Summer House‘s Ciara Miller spoke out after some Dancing With the Stars viewers claimed she wasn’t smiling enough during the premiere.

“I promise to smile from here on out,” Miller, 30, captioned a TikTok on Thursday, September 17, which showed her continuously smiling during rehearsals with pro Brandon Armstrong.

Miller received an outpouring of support in the comments section, with some social media users noting that the Bravo star seemed nervous before dancing on live TV. Armstrong, meanwhile, praised how Miller reacted to the criticism, writing, “Elite work here Ciara.”

Miller was cast on season 35 of Dancing With the Stars following a highly publicized scandal involving her ex West Wilson, who started dating her former friend and costar Amanda Batula earlier this year.

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“Tonight’s dance means more to me than I can really put into words. Obviously Whitney, but these lyrics have carried real weight for me this season of my life,” Miller wrote via Instagram on Wednesday, September 16, before performing her first dance of the season. “This has been a wild year … full of wins, full of falls, and I’m so deeply grateful to everyone who sent me a kind word along the way. You have no idea how much those moments mattered.”

Miller and Armstrong, 32, ultimately earned 15 out of 30 points for their foxtrot to “Exhale (Shoop Shoop)” by Whitney Houston. The dance also caused judge Carrie Ann Inaba to shed a few tears while giving feedback.

“I live so much of my life in front of a camera, but I still hold a lot closer to keep to myself. There were days and nights with my friends, behind closed doors, that were hard -really hard- to get through,” Miller continued in her social post. “And I’m eternally grateful to them, because without them, I wouldn’t be walking out on this stage tonight.”

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The post concluded: “So tonight, this dance is for my village who have held me up, and allowed me the space to exhale. No lights. No cameras. Behind closed doors. And let me beat the dead horse lol. I want this dance to be the closing of one chapter – and the beginning of something so special and new.”

Miller later spoke to Us about having a few Summer House costars cheering her on in the ballroom on the big night, saying, “Pretty much everyone from my cast has texted me tonight and I am so happy that Mia [Calabrese] and Lindsay [Hubbard] were able to sit out in the audience tonight. It meant the world to me to be able to have them [be here], because I feel like throughout this entire year, they really have been, like, such rocks in this craziness and I feel like we’ve been through so much.”

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Lots of people like their shows to be sprawling, complex narratives that unfold across several timelines, several seasons, with twists, turns, cliffhangers, and shocking deaths of main characters. Then, there’s Reacher. A large man enters town, finds a diner, drinks his substantial weight in coffee, doles out justice to the local bad guys via the medium of his turkey-sized fists, and catches the first Greyhound outta there. Four seasons in, it turns out audiences still haven’t gotten tired of that particular formula.

Alan Ritchson‘s Reacher has officially returned to the top of Nielsen’s streaming rankings, generating a massive 1.5 billion minutes watched across Prime Video during the week of August 10-16. Even more impressively, Nielsen reported that 79% of that viewing — roughly 1.19 billion minutes — came from the three Season 4 episodes released on August 12.

That means Season 4’s opening episodes alone would still have been enough to make Reacher the week’s biggest streaming title. The full series easily finished ahead of Apple TV’s Ted Lasso, which recorded 996 million minutes, while Paramount+’s Lioness followed with 955 million. Now, one small note: Season 4’s launch was lower than the opening weeks of the previous three seasons, which Nielsen measured at between 1.69 billion and 1.84 billion minutes. But still, the latest performance still ranks as the fifth-biggest Nielsen week in the history of Reacher.

What’s ‘Reacher’ Season 4 About?

Season 4 premiered on August 12, adapting Lee Child’s Gone Tomorrow, the 13th novel in his Jack Reacher series. The series moves the plot from New York to Philadelphia, and begins with Reacher aboard a subway where he spots an anxious woman displaying the textbook signs of a suicide bomber. His attempts to intervene end up dragging him into an even bigger conspiracy, as is the custom for the big man. From there, all hell breaks loose.

Ritchson leads the season as Jack Reacher alongside Sydelle Noel (GLOW) as Theresa Lee, Christopher Rodriguez-Marquette (Barry) as Jacob Mark, Agnez Mo as Lila Hoth, Kevin Corrigan (The Penguin) as Detective Docherty, Kevin Weisman (Alias) as Russell Plum, Marc Blucas (Buffy the Vampire Slayer) as John Sansom, and Kathleen Robertson (Murder in the First) as Elspeth Sansom.

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Days of Our Lives indicates that Lani Price (Sal Stowers) really misses her time behind a badge. And she recently stepped up to save Holly Jonas (Ashley Puzemis) from a brutal mugging that could have turned deadly. And now Lani’s mom, Paulina Price (Jackée Harry), wants to get her daughter’s badge back.

Days of Our Lives: Lani & Paulina’s Tragic History

Let’s dive into the details of what’ll happen in Lani’s future and how her heroic rescue of Holly could change everything for her. So now that Lani and Eli Grant (Lamon Archey) are staying in Salem, Lani needs purpose. And before she was filling in at Sweet Bits for her sister Chanel Dupree (Raven Bowens), you’ll remember Lani was one of Salem‘s finest detectives.

But one fateful night because of Paulina’s ex-husband, Lani lost her freedom and her badge. And in case you forgot, that was back in two thousand twenty-two, we met this guy TR Coates, who was also known as Ray. He was Paulina’s abusive ex-husband. And he also happened to be Lani’s biological father. Ray came to Salem claiming he changed and wanted to build a relationship with his daughter Lani.

 Paulina’s Heartbreaking Decision on DOOL

And in the history the soap created, Paulina had given Lani to her sister to raise as an infant because Paulina didn’t want Lani around Ray’s abuse. And everybody assumed that Abe Carver (James Reynolds) had gotten Paulina’s sister pregnant. That’s why they thought he was Lani’s biological father for so many years. But when Ray showed up in Salem, Lani decided to get to know her biological dad, even though Paulina warned her not to do it. But Lani gave Ray some of her time anyway.

And of course, it turned out he had not changed. Not in the least. And during a confrontation involving drugs, Ray shot Eli Carver and put him into a coma. And when Eli woke up, he immediately told Lani that it was Ray who shot him. So Lani went running to protect her mom, Paulina. And when Lani got to Paulina’s apartment, Lani found Abe injured and unconscious, lying on the floor, and psycho Ray was about to attack Paulina.

