I was just thinking this morning that I was surprised by the lack of LeAnn Rimes drama over the holiday weekend. I actually thought, “Wow, I can’t believe no one involved in the whole LeAnn drama chose to make Labor Day their own personal Stunt Queen Day.” I was wrong! First, let’s recap the epic-ness of everything that went down last week: LeAnn went into a facility for her emotional problems, LeAnn is filing a lawsuit against her “Twitter hater” Kim Smiley, and LeAnn facing down reports that she’s been worried about Eddie Cibrian’s wandering dong. That about sums it up for me – LeAnn went to a 30-day treatment center (minus weekends, which just makes it sound like a spa) because of Twitter, and because in her mind, she’s being cyberbullied.
Anyway, this new story is about the Kim Smiley lawsuit – Radar reports that a process server tried to serve Kim Smiley, but the server ended up at the wrong address. The whole thing was made worse by the fact that *SOMEONE* called the photographers.
A process server working for LeAnn Rimes’ team committed an embarrassing public gaffe on Monday when he attempted to serve the wrong woman with legal papers, RadarOnine.com has learned exclusively.
Rimes, who is in a 30-day treatment center for “anxiety,” filed an invasion of privacy lawsuit against high school teacher Kim Smiley last week. The lawsuit alleges that Smiley recorded a phone conversation after Rimes called her following more than a year of clashes between pro- and anti-LeAnn forces. Smiley, a mother of six, has vowed to fight back.
On Labor Day events took an even more bizarre turn. A process server, allegedly accompanied by members of the media, showed up to serve Kim Smiley with legal documents late in the day. The only problem: they were at the home of Kim Smiley, the sister-in-law to the Kim Smiley named in the lawsuit!
“My sister-in -aw told them they had the wrong Kim and they wouldn’t believe her,” the correct Kim Smiley told RadarOnline.com in an exclusive interview. “They wouldn’t leave her alone. I heard the process server was banging on the door and looking over the fence. They were having a party and my sister-in-law was so upset she took her kids and ran to the clubhouse (in the development where they live).”
“My brother was playing golf. He came back and he was angry. He told them not to show up ever again. My sister-in-law had told them it was the wrong Kim but they wouldn’t believe her.”
And another source told RadarOnline.com that the process server demanded the correct Kim Smiley’s address, which is more than an hour away from where LeAnn’s legal rep descended.
Now one major question is, did someone on LeAnn’s team tip off the media that Kim Smiley was going to be served? One person on LeAnn’s team denied knowledge of the entire situation.
But Kim told Radar: “The media called my sister-in-law’s house in advance, saying they were going to show up. That’s what I was told. When my sister-in-law told them they had the wrong Kim they just kept going. They thought she was lying. They didn’t believe her.”
Another source close to the situation told Radar: “If this was a public relations stunt, it was a bad one. And it sure went wrong for LeAnn.”
Eh. While I think there’s an element of stunt-queen-theatrics to this – especially the part about the photographers – I also think that there are some process servers out there who act like damn bounty hunters. Obviously, many servers only get paid for serving the correct papers to the correct people, but there’s really no excuse for the actions of this guy. My point? You can’t blame all of it on LeAnn. The process server seems douchey, for sure, but that’s on him. As for the photographers waiting for the photo op – well of course it’s not like LeAnn Rimes has a history of calling the paparazzi for photo ops and accidentally giving them the wrong time or address, right?
Meanwhile, Kim Smiley told Radar that she’s planning to countersue LeAnn, saying: “I plan to take my own action against her. This could impact my family and business. Somebody needs to stand up or LeAnn will continue doing this for the rest of her life. I have a right to my opinion. I have never bullied her. She blocked me on Twitter and then I took my account private, so how can I bully her if I’m blocked AND have a private account? It makes no sense. People who don’t like her have a right to their opinion. She’s a public figure. But I have never bullied her.” You can read more from Smiley’s statement here.
Photos courtesy of WENN.
Very immature of LeAnn. Very immature.
I dislike Leann as much as anyone else, BUT this Kim Smiley woman sounds like a real piece of work, and she’s a teacher too. Can you believe someone like her teaching children?
Leann is suing OVER ILLEGALLY RECORDING HER PHONE CALL. I know some of you argue she had no expectations of privacy, but that’s up to the judge/jury to decide.
Leann is suing over the recording and then subsequent publishing online, which is used as part of her “haters” campaign against her. That’s the bullying part, but Leann is NOT SUING over bullying.
The Kim Smiley woman avoids the topic of what she did illegally and tries to play the media by pretending Leann is suing over her “expressing her own opinions”.
Also, I read on yahoo a few days ago that Kim said something along the lines of “I didn’t illegally record her and publish it online,, I just taped our conversation and passed it to some online acquaintances.”
Seriously? This Kim woman has issues and is the immature one (though Leann is immature as well).
I agree with all of this. That’s why there is real stuff to worry about now, for that family. They probably wish they had never uploaded it.
Yes I would love for Kim to teach my child. She is a wonderful teacher and for you to say that based on what Leann’s lawyer wants you to think is sad. She is a loving mother and a great friend. There are expectations to every law and again Kim didn’t upload it. And there is no “hater” campaign. We just don’t like Leann and don’t like seeing Leann getting away with her craziness. Because at the end of the day, she isn’t doing this shit to you. She is doing it to Kim, to me, to Kristi and to Brandi.
This woman is not a public figure, so LeAnn is really playing with fire. Smiley could easily win a defamation suit.
Yup! Totally agree!
Smiley is so right in her statement and Leann is such a goose. Really? Her actions here speak volumes, it is downright outrageous that she thinks she can BULLY and SQUASH down a woman that lives her life and minds her own business just ’cause she’s got money. This obsession of hers with portraying herself as an innocent martyr is sick and in my opinion she needs to sort it out in therapy. How can Eddie tolerate having her around his children?!
Oh Leann. Will you never learn? Stop calling paps to catch you doing stupid things like this.
saw this on gossiprocks:
I really tried to stay out of this because I fear being sued by Leann or the attention mentioning any of this has and will garner, however Jessica J is true. She worked w Schaena and also knows J Mayer. They were both seeing Eddie at the same time. Eddie has been paying her rent for well over 2 years, I’m assuming w Lee’s money. Eddie is also seeing a latina girl who works at he and Lee’s favorite mexican restaurant. Lee is totally unaware. For the longest time, I have been loyal to my friend. To find out that not only has she stolen money from me, but that she lied to me and stole my credit card number to book a suite at a fancy hotel that I’m assuming she used w Ed was the last straw. Call me a turn coat, call me a rat but fair is fair. I cannot offer any more information because I do not want her attentions or Ed’s or even Lee’s whom I’ve met one time very briefly. She was drunk and I was waiting on her and Ed.
With all this suing stuff going on, I thought it was time to just unburden myself.
I cannot outright say things FOR SURE. I only know the second hand information told to me by Jess and text messages that she ‘says’ are from Ed.
I’ll leave it up to you to come to your own conclusions.
Thanks and I’m sorry I cannot offer anything more. Please understand why.
I shouldn’t have tweeted Leann to begin w. It seems I’ve opened a Pandora’s box. I will not give more details, money offered or not. I have a good life financially, I just do NOT like being taken advantage of and then expected to take it up the proverbial ass and stay quiet.
As far as his side piece all I know is: there’s a Mexican restaurant that Ed and Lee frequent often and have been seen, photographed at. That’s the restaurant his other GF works at. I’m sure you can figure it out.
yours, Dahl.
Sagebrush Cantina ftw!!!!!
What about Casa Vega? I remember seeing somewhere that she said they loved to go there. Although the wait staff is usually waiters or older Mexican women waitresses.
Red O is a possibility!
@Truth & Jezi..there was an anonymous cryptic comment a while ago suggesting LR ask Eddie about Sagebrush Cantina.
Yes but I’ve been told the crowd isn’t exactly Eddie’s type. Plus Leann and Eddie don’t frequent Sagebrush Cantina. They’ve never been photographed there. Not saying there isn’t truth to it but a hot Latina waitress would more likely be at a restaurant like Red O.
Hey we’re talking about Eddie Don Julio here, he’s probably got women from all three places..lol
oh my that is delicious and I totally believe every word of it.
as far as the process server, EVERYONE knows LR set that photographer up. Just wait and see what kind of mark is on the pic when she tries to sell them. This will actually work in Smiley’s favor and they can also subpena the photographer and LR’s payment records with them as well as help contribute to Smiley’s harassment suit.
Good…epic fail for LR once again.
Do you have a direct link to the page they posted this on? Gossip Rocks is impossible to sort through.
