JustPearlyThings - March 15, 2023


Hollywood Does this to modern women


Episode Stats

Length

8 minutes

Words per Minute

169.77292

Word Count

1,418

Sentence Count

140

Misogynist Sentences

10


Summary

Cara Delevingne is this month s Vogue cover girl, and she talks about her struggles with addiction and how she was introduced to drugs and alcohol at a very young age. I m so sick of Hollywood glamorizing addiction, and I m here to talk about it.


Transcript

00:00:00.600 I saw that Cara Delevingne is this month's Vogue cover.
00:00:05.480 She's on the cover of Vogue. You guys might be familiar with her.
00:00:07.740 She's a model and she is an actress and she has struggled quite publicly with her addiction issues.
00:00:13.160 And she sort of hit rock bottom about four months ago when she was filmed outside of an airport terminal, essentially tweaking.
00:00:21.840 Honestly, she looked like a meth addict and it was very clear that she needed to check herself into rehab and she did just that.
00:00:27.420 And by the way, I want to be very clear. Addiction is something that afflicts every family that I know.
00:00:33.300 I don't know a single person that can say, I've just never heard of anybody being an addict in my entire life or nobody.
00:00:38.280 And this is everyone's like, Pearl, what do you know about shit?
00:00:43.040 I do know a bit about addiction. I had a crackhead in my family.
00:00:48.040 Not immediate family, right? I mean, my dad's one of 13. My mom's one of nine kids.
00:00:52.440 You are just bound to have a crackhead or an alcoholic or two. And I can think of three.
00:00:58.280 And do I think any of them should be on the cover of Vogue and sports, whatever?
00:01:03.780 You know, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no.
00:01:07.800 Anyways.
00:01:09.420 Well, close to them has ever suffered from addiction.
00:01:11.980 It is it is commonplace in America, especially because it's essentially an anarcho state where we celebrate people doing drugs all the time.
00:01:18.780 We glamorize it, especially Hollywood.
00:01:20.280 But I was I was struck by this interview with Vogue because it seems to me that there's never any consequences in Hollywood.
00:01:27.520 It's not her fault. Obviously, it's not Cara Delevingne's fault that she is an addict.
00:01:32.620 Oh, my gosh. Yes. I was thinking about this with Demi.
00:01:36.060 It's like, OK, it's a cycle. We reward bad behavior.
00:01:39.520 OK, I'm going to share my screen in a second.
00:01:42.340 So I have a Google Doc.
00:01:44.380 OK, this is what we do in Hollywood.
00:01:47.020 OK, what they'll do.
00:01:49.360 OK.
00:01:51.760 Cycle.
00:01:56.140 You ready for this, Ellie?
00:01:58.080 OK, I'm going to show you.
00:01:59.420 I'm going to show you guys.
00:02:01.280 All right.
00:02:01.720 The cycle is cyclist first.
00:02:05.580 First, it's bad behavior.
00:02:09.200 Bad behavior.
00:02:10.580 OK, now, what is this?
00:02:13.380 Addiction.
00:02:20.320 Cheating.
00:02:21.580 Right.
00:02:23.180 I'm going to make this font bigger, don't I?
00:02:26.640 OK, bad behavior.
00:02:29.200 Addiction, cheating, partying, whatever.
00:02:35.440 Then, what do they get out of this?
00:02:39.200 What's the next?
00:02:40.980 Can I do a downwards arrow?
00:02:42.520 I don't know how to do that.
00:02:43.220 OK, whatever.
00:02:44.160 What happens next?
00:02:45.280 We get attention, right?
00:02:49.580 So that is media, peace on them.
00:02:53.780 So then what happens next?
00:02:57.220 What happens next?
00:02:59.480 They overcome it, usually temporarily.
00:03:02.380 So, like, you know, overcome it temporarily.
00:03:07.300 This will typically include an apology.
00:03:10.720 Oh, I'm so sorry.
00:03:11.980 So let's do the bad behavior.
00:03:13.580 The bad behavior in this case could be Tiger Woods cheating.
00:03:18.020 Now, I know, like, what did you expect, Tiger Woods?
00:03:21.980 But let's just, we're just going to do that.
00:03:23.520 Tiger Woods cheats.
00:03:24.500 Then we get all this attention and media on it.
00:03:28.480 Then, you know, maybe, I don't actually know what happened.
00:03:31.240 But let's just say they overcame it, right, temporarily.
00:03:33.660 Then we can do more attention and money.
00:03:38.740 So what will happen is they'll make a documentary about overcoming or album,
00:03:46.260 you know, for Beyonce and Jay-Z, or album about overcoming X.
00:03:51.580 Whatever the addiction is, whatever.
00:03:54.320 So then they get that.
00:03:55.960 Then they fall back again.