Days of our Lives: Lani Confesses

So, acting on instinct, Lani fatally shot Ray. And in his dying moments, Lani’s biological father Ray said he loves her and that he forgave Lani for shooting him. Then Paulina claimed she was the one who shot her abusive ex, Ray. And Paulina said she did it because he hurt Abe and she wanted to protect Lani from Ray’s wrath. But the guilt overwhelmed her and Lani kept having horrific hallucinations of Ray’s ghost from beyond the grave. So Lani decided she couldn’t let Paulina go to prison for a crime that she had committed. And then at Abe and Paulina’s June wedding, Lani confessed that she’s the one who killed Ray and Lani turned herself in.

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She got a plea deal and then she was sent to prison. Now, this was part of Sal Stowers’ exit from Days of Our Lives at the time because instead of going to nearby Statesville prison, Lani wound up sent to a women’s facility in Maryland. From there, Eli took a job with the FBI office in Maryland and relocated with their twins, Jude and Carver. So, they had decided to move Lani out of state, partly to protect her from other inmates because she had been a cop and had busted a lot of them.

Plus, Eli wanted to stay close to his wife and so they were both written out of Days of Our Lives. And then a year later, Lani got furlough when Abe was presumed dead after a staged drowning by crazy cat lady Whitley King. So, Lani got a temporary release from prison to attend Abe’s memorial back in Salem and they let her go there wearing an ankle monitor. But as Lani recently said to her brother Theo Carver (Tyler Joseph Andrews), “Once the detective, always the detective.” Lani was suspicious and thought that Abe was still alive.

Lani Uncovers the Truth on DOOL

And of course, Lani was correct. So, long story short, she investigated and confronted Whitley’s accomplice, Jerry Apprentice. He’d been pretending to be Theo. And Lani tracked down Abe and found him in Whitley’s creepy fake cat lair. And at that point, Abe had amnesia. So, Whitley drugged Lani and dumped her at the docks. She was going to stage a second drowning because Whitley was diabolical.

Lucky for Lani, the US Marshalls tracked her ankle monitor and rescued her from Whitley just in time and that meant Abe was also rescued. And then Lani’s furlough ended and she was sent back to prison in Maryland and Lani finished her sentence. That was in February two thousand twenty-four.

Lani Misses Law Enforcement on DOOL

So, we’ve seen Eli and Lani back now and then to support Abe and Paulina and to visit Julie. More recently, Lani, Eli, and the twins relocated back to Salem, and Lani’s been helping her sister Chanel with Sweet Bits and with babysitting. Plus, Lani’s been busy being a mom of twins and a wife. But like Eli, Lani loved being law enforcement. She really misses being a cop. And of course, Lani’s currently on probation.

She didn’t even have a bite of the medicinal brownie she made to help Chanel’s chemotherapy. And Lani told Chanel that she just couldn’t risk it. So, to me that points out Lani is still playing by the rules. And since she’s been back in Salem, not only did Lani help Theo find Lexie Carver (Nikki Crawford) when she was missing and dying in the DiMera tunnels, but most recently Lani just stopped a mugging when she happened to be in the right place at the right time.

Days of our Lives: Lani Saves Holly

So, Maggie had just given Holly a necklace. It was from her dad, Daniel Jonas. And a knife-wielding mugger wanted the necklace and threatened to stab Holly when she didn’t hand it over. So, Lani got in there, saved the day. A total hero. But she doesn’t want public recognition for helping Holly. And Lani turned down Leo Stark (Greg Rikaart)’s offer to be the first guest on the Spectator‘s new podcast. Lani was adamant she did not want kudos. She said she was just doing the right thing by saving Holly.

And later we saw Paulina consulting Stephanie Johnson (Abigail Klein) skiing from a PR perspective how she could ask her former running mate who is now governor to pardon Lani before he leaves office at the end of his term because right now Lani can’t be in law enforcement because of her felony conviction.

Lani a PI on DOOL?

So, I’ve said before it would be fun to see Steve Johnson (Stephen Nichols) and Brady Black (Eric Martsolf) at Black Patch get Lani as a new private eye partner, but we know her first love is being a cop. So, if Paulina plays her cards right with the governor, Lani could be pardoned and get her badge back at the Salem PD.

Paulina mentioned to Stephanie that police commissioner Jada Hunter (Elia Cantu) is looking for more cops. They are short staffed since JJ Devereux quit and decided to go back to being an EMT. Elia Kantu, who plays top cop Jada Hunter, announced her exit from Days of Our Lives back in June after she’d been in the role for four years. Elia confirmed that she had already wrapped up taping at Peacock, but we know Salem can’t go without a top cop.

Days of our Lives: Jada Leaving Salem

So, Jada should be leaving Salem in early two thousand twenty-seven. And her fellow cop Shawn Brady (Brandon Beemer), who’s also her lover, isn’t around much. And we know actor Brandon Beemer remains on recurring status at the soap.

So I think Paulina’s request will be successful and we could see Lani rejoin the force in November sweeps. She’s still a detective at heart and would probably be really grateful to her mom Paulina if she got her job back that she loved so much. So, maybe Lani will wind up the next police commissioner who takes over after Jada leaves.

Former “American Idol” contestant Clay Aiken is looking back on a chaotic period in his career.

Aiken shared the details of a 20-year-old incident involving Rosie O’ Donnell, noting that she outed him before he was ready to make a statement about his sexuality. 

The singer also reflected on a hectic week of media scrutiny surrounding his interactions with morning talk show host Kelly Ripa alongside the subsequent comments made by comedian Rosie O’Donnell. 

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During a guest appearance on “Page Six Radio,” Aiken recounted the challenging week in November 2006 when he temporarily subbed alongside Kelly Ripa on “Live With Regis and Kelly.”

The appearance generated immediate conversation when he playfully placed his hand over Ripa’s mouth, prompting her to quip on air about not knowing where his hand had been. 

The exchange escalated into a wider discussion the following morning on “The View,” where O’Donnell defended Aiken by accusing Ripa’s reaction of being homophobic. 