This is bizarre. I believe Eddie cheats on LeAnn..isnt he unemployed currently? What the hell is wrong with her..Eddie is a handsome douche who is using her for money. All this suing nonsense is a waste of time.
NE is saying that Eddie is still in touch with Scheana and that caused Leann’s meltdown.
They ran a story?
They sure did Jezi 😀
http://www.nationalenquirer.com/celebrity/adultery-hell-pushes-leann-brink
@tannita Thank you. Hmmm so then her emotional distress could be because of this scandal and not because of the recording.
Now THAT makes sense.
What a fecking idiot. The process server and LeAnn.
Leann, you need to pay less attention to what this Smiley person is doing and MORE attention to your husbands wandering pen-s. There are several girls ready to tell there stories. Face it, you are way out of your league. All that money can’t change that you are homlie looking and your looks do not match your mans at all. You are destroying what’s left of your career-which isn’t much- so knock it off. People are LAUGHING at you. No pity from the public at all!!!!!!
Not necessarily disagreeing with the rest of your post, but I’ve always thought that LeAnn and Eddie looked a perfect match, physically. So squinty. Any time they’re both smiling in a picture, you can’t add up a full eyeball between them.
Lenore! Funniest post of the day, truly laugh out loud about not getting a full eyeball!
Thank you for that laugh which I desperately needed, I blew snot!
Funniest post I’ve read in a while. Literally LOL’d at the airport in front of a bunch of strangers!
I am always “amused” when women turn on the looks of other women..wow, are we our own worst enemies or what? Personally, I’ve been with some hot men who were butt ugly after a while and I’ve been with men that others found not so hot that were smoking hot considering how good they were to me. Looks aren’t everything and I’m surprised that grown (I guess) women constantly comment on them. By the way, anyone else think it’s ironic that Leann is constantly called out with her cheating and how she has treated Brandi and how necessary it is that Brandi has defenders while the defenders have chosen to treat Leann how she treats other instead of how they would want Leann to treat them? I hope most of you are not parents as this would mean there are a whole bunch of children being taught to screw people over before they are screwed over and that’s sad.
I’m with you..
I would consider that LR, being as passive aggressive as she is, responded to one of her “fans” about big “beef curtains,” with “I hear they were HUGE,” or something similar, which was an obvious dig at Brandi who reportedly had corrective surgery after childbirth. She made sure to couch it so that, if Brandi saw it, she would know exactly what was meant, but also so she couldn’t be accused of anything. I have a little trouble feeling sorry for LR when she is just as, if not more, guilty of taunting another woman about looks.
Kim called me very upset yesterday over this situation. It’s turned into a damn circus thanks to Leann. Had Leann not done any of this, no one really would have known about the recording. Because she is psychotic…oh no don’t sue me for my opinion…she has turned this into a ridiculous situation and brought more attention to it.
Poor Kim & Lexi. Leann just keeps digging a deeper and deeper hole for herself.
This is causing Kim emotional distress and I will go to court if Kim needs me to. Witness to all that Leann has done.
I completely agree. I hope this works out for Kim and her daughter. It’s mind boggling how Leann thinks she’s justified in what she is doing, yet to all of us, the public… She looks ridiculous! Way to make an embarrassment of yourself and throw away what little of your career you had left.
Thank you. This is nothing but a power trip for Leann. She uses her money to try and get what she wants. I hope this is all worth it in the end for Leann because she’s not looking too good.
If you go through life bullying people to get what you want, sooner or later it catches up with you and this seems to be the case with Leann.
Do you know if she has a good lawyer yet? This whole situation makes me sick.
We’re working on it. She’s going to be ok. We will make sure she is.
It really has crossed the line from ridiculous and headed straight into frightening.
Please tell Kim to stay strong, and not to back down. ME!Ann needs to be taught a lesson.
I will tell her. Maybe she will come on later.
@Jezi – let Kim know she has a lot of folks behind her at CB. We’re rooting for her.
Agree in Kim’s corner & willing to help as much as I can w/ my disability pay, if you do take up a defense fundcollection. Every bit helps…sad Kim is being put thru this craziness. Stay strong! ~<3
I’d say BOTH these women need to be taught a lesson. They each sound like inarticulate ninnies in that nauseating 20 minute phone call.
Apologies if this question has been asked, I haven’t read the entire thread, but is there a defense fund somewhere for Kim? I’d contribute.
I don’t have a lot of $ but I would contribute what I can for Kim and Lexi’s defence fund.
I knew/know about the recording because it was published here..didn’t see a word of from Leann
..well.. leAnn/her people/person put it on TMZ.
And that’s where the story would have blown up huge. So that’s on her.
to clarify: i didnt mean the recording… i meant the subsequent story about the lawsuit, which was obv leaked by leann (as it referred to the smiley’s as scumbags, which is so HORRIBLE and WRONG)
anyway that was leaked to TMZ , which i think garnered the most attraction to the story.. and in which case was sold to tmz bt LR.
Hang in there Smileys! In the court of public opinion you’ve already won 10 times over. Sending positive energy your way…
Say, has anyone thought about creating a petition in their support??? I bet they’d get a sh*tload of sigs in no time.
Maybe off base but if LeeAnn was not the person who actually made the phone call (i.e. she had someone make the call for her to get Kim on the line, used their phone) Leeann may have a difficult time even proving that she has standing to file a suit and it can go to showing that she was the one trying to harass or at least trick Kim into speaking with her. One of the exceptions to taping is if a person feels threatened or harassed. It is already clear that Leeann had no expectation of privacy, the call was on speaker and she was supposedly not the originator of the call. Any good lawyer would have told Leeann that there was almost no chance that she would prevail and that her chances of having this go south and create even more bad PR for her were very high.
Oh Leann let it go! This has PR stunt written all over it. Just get out of rehab, and go on vacation again.
I’m curious if the real reason she’s in rehab is just to help her lawsuit?
…and come out looking like a spitfire! Great PR for her album. It’s all going to backfire LR.
I’d bet money on it Ellie J!
Oh boy. If someone in her camp called the paps, it’s really, REALLY crappy of them.
well it could have only been her or her lawyer since they would have been the only ppl to know she was getting served.
LR does keep them on speed dial.
You’re right. I just can’t imagine. That’s…embarassing. And it would be awful for someone to take pleasure out of photographing an embarassing moment for someone. Really, really ugly 🙁
As much as I’d like to blame LeAnn (for, like…..everything ever), the process server could have wanted the publicity and called the paps hisself.
However, I’m more than willing to believe LeAnn did it. 🙂
Yep-she sure did that. The media was screaming at Kim’s sister in law saying Kim physically “beat up Leann” ??? Eh???
Its getting insane.
Her whole lawsuit/media/poor me campiagn is a disaster.
Kim is ALSO trying to figure out how to get her kids from school without the media hounding them-because they are all there waiting at the little kids school.
I can not EVEN believe a person like Leann exists. She is a disgusting VILE human being.
She is toxic.
That is disgusting. Absolutely vile and disgusting.
But….but….but LeAnn is a “bonus mom”, she would never cause harm to a child.
/sarcasm.
I hope Leann gets counter-sued and GOOD! People are entitled to their opinions, and too bad Leann was recorded acting like an ass — if she’s embarrassed, she should be! Grow up, Squinty. Oh wait, could I get sued for that?
…so she’s getting accused of assault as well?! Wow. I can’t wait to see how crazy the rumors get the closer we are to the deposition, etc.
Huh?? I’m confused. How the fcuk was Kim ever supposed to have beat up MeAnn. Wasn’t this all taking place via Twitter and then on a cell phone? What, did Kim hire Naomi Campbell to chuck a phone at MeAnn? Puh-leez.
Team Kim.
i can’t believe they would wait at the children’s school. that is just too much. how horrible for kim.
The only person doing the bullying is LeAnn…. what a horrible person…. If she spent as much time on her country “music” career as her social media trash she might have something decent in her life to fall back on when Eddie leaves her for someone else with $$$ (cuz let’s be real, no money is coming in- only out), and here’s a thought, why not volunteer your talents to the community since you have sooo much time to prance around in your dumb bikini.
My thoughts exactly! How much healthier her life could be…
It seems like she has turned her obsession from Brandi to this Kim Smiley person. Scary!
I thought I saw on one blog that certain media types are considering doing stories on LR’s obsessive need to stalk and harass people. Someone needs to. Brandi, Kim, and didn’t she do something similar with that Andrew Keegan guy? In my opinion, she is a HEAD CASE. Getting help for your psychosis while STILL ACTING OUT your psychosis only serves to make you look more like a lunatic.
