Normal view

There are new articles available, click to refresh the page.
Today — 27 February 2025Entertainment News

Alan Cumming Claims Ex-Wife Didn’t Believe He Was Abused as a Child

26 February 2025 at 22:05
Alan Cumming
Alan Cumming Amy Sussman/Getty Images

Alan Cumming claims that his ex-wife Hilary Lyon initially expressed disbelief when he revealed he was a victim of childhood abuse. 

Cumming, 60, detailed his difficult past in his 2014 memoir Not My Father’s Son, where he described being emotionally and physically abused by his dad, Alex Cumming

The Traitors host spoke about his relationship with Alex on the Tuesday, February 25 episode of the podcast “Reclaiming with Monica Lewinsky.”

“In that situation, you’re so worried about being believed. … And some people didn’t,” Cumming said. 

Dermot Mulroney Hints Former Costar Alan Cumming Once ‘Saved’ His Life

When host Monica Lewinsky asked who’d doubted him, he replied: “My ex-wife.”

Without using Lyon’s name, Cumming added that he thought “she did, eventually” believe him. “But she told me that I used it as an excuse to get out of the marriage,” he said, noting that “she was angry” at the time. 

“You’re so tender and you’re so raw that … you can’t be around people who don’t believe you,” Cumming told Lewinsky, 51. “It’s just too much. You can hardly believe it.”

Cumming and the actress were married from 1985 to 1993. In 2007, he and artist Grant Shaffer tied the knot in a London civil ceremony. The couple later remarried in New York on their fifth wedding anniversary. 

'Traitors' Host Alan Cumming Didn't Know 'The Whole Thing' About Scandoval

“I’d had a lot of bad failed relationships, and I was ready to not have a bad one,” Cumming told People earlier this month. “There’s certain things that happened in my life that have made me who I am and made me understand myself so much better.”

He explained, “By the time I met Grant — we started going out with each other when we were nearly 40 — all those things had sort of come out and I had done a lot of therapy. I was ready to be honest and open about what I could bring to the table and what I felt I wasn’t capable of. We started our relationship just being very honest with each other.”

Cumming revealed in his People interview that he’d married Lyon partly out of a need to achieve stability in his life. 

“That’s not a great thing to do,” Cumming said. “I wouldn’t recommend that. I was 21 when I got married the first time. I knew I was bisexual when I was married the first time, as did my wife.”

Stars on Broadway: Celebrities Who've Taken the Stage

The Good Wife actor has been open about his sexuality for quite some time, telling Oasis magazine circa 2007, “For me, bisexual is a good thing, because it’s in the middle. Even now that I have a husband, who’s a man, I still find lots of people attractive.”

Cumming celebrated his milestone 60th birthday on January 27. 

“I live my life on my own terms,” Cumming wrote via Instagram at the time, posting a series of photos from his Nasty Pig campaign

“I don’t want to conform or follow the pack or ‘act my age’ because that means allowing other people’s opinions to dictate my existence, and I have always found the more I stick to my guns and am prepared to be vulnerable and authentic and true to myself the more successful and happy I am.”

All Rules and Behind-the-Scenes Secrets You Didn’t Know About ‘The Traitors’

The Scottish Tony-and-Emmy winner has a long Hollywood resume that includes his role as political operator Eli Gold in the former CBS series The Good Wife as well as his appearances in the films Romy and Michele’s High School Reunion and Eyes Wide Shut. Since 2023, he’s  hosted the hit Peacock show The Traitors, a mafia-style game with a prize of up to $250,000 and an eclectic group of celeb competitors

‘The Kardashians’ Uses Animal Noises to Censor a Conversation About Oral Sex

26 February 2025 at 21:30
‘The Kardashians’ Uses Animal Noises to Censor a Conversation
Hulu

Kim Kardashian and Khloé Kardashian had an unfiltered conversation about their sex lives that was censored by Hulu with various animal noises

During the Thursday, February 27, episode of The Kardashians, Henry Winkler’s daughter, Zoe, told Kim she has ever “tasted [meow] before” because she would “throw up.” This surprised Kim, 44, who told Khloé, 40, the details, saying, “Zoe said she has never tasted [bark] before.”

Based on context clues, the group was discussing their experience with oral sex.

“I probably did but then I would [caw] it out. I have never like [baa] anyone’s. Ew, no,” Zoe noted, to which Khloé replied, “[I] don’t think you are missing anything in life.”

The Kardashian-Jenner Family’s Steamiest Sex Confessions Over the Years

Khloé added: “I think they just want you to make them [quack] and they don’t really care what you do with it but it is not the most attractive to spit it out.”

While most of their sentences weren’t bleeped out, a startling confession from Kim caused most of her words to get censored. “Do you guys know that [monkey howling] by [crowing]?” she asked before Hulu added sounds of “dolphins chittering” and “horses neighing.”

The Kardashians Uses Animal Noises to Bleep Out
Hulu

Despite Kim’s unfiltered commentary about her sex life, she doesn’t usually share such NSFW details. The reality star was previously married to producer Damon Thomas, whom she divorced before her debut on Keeping Up With the Kardashians. The duo, who had a 10-year age difference, were married for three years until they called it quits in 2003.

Nearly one decade later, Kim got engaged to Kris Humphries in 2011 following a whirlwind romance. Kim and Humphries tied the knot in 2011 but split after 72 days of marriage. Their divorce was finalized in April 2013 following a lengthy court battle.

Kim moved on from Humphries with longtime friend Kanye West. One year after welcoming daughter North, the couple got married in 2014. They later welcomed son Saint in 2015, daughter Chicago in 2018 and son Psalm in 2019. In February 2021, Kim filed for divorce after nearly seven years of marriage.

Kim Kardashian’s Most Honest and Steamy Quotes About Her Sex Life

Kim has since been linked to Pete Davidson and Odell Beckham Jr. In an earlier episode of her reality show, Kim discussed how her preferences in the bedroom have changed since she’s returned to the dating scene.

“I pretty much have the lights off now,” she shared in 2023. “It is so weird. But then, I can walk out in a thong of a photoshoot with 100 people working on set. But if it’s like you’re there with me I am like, ‘Wait don’t look at me. Turn the lights off.'”

Kim later offered more details on what she’s looking for in a potential suitor.

“I do [have a list]. But I’m also not so delusional to know that someone will check every single box,” she noted on SiriusXM’s “This Life of Mine With James Corden” podcast in 2024 . “[I’m looking for someone who is] accountable for actions. Takes accountability, [has] good teeth, can hold their own and I don’t have to babysit [them] all the time. Just a good, genuine person that’s driven and has their own motivations in life.”

Kim said that her list is “so long” that she struggled to share only a handful of the characteristics. She wasn’t sure, however, if her attempt to find The One could result in a wedding.

“I don’t know. I really don’t. There’ll be moods where I’m just like, ‘You know what? I understand my life is really big, and I understand it takes a really, really, really special, unique person to want to deal with that,'” she continued at the time. “I think my life is really fun and whoever comes into my life will have a really good time, but it’s a lot. I’m not lonely, so I’m good. I have my kids, I have work, I have my family, but it would be nice to share your life with someone, but when you do, it’s such a big … I don’t take that lightly.”

New episodes of The Kardashians air on Hulu every Thursday.

❌
❌