We heard yesterday that Kat Von D pulled a Paris Hilton and walked out of the studio of Good Day L.A. just prior to a scheduled interview promoting the new season of her reality show, L.A. Ink. Reports differ as to why Kat took offense, but it seems to be the fact that Kat’s planned introduction included the news of her breakup from Jesse James. Good Day L.A. claims it got the go-ahead to ask about the breakup during their interview with Kat, but Kat claims she asked them not to open with that breakup and that they ignored her. She didn’t like that and marched off in a huff.
Kat Von D says she had a DAMN good reason for walking off “Good Day L.A.” this morning — telling TMZ, she made one reasonable request … and producers repeatedly BLEW HER OFF.
Kat tells us, she agreed to answer a question about her breakup from Jesse James on one condition — that the anchor didn’t mention the split in his introduction.
But according to Kat, that request was IGNORED — and as we previously reported, anchor Jeff Michael read out an introduction that highlighted Kat and Jesse’s breakup.
Kat says she saw what was on the teleprompter long before Jeff read it — and even pulled a producer aside to have someone change the script … but nothing happened.
According to Kat, she “very politely” informed them … if it wasn’t changed, she wouldn’t be able to go on. But no one changed squat, so Kat beat it.
Later, during the show, the executive producer went on the air — explaining Kat’s only prior request was not to bring up Sandra Bullock or Michelle McGee … a request “Good Day” honored.
Nevertheless, Kat adds, “I have no interest in going back on, but I wish them all the best.”
[From TMZ]
Kat and Good Day L.A. host Jillian Barberie then got into it over Twitter, with Kat calling the show “disrespectful.” You can read those details on People if you’re interested. Entertainment Tonight has video of Good Day L.A. anchors discussing the walk off. I really like what anchor Jillian Barberie said about Kat leaving like that. She said “You live a public life and were promoting your reality show, which includes him. We sympathize that you broke up, but of course we were going to ask about it. That’s the clip that you sent us.”
Kat later posted a long entry on Facebook in which she didn’t apologize for walking off the set, but seemed to say that she was overwhelmed and didn’t handle everything well. She wrote “this isn’t an apology for walking out on a silly morning show interview this morning- and this isn’t an attempt at justifying anything either. I don’t expect people to understand, just like I can’t expect myself to be able to please everyone at all times.” It was a lot of feeling sorry for herself. Again, she’s promoting a reality show based on her life and she needs to be able to answer questions or just say she’s not comfortable with them. Leaving like that only makes her look petty. She should have known what she was getting into with Jesse anyway, but maybe she thought she could “change” him or that he was different. Now she’s so disappointed and can’t stand it that people are focusing on her breakup.
Kat is shown on 7/16/11. Credit: WENN.com
Is this ghastly creature an actual celebrity now? And all it took was boning Sandra Bullock’s ex? Please. Let’s all just ignore her until she goes away.
With all those tattoos, you think she’d have thicker skin.
Erm… didn’t she release a statement saying they’d broken up just in time for the start of her new show and what else were GDLA going to talk about? It’s pretty much the only interesting thing she’s done in the last 6 months!
Annoyingly, before all the “Jewboy” & JJ crap I used to actually quite like her.
What an idiot, of course they were going to ask her about douche James.
She’s just upset that she got that tatoo of him put on right before they broke up.
*LOL, Bellaluna!*
I think that she only feels disappointed because despite the fact that sex with her was 100% better than Sandra, he STILL cheated on her. She feels like a fool, as she should.
Stupid bitch probably worried how much it will cost to remove that tattoo.
Her relationship with JJ is far game she try to us that relationship to promote her show to get people to watch and it turned around and bit her on the ass that what you get from pimp out you relationship on TV.
Can someone advise me how a tattoo artist becomes a celebrity? I’ve got a great girlfriend that’s an tattoo artist, but I do not see her plastered all over tat mags or humpin’ everyting with a third leg.
