
This is not the time to attack Kim Cattrall. The poor woman is grieving and lashing out. She’s just lost her little brother.
It’s understandable that she’s not thinking clearly. No one would be, when they’ve just experienced a loss like that. But her very public comments to her Sex And The City co-star Sarah Jessica Parker have set off a huge media storm that isn’t good for her, or Parker, or women in general.
Rumours about the feud between Cattrall and Parker began nearly two decades ago, around the time SATC premiered.
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It was claimed that Parker was jealous of Cattrall, and Cattrall found herself on the outer. The rumours continued for years, through the production of the two movies, and the decision not to go ahead with a third.
Then, earlier this month, when Cattrall’s younger brother Chris was found dead after disappearing from his home in Canada, things exploded.
When Parker expressed her sympathy on Instagram, Cattrall gave her a blast, finishing with, “You are not my friend. So I’m writing to tell you one last time to stop exploiting our tragedy in order to restore your ‘nice girl’ persona.”
Media outlets gleefully leapt on Cattrall’s comments. With almost no consideration for the fact that Cattrall had just suffered a terrible tragedy, they blew the story up. Other actors were asked to take sides.
Us magazine turned it into “Team SJP or Team Kim”, putting Parker’s former co-star Dean Winters on the spot at the Writers’ Guild Awards on Sunday.
“I mean, [I’m] always Team Sarah,” Winters said. “I’ve known Sarah for 25 years. Look, whatever’s going on, I don’t give a f—k.”
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"Let’s be like Dean Winters and do our best not to “give a f—k” about whatever’s going on."
So be like him despite him literally saying he's taking a side and your point is "don't take sides"? Very confusing...
"...and a grieving woman who said something she may well already be regretting."
Curious assumption. Why not presume she meant every word? Is the premise of a woman who says tough, unpopular, "not-nice" things so challenging that we need to soften it with the caveat that she regrets doing so later?
BANG ON CORRECT Guest! My thoughts exactly. Why are we already making excuses for her in "her grief". yes she is grieving but every word might be true and she might have meant it. To hear stories of "insiders" it does sound like SJP was a very nasty individual in the past and excluded her - it doesn't seem much of a stretch. I personally watched the show because of Kim's character Samantha - she was the best. SJPs character was just an annoying, whiny character. It doesn't seem much of a stretch that SJP would have her nose out of joint that another cast member might have rivalled her popularity on "her" show. Maybe Kim was on the receiving end of mean girl behaviour as has been reported and now that they don't work together she doesn't owe anything to her to be nice to her. Maybe in her grief, it gives her the strength to basically say "f$%# off" to SJP - probably something she's wanted to say for a long time. We don't know, so let's just leave her words as it and move on instead ...