When discussing the incident, Evan Real told Aiken, “I didn’t realize that Rosie O’Donnell defended you so fiercely.” Aiken then offered a clearer perspective on what actually transpired, saying, “You say defended, I say outed.”

Aiken shared that he was fast asleep when the broadcast aired, only to be woken up by his friend Jaymes Foster, who alerted him that O’Donnell had just outed him on national television. 

Despite being severely shaken by the revelation, the musician emphasized that he holds no hard feelings toward O’Donnell, maintaining that her intentions were purely meant to defend him during a heated on-air moment.

The Singer Previously Spoke About The Infamous On-Air Encounter With The Daytime Host

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Building on his recent reflections regarding the broadcast’s aftermath, Aiken previously detailed the exact circumstances behind his awkward on-air interaction with Kelly Ripa.

A few months ago, he revisited his 2006 guest-hosting stint on “Live With Regis and Kelly” and explained that he took the temporary co-hosting role to prove his capabilities for potential solo hosting opportunities. He described the moment as an innocent attempt at humor, and Aiken admitted he covered Ripa’s mouth with his hand to interject during an interview segment.

According to The Blast, he reflected on the chilly atmosphere that immediately followed her sharp response, and noted that the event kicked off “the most catastrophic week” of his life. 

He also confirmed that the two of them never reconciled or spoke about the incident afterward. However, he admitted that he should’ve probably said something to her. 

Rosie O’Donnell’s Longtime Celebrity Crush Fueled Confusion About Her Sexuality

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Just as Aiken faced assumptions and unintended revelations surrounding his identity, former host Rosie O’Donnell has also navigated public confusion regarding her personal life and celebrity affections.

Speaking on Amy Poehler’s “Good Hang” podcast, O’Donnell reflected on how her admiration for movie star Tom Cruise left some people bewildered when she publicly came out as a lesbian in 2002. 

Beginning in the mid-1990s, the former talk show host frequently highlighted her fondness for the actor on “The Rosie O’Donnell Show,” affectionately referring to him as “my Tommy.” 

However, she explained that observers misinterpreted her enthusiasm as romantic or sexual interest, noting that her humor had always been explicit.

“I often said, ‘I don’t want him in bed. I want him to mow my lawn and bring me an iced tea.’ Like that’s what I said. And I didn’t know how much clearer I could be,” she said, per The Blast.

Kathy Griffin Was Upset Over Rosie O’Donnell’s Late-Night Gig

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While O’Donnell found herself navigating past public misunderstandings, her more recent television projects have also created unexpected friction with fellow comedians in her inner circle.

Following O’Donnell’s debut as a guest host on “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” comedian Kathy Griffin revealed mixed feelings about her longtime friend’s hosting opportunity. 

She posted a video titled “If Rosie would have called, I would have jumped” on her YouTube channel and shared that she felt excluded when she was not invited to make an appearance during O’Donnell’s stint filling in for Kimmel’s summer break.

“My feelings are really hurt that I was not invited to go on Rosie’s week of ‘The Jimmy Kimmel Show,” she said, per The Blast.

Kathy Griffin Clarified Her Friendship Status With Rosie O’Donnell

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Despite the initial hurt over her exclusion from the late-night guest list, Griffin soon clarified that her long-standing bond with O’Donnell remains completely intact.

According to The Blast, the 65-year-old performer confirmed that the pair spoke privately after she uploaded her YouTube reaction. 

She then reassured fans that their bond remains strong after decades of friendship, saying she still loves her.

An ad posted by Converse on Threads on Thursday, September 3, has sparked controversy as the public says the image appears to feature KKK-like imagery.

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Converse Sparks Controversy With Ad

The Converse ad features a person wearing a white garment and black-and-white Converse sneakers. The person is also holding a pair of black and white all-star Chuck 70 X high-top sneakers as they stand on a star lit up with a spotlight.

One person shared the promo on Threads with the caption, “If you don’t know anything about what’s being said about this Converse photo ad on social media … Good. Tell me what you see with your own eyes.”

 

 

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As of Friday, September 18, the ad was still featured on Converse’ Threads’ page.

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Folks weighed in with the quickness over the Converse ad on Threads, and everyone saw the same thing.

Target Also Shared Controversial Ad

As The Shade Room reported, Target apologized after the company shared an ad for a racist Halloween costume. Target promoted controversy with the “Kids’ Glows under Blacklight Circus Clown Halloween Costume Bodysuit” from Hyde & EEK! Boutique line.

The costume looks exactly like Blackface caricatures from the minstrel show and Jim Crow eras.

Minstrel shows were performed by white folks wearing shoe polish, burnt cork, or on their faces. They portrayed Black people as cowardly, ignorant, lazy, superstitious, hyper-sexual, and foolish. Additionally, they painted exaggerated smiles on their faces. The Target costume featured the same offensive images, and backlash ensued. Subsequently, Target issued an apology.

“As a company, we know we got this wrong, and we are deeply sorry,” reads the statement. “The costume is offensive and should never have been part of our assortment. It is no longer available for sale. We know this is especially hurtful for our Black guests, team members and partners. Removing the costume is an important first step, and the company is looking closely at how this happened and what needs to change to ensure this won’t happen again.”

Over 60 years, Doctor Who has carved out its place in science fiction history. Part of that longevity comes from the concept of “regeneration,” where the Doctor periodically changes into a new form. This means each actor who steps into the Doctor’s shoes can put their own definitive take on the character…and even come back to the series if they want to. Fan-favorite Doctors, including David Tennant, and icons like Tom Baker have returned to the franchise over the years. If one Doctor Who alum has his way, he won’t be making an on-screen return any time soon.

Michael Troughton, who is the son of Patrick Troughton — the second person to ever play the Doctor — was recently asked whether he’d ever portray the Second Doctor on screen in an interview with the Radio Times. Troughton immediately shot down the idea, as he felt like his time with the character was better spent behind the screen:

“No, I don’t think so. I love playing the role for audio, but no. The Doctor goes on, and I don’t think we want to see me playing it… I don’t think I’d consider it.”

Troughton previously voiced the Second Doctor in a series of audio adventures for Big Finnish, following in the footsteps of his father and other Doctor Who alums who’ve returned to the role. His comments about not playing the Second Doctor on-screen serve as a reminder that Doctor Who isin the midst of its next big transformation and needs a fresh start rather than looking back to the past.