I hope this is true, she has a history of stalking/harrassing and it should be exposed.
OMG can you imagine? This is the story Oprah needs to save her network….. a 3 part series… Epic
Bingo! Celebrating your bday for a month, giving interviews on your bday about how you’ve never been happier and then to enter a rehab for anxiety the day after doesn’t exactly scream stable. I wonder if Ed made her go, like an ultimatum. I never hear about the Andrew K thing but it wouldn’t surprise me.
Oh, and she wants to call Brandi vindictive. This lawsuit is about as vindictive as you can get. The fact she’s suing a 19 yr old is really disturbing.
I really hope that is true b/c she has been paying her reg. sites like Celebuzz and Huffington Post to paint her in a good light. the only ones telling the truth of the story are the ones not on her payroll. she has a few insiders there (the same ones that over-saturate the media with her pathetic bikini shots, they both make money off those so dont think they wouldnt lie for her.
I hope so! That would be a great $tory. I’m pretty sure the one doing the bullying is the one sending national photographers to photograph a private citizen, i.e., non-celebrity being served.
Quick, someone call Vanity Fair magazine! They’ve just taken on the Co$, let’s get them to do a story on MeAnn’s ridiculous behavior!!
LeAnn is pathetic. Initiating a verbal argument and then suing the wronged party because of the public backlash.
The best thing LeAnn could possibly do for herself at this point is to dismiss her completely bogus and delusional law suit and lay low for a few years.
I’m expecting a breakdown that will make Britney’s look tame. Once all of LeAnn’s dirty laundry is piled in front of her in a court room (if she insists on proceeding down that idiotic road) and she is forced to confront the consequences of her nasty, self entitled actions, I think she will break.
Also, shame on Eddie for letting this mentally unstable woman anywhere NEAR his children.
Leann’s lawsuit is such a bad idea. More attention on her frame of mind is not a good idea. She just starts to look crazier and more in denial. But heck, it’s her money to spend (on lawyers and process servers with no sense of direction). But it just has the LOOK OF DOOM around it.
As pathetic as Leann is-could Eddie Cibrian be a bigger creep? Besides just cheating on his ex-wife, exposing his kids to this lunacy, not putting the kabosh on her craziness, cheating with god knows how many other people??! Seriously, this is mind boggling to me. And doesn’t Leann have any normal people in her life to kindly tell her that she needs to pull it together-either through some sort of rehab or heavy duty counseling??
Someone posted on another site that LR had previously tried to sue Sheana (sp??) for talking about her affair with Eddie while he was with LR. does anyone know whatever happened or the outcome? she really is a sue happy nutter thats for sure. I didnt think she had a leg to stand on before and now she really mucked things up and just made a stronger case for Smiley’s side for hiring the paps to take pics of the server process. I cant believe LR is dumb enough to think that wont back fire on her.
I think Deb knows. Apparently Scheana had a court document stating that she was still sleeping with Eddie and I believe Leann offered her hush money to go away because she then said she lied. So basically committed perjury. Those articles seemed to have disappeared off the web though.
I dont think LR realizes how many ppl can and will come out of the woodwork once this goes to court. she will look far worse than she already does. since she lives in her own little narcissistic bubble where shes perfect but the rest of the world sees her for the nutter she is, I think her PR team and record label are in for rude awakening.
Macey that is true and she has herself to blame for all of this.
I wrote something similar below. They will bring up her wewenlove account as well. Plus they may subpoena her fans who are involved and I hope they don’t lie for her. They will get into a ton of trouble.
Yep, it’s already starting.
Whole thing is weird
I have never commented here before but finally felt the need to speak up. I am no fan of Leann but this whole situation leaves a bad taste in my mouth.
The way the phone call begins leads me to believe that Kim initiated the contact. Leann may have CALLED her but to begin a phone call by “Listen Bitch you have 5 minutes to say whatever you want” or whatever, makes me think that Kim S was probably talking to those other twitter fans or someone and said she wanted to talk to Leann to clear things up. How else would she have been able to record the call from the VERY beginning unless she knew the phone call was happening. She knew Leann was calling, she planned to record it and then spread it all over the internet because she knew Leann was crazy and would put her foot in her mouth. Leann obviously has psychological problems and this teacher maliciously exploited that.
Both of them need to get off twitter and find things better to do with their lives.
That’s the thing Kim didn’t record the call from the beginning. It was recorded after about 20 minutes of Leann talking to her. She was cursing so much and being aggressive and that’s when Kim started recording. She didn’t initiate anything and she never once told anyone that she wanted to speak with Leann. Leann called her and wanted Kim to come meet up with her to get to know her. That was how it all began. Kim didn’t spread it over the internet either. That website does not belong to Kim. These are the true details to that situation.
Actually I’m sorry, I’m incorrect, Lexi is the one who hit record after hearing Leann talking crazy to her mother. Can’t leave out those minor details or it gets twisted 😉
Jezi, eileen, help me out here, please. Didn’t Kim S. used to be a follower (or fan) of MeAnn? (That would account for KS having so much “personal info” about MeAnn, due to MeAnn’s tendency to *ahem* OVERSHARE.)
I just don’t believe KS was the instigator here. Me!Ann has too much of a history doing this type of thing.
The only real personal information she had was from Leann’s own twitter. Leann overshares her life with everyone.
You’re of course entitled to your opinion on this-but you’re wrong. Kim didn’t even answer the phone the first time she called. Leann then said -call her again. Then she got a text that said pick up the phone-she thought it was the girl who’s phone Leann was using, it wasn’t it was Leann.
THose are the facts-much much more will come out that proves Leann was stalking Kim online and even worse…not just to Kim either.
Ok, well I don’t know all the details, nor do I personally know either, that was just the feeling I got throughout the situation. I listened to 20 minutes of the recording and personally thought it was extremely strange how many details Kim knew about Leanns personal life. I understand that Leann is a public figure and posted every detail of her life on twitter but I have also read Kim’s comments on here in articles and in the comments section and I know she was blocked from Leann’s twitter and vice versa. Obviously, she was in contact with people who were friends with Leann on twitter and was getting details from them. That to me, is creepy. I have been on here for months and despise so many things about Leann but I personally think Kim should have just left things alone with regards to this and she should have neither recorded nor shared the phone call. Heck, she should have never even bothered picking up the phone. She is a mother and a teacher and does not need to engage in such petty arguments.
From what I have heard, the recording starts about 20 mins in and you can tell if you hear it that it starts in mid-conversation, so you are incorrect with your assumptions.
As I said, I obviously don’t know everything about the situation considering I do not personally know either. I think you guys are obviously all smart, intelligent women and I agree with all of you that Leann is a crazy, narcissistic bully who needs to grow up and get off twitter. However, I also feel that what Kim S. did was wrong. That was all I am trying to say…
@ Me
I’m pretty sure the only reason the call was ever put online was b/c LR tried to deny she called her. Keep in mind LR is a pathological Liar with a personality disorder. She truly believes her own lies even tho she had a table full of ppl around her with the phone on speaker phone, also knowing there were other ppl on Smiley’s end and yet tried to deny she ever made the call. Smiley didn’t do anything anyone else wouldn’t do if some ‘celeb’ called them and started cussing at them and then tried to deny it, all for unfollowing her on twitter and voicing her disgust with her b/c she psycho.
Leann IS a psycho. And every single person, except fellow psychos, knows that. I just am of the opinion that Kim S should have stayed out of the whole situation. She didn’t need to take the phone call, she didn’t need to record it, she didn’t need to tell her friends about it and furthermore she didn’t need to let other people listen to it because we all already know that Leann is batshit crazy. All the proof we need is already supplied by Leann herself via twitter and tabloids. It just seems to me it would have been smarter to stay out of the whole situation and avoid it since we all already know that Leann is psychologically unstable. It NEVER helps to engage in arguments with crazy people.
I’m pretty sure Leann has admitted that she’s the one who initiated the call and said she did so to get Smiley to hear her side or something like that. She had a mutual “friend” of hers and Kim Smiley to call Smiley and then had the “friend” hand the phone over to her to be able to speak to Smiley.
I haven’t heard the recording, nor do I want to hear that craziness, but someone said that you could hear Smiley tell Leann she was recording it. Is that true?
she’s a nut….
Maybe they have classes in rehab; Facts on Famehoring, Being the Best Bitch You Can Be”, etc.
Of course LeAnn called the paps. Just like she checked in to rehab to support her claim of being traumatized by Smiley’s “bullying”. She’s playing this situation for all it’s worth. Everything with LeAnn is a lie and a ruse. But too bad for her we’re not all morons – we can see right through her BS. What a pathetic human being.
