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Amber Heard says she has become a mom and did it “on my own terms,” as a single parent.In an Instagram post, the actor said she welcomed daughter Oonagh Paige Heard on April 8. A photo of Heard with the baby nestled against her accompanied Thursday's announcement.“I now appreciate how radical it is for us as women to think about one of the most fundamental parts of our destinies in this way,” Heard said in the post. “I hope we arrive at a point in which it's normalized to not want a ring in order to have a crib.”She wrote that “a part of me wants to uphold that my private life is none of anyone's business,” but added the nature of her job “compels me to take control of this” by revealing the birth.“She's the beginning of the rest of my life,” Heard said.The actor has faced a tumultuous period of her life, with her 2015 to 2017 marriage to Johnny Depp involving a spate of legal actions.Last year, Depp lost a libel case against a British newspaper that accused him of domestic violence, with a judge ruling the allegations were “substantially correct.” In March, a British court refused Depp permission to appeal the ruling that he assaulted Heard, saying his attempt to overturn the decision had “no real prospect of success.”Depp also is suing Heard for $50 million in Virginia over a Washington Post op-ed essay that she wrote about domestic violence. The trial in that case was recently delayed until April 2022.———New York —
Jamie Lynn Spears is asking people to stop sending her and her children death threats after she spoke out against her older sister Britney's conservatorship.The “Zoey 101? star, 30, said Monday that she supported ending Britney's conservatorship, which is partially run by their father, James.“I respect that everyone has the right to express themselves, but can we please stop with the death threats, especially the death threats to children,” Jamie Lynn wrote Friday in an Instagram post. She has two daughters, 13-year-old Maddie and 3-year-old Ivey.Jamie Lynn had rarely spoken publicly about her sister's conservatorship before Britney delivered a passionate speech to a judge on June 23 demanding an end to the structure that limits her personal freedom.“I'm not happy, I can't sleep. I'm so angry it's insane. And I'm depressed. I cry every day,” Britney said. “It is my wish and my dream for all of this to end.”Jamie Lynn then made it clear that she supports Britney.“If ending the conservatorship, if flying to Mars or whatever the hell else (is what) she wants to do to be happy, I support that 100%, because I support my sister,” she said. “I felt like until my sister was able to speak for herself and say what she felt she needed to say publicly, that it wasn't my place, and it wasn't the right thing to do.”———NEW YORK — One famous sitcom mom is taking another to task.
Janet Hubert isn't happy about
Phylicia Rashad's support for Bill Cosby after the Pennsylvania Supreme Court overturned his sexual assault conviction.Rashad, who played Cosby's onscreen wife in “The Cosby Show,” reacted to the news by tweeting, “FINALLY!!!! A terrible wrong is being righted- a miscarriage of justice is corrected!”Hubert, the former “Fresh Prince of Bel-Air” star, did not share the same sentiment.“Phylicia what are you thinking!!! I don't know you but to say this was terribly wrong. EVERYONE knew what he was doing back then,” Hubert, 65, tweeted. “How could you NOT! Get your umbrella sista here comes the s— shower. I am outraged that he has been released. Yes he is an old a— guilty man!”Hubert suggested that Rashad would've been better off writing: “He's old he's out and I'm happy for him, but he still ...guilty.”“I know 5 women who have not come forward,” the Juilliard School alum continued. “Enough ya'll, we know better. Powerful men do wrong things, black or white…”From combined wire services