Michael Troughton Is Right — ‘Doctor Who’ Should Continue To Evolve

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Right now, Doctor Who is at a crossroads. BBC is currently putting the series out to competitive tender following the dissolution of a streaming deal with Disney+. That means that whoever takes up producing reigns has the difficult task of delivering an entirely new approach that will draw in new viewers and longtime fans alike. It’s a tall order, but a necessary one. The Disney+ era had a less than favorable reception and ended on the strangest cliffhanger, so it’s better to follow Michael Troughton’s advice and wipe the slate clean.

There’s also another thing that Troughton didn’t touch upon in his review, and that’s the fact that if he did come back as the Second Doctor, most people wouldn’t know the significance of the role. Most Doctor Who fans came into the series via the 2005 reboot, and are more familiar with David Tennant or Matt Smith than the classic Doctors. Whoever picks up Doctor Who next is probably going to go for an approach that still keeps all the classic elements of the series intact, but pushes them forward into a modern context. As Troughton so eloquently put it, the Doctor goes on.

Michael Troughton Previously Appeared on ‘Doctor Who’ in a Different Role

In addition to voicing the Second Doctor, Michael Troughton did show back up on Doctor Who, albeit in an entirely different role. During the 2014 special “Last Christmas,” Troughton plays the role of Albert Smithe, a professor heading an expedition into the Arctic that’s sabotaged by crab-like creatures who attack him and his crew in their dreams. Thanks to the intervention of Peter Capaldi‘s Tweltfth Doctor, the crew is saved alongside his frequent companion Clara Oswald (Jenna Coleman). “Last Christmas” turned out to be a major success, earning rave reviews and high ratings.

Ironically, this isn’t the first time that a Troughton has taken on a unique role in the world of Doctor Who. Michael Troughton’s older brother, David Troughton, previously appeared in the original series as well as the modern era, particularly the chilling episode “Midnight”. Their involvement is proof that Doctor Who can touch upon its legacy in ways that don’t involve bringing back past Doctors. While the future of Doctor Who might be hazy, it will definitely feel fresh.

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The Pitt‘s Luke Tennie opened up about how meeting Tim Allen left him completely starstruck.

“I’m just such a fan of excellence. The people who I admire just being here, it feels like an honor to me,” Tennie, 31, exclusively told Us on Monday, September 14, on the 2026 Emmys red carpet. “But you know what? The last time I fell out was last night when I met Tim Allen.”

Tennie had a great experience after being a fan of Allen’s sitcoms, adding, “He did the Home Improvement giggle and I lost my mind. Are you kidding me? I was shaking infinity and beyond right there in that handshake. So yeah, I can die 1789751815.”

After beginning his career as a comedian in the ’70s, Allen, 73, played Tim “The Toolman” Taylor on the ABC’s Home Improvement and later portrayed Mike Baxter on Last Man Standing. He made his sitcom return last year on ABC’s Shifting Gears, which he has since hinted could be his last project.

“I love what I do. I don’t know what I’d do if I didn’t do this,” he explained to Us in 2022. “To me, I’ve got a bunch of buddies that like to fish. Not a big fisherman. I can’t sit around. Golf is more of — I worked harder at golf than I’ve ever worked in any job. It’s so much stress. [Jay] Leno and I both agree. I love it. I love what I do. It’s not [work] at all [to me]. So this is what I’d like to do.”

Allen noted that taking a break was not on his radar — but then walked that comment back. “This probably will be the end of it,” he revealed to USA Today in February 2025. “That sounds depressing, but I did [Shifting Gears] because it seemed like a good idea that would be fun. That’s really it.”

Allen admitted it would be hard to slow down at this point in his career, adding, “I just love being around the camera people and actors and the crew, so much so that I’m more uncomfortable at the thought of leaving the set and, God forbid, going to play golf.”

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Tennie, meanwhile, is booked and busy with roles in Shrinking, The Pitt and Abbott Elementary.

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“It feels good,” he told Us before quipping, “I’m glad to be employed.”

The actor is excited for where his characters go from here, saying, “They don’t tell me nothing. But what I can tell you is — from the perspective of Shrinking — we really had people crying a lot. I think people gonna be crying a lot more from laughing.”

He concluded: “There are just some of the funniest jokes I’ve ever read have been in these recent scripts. Like, just really clever, witty stuff. So buckle your seatbelt and have a box of tissues there.”

Editor’s note: The below review contains a brief discussion of sexual assault.

Though Lizzie Borden is one of the most famous (accused) criminals in American history, no one seems to find her especially frightening. It’s difficult to imagine any other murderer getting their own cute action figure, or a Clue-style board game based on their supposed crimes. The building where Jeffrey Dahmer killed was infamously razed to the ground and remains an empty lot to this day; the building where Borden supposedly gave her fatal “40 whacks” to her father and stepmother, Andrew and Abby Borden, is now a bed-and-breakfast where you can book a ghost tour or a “Victorian tea party.” Borden might read more as a creepy piece of Americana than a vicious killer because her alleged crimes occurred so far in the past. It might be because she’s a woman, because she murdered unpleasant relatives rather than innocent strangers, or because there’s ambiguity around her guilt — was she just an oddball who got blamed for the crimes because she struggled to fit in, or did she actually get away with murder?

Monster: The Lizzie Borden Story, the newest volume of Ryan Murphy‘s Netflix series dedicated to the lives of infamous American killers, introduces a new theory: we don’t feel scared by Borden because she was justified. Across the show’s eight episodes, The Lizzie Borden Story suggests that Borden (Ella Beatty), a gentle nature lover who’s just as abused by Victorian social norms as she is by her brutish parents, had no path to survival except putting an axe into Andrew (Charlie Hunnam) and Abby (Rebecca Hall)’s skulls. Veering wildly from feminist theorizing to romantic melodrama to raw discourse on cycles of abuse, The Lizzie Borden Story is a campy, frustrating, and occasionally extremely moving show about what happens when people get pushed to their breaking point, and what it really means to be “innocent.”

What is ‘Monster: The Lizzie Borden Story’ About?