LeAnn is shameful. The fact that she would do this to a woman with four children is disgusting. She invaded this woman’s personal life and has now endangered her family and possibly her job. I pray that she gets a good attorney and DOES countersue for defamation, emotional stress, etc etc. LeAnn sure seems like the bully here and I will never give her the benefit of the doubt again after witnessing all of this crappy behavior. Not to mention, ever spend any money on one of her records or watch anything she might act in in the future. What a horrible human being.
Oh, Leann. You look like such a pathetic bully.
Total stunt queen move and it’s not surprising at all. Leann is notorious for calling paps. As for serving Kim what a SHOCK (not really) that she tries to have her sued on a holiday. She clearly isn’t having her PR people do any research on what society thinks about this lawsuit. If they did, they’d realize no one is supporting a celebrity bullying a woman with a large family to support. Just keep on digging the grave for your career to lie in, Leann. It should be almost ready at this point.
Leann Rimes is so pathetic…
I’ve always wondered whether or not Eddie ever told Leann to stop Twittering so much, to stop exploiting his sons for attention, or to just get off Twitter all together. I’m guessing he’s never said any of that to her because he JUST DOESN’T CARE. He seems to be along for a free ride, and if he has to put up with Leann’s antics for it, then so be it. I’m surprised that no real big cheating allegations have come out yet. There seems to be only insinuations that he’s cheated. Whatever the case, he seems like a messed up person just as much as Leann is.
+1. I think he was just happy that she was spending so much time on tweeting and he could do whatever he wanted. it is BS what he said!
how dare you jack my name and my comment, ha kidding.. I never know what to say about LeAnn other than she’s a bit of a nutter and needs a non-technological hobby..don’t they teach crafts in rehab, maybe she should sign up for some..
My suspicion is that if he did actually tell her to get off twitter it’s only because he doesn’t want her to hear all the chatter about his cheating….
You’d think there’d be an adult around LeAnn somewhere with enough brains to see what a debacle this is going to become. If only she had a responsible husband…
I feel awful for Eddie’s boys actually, hopefully Brandy can use this to get a little distance…
I feel bad for them too – they did not ask to be in such a mess :(.
Does anyone else not ‘get’ the LeAnn loonies who are defending her right now?
They’re saying things like “If Smiley is so concerned with her children and career then why does she have a Twitter?”
Many parents have Twitter and Facebook so they can monitor their children’s activities and also to keep in contact with their children when they move away. Also, what’s the problem with a mother having a Twitter account?
The same could be said for them? Why do they have twitter? So now Kim can’t tweet because some psychotic psuedo celeb wants to call her up on her peronal phone? Leann calls us obsessed, well frankly, Leann knows who we are. Leann searches us out. She knew all about Kim’s life, she knows all about ours. I don’t know what celebrity would do such things. And honestly we know a lot about Leann because people come to us with info. I don’t know why but they do. We don’t go out seeking information on her, it comes to us. So Leann can get over her thoughts about us conspiring against her. It ain’t true. What is true is that sooooo many people dislike her who have crossed her path that they reach out to us to give us the info. We of course feel the need to share with our twitter followers and CB friends 😉
And, why does the world’s best-ever Bonus Mom have a twitter that she’s never ever off?
By fluke I stumbled upon a huge fan of hers stating on Twitter that LeAnn had personally contacted her to say she was doing well and would be fine. So which is it? Is she suffering anxiety and stress or isn’t she. Another uber fan is almost hysterical on Facebook because she gets to meet LeAnn again and said LeAnn had personally contacted her as well. So gee, could LeAnn’s stress and anxiety really be a stunt to garner sympathy for her nuisance lawsuit? Seriously folks, how many fans is she personally contacting? If she was under such incredible stress and needed time to herself, what is she doing messaging people like that? She is so freaking toxic and such a liar that I can’t even begin to imagine what else is wrong with her. She has probably gotten her way by lying and manipulating her entire life. How her fans can’t see that she has some serious behavioral issues is beyond me. Hiring paps to record the person she is now suing getting served, shows what a sick and twisted mind she has. Total power trip for a has been with entitlement issues.
Münchausen syndrome. That is all.
i saw that tweet too.. something along the lines of, leann personally messaged me so i know she’s going to be ok.
Very selfish of LR to sue for punitive dammages when she is very well off. There is a teenager involved and this may effect the future of the teenager (how will this teen find a job once shes done with school)Leann will have enough $ to retire with. Now whose the bully?
OH and the most ridiculous part of this all….LEANN CALLED KIM.
Are Leann and Voldermort related, per chance?
Could be very true! Good call! ALso, both names shouldn’t be mentioned or hell breaks loose, and people start getting annoyed xD
Right? As I was typing I wondered if I should use The Artist Formerly Known As or the like. 😉
i didn’t think it was possible for her to make herself look like even more of an asshole but she’s managed to do it. she not only looks delusional for claiming to be bullied on twitter, but she looks like she’s using her wealth and fame to bully an average middle class woman into silence. i really hope kim fights this balls to the wall. i think that leann needs to be taught a lesson and publically humiliated and shamed before she finally gets it.
Min89: yes and plus 100.
Wish Eddie’s girlfriends (if true) would surface with their stories.
I have a feeling some of them will. They won’t be able to resist the lure of the limelight… or Gloria Allred’s pitch for representation. 😀
Leanne, you really suck. Used to like you, used to be a fan, now you’ve lost me……..2 daughter’s as well….do you still retain the Gosselin 8? That seems to be your fanbase Your behaviour is middle school at best.
Oh that poor monkey…
LR seriously needs to fire every single person who works for her. The lawyer, the PR team, the “friends.” Everyone is using her and not a single one of these people has her interests in mind. Any good lawyer would have advised her not to sue as it makes her look bad and opens the door for tons of dirty laundry to get aired publicly. Any good PR team would have gotten her off twitter and had her volunteering at a charity or something to get public opinion back in the positive zone. Where is her mother???
Her mother is one of her major problems and always has been.
That is sad. I recall something about her suing her dad for stealing money from her….ugh
A “good lawyer” probably did tell her not to sue this woman. But Leann probably wouldn’t listen and kept going until she found someone willing to take her money and do her dirty work.
No matter how many people are shouting the truth in the face of a nutter, if said nutter doesn’t want to hear it, said nutter will ignore it.
Just wait until she’s finally destroyed every teeny-tiny little thread of goodwill or fan-dom that’s come her way.
Then it will be all “I wasn’t surrounded by good people/loved ones/anyone who had my best interest at heart…Poor, poor pitiful me!”
Just you wait!
this^
She won’t listen to anyone’s advice but her own…that’s why counseling won’t work for her.
So let me get this straight….Lee is suing a woman who has a blocked private twitter account for “supposedly” bashing her and bullying her for recording a call “THAT LEE INITIATED” and has the nerve to show up at the sister-inlaw’s house over the weekend and serve the wrong person and SO all because of this “stress” she checks into rehab because this is all causing emotional distress/anxiety. Guess what Lee, try living like the rest of us, where we are all struggling to keep our lives together all the while we may lose our homes to foreclosure, we can’t pay our bills, food prices keep rising….and guess what? We hold our heads high and FACE the truth instead of running to rehab to run away from our problems. BTW the problems you are running from YOU caused. End of rant.
What a pathetic and manipulative loser Leanne is. Does she really think the world is full of twitter followers to dote all their attention on her? Beezie please! Get a life. Live and be happy. Not everyone is going to like you and you can’t force them into it either
I think that someone should call Brandi. Kim can seek protection if she needs to but she isn’t going to have to worry for long.
Leann is going to flip out and everyone in her path, I mean everyone including kids, will be subject to her wrath. This is about to end badly for everyone.
Brandi if you read these types of blogs: get your kids to a safe place. If Leann thinks those kids are the most important thing to Eddie and she wants to seriously hurt Eddie you fill in the blanks.
LR’s publicity firm is doing major work trying with any paper–tv outlet–magazine etc.– to run with the sympathy theme. Google her rep–Marcel Pariseau–and see how many outlets are running the story of her going for “help”! I was shocked to see who all are running the sick story. That PR firm is certainly pulling out all the stops and earning LR’s money.
@Jezi –if there is any way we can help Kim and her daughter–please let all of us know, okay? The real bully–LR–has to be stopped!
So much censorship on this topic Im sad only one heavily biased side gets there comments out. Eventhough I cant stand LeeAnn.
Right there with you, mln76. Takes two to tango.
try to remember leann phoned kim with her gang of bullies beside her. i don’t often comment but i am appalled by leann’s attack on this woman. to leann, she just wants to win but to kim, this could be her financial future and her career because she answered the phone with a wackjob on the other end.
