoken urgently for stricter rules in the fight against abuse of children in youth facilities. “I was choked, slapped in the face, watched by male employees in the shower, insulted with swear words, forced to take medication without diagnosis, not properly trained, put in solitary confinement in a room covered with scratches and smeared with blood, and so much more”, said Hilton at a news conference in Washington DC about her time at a youth facility. In her documentary “This is Paris” last year, the great-granddaughter of hotel founder Conrad Hilton made public that she had experienced abuse and violence in private schools. Hilton is campaigning for a bill that aims to better combat ill-treatment in such facilities.
Bill Clinton, 75, former US President, broadcasts health appeals. After he was released from the hospital where he was treated for a urinary tract infection, he says in a video message on Twitter: “I want to remind everyone out there, take the time to listen to your bodies and take care of yourself.” During the recording, Clinton stands in a light-flooded forest, he says he is enjoying the beautiful autumn weather. He ends his message with the words: “We all have work to do and each of us has an important role in life and in the immediate future. For my part, I will do my best to be here for a long time and to continue as much as possible To do good. “
Eva Menasse, 51, Austrian writer, refrains from reading when writing. When you are working on a book, you can often not read any literature, “because the sound of the other bothers you,” she said at the Frankfurt Book Fair. While working on her latest novel “Dunkelblum”, she bought a Netflix subscription. Since the novel was over, she hardly looks any more. “That was obviously a compensation.” When she is in the middle of a novel, it feels like “swimming in a sea”: The shore from which one started is no longer in sight, the shore to which one is heading is still further away Distance. She then starts reading the text all over again and “flies through” it: “I keep combing through the text. Above all, you can cut away the knots and the felt.”
Zach Galifianakis, 52, US comedian, hides his job from his sons. “My kids think I work as a librarian somewhere. They have no idea,” he said in an interview with Entertainment Tonight. Especially the rough comedy “Hangover” from 2009, which made him internationally known, he doesn’t want to show his sons just yet. “You want to protect their innocence as long as possible. They are still children,” he said. In the past, people would often come up to him and tell him that their children loved “Hangovers”. “And I thought to myself: You’re a terrible legal guardian.” His sons, four and eight years old, should get a little older before they can see the film.
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Kate Beckinsale, 48, British actress, struggles with her intelligence. Her IQ of 152 was not helpful for her career, she said on the radio talk show “Howard Stern Show” https://www.sueddeutsche.de/panorama/. “I think it was even more of a disadvantage.” Her mother had her tested when she was a child, “because very bright children are close to the unbearable”. Various doctors would have told her: “You would be much happier if you were 30 percent less smart.”