Lizzie Borden is no one’s idea of a murderer. In fact, at the show’s start, everyone else around her seems far more likely to be the one to take someone’s head off with an ax: her father, Andrew, is a wealthy, cruel, drunk, and misogynistic casket-maker who has no qualms about chopping the feet off a dead body to make it fit into one of his coffins; her stepmother, Abby, is a violently abusive narcissist who sees no issue in slaughtering Lizzie’s beloved pet doves because they coo too loudly. Guileless and socially awkward, Lizzie spends her days alternating between delighting in plants and animals and being humiliated by humans, until a new servant, Bridget, arrives at her home.

Played by Phantom Thread star Vicky Krieps, Bridget is a worldly feminist with a hairdo that makes her look more like someone who plays bass in Phoebe Bridgers’ backing band than a Victorian housemaid — a point later underlined when her cleaning is soundtracked by The Runaways’ “Cherry Bomb.” Bridget, who has lived in Europe and reads broadly, teaches provincial Lizzie about the science behind her painful menstrual periods, as well as Victorian sex toys, and eventually, the story of the infamous “blood countess” Elizabeth Bathory (played in flashback by Krieps in a Lisbeth Salander wig). Lizzie and Bridget fall for one another, and after both are repeatedly subjected to brutal and careless acts by Andrew, Abby, and others, they decide that the Bordens have to go. Though they get giddy with bloodlust during their planning, the reality of murdering Andrew and Abby is unexpected for both of them. Bridget finds that actual murder is different from her “blood countess” fantasies; and in killing her father and stepmother, Lizzie seems to finally come into her own.

Weaving in and out of the narrative is Aileen Wuornos (Sarah Paulson), America’s other most famous female murderer. Nearly 100 years after Borden, we watch Wuornos also hit her limit, murdering a client after suffering a violent sexual assault. Wuornos is depicted as a Lizzie fangirl who road-trips with her girlfriend to visit the Borden bed-and-breakfast; she sees her as a patron saint of survivors who turn the tables on their abusers. “This is how women have had it the whole time,” Wuornos declares while reading a book about Borden, in one of the show’s many way-too-on-the-nose moments.

We know how both Borden and Wuornos’ stories end, of course — Borden would be acquitted, inherit her father’s fortune, and spend the rest of her life as an outcast in her hometown of Fall River, Massachusetts, while Wuornos was executed by the state of Florida in 2002. But the show asks us to stay with each woman to the end, to see how they handle their respective fates, and what they each mean about the way society judges women.

‘Monster: The Lizzie Borden Story’ Doesn’t Quite Know What It Believes

Thematically, The Lizzie Borden Story is a mess. The show’s weakest moments are when it tries to make a political argument for revenge murder as a kind of feminist project; Wuornos’s multiple adoring monologues about Borden and Bridget’s similarly adoring monologues about Bathory feel almost embarrassing to watch, especially when the show attempts to soften Bathory (who was accused of murdering teenage peasant girls in Renaissance-era Hungary) by giving her a tragic backstory that isn’t backed up by historical record. The show’s periodic pushes to make Borden an uncomplicated feminist icon feel genuinely laughable.

This tendency also pops up in the fact that the show treats Borden as almost a Cinderella-esque character. There’s no darkness within her, no part that enjoys the violence of committing murder or the mass media attention that followed. She’s simply a sweetheart who would have happily spent her days romping among the cherry trees and caring for her pets, if only her family and society hadn’t been dead set on abusing her. It also does a similar clean-up job on Wuornos, viewing her as rough-around-the-edges but ultimately just doing what she had to in order to survive. Considering that a hallmark of previous seasons of Monster was a multi-faceted probing of characters who definitely were not sweethearts, the show’s approach to its heroines’ inner lives can feel simplistic. And in the classic tradition of many previous Murphy outings, the series ends with a strange, muddled episode that time-jumps forward and introduces new themes at the last second — in this case, true crime, the pain of infamy, forgiveness, women’s suffrage (!), and a reunion between Lizzie and Bridget, decades after the crime, that never achieves the emotional heft that it should.

But in the moments when The Lizzie Borden Story is just an emotional tale about women grappling with lives that seemingly require them to do terrible things to survive, it shines. Beatty’s performance gently telegraphs Borden’s innate dignity, in addition to her pain; when she finally speaks her piece about the lifetime of abuse she experienced at Abby’s hands, it’s almost impossible not to be moved. And her love story with Bridget is engaging and affecting; Krieps creates a strong and genuine emotional underpinning for an anachronistic character who could have easily appeared silly.

When Paulson’s Wuornos isn’t delivering a history lecture, she owns some of the show’s most emotionally brutal moments. An imagined confession to Borden about the abuse she survived in her own childhood moved me to tears, as did a conversation Wuornos has with a supporter shortly before being put to death. One of the show’s strangest moments, in which Borden, Bridget, and Wuornos all dance together to the ’80s queer anthem “Smalltown Boy” by Bronski Beat, sounds like it absolutely shouldn’t work, but is actually a prime example of what The Lizzie Borden Story gets right — when it rips off its intellectual packaging and just dives into the raw human experiences of pain, sadness, and longing for something better than what you were given, it is a joy to watch.

Also a joy to watch: Rebecca Hall, giving her campy, wicked stepmother best as Abby Borden. If anyone here gets the complex, layered treatment that Monster usually gives their subjects, it’s Abby; we both understand the lifetime of suffering that transformed her into a beast, and hate her for the person she’s become anyway. Hall is an actress of tremendous range, but The Lizzie Borden Story makes the case for her playing more villains. Abby is vile, yet a thrill to watch every second she’s on-screen. The over-the-top stage actress Nance O’Neill (Jessica Barden) is also a delight, even though it’s not always exactly clear why she’s there. A subplot in which she inserts herself into Borden’s life doesn’t necessarily make much sense, but that doesn’t make it any less entertaining — which might also sum up the best parts of The Lizzie Borden Story, too.

‘The Lizzie Borden Story’ Wants To Be Simpler Than It Is

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The Lizzie Borden Story is just the latest in a recent deluge of Borden-related media, including Christina Ricci‘s high-camp 2014 Lifetime movie Lizzie Borden Took an Ax, which was followed by a 2015 series, and Chloe Sevigny‘s 2018 Lizzie, which treated the story as something of a grim erotic thriller. It will also be followed later this fall by Victorian Psycho, an over-the-top Lizzie Borden-influenced horror thriller about a governess who’s more Norman Bates than Mary Poppins. It makes sense that so many people would consider Borden’s story fertile creative ground —it’s packed full of issues related to sexism, class, and whether there’s such a thing as a justified crime. But in insisting on Borden’s overwhelming goodness, The Lizzie Borden Story engages in a much milder form of the sexism it spends its runtime railing against.