@Joanne
The attack IS appalling, but why was this woman taking so much of her time to constantly tweet about Leann. Leann is a complete basketcase, but there was clearly some obsession coming from BOTH sides, no matter who made the call.
OMG not to get snarky but honestly we don’t ALWAYS talk about Leann on Twitter. We have a lot of other conversations about other things. But people only focus on our Leann related convos. Leann does stupid shit frequently which makes for interesting and funny back and forth conversation. However, we all know about each other’s lives and that’s because we talk about other things. I once cut my hair and Leann complimented me on my hair cut. When she called Kim, she knew personal details of Kim’s life that Kim never shared on Twitter (which wasn’t recorded). So it makes you kind of wonder what a celebrity with money is doing spending her time on Twitter worried about us.
I hope when Leann finally does lose it and implode and shaves her head and sets her bikini collection on fire and Eddie leaves her and her life is in ruins, all the anti-Leann people on this board have the grace to feel ashamed of themselves. I’m not in any way a Leann fan and I don’t care who Brandi is, but reading the comments on this board makes me sick and angry. This is another human being, and if all the details of her life are as sad and pathetic as you all seem to be crowing about then more shame on you for coming here and reveling in the details and hoping she reads these boards so she can see all the nasty things people are saying about her. I’ve been a reader of this site for a long time and I’ve said some bitchy things for sure, but every time I click on a Leann post lately the comments have just gone beyond the pale. She needs help and she’s apparently trying to get it, this Kim woman should not have gotten involved, and everyone else needs to take a break and maybe breath a little. There’s a Fassy post up today, there’s a post about Clive Owen, why are we not putting energy into that? I, for one, hate to see a site I visit on a daily basis descend into this, and per the language in the Comment Policy this is supposed to be lighthearted fun, people. Ease up.
I don’t like leann at all but this harassment of a teacher and her family makes me have no sympathy for her. She is trying her hardest to embarass the teacher with the paps to distract from the fact she cursed at her and initiated contact w/ someone she has blocked and has a private account. In fact, I hope the teacher sues leann for defamation after all of this
Again.no love for LeeAnn but the teacher should have thought things through before if she truly felt harrassed.SHE should have called the cops.not posted it on-line.If she were teaching my child i’d be concerned.
I, for one, am posting about this and other stories on this thread! I don’t have much vitriol for LeAnn, but what goes around, comes around. And LeAnn deserves a true butt-kicking for her behavior. If anyone’s gone beyond the pale, it’s her. Kim didn’t call and scream and curse at her. Kim didn’t launch a frivolous lawsuit at her. That was all LeAnn. She deserves to be called out as the jerk she is.
I don’t comment much on this situation because I actually feel sorry for Leann. She’s clearly coming unravelled but doesn’t have the smarts to realize that it’s time to back off Twitter. Time to stop posing in bikinis, calling the paps, bashing her husband’s ex, bragging about her wonderful marriage and bonus boys, constantly bombarding social media with the perfection that she wants everyone to believe is her life.
It’s all a house of cards but instead of her husband quietly convincing her to lay off Twitter, to stop engaging with fans/non-fans, to stop blathering about private stuff, he’s off banging other women.
Leann’s uber-defensiveness and balls-out attacks on people only show that she’s in a bad place emotionally and mentally, she’s feeling cornered and panicking.
What irks me is that she’s surrounded by people who could help her, but they’re clearly greedy and will jump on the “it’s everyone else’s fault, she’s innocent” bandwagon to make a buck.
This will not end well for her and will be a career-killing move. I really hope this won’t get to the point where innocent people she’s engaging with are dragged through the mud of her life.
Awesome and insightful!
Agreed. I am no BBB, or whatever they are called. Just merely an interested party who has been following this for awhile. I always felt bad for LeeAnn when she was a kid because despite being immensely talented she was really not cute and many adults seemed to delight in pointing that out, which i found incredibly cruel. It has been interesting though, to hear from her fans both former and present, as it has become more apparent that the problems were always there but this relationship with Cruddie has escalated them to another level. Honestly in the beginning I thought this was one long elaborate scam by Eddie & Brandi for fame and money as I had never heard of either of them before this. Now I am not sure what to think other than never let your children go into the BIZ.
I agree with much of what you said. I’ve even had times myself where I think, she must have mental issues if she thinks this behavior is ok and therefore can’t help it. Then I think, no this is classic Leann behavior by many accounts and she is doing it to be spiteful. In my opinion she surrounds herself with “yes” people because the “no” folks get kicked to the curb. Her MO is to respond w/legal threats. She sued her own father, her record label and threatened to sue Brandi for speaking out on Leanns behavior towards her. Karma is coming for Leann in a BIG way and she wants to drag others down with her just for the sheer purpose of them having voiced their OPINIONS online about her (which last I checked is perfectly legal and other celebs do NOT SUE for it). My personal opinion is that Leann has considered the “Brandi bunch” to be a thorn in her side for exposing her Twitter antics for a long time now and sees this as way to get revenge. Leann even comes after people who joke about her on Twitter! Newsflash Leann : people commenting on your endless stream of bikini pics that YOU tweet on a PUBLIC FORUM are NOT BULLIES!! Those of us who have seen her chew people out over nothing can vouch for this. I would imagine the people around her are probably mortified, especially Eddie. I don’t think Eddie signed up for this. Eddie and Brandi seemed like they were private people. You never heard anything scandalous about them until he got involved with Leann. You rarely heard anything scandalous about Leann either, while married to Dean. So why now, after getting with Eddie, does she feel the need to constantly keep herself in the spotlight? That backfired, 99% of people commenting on this case are against her. I think in the not so distant future she is going to realize she is committing career suicide.
Well stated Jessica – I just hope for the best outcome for the kids and that they’re being sheltered from this nonsense. Time to realize that you’re damaging other innocent lives with this behaviour and to “go quietly into the night”.
@ Min76
I absolutely agree with you that this thread is always one sided, and a lot of bullying goes on if you disagree with anything the “Brandy defenders” have to say.
I actually do not feel any pity on the woman that is being sued. Why are you waisting your time going back and forth with a psychopath-country-singer? What business is it of yours to hold the torch for the scorned wife that you don’t even know? I think that the three of them LR, EC and BG are a bunch of famewhore-seeking-trash. Why would you put your families emotional and financial well being on the line to put a “homewrecker in her place” is beyond me!
Im beginning to think that everybody is insane these pseudo stars and fans alike!
Thanks! its been my opinion that certain interested parties are involved in egging this on for revenge/publicity. But thats just my opinion 😉
@min76 its not our fault no one is interested in posting in the Angelina Jolie and Jen Aniston threads that you and others love to frequent(unfortunatley for you the public is tired of those two), if you dont like the leann posts then just skip them, duh
HERE COME THE DEFLECTORS, LOL!!
LeAnne caused this shit to pop off, end of story.
THIS has nothing to do w/BRANDI.
THIS is allllllll Leanne! and her crazy antics.
instead of doing her music or attending to her husband–she’d rather lunch and start stuff w/”FANS”..Eddie must love this, gives him more time to do his thing.
LeAnne made this bed (like the one on her crazy cake) and she will lie in it.
LOL
It blows me away that Leann socializes with “fans” that she knows nothing about. These people could be dangerous to her and her family. It’s just not safe! Boundaries, Leann, boundaries!
Yeah, I’m noticing the trend too. I’m no Leann fan- I honestly can’t stand the woman. But it boggles me how everyone can say Leann was soooo obsessive, when this Kim woman was obsessive as well. Now, I don’t think she deserves any of this legal trouble, but the whole thing seems a bit off to me. I’m not saying it’s a scam, but I don’t understand why Leann Rimes takes up so much of the headspace of this woman pre-phonecall.
Is there a end to LeAnn crazy? She is nothing but a pathetic attention seeking bully. And there is no doubt in my mind that she called the paps.
Kim if you happen to read this stay strong. LeAnn is just trying to scare you into submission. She called you and you had her blocked on Twitter. I hope you get a kick ass lawyer and put that witch in her place.
Gloria Alred would do it for the publicity.
I haven’t been a fan of Allred since she became lawyer to the starf@ckers, but even I would applaud her for taking Kim’s case.
Also if there is any way I can help Kim Smiley and her daughter please let me know.
@Themuseisnotenchanted:
Totally disagree. This story has taken on a life of its own and reached Shakespearean proportions because it is a modern day Brothers Grimm fairy tale.