What’s wrong with these bitches? They’re lucky that anyone wants to talk to their stupid asses. What have they done to make them news worthy. They are lucky people are even talking about them. You can’t publicly break up with someone and then go on an interview a few days later and not expect it to be brought up. Eva longoria didn’t want to discuss her divorce so her ass stand home/ didn’t do interviews until she was ready
I simply cannot get beyond looking at this walking billboard of bad tattoos and clothes and listen to anything that comes out of her mouth.
@madpoe, I think I’d be more interested in your friend’s life…
She had no problem talking about anything BEFORE the breakup. Please, give me a break, she is as big of an idiot as Jesse James. When she walked off the show she acted like she was bigger than she actually is. Lady, your ego and JJ could not last because there is not enough room in this universe for two enormous douche bags to be together. Oh, and nice job getting that *ssholes face tattooed on your body…wicked smart you are
Sudden, humiliating break-up = she finally found out he was cheating.
I kinda feel bad for her…
What happened to her?! She used to be so chill, now she just seems stuck up. And now I am hearing that she is anti-Semitic? If true, I can’t abide by that childish nonsense.
Sorry, Kat- your make up is awesome but I won’t be buying it anymore. And I sure as hell will not watch your show…
I can’t stand her voice. It’s so annoying.
who gives a flying fig what this douchette has to say about anything?
My opinion madpoe – just reinterating what scholars/commentators etc. have said – our media saturated world requires objects to fill the thousands of broadcast hours on all media each week. Truly talented people (think research scientists, medical field professionals, actual writers) are too busy being talented and doing their thing to be available 24/7 to feed the media monster. SInce the media is quite low brow and certainly kat d is low brow and available on a whim, she’s a celebrity because she fills – albeit in a pointless inane way – a few broadcast minutes. It’s not as though today’s media are beating feet to interview Stephen Hawking; journalists take an interest in and write about what they know (a lot less than they think); theoretical physics is way beyond them, dumb low brow celebutards are on their level – despite their pretense and protestations otherwise – thus this is a match made in media moronhood. I personally like my local tattoo artists; they are grungier and more down to earth – and have better tats. Just my take.
The guy on her show…the one with the other shop in Upland, CA is and was our local great tattoo artist. My SIL has one. It’s not for me, after working in a hospital for so long looking at old people with saggy faded tats, it is not happening for me.
Kat is looking not so hot these days-must be the stink of permanent douche from JJ. Is that really a lawn jockey tat on her arm/shoulder? Is she a racist as well as an anti-semite? Tacky either way.
The sad thing about Kat is that I think she is actually very talented. She’s a gifted artist. I check in with her on Twitter once in awhile because she posts freehand sketches once a day, and I really do respect the girls skills. She’s also a classically trained pianist and, at this point, I think it would be fair to say she’s a good businesswoman too.
For those saying she’s famous because of this idiocy with Jesss, this is not exactly the case. She’s been on TLC for five or six seasons now, and she was fairly well known before all of this happened. Obviously, this douche explosion has made her a lot more famous. But, it’s not like she came out of nowhere like that Bombshell chick. Kat actually has a few redeeming qualities.
That said, I don’t know what to make of this Jesse James stuff. Did she do it for ratings? Watching that clip of her getting tattooed the other day, I’m inclined to say no. I don’t think she’s a good enough actor to pull off that much glee about getting that hideous arm pit tattoo if she wasn’t really into him.
So, that leaves the only other option: she really fell in love with Jesse James. UGH. Just thinking about staring into his pug face with affection (no offense to pugs) makes me want to vomit. But, to each their own. She probably thought she could change him; that he was a bad boy with a heart of gold, and all the other nonsense he sold Sandra before her.
I can argue until I’m blue in the face that she should have seen this coming. I mean, hello! The whole universe saw it coming! But, the same could be said about Sandra. I mean, Jesse’s ex wife was a porn star FFS. They both should have seen it coming, and yet