In a certain way, The Lizzie Borden Story is cut from the same cloth as the recent (and superior) Hulu series Furious, which also investigates how society turns a blind eye to women’s abuse, and what happens when women who have no access to traditional avenues of justice “snap.” But Furious is unafraid to make its female characters complicated and difficult, to ask viewers to take them as people who are both good and bad. The Lizzie Borden Story, on the other hand, seems to think we can only feel sympathy for Borden if we also believe that she is essentially a saint who had one very bad day.

Despite its many enjoyable moments, it’s tough to not imagine what The Lizzie Borden Story could have been if the team had been ready to show Borden as a more flawed, ambiguous individual. While it wishes it were a complex Thelma & Louise-style statement about women, abuse, and revenge, it doesn’t trust the audience enough and instead gives us a cross between a lecture and a fairy tale.

Monster: The Lizzie Borden Story is now streaming on Netflix.

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Monster: The Lizzie Borden Story

Ryan Murphy’s muddled Monster: The Lizzie Borden Story turns America’s most infamous ax murderess into a saint.

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Release Date

September 17, 2026

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Network

Netflix

Directors

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Max Winkler, Sarah Adina Smith

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  Vicky Krieps

  Bridget Sullivan

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  Ella Beatty

  Lizzie Borden

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Pros & Cons

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• The performances are uniformly high-quality, with Ella Beatty and Rebecca Hall as particular standouts.
• When it gives itself over to emotional storytelling, the show shines.

• The show isn’t too interested in examining Borden’s dark side, or asking if what she did was wrong.
• Half-baked messaging about women and murder repeatedly brings the narrative to a halt.

There are so many movies out there that it’s no wonder that many of them have been forgotten. Not that they all deserve to be remembered: many forgotten movies are so cheap and poorly made that it’s no wonder why they’ve essentially disappeared. Then there are those forgotten movies that deserve to be remembered, those that should be a lot more popular simply for how much fun they have.

Westerns, raunchy rom-coms, and time loop action movies are all represented here. Among the most enjoyable forgotten movies are filmmakers who are among the most acclaimed. Their movies listed here may not always rank highly in their filmographies, but they clearly had a lot of fun making them. These are ten movies that have been forgotten, but have the most fun.

‘That Man from Rio’ (1964)

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A French farce spy satire that pulls influence from everything from James Bond to The Adventures of Tintin, That Man from Rio is a comical globe-trotting adventure movie with all the right moves. Directed by prolific filmmaker Phillipe de Broca and starring Jean-Paul Belmondo, best known for Jean-Luc Godard‘s Breathless, The Man from Rio is light, breezy entertainment that’s a ton of fun for anyone who enjoys adventure movies like Raiders of the Lost Ark.

Belmondo plays Adrien, an airman on leave who gets pulled into an international conspiracy and treasure hunt involving an Amazonian statue MacGuffin when his fiancée is kidnapped. While That Man from Rio was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay, its profile outside cinephile circles is far too low. It’s a stylish yet silly adventure movie that features hair-raising stunts and fun set pieces.

‘Going in Style’ (1979)

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Heist films are always a good bit of fun, and when the heisters happen to be three grumpy old men, it’s a real treat. Going in Style is the oft-forgotten feature film debut of director Martin Brest, who would go on to direct the ’80s action comedy classics Beverly Hills Cop and Midnight Run. The same assured direction he brought to those films is on full display in his debut film as well, which stars the legendary trio of George Burns, Art Carney, and Lee Strasberg. It’s one of the earliest, and best, entries into the crimes of the elderly subgenre.

Burns, Carney and Strasberg are three retirees living in New York City who decide that the best way to break up the monotony of their golden years is to do a little armed robbery. Unlike some of the later films of this kind featuring over-the-hill criminals, Going in Style is more than just cheap jokes and actually becomes quite melancholy by the end. It’s a bittersweet comedy with three old pros giving perfectly pitched performances. Skip the bland 2017 remake, and have way more fun with the forgotten original.

‘Used Cars’ (1980)

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Before they made one of the most essential comedies of the ’80s with Back to the Future, filmmaking duo Robert Zemeckis and Bob Gale collaborated on two supremely underrated comedies. They debuted with the sweet Beatlemania movie I Wanna Hold Your Hand, and then followed it up with the sleazy salesmen comedy Used Cars. Featuring an early adult role for Kurt Russell, then mostly known for his work in Disney movies, it’s a raunchy madcap movie that’s just as fun as the other ’80s comedy classic which steamrolled it at the box office, Airplane!

Russell plays Rudy, a cunning, conning car salesman who works for the kindly Luke (Jack Warden). When Luke dies of a heart attack, Rudy and his co-workers must do everything in their power to keep the dealership alive and out of the hands of Luke’s evil brother Roy (also Warden). There’s a ton of fun to be had in Used Cars, from the brilliant set-ups and payoffs in Zemeckis and Gale’s script, the underrated comic cast, and the epic comic climax featuring 250 cars racing across the desert with student drivers behind the wheels.

‘Without a Clue’ (1988)

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Sherlock Holmes is certainly a character that can be mined for some fun material. The many movies based on the Arthur Conan Doyle character have offered a range of different interpretations. One of the most fun, and forgotten, interpretations of the character came in the ’80s comedy Without a Clue, starring Michael Caine and Ben Kingsley as Holmes and Dr. Watson, respectively. Directed by Thom Eberhardt, who also helmed the ’80s cult classic Night of the Comet, the film offers a delightful twist on the iconic characters that provides ample entertainment.

In this version of the mystery-solving duo, Watson is the actual crime solver who has hired an actor named Reginald Kincaid to portray Holmes in order to protect his medical career. Watson finds he can’t actually rid himself of the blowhard Kincaid due to the reputation built around the character of Holmes, and when a new case involving the infamous Professor Moriarty (Paul Freeman) arises, the two must reluctantly team up again. Without a Clue is a super fun inversion of its classic characters, and Caine and Kingsley have dynamite antagonistic chemistry together.