Leann is evil, wicked and completely amoral. Brandi is pretty and fun and loves her children. In the middle you have Eddie, who is a fuckwit of gargantuan proportions but that’s a whole other story ; )
No seriously, people get so involved in this because Leann represents everything that we, as a society, hold as anathema to our values.
Honour, truth, integrity, compassion and love have all been hijacked by this total fuckwit (Leann) and used as glue to prop up her house of cards. She talks the talk, but never walks the walk. She is a giant fraud and USES HER CELEBRITY to bully people into submission.
Brandi, even if she is a funloving, swearing party girl, has a real core of integrity and thats what we are responding to.
Well said Snowpea.
Excellent post.
you really nailed it on all sides.
@ Snowpea
Are you serious? I have seen that Brandy on Beverly Hills House Wives and she is nothing but a piece of amoral-foulmouth-trash. That is who you are holding up as an example of “a real core of integrity?”, Ugh! What kind of warped-twilight-zone society do we live in!!! That you have to go into tit-for-tat with a sociopath (Lean) to defend a low life (Brandy) from a cheating douch ( Eddie). If you are so interested in defending our society from “social values” take up a real cause that really afflicts our society, not tabloid gossip!!
How ironic that there are two women in the same family with the same name–just thought id say that..
But this could of all been prevented if a) Leann would stop tweeting about how wonderful her adulterous life is. No one wants to hear about two happy cheaters, ok??
and b) the correct Kim S would have taken the recording and tweets or whatever to her lawyer instead of the media.
Regardless of what was said to make Leann looks all sorts of mental, Kim S had no right to broadcast it, knowing it is illegal to do this in the state of CA. Fine, you want to prove Leann called? then do it legally. I didnt listen to the tape but did Kim S ever say “Hey leann, just so you know were taping this conversation and are going to broadcast it online for all to hear?” and Leann responded by saying, “So? Im ok with that- Do it I dont care!” I doubt it. So yes, regardless of how much venom is on this site about how much leann is psycho, crazy, mental, dumb, blind..whatever…Kim S was legally wrong to post it without consulting a lawyer first who would have advised her that this was not legal to do so.
that is all.
Legally, I think ur right.
Hopefully, Kim will be ok, regardless.
And childishly, I grab my popcorn and watch LR implode.
As long as no lives are destroyed.
OH GAWD!!
here come the looney tune’s defenders!
Leanne looks, smells and I’ll ask Eddie if she tastes like a looney.
all of this is sooo high school.
Play on Eddie, Play ON!!!
this chick will continue to blame EVERYONE else for her problems, stay off of twitter and put a leash on ya man.
she is an obessive complusive thing ins’t she, smdh!
this is the real world and people have opinions–GROW up!
I’m glad that Ms. Smiley is countersuing, this is so damn DUMB!
Of course she did. Cause that’s the kind of immature skank she is.
I agree that Brandi is by far the most gracious in this whole situation. She was probably angry and a little vindictive at the VERY beginning but I would be too if I found out my husband was having multiple affairs and one of his mistresses was fixated on me. LeAnn went crazy in her attempt to gain validation for her cheating. She ruined her marriage to her husband of almost a decade, a man who seemed to love her very much, and all she got was Eddie Cibrian-world’s greatest douche. LeAnn knew he only came back to her because Brandi kicked him out and she knew he had other sidepieces before and DURING their relationship. Although he is clearly a manwhore I am sure a part of him truly loved Brandi because he was with her for 13 years and she is the mother of his children he had to at least have been in love with her at some point. My point is he never loved LeAnn but he loved Brandi and LeAnn knows that. She could not admit she ruined her own marriage and reputation for this jerk (and she clearly is a little mental) so she fixated on becoming the person he missed…Brandi. Her obsession was/is clearly psychotic and very disturbing but also so sad because no one close to LR will get her help and save those poor boys from this madness. She clearly has been spiraling out of control for a very long time. Eddie is a pig and this whole situation is his fault because he HAD to have known this chick was crazy by now. Maybe at first he didn’t know she was full blown craycray but he should have figured it out a hot second later and divorced her because his two boys and their mother have suffered a great deal and were placed in danger. Eddie Cibrian is a spineless weasel and he has the power to end all of this right now but he doesn’t. Shame on him.
Totally agree. Leann appears to focus on Brandi because it’s easier than to face that she ruined her life/marriage over somone like Eddie. The more that idea comes up (that Eddie is a douche who will or is already cheating on her), the more Leann pushes it back down by demonizing Brandi.
Why is Smiley taking the heat when she allegedly isn’t the one who posted the phone convo? I read someone else on this board taking credit for it. Am I wrong?
I don’t care about any of this lawsuit business. IMO Leann should never have made the call in the first place. Duh.
I do, however,eagerly await her inevitable return to Twitter and my chance to once again feast on the dishes of cray cray she awesomely serves up!
Of course, LeAnn called the paps to witness this. She’s done it before with the same results.
Hope Kimberly & her daughter have a good attorney. I also hope all those harassed by LeAnn & her minions submit witness testimony regarding everything that happened to them for daring to say anything negative about LeAnn or in support of Brandi. Someone needs to shut LeAnn down. It’s obvious Eddie doesn’t care about her, his kids or have any respect for Brandi. All he cares about his LeAnn’s money & his peen.
Where are the pap photos? I don’t see any. Though, I wouldn’t put it past LeAnn.
Hang tough, Kim. You have the support of many! We see this as the attempted diversion it really is.
This has nothing to do with the fact that some women don’t like her, or even with the recording itself .. It all stems from Eddie’s reaction to it (because she lied to him about it) He was leaving and she’s in panic mode.
I personally think Eddie will force her to drop this nonsense soon.. If not then all her vindictive, twitter stalking, fake account creating lies will come to light … as well as Eddie’s cheating.
I mean, I can only imagine he doesn’t want mistress’ 1-4 on the stand telling their story under oath. He will squash this…and she will do whatever he says.
I agree with this. I have a feeling this is a sort of diversionary tactic about stuff that might be coming out about Eddie soon. The complaint against Kim says that this affected her personal relationships and IMO the only one she cares about is Eddie. We can all only guess what he thinks about this but its a safe bet he thinks its ridiculous and he probably does not like being lied to. There are many reasons Leann might want to consider dropping this and dropping out of sight, one major one being a mistress (or two) coming forward and speaking out of disgust for what she is doing. For someone who might want media attention this would be the right time for a mistress to claim it.
@Jaded, I totally agree about the kids. I hope they are pretty much in the dark about it all.
“he probably does not like being lied to. ”
How ironic that the man who spent most of the past 15 years perfecting lying to one woman or another does not like being lied to.
@Lady D, I thought it was ironic as I typed it! 😉 To the rest of us the thought is silly but I doubt he likes getting a taste of his own medicine. Most people don’t.
Maybe he won’t make her drop it. Her vendetta against Kim is probably moving the focus away from him. He may like that.
True. It may help him avoid the spotlight in the short term, but looking at the big picture, I don’t think he wants his secrets coming out on the stand for public record…and really, neither does Leann.
She just wants attention diverted momentarily while she tries to contain Eddie’s mistress with cash and threats..her usual M.O.
Horrible the way that Leger dress falls over her hips… She fancies herself beautiful
@ Ennie: What hips? That is the problem, you need curves (or at least a girl’s body) to wear that dress. Leann looks like a monkey faced lot lizard. I’m being KIND by saying that
When your bandage dress is baggy and you still think you’re the stuff, you need to reevaluate your entire existence.
Right, aren’t those bandage dresses supposed to be skin tight? From the waist down its hanging off her.
Can someone please explain this to me? Why is Leann mad at this person?
Does she personally befriend fans or something?
Off Topic – but I’ve never seen anyone make a Herve Leger bandage dress look absolutely awful the way Leann does in that pic. The color washes her out and she has NO CURVES to fill the dress out. No bueno! 🙁
I just feel so bad for Lexi and Kim.
I still stand by my statement that if you make a phone call in a public place, with people surrounding you listening in (with your permission and encouragement), that you have given up any expectation of privacy. It was okay for LeAnn’s “friends” to listen in but not anyone else? How does that make sense? I really don’t think she has a case.
All she’s doing is making herself look more and more terrible. NoH8, huh, LeAnn? I guess that only applies to others but not you.
This right here is likely going to be what gets this thrown out. I believe the law applies to a person who had a reasonable expectation of privacy. Obviously you don’t have that in a restaurant surrounded by your paid Twitter friends with the call on speaker phone.
I’m not choosing any of them. All of them are cheating, homewrecking liars that care more about their images than anything else.
