Trending badgeTrendingPosted 55 minutes agoSubscribe to BuzzFeed Daily NewsletterCaret Down"I Don't Want To Be Here": 30 Famous Women Who Did NOT Hold Back During Celeb Interviews, And WowCarrie Fisher was a GIFT.by Kayla YandoliBuzzFeed StaffFacebookPinterestLink Note: This post contains subjects of sexual assault. Please proceed with caution. 1. When Rihanna shared her true feelings about being a potential judge on American Idol: Extra 2. When Cher didn't have time to give fake compliments to David Letterman: CBS 3. And when Cher royally shut down Charlie Rose on his own show: PBS 4. When Jennifer Lawrence did a "73 Questions" with Vogue and called out the media for a truly disgusting rumor going around about her: Vogue 5. When Tina Turner shut down a journalist in 1993 when they asked why she didn't watch What's Love Got to Do With It (a biopic about her life with abusive ex-husband Ike Turner): HBO Max 6. And when Tina Turner had Mike Wallace, a problematic journalist, over her house for an interview and answered a dumb question in the most brilliant way possible: CBS 7. When Carrie Fisher was [unsurprisingly] the wittiest celebrity of all on Larry King Live: CNN 8. When Helen Mirren shut down a male interviewer in 1975 after he claimed she couldn't be taken seriously as an actor because of her "large breasts": BBC1 9. When TLC addressed the toxicity of the music industry at the '96 Grammys, confessing they were actually bankrupt: CBS 10. When Salma Hayek described what it was really like to host a party with a Donald Tr*mp piñata: BBC 11. When Emma Thompson went into full detail about how a neighbor filed a police report that a naked man roamed around her property, when in reality it was Thompson in the buff: BBC One 12. When Lady Gaga brought her Oscar statue to Jimmy Kimmel Live! to show off to the whole world that she won for Best Original Song in 2019: ABC 13. When Barbra Streisand wanted to give a perfect performance on The Oprah Winfrey Show, and sprayed her microphone white: ABC 14. When Whoopi Goldberg made Keanu Reeves crack the heck up by describing a funny bit about pubic hair that she performed during her comedy show: BBC 15. When Sheryl Lee Ralph defended her Abbott Elementary costar Quinta Brunson after Jimmy Kimmel stole the spotlight during Brunson's 2022 Emmys speech: Gilles Mingasson / ABC / Wireimage / Getty Images 16. When Yoko Ono was tired of the decadeslong narrative that she broke up the Beatles, and vocalized her frustration: ABC / WCVB-TV / ABC 17. When someone asked Serena Williams why she wasn't smiling during a press conference, and she told them it was because she didn't want to be there: US Open 18. And when the crowd at the US Open in 2018 booed Naomi Osaka for beating Serena Williams, and Williams called out the crowd's behavior in her post-match interview: ESPN 19. When Beyoncé didn't have patience for a reporter from the 2000s about Destiny's Child's success: Toazted 20. When Viola Davis refused to feel undeserving of being one of Time 100's Most Influential People in 2017: Access Hollywood 21. When Keke Palmer appeared on The Breakfast Club and talked candidly about the discrimination Black women face when sharing their experiences with sexual assault: Breakfast Club Power 105.1 FM 22. When Thandiwe Newton recalled the time Victoria Beckham mistook her for Zoe Saldaña, and she wasn't afraid to admit how much it frustrated her: BBC One 23. When Kate Hudson called out the media for body-shaming her in the 2000s, and how deeply it affected her: Paramount Pictures / Courtesy Everett Collection 24. When Oprah confronted David Letterman about mistreating her on his show back in Chicago: OWN 25. When Jane Fonda was having NONE of Megyn Kelly's ridiculous interview questions: NBC 26. When Janelle Monáe did an interview with Rolling Stone, and revealed what her notoriously fun and sexually adventurous courtyard parties are like: Wondaland / Bad Boy / Atlantic 27. When Goldie Hawn revealed her absolute worst first date story, which was vomiting immediately after her date kissed her: BBC One 28. When Catherine Zeta-Jones revealed the hilarious bet she has with her husband whenever they play golf, which involves him dropping his pants if he misses a shot: BBC One 29. When Madonna appeared on the Late Show with David Letterman, and revealed his true colors to his face: CBS 30. And when Miriam Margolyes didn't hold back her love for Laurence Olivier on The Graham Norton Show: BBC In conclusion: NBC
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"I Don't Want To Be Here": 30 Famous Women Who Did NOT Hold Back During Celeb Interviews, And Wow
November 28, 2025
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