‘I Love You to Death’ (1990)

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A completely forgotten black comedy, I Love You to Death is an underrated effort from acclaimed filmmaker Lawrence Kasdan with a completely stacked cast. From top to bottom, it features Kevin Kline (with an over-the-top Italian accent), Tracey Ullman, River Phoenix, Joan Plowright and, most memorably, William Hurt and Keanu Reeves as two stoner hitmen. Based on a bizarre true story of infidelity and attempted murder, the movie is the kind of macabre fun that should’ve guaranteed it the cult status that has so far eluded it.

Kline plays Joey, who owns a pizza parlor with his wife Rosalie (Ullman). Joey is also a habitual cheater, and when Rosalie finds out, she decides to kill Joey but discovers that the task is easier said than done. Multiple, increasingly comical, murder attempts ensue, and while the film’s pacing can sometimes drag, the talented cast holds it all together. Everyone is having a blast in their roles, with Kline, Reeves and Hurt getting the most moments to flex their comedic muscles. I Love You to Death will definitely appeal to any fans of similar killer cult comedies like A Fish Called Wanda and Throw Momma from the Train.

‘Matinee’ (1993)

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Director Joe Dante has had a wonderfully idiosyncratic directorial career. Adjacent to but distinct from his peers who came up in the same era, Dante shares the nostalgia of Steven Spielberg and the anarchic spirit of John Landis. His films often mixed B-movie genre elements with cartoon logic, sharp satire and meta-humor. Dante is a one-of-a-kind director, and while his films almost all range from genuine hits (Gremlins) to beloved cult classics (The Burbs), his most personal, the coming-of-age comedy Matinee, is a forgotten classic.

Set in Florida during the Cuban Missile Crisis, the film is Dante’s love letter to the atomic monster movies of his youth. John Goodman gives another overlooked performance as Lawrence Woolsey, a shock-and-schlock filmmaker modeled after the famous B-movie director William Castle. Woolsey goes to Key West to premiere his new movie, Mant. With a cast of hormone-addled teens and nuclear-panicked adults, the film is a charming homage to a bygone era of filmmaking and a loving recreation of a very specific time and place in America.

‘The Hudsucker Proxy’ (1994)

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Just as Dante paid homage to his cinematic influences in Matinee, the Coen Brothers do the same with theirs in the highly underrated screwball comedy The Hudsucker Proxy. Co-written with fellow filmmaker Sam Raimi, the film is a more successful attempt at mixing influences than their previous collaboration, Crimewave. Where that film was The Three Stooges meets Hitchcock, The Hudsucker Proxy is a more clever combination of Frank Capra, Preston Sturges, and Howard Hawks with boundless energy, incredible production design and fantastic performances. It doesn’t get much more fun than this.

Tim Robbins plays a small-town man with big ideas, Norville Barnes, cut from the same cloth as George Bailey in It’s a Wonderful Life. He’s gobbled up by the Sturges-esque cynical world of big business, where he becomes the proxy president at Hudsucker Industries, while he also catches the eye of fast-talking reporter Amy Archer (Jennifer Jason Leigh channeling Katharine Hepburn and Rosalind Russell). The Hudsucker Proxy was a box office failure and received mixed reviews from critics, and while its cult status is growing, it’s still one of the most forgotten films by one of the most influential directing duos.

‘The Quick and the Dead’ (1995)

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The year after The Hudsucker Proxy bombed, Raimi himself had his own box office misfire with the wild, wild Western The Quick and the Dead. Featuring an incredible cast of stars who were both rising and at the height of their powers at the time, and Raimi’s characteristic inventive camerawork, it’s a crazy fun popcorn Western that has a one-of-a-kind style within the genre. Within Raimi’s career, The Quick and the Dead is dead center in the decade that’s most overlooked, coming after his cult classic Evil Dead trilogy and before his superhero Spider-Man trilogy.

Sharon Stone plays a mysterious drifter called the Lady who enters a small-town quick-draw competition as a means to exact vengeance on the mayor, John Herod (Gene Hackman). The competition also includes outlaw-turned-preacher Cort (Russell Crowe) and the slick-tongued Kid (a young Leonardo DiCaprio). There’s also a murderer’s row of character actors filling out the rest of the competition slots, and the sequences themselves are Raimi operating at his most visually exaggerated.

‘The Sweetest Thing’ (2002)

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Raunchy, adult comedies made a big comeback in the late ’90s and 2000s, built on the backs of filmmakers like the Farrelly Brothers and movies like American Pie. These films would almost universally focus on men behaving badly, all the way until Bridesmaids broke the filthy glass ceiling in 2011. Except that The Sweetest Thing did it nine years earlier. Combining the dirty talk of Sex and the City with the juvenile humor of South Park, which writer Nancy M. Pimental wrote for, the film is unapologetic, low-brow fun.

Cameron Diaz plays the ringleader of her friend group, which includes Christina Applegate and Selma Blair, whose strictly single policy is threatened when she meets uglies with a charming man played by Thomas Jane. Thus, a chaotic road trip ensues along with various misadventures featuring glory holes, raunchy songs, and clothing montages. The Sweetest Thing received negative reviews and was generally treated more harshly than many of the male-led raunchy comedies of the era, but it deserves some love for blazing a fun, foul-mouthed trail for female-led films like Bridesmaids, Girls Trip, and Booksmart.

‘Undercover Brother’ (2002)

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Blaxploitation as a genre has inspired a lot of far more intelligent discourse than will be offered here. Simply put, there’s a fair amount of debate over where the lines of representation and exploitation cross in those films and what their ultimate impact was. It’s had an undeniable effect on many filmmakers, and also inspired many parodies and homages, like I’m Gonna Git You Sucka and Black Dynamite. Belonging in the same class as those films is the forgotten 2000s comedy Undercover Brother.

Based on an animated internet series, the film treats Blaxploitation the same way Austin Powers treated ’60s spy movies: there’s a lot of love for the genre underneath its satire. Eddie Griffin plays the titular character, a radical hero recruited by the B.R.O.T.H.E.R.H.O.O.D. to help fight “The Man.” Obviously, there’s a lot of deliberately offensive humor in Undercover Brother—some of it has aged poorly, but there are also a lot of undeniably funny and clever moments. The cast is incredible, with great supporting roles for both Dave Chappelle and Neil Patrick Harris that predate the resurgence of both their careers.

Kim Kardashian is facing another health scare that carries a painful connection to her family history.

The reality star is shown in a hospital discussing a diagnosis tied to the cancer that killed her father, Robert Kardashian. The revelation appears in the trailer for season 8 of “The Kardashians.” It also shows Kris Jenner becoming emotional as the family faces another reminder of Robert’s death.

Kim Kardashian lost her father to esophageal cancer in September 2003. More than two decades later, his death continues to shape her health concerns, career choices, and memories of the father she deeply admired.

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The new “The Kardashians” trailer shows Kim in a hospital revealing that she has “something called esophagitis.” An offscreen voice immediately connects the diagnosis to her father. “Didn’t your father — isn’t that what he died of?” the person asks. Kris appears afterward and becomes emotional while discussing the diagnosis.

According to Mayo Clinic, Esophagitis involves swelling and irritation of the tissues lining the esophagus. Untreated esophagitis can lead to Barrett’s esophagus, which can increase the risk of esophageal cancer.

Robert died at 59 in September 2003 after battling esophageal cancer. Khloé Kardashian recalled that he died only six or seven weeks after his diagnosis. She said he never used the word “terminal” with his children, even though she believed he struggled to accept the reality. 

Robert left behind Kim, Kourtney, Khloé, and Rob with Kris. In her 2015 memoir, Khloé recalled becoming so distraught that she passed out. She said she was told she had fallen to the floor, kicking and screaming, before being sedated, per US Magazine.

Kim Has Faced Other Health Concerns

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The new diagnosis comes after Kim previously faced another frightening medical discovery. She learned through an MRI that she had a brain aneurysm.

The aneurysm was described as a bulge in her brain that doctors believed was connected to stress. Kim said the condition could potentially rupture under severe stress, which is difficult to avoid given her lifestyle.

Her schedule includes running businesses, traveling for work, studying law, and raising four children. “I have four kids that depend on me,” Kim said, emphasizing why maintaining her health matters.

She subsequently underwent additional scans at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center. The Blast previously reported that the aneurysm had been discovered during a general body checkup Kim takes seriously.

Kim has connected some of her health struggles to the intense pressure in her life. She also wondered whether her stressful marriage to Kanye West contributed to her aneurysm. The former couple divorced after seven years together and four children.

Kim has explained that walking away from the relationship did not mean completely escaping its pressures. “People think that I have the luxury of walking away,” she said. “My ex will be in my life, no matter what,” she added, because they share four children.

The Blast reported that Kim also continued dealing with psoriasis, a condition she has discussed publicly for years. Her flare-ups have appeared during periods of physical or emotional strain, including after losing weight for her Marilyn Monroe Met Gala dress and during filming for “All’s Fair.”

The Reality Star Once Called Her Father ‘The Best To Ever Do It’

Kim has continued honoring Robert publicly years after his death. She reportedly celebrated him during Father’s Day 2023 with a series of family photographs. The tribute also included Caitlyn Jenner, whom Kim recognized alongside her late father.

One photograph showed Robert holding Kim and Kourtney Kardashian in his arms. Other pictures captured him with the family, including a black-and-white image with Kim.

She captioned the tribute, “Best to ever do it! I wouldn’t be me if it weren’t for you two.” Fans noticed that Kim included both Robert and Caitlyn in her tribute.

One person praised her for recognizing Caitlyn as a stepfather, while another said it was nice to see step-parents acknowledged. Other commenters described the photographs as special and said the love between the family members was visible.

The Blast revealed that the tribute also came during a period when Kim was discussing motherhood herself. She described raising her four children as demanding but meaningful.

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She said motherhood had taught her the most about herself, “There are nights when I find myself crying to sleep,” she said. She described the experience as a “tornado” in her house, while still calling it “the best chaos.”

Robert’s Legacy Also Shaped Kim’s Business

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Robert’s influence did not stop at Kim’s interest in law. His personal style also became part of the inspiration behind one of her major business ventures.

The Blast previously reported that Kim credited her late father with inspiring SKIMS Men. She remembered Robert as someone who cared about looking cool and recalled buying him wax-coated Diesel jeans from the Los Angeles store where she worked.

Kim said her father would pair the jeans with a black T-shirt and loafers. She also remembered playing in his organized wardrobe as a young child before suffering a concussion after climbing onto a shelf.

Kris similarly remembered Robert’s strong connection to Gucci. She recalled that he often wore Gucci sport coats, pants and loafers during their relationship.

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SKIMS later introduced its men’s collection. Its launch reportedly generated 25,000 orders within its first five minutes. That performance marked the brand’s biggest sales day since its introduction in September 2019.

Robert’s influence was especially visible in the way Kim remembered his clothing. His preference for simple but polished outfits became one of the memories she connected to the men’s line.

Kim Kardashian Finally Reclaimed A Piece Of Her Father

Kim’s connection to Robert recently became even more tangible through an unexpected auction. In 2025, she was said to have secretly bid on a Bible that had belonged to her late father.

The Bible also contained Robert’s handwritten note, personal scripture, and his name in gold lettering. It had eventually come into O.J. Simpson’s possession after Robert gave it to him during the 1995 murder trial.

Kim reportedly won the auction after initially offering $15,000 to the Simpson estate. She later revealed that she had actually paid $80,000 for the sentimental item, nearly six times her original offer.

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Kim had used an alias during the auction to protect her privacy. She then surprised her family by revealing that she had won, before giving the Bible to Khloé.

The Simpson estate had rejected her original offer before putting the item up for auction. She later admitted that she had been willing to double her $15,000 offer. “I guess I had a little too much faith in humanity for a minute there,” Kim said.

The estate executor, Malcolm LaVergne, mocked her failed attempts to become a lawyer. Kim’s family also feared what other private items from Robert’s relationship with Simpson might surface. A source claimed the family was particularly worried about private correspondence between the two men becoming public.

Kim Kardashian’s latest diagnosis now brings her father’s memory into an intensely personal health conversation.

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