00:03:58.700 And then the cycle just repeats.
00:04:01.880 So they do the bad behavior.
00:04:03.620 They get the attention.
00:04:05.500 Then they overcome it.
00:04:06.720 And then they get the attention and money.
00:04:08.120 And they will just repeat this cycle until, honestly, people are sick of hearing it.
00:04:14.060 And usually there's no real change.
00:04:15.520 So, yeah, you know, I see what she's saying.
00:04:18.220 So.
00:04:18.800 It's very difficult to live through.
00:04:20.040 And she gives a meaningful interview talking about her childhood.
00:04:24.180 Now, obviously, we know that she comes from wealth.
00:04:25.940 And she talks about how hard it is for her.
00:04:28.480 I'll quote her directly in this interview.
00:04:30.340 She says,
00:04:30.600 In a way, a lot of people have looked at my childhood or my family and thought she's spoiled.
00:04:34.860 There's nepotism.
00:04:35.660 She grew up extremely privileged, which I did.
00:04:37.760 Don't get me wrong for the 30-year-old.
00:04:39.920 But life wasn't all that easy for other reasons.
00:04:43.040 She talks about how she was first introduced to alcohol at the age of seven.
00:04:46.600 I woke up in my granny's house in my bedroom with a hangover and a bridesmaid's dress.
00:04:50.340 I'd gone around nailing glasses of champagne.
00:04:53.480 She then talks about all of her mental health issues, inadvertent self-harm, and then as
00:04:58.200 a teenager, how things progressively got worse.
00:05:00.740 And obviously this is...
00:05:02.480 I need to stop for a second for the supers.
00:05:07.060 Okay, Angel of Sorrow, you think you're going to manipulate us into chatting?
00:05:10.820 Nice try, Pearl.
00:05:12.040 Wait.
00:05:13.720 I'm not manipulating you into doing shit.
00:05:16.120 Chat or don't chat.
00:05:17.180 What am I going to do?
00:05:20.980 Make you chat?
00:05:21.880 It's like...
00:05:22.820 Sometimes, guys, you drive me up a wall.
00:05:26.240 You drive me up a wall.
00:05:29.160 Okay.
00:05:30.180 Next.
00:05:31.100 Thank you to Auntie Jenny for showing and teaching women the proper way a man sees thing.
00:05:36.140 Also, how a proper, feminine, respectful woman should be.
00:05:39.200 God bless you.
00:05:40.080 Can you get Coach Overton on?
00:05:41.920 I don't know who that is.
00:05:42.820 Shows you how remarkable privilege she is.
00:05:44.020 She's essentially been struggling with addiction issues since she was seven years old, and yet
00:05:47.600 despite this, she's been handed awards in Hollywood.
00:05:50.260 She's been handed...
00:05:51.440 You know, she's acting in huge movies, and despite us all watching her tweak outside of
00:05:57.200 an airport, they still put her on the cover of Vogue, right?
00:06:00.200 So somebody sent me this and said, this is great.
00:06:01.980 Like, this is somebody that's outwardly speaking about addiction.
00:06:03.980 That could help someone, and that's great, but she's been sober for four months.
00:06:07.040 Why are there no consequences?
00:06:08.060 Why is she allowed to be on the cover of Vogue?
00:06:10.060 Why is that...
00:06:11.060 Because she's a woman.
00:06:13.260 A woman.
00:06:14.540 Yeah.
00:06:14.920 She had simply made a statement.
00:06:16.100 If she had been sober her entire life and had lived an exemplary lifehood, exemplary childhood,
00:06:22.100 pardon, and if she was a stunning example to teenagers everywhere that they don't have
00:06:26.400 to do drugs, but if she simply said, I'm a conservative, she would have lost everything.
00:06:30.700 It's very weird to me that Hollywood, it almost celebrates depravity.
00:06:36.540 You know what I mean?
00:06:37.100 Like, they think that there's something so wonderful and artistic about the fact that
00:06:40.400 she's speaking out about her issues and the things that they're willing to put a platform
00:06:45.040 on.
00:06:45.400 Like, Vogue definitely had her booked while she was, because I worked at Vogue.
00:06:48.780 I know that they pre-book all of their cover stories, so they definitely had her book and
00:06:52.960 didn't take away that.
00:06:53.820 It's just about money.
00:06:55.060 It's because it's like, it's everything's about money.
00:06:58.740 It's just, yeah.
00:06:59.780 And control and power, but mostly money, I think.
00:07:03.660 Hello, dog.
00:07:04.380 He was in rehab or because she was suffering from drugs.
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00:07:43.140 Ronaldis Alexander, thank you for the super chat.
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