HOWEVER when boundaries with children are broken playtime is over. Photographers have no place harassing children anywhere for any reason.Eddie is a scumbag for not berating LeAnn for stalking another woman’s children. Brandi needs to pay more attention to the things that Eddie allows Leann to do that could potentially put her kids in harms way. LeAnn needs a locked facility, some meds, and some time in counseling.
LeAnn is a vicious and evil person. What she is doing to Kim Smiley is wrong on so many levels. Does she think that virtually torturing Kim is going to make LeAnn look like the victim? Karma can’t come around fast enough.
She used to sing, didn’t she? And wasn’t she pretty good? Wow, that is all gone for her now. Her life is so small if this is what she focuses on.
LeAnn from 19 to 26 had turned into a really cute girl with a cute sexiness who was known for singing. Eddie was the worst thing that ever happened to her. Getting the hot guy from the hot girl has brought out every insecurity she ever had. She bakes her skin tan all the time, very skinny, so her face is so thin and with the darker tan on her face everything is the same color. Look at this video in her mid twenties. She had pretty skin, her lips and eyebrows popped, nice shiny hair. I think her teeth were different even in the video. She always looks better with it parted on the side (listening LeAnn?). There is no comparison. Now she wants to be a Kim Kardashian, posing on twitter all the time to prove how hot she is, with no understanding no one thinks of her as a singer first and foremost anymore. Her dreams of an acting career is never going to happen, because being a an tanorexic/anorexic reality gossip site bikini poser weekly isn’t going to help that dream anyway.
In her quest to be the hottest thing for Eddie, she actually turned plainer. Why every woman thinks a tan face is flattering I don’t get. Everyone is different. Look at Rachel Weiss with her fair skin and dark hair. Striking. Her or Angie with a tan would not be the same. LeAnn was far more striking with peaches and cream skin tone or a light sunkissed type of tan and lipstick with a touch of color and not all that extra overkill shiny shadow all above her eyes she’s been doing lately, and looked better with a naturally fuller face (please Dear God don’t go out and put fake fillers in and look like Lindsay, weird, fake. Just gain a few pounds). Her look now hardens her.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wIUMPG6Punw
I totally agree with this. I think in many MANY ways Eddie was the worst thing to ever happen to her with her changes to her appearance being number 1. I truly think that her ability to “steal the hot guy from the hot girl” has left her absolutely riddled with severe insecurities and as a result she is constantly trying to make herself over to keep him from cheating. She is at an unhealthy weight, her hair looks very unhealthy, her face is much thinner, I mean I could go on and on. Its really aged her and made her look more masculine in the face. NONE of this would even matter if she wasn’t constantly showing off and putting this in everyone’s face. From Twitter pics to calling her fave paps to shoot her wherever they go, SHE has put it in our face that she is “so hot”. In reality she is a shell of her former self and it looks to society like she does it to keep her husband. I wouldn’t wish that kind of insecurity on my worst enemy. Its quite sad, really.
She was really pretty there!! It’s amazing how different someone’s face can look with a little extra weight. Her body looks great there too. She was nice and fit with a more natural look. I can’t believe she’s screwed up herself and her life so much in just a couple years. She’s completely batshit now and the country music community doesn’t take well to people who act like she does.
Not much to add here, except that Leann has got to have some sort of genuine mental illness to behave this way. Doesn’t excuse the behavior, or get her off the hook for being so horrid, but yeah… She is not firing on all cylinders.
Actually, I was thinking about the weird way she gets in touch with and has personal relationships with her uber-fans. It reminds me of a few of my mentally unstable colleagues–professors at a major, high-prestige university. You know, the professors who befriend undergrads, maybe not for actual sex, but because they get off on that kind of hero-worship–they love having a small group of hand-selected undergrads over to their house for dinners, and they get to play the role of “cool” or “down to earth” professor.
And the rest of us maintain polite, professional, cordial professor-student relationships. Because we are not insane.
Leann craves this kind of attention, and it is not healthy.
Leann Rimes= Charlie Sheen
About a month ago, Leann cut wayyyy back on the number of tweets she kicked out on a daily basis. She must have cut back for a reason – either she hired a new PR person (personally, I don’t think so) OR she got some news on twitter that crushed her. She dealt with the mean comments for years, I think she even thrived on it. There’s only one thing that could push her over the edge this quick… it has to be her husband has been unfaithful.
The real Kim Smiley should keep a video camera handy and be ready for a media event of her own… I’m glad she intends to fight this nonsense. There are certainly organizations interested in making sure sad deluded Rimes doesn’t try to set a dangerous precedent, so she should be able to have her legal fees covered. But honestly, isn’t there anybody in Rimes’ life who can tell her how stupid and weird this all is? If not family or friends – hopefully therapists… She sounds demented.
To put it bluntly, Kim Smiley needs to shut up, actually, for her own sake. Hire an attorney and let him/her talk. She is a teacher. She has a career and she is paid by the public school system. I highly doubt they are happy over this kind of tacky attention to one of their teachers. She never should have agreed to or been encouraged to publish this and get herself caught up in this. I have a career I have gone to part-time because of my little girl. But I am in the legal field and I would never be on a website releasing this tape (she never stated to LeAnn she was being taped) and having my name all over the internet, arguing on other sites who posted the tape knowing one day I will be fulltime in my career again. My profession is more important than taking down LeAnn Rimes or any other stupid star. LeAnn is taking herself down bit by bit anyway.
Be that as it may, the tape barely made a dent. The LeAnn haters wanted it to take down her career. So what if she called Brandi vindictive? The whole thing made her look incredibly immature and pathetic calling this woman, but nothing earth-shattering, just pathetic. Kim Smiley sounded pretty dumb herself, not like a mother of grown children who is a teacher. And LeAnn is just bringing more attention to it now instead of letting it die. I would have hung up on LeAnn but definitely I would never have posted this and taping is illegal. You can argue all you want about it, but it is a grey area even for this to think about posting it because of threat of litigation. Not that it would go far, but I would be afraid to chance it. With limited funds against a star, I would never put myself in a position to be sued. Even though it will go nowhere, it costs money to defend yourself and is stressful.
Her twitter friends have done her a disservice by encouraging her to agree to or on her own release it just to what, get back at Leann, who is nobody in your life? Seriously? This woman has a real life, with her children and husband and career to worry about, not some twitter gossip universe I would hope.
Anyway, LeAnn is an idiot. No one cared about the tape past thinking she has sunk to gossip fodder even lower. With this suit, it will backfire and people will feel sorry for the teacher being sued. That is if she shuts up and isn’t on all these sites like Huffington Post, etc, arguing with people about what happened. This suit will be dropped eventually and I think just a bluff, but at what cost to the teacher? Lawyers are expensive. If it goes on long enough, she will pay a financial price that some (the ones who egged her in the decision to post the tape) won’t be able to cover.
At the end of the day, LeAnn is the one, though, that will look like an idiot because if anyone cares enough to cover this story (which so far no one seems to care to dig deeper), it will show her off the rails on twitter. If that doesn’t happen, it will still look stupid to sue a twitterer who she called to begin with. It will go away eventually, but it’s just another sad example of LeAnn’s life being a mess and not soaring in her career or dealing in more important things than a bunch of people on twitter and living her life on twitter and the crazy bikini posting. Maybe therapy will help her even a little bit to see her obssession with narcissistic behavior and insensitivity in crossing boundaries with her stepchildren. The proof will be in the pudding in a month.
I predict once Kim Smiley hires a lawyer the lawyers will come to an agreement with a statement released that it is being dropped and both parties are sorry it went this far, blah, blah, the usual lawyerspeak that says nothing. And then LeAnn will be on to the next mess in her life – Eddie’s cheating, album a flop or not released, drops more weight, more bikini shots, something. I have no idea, but I highly doubt LeAnn will come out of 28 days all normal. Maybe just more psychology buzz words one of my co-workers uses when she’s fresh out of her latest round of therapy, talking the talk, but not walking the walk. I bet LeAnn didn’t get more than 100 at the most to sign up for her website. I can’t imagine her giving up twitter or not carrying on about her bonus kids/hubby/bikinis etc. Maybe for a month and she will be back full force, unless she hires a PR person she listens to or her label lays down the law. I don’t have much faith in Eddie.
“Her twitter friends have done her a disservice by encouraging her to agree to or on her own release it just to what, get back at Leann, who is nobody in your life? Seriously? This woman has a real life, with her children and husband and career to worry about, not some twitter gossip universe I would hope.”
You are so right. In everything you said.
This has got to be the most objective, common sense comment I’ve heard about the whole debacle.
I agree that LeAnn is a bit bonkers, but good grief, why put your family and financial standing at risk for the sake of telling everyone what we already know? I’m sure Ms. Smiley is a good person, but she is certainly guilty of poor judgment. Unfortunately, there are some mistakes that one just can’t afford to make – in this case, perhaps literally. For her and her family’s sake, I hope the suit is dismissed or dropped before it costs her too much.
Exactly. Awesome comment.
I completely agree with everything you just said. Very insightful and right on point.
maybe Eddie would be the only one she would listen to. I think Leann got served herself- a big fat ultimatum by Eddie.
The only way she is would attempt to get help or change her ways is by him threatening to leave her & that’s not the right way to get help because it’s appeasing him but not truly hitting rock bottom. And as we can tell by our other infamous crazy (LILO) rock bottom can seem to be the center of the earth to the average folk.
Hmm I wonder if Eddie is off boning everything in sight? Bet we’ll be hearing lots more cheating rumors after MeAnn’s little rehab stint.
I try to feel pity for this woman, but I think she’s sucked it all away from me by feeling so much for herself. I’ve been in a relationship with a psychopathic narcissist and am fully aware of what they are capable of. I’ve even (and can’t bring myself to regret it, because my child is so beautiful) had a child with one; and knowing everything that I went through to keep my child safe from him and make sure he is out of our lives, including deleting online profiles and moving interstate, I am shocked that anyone would allow their children to be around her. Nothing against Brandi, as I’m sure she does whatever she can and is in a *very* tricky situation (and because of that, I think her ‘helpers’ should heed her polite pleas and back off), but Eddie must be a low form of scum. Even if she has all kinds of cheating dirt on him (and he isn’t just sticking around to continue lapping up her sugar gifts), is it really worth the potential for danger to the children? Not to mention the damage she’s already inflicting with her behaviour and examples. She’s proven she already feels an ownership over those boys, and I know from experience what a person with her disorders feels they are entitled to do with that type of ‘property’. This whole situation is so sad.
I’m surprised there aren’t any “coming home from rehab” or “going back to rehab” photos. Or am I missing them somehow? I would figure she would need these to help
prove she actually went (cue staged photo op in 3…2…1…)
it late so I may not get an answer to this question but w/ask anyway. how or when did chatter of this phone call get started to cause Leann to deny it ever took place to get get to the place where it became public? I started reading CB this past winter & it’s really the only site I choose to visit but until the recording was put out there a week or so ago I don’t recall reading about her denying any such call happened. maybe those denials took place waaay before I tuned in. I think I know (lol to myself) the call happened in March….but it’s a mystery to me when she was denying that it even happened plus lying to her man about it. thanks in advance for any answers & sorry for the rambling question that’s keeping me up & robbing my
beauty sleep.
CB is the only blog site where I actually read all of the comments. I’d like to thank all of you who offered support. Seeing the support truly helps me at the end of such a crazy couple of days! I can assure you that this is beyond stressful, & as a private citizen, I never expected so much attention; nor do I want it. It is what it is though, & I’m figuring it all out one day at a time! <3 🙂
For the people who feel I should get a life, yada, yada, yada, look in the mirror!! Your comments on here, some quite lengthy, are no different than my brief Twitter or CB comments. Yes, I'm a wife, mom, & teacher, but it's 11:15 & all of duties are done for the day, so I, like you, have chosen to post a comment. The fact is you have NO idea what you would've done in my situation. PERIOD! And for the 100000000 time, I did not post the tape online.
Go Smiley! We got your back.
Leann is psycho. Wat kind of nutter calls people off twitter whose accounts are set to PRIVATE? I follow some of the same people as you (for the past YEAR) and can never read what you write, cause as far as I can remember, your account has been private.
Team Smiley!
Stay strong Kim, you and Lexi have a ton of supporters!!
Seriously Kim, I want to donate to your defense fund. I need an address. (Stay strong Kim)
You know it’s got to be bad when all parties to the entire saga are complete nut jobs and Brandi ends up looking like the sane one.
Gah, as much as it sucks, I’m going to have to be team Leann on this one. Is she batsh!t crazy? Probably, who calls someone they don’t know just because that person is talking about them on Twitter?
BUT … who’s standing ready to tape record a phone conversation? I don’t even know how to if I wanted to, but supposedly the phone just rings and “Whoa, it’s Leann Rimes, time to record this … and pass it along!” Had it been me, I would have assumed it was a joke. Plus, I do know in several states it is illegal to record a phone conversation without the knowledge of everyone on the phone. With six kids, she could probably find something better to do.
Nevermind…….
Radar Online now has a follow up story from one of LR’s fans now admitting that they harassed Smiley and even posted pics on her kids online along with the name of the school she work at. I think she’s now losing some of her faithful followers.
Yeah just saw that and NE has a story about Eddie still keeping in touch with Scheana…it’s all coming out now.
Im going to check that out next. RO has an article now about Brandi sending out a tweet that if she sued everyone who harassed her on there she’d be a gizillionare or something like that.
Ya know, all this drama makes it hard to get any work done..lol
So true!
the real reason for the seeking help to cope…poor Kim now dragged into the marriage meltdown mess
People have been speculating since this happened last week that this “rehab” and lawsuit nonsense is a huge publicity stunt to 1. drum up interest for her upcoming album and 2 deflect attention away from Ed’s cheating that is about to be revealed. Maybe that is happening now.
apparently the NE does not allow australia to view its articles 🙁
can anyone give me a recap?
@Ming Lee…it basically says that Leann had a meltdown over fears that Eddie is cheating and that Eddie is still in touch with Scheana.
@brin-thanks for that. i did continue to look and found it copy/pasted to gossiprocks. i thought another girl would be revealed..time will only tell.
I don’t believe the Scheana story. She went around selling her story. She was a girl he screwed once in a while, and he isn’t stupid. He knows she would sell the story when it suited her. He is a little more discreet than getting back in touch with a girl wanting publicity who already sold him out and will do it again.
I don’t believe the story posted on here by someone that a woman had a friend who is cheating with Eddie and he has been paying for her apartment for the last two years. And the girl just happened to lie and steal, etc., from this friend and stole money (or credit card) and rented a hotel for Eddie and her. Let’s see, he pays for her apartment but she steals money to pay for a hotel to meet him at? Eddie doesn’t have the money to pay for an apartment for two years, and he is too cheap to do that anyway for some loser chick. He’s the type to just want to get a little strange once a week or every two weeks, not support them. The flake sounded like one of those unstable drama queens who spins delusional tales so she can be part of the story and insert herself in the drama.
Is Eddie cheating? Probably. Or if he hasn’t, he will. But I believe it more with it’s an occasional “eff” session with a married woman and/or hot girl that he can meet up with every once in a while.
@Ming Lee…I did too, maybe that is yet to come!
Why is she doing a People magazine interview during her rehab stay? This gets more and more bizarre.
It’s getting more and more bizarre. No real rehab facility, or even mental health facility, would allow a patient suffering from anxiety and stress to be giving media interviews just a week into treatment. She says she needs to go away and take care of herself and asks for privacy and is already giving interviews? She’s making it look like her intention from the beginning, was only to elicit sympathy to make her look more like a victim in her lawsuit. Instead, it makes her look like a liar or at least like she was completely exaggerating her need to get away from it all. What on earth could she and her “people” be thinking. I get the feeling that she does what she wants and doesn’t take advice from anyone unless it’s what she wants to hear.
I agree — a true mental health facility would not allow someone receiving treatment for anxiety issues to give interviews… Which made me think that such a facility also would not let her leave to perform concerts, which her treatment facility is supposedly doing. I’ve never given a concert, but wouldn’t that be an anxiety-filled activity??? If she is anywhere, she’s at some sort of spa. Probably having more plastic surgery. It’s pretty sick to make up such huge lies to elicit sympathy and support, to cover more lies. What a tangled web we weave
@emmieapricot– this is what confuses me. if her anxiety problems were major enough to seek treatment at a facility you would think that these major anxiety problems would only increase when placed on stage in front of an audience who will judge her performance, and will judge her even more so now that she’s “out” of the treatment facility on the weekends.
as someone who has had anxiety during some stressful, major life changing periods of my life, on stage in front of a bunch of people is the last place i would be.
Thak’s the irony…she really needs to be in treatment but she’s at some spa giving interviews.
Maybe LeAnn feels that she HAS to pull this rehab stunt to convince her clearly indifferent husband that she was indeed a victim. Maybe the lawsuit serves the same manipulative purpose of pretend legitimacy. But if she has to go to such lenghts to appease her man, then that relationship is in the crapper for real. It is clear from her relentless self-destructiveness that he does not give a damn about her.
Michael K (DListed) and Kaiser are the best when covering the insanity that is Leann.