Julia Roberts is the cover girl for this week’s National Enquirer, and it’s an old-school one. Personally, I don’t really think people still care about what’s happening in Julia’s private life, now or twenty years ago, but maybe I’m wrong. Anyway, if any of this is true, it’s pretty juicy and pretty funny. According to The Frisky’s coverage of the cover story:
The Enquirer has the inside scoop on “Julia Roberts’ Bizarre Double Life,” claiming that drugs and physical abuse runs in her family. A source says that Julia “used to smoke a lot of pot” and she would get stoned with husband Danny Moder and play Halo.
Apparently, Julia’s childhood home was raided and cops found drugs inside a hollowed-out bible. Roberts’ brother, Eric, claims that their mother “beat the hell out” of him for years and friends claim that Julia shares a similar temperament and often takes it out on her relatives or Danny, most recently screaming and humiliating him after photographers tried to get a picture of them together.
[From The Frisky]
Of course it’s likely that this is all bullsh-t. But part of me really hopes and dreams that Julia did in fact spend several years getting high and playing Halo. That one image alone makes me really, really like her. As far as the abuse stuff – eh. I have no idea, honestly, why Eric Roberts and Julia are no longer in each other’s lives, but I’ve always bought the theory that it had something to do with how Eric treated Emma’s mother, and I think Eric has some demons. Of course, it would be easy to believe that Julia is a temperamental piece of work, because that’s already my image of her. But I doubt she abuses Danny, for real.
Here are some new photos of Julia in Japan yesterday (or tomorrow…?). The time difference gets me. I have to admit, I kind of like this muumuu.
Enquirer cover courtesy of CoverAwards.
Well who doesn’t like a little toke and them some Halo?
I could see her lighting one up in that muumuu.
That photographer is pretty cute. Other than that I don’t care. I wish she would fade away.
I doubt she smokes weed. She is too high-strung. Although maybe she should try smoking a bowl and chillin out. haha
Actually Eric Roberts and Julia Roberts do talk they reconciled after she had babies… but Eric’s movie did beat hers last weekend so maybe they are on the outs again.
Well at least she’s cool offscreen. Excepting the humiliation and screaming etc…
Weed and Halo? rock on.
Imagine her horse laugh if she did! It isn’t really shocking, but it is hard to see her doing anything kinda normal.
omg Julia’s finally rockin a different ‘do…i think she looks gorge!!!
given her location, i think she’s going for more of a “kimono” riff rather than muumuu, i think it’s pretty, great color for her.
and yeah, pretty much agree across the board re: weed/halo/etc.
she’s probably kind of a pain in the ass to live with, but also probably a lot of fun too. she’s got such a goofball jackass personality. and she is always gushing about her husband.
i think some peeps just want to look for any angle to make a relationship where the woman is the wealthier, more powerful/visible one seem problematic cuz, ya know, god forbid. seems danny is a secure dude, they achieve an equal balance in other ways besides career/money and their marriage works fine.
Is Danny her pet? Why is he walking behind her like that? And her looking so proud to have a hanger on husband. How submissive. Yuck.
Given her brother’s well publicized issues, I wouldn’t be surprised if there was a little truth to the childhood story, but who knows.
I find it kind of funny all the magazines are trying to come up with stories about her because her big movie just came out, but I don’t think many people really care anymore.
@e: That’s not a photog, that’s her husband.
My question is, why does it look like he’s trying to sneak a pic of her? She’s his wife for chrissake.
*yawn*
Julia a cheater? No, not that husband stealer.
Is she even relevant anymore?
TG9:
Danny is like a cat. Instead of following the sound of a can opening, he follows to smell of Julia’s money.
@e: That’s not a photog, that’s her husband.
Haha weird! It looks like is a paparazzi! I wonder if she likes him to jump out of the shrubs at home. I am imagining all sorts of hilarious scenarios.
Ok I had to look it up but he is a cameraman but it is still totally weird that he is following her around. Maybe he needs to expand his repertoire.
I LOVE THAT GOWN SHE IS WEARING!!!!! That is fantastically charming!
Fo sho.
I don’t know about a “torrid past”… just sounds like half the people I know (but then, I’m from the Bay Area so we smoke a LOT of weed up here, probably because it’s the dopest.)
Julia, Julia, trying to make me like you and everything. Shit, it’s kind of working.
What does it mean to “play Halo”? A google search was no help at all!
My mom is incapable of playing video games, and I’m confident Jula Robert can’t handle anything more than Tetris. No way on earth.
I do believe she screams at Danny (well deserved), she seems like a neurotic bitch.
They really are just like us!!!
I prefer Battlefield personally.
@Tuatara – Seriously? I just did a Google search for “play Halo” and the official Halo site was the fourth link found.
But to save you the effort, Halo is a sci-fi videogame. It’s from a first-person perspective, and you shoot aliens with all different kinds of guns. It’s one of the most popular game franchises of all time.
good for them! Halo is a good game and i hope their weed is good
That pic screams “Danny Moder, paparazzi imbed.”
Eric Roberts, the talented one in the family.
I just don’t like her. She strikes me as the type that wouldn’t give us common folk the time of day if we saw her on the street.
Gotta keep that marriage alive somehow.
her movie is out now…so hopefully we won’t be bombarded with that fug mug for awhile.
Agree – to me she is morphing into the Wicked Witch of the West. I guess she was Pretty Woman when she had Youth on her side, but Youth has gone off to help other girls.
My husband and I used to drink and play PS2 games together. Especially “Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Chaos Bleeds.” Ah, the days before children. And marriage counseling.
I’m lousy at Halo, my hubby plays it live, maybe a little weed would help my skills.
@Gatsbygal — well, I saw *that*, but I thought “Halo” couldn’t be that boring. I was sure it must be some weird sexual game. Ha!
I may grow to like her just a little bit if the story was true. However, I doubt it.
what ever…. their choice.
the dress looks sort of pretty. nice shoes!
Hey, that pap is really cute.
About Julia, uhm… whatever.
temperamental shmeperental.
i’m a scorpio just like miz f%ck-mouth…i mean roberts, and lemme tell ya something…
that tantrum sh%t is tolerable from a broad in her 20’s, but once you hit 30s & 40s really your sh%t should calm the f%ck down. grow the f%ck up already!
i love my man ‘especially’ b/c he would’nt go for that kinda mess for 1 second.
danny needs to reclaim his testicles from her birkin. stat.
🙁
Oh god, I hate that dress! Hideous.
And yeah I actually buy that JR is a raving, nasty bitch behind closed doors. From things that I have heard from people that have had anything to do with her, she is not a nice person. At all.
Sorry Julia, I still don’t like you…now if a story came out about you rocking some Final Fantasy then I might respect you more as a gamer 😉
SHe should be forced to smoke weed- all day, every day. Then maybe she wouldn’t come across so badly.
Cletus – Perfectly said! I agree completely. And I believe she probably used to smoke a lot of weed.. back in the day anyway.. a clue to that being the company she kept.. like Kiefer Sutherland.. who’s not exactly the clean-and-sober posterboy. Guy parties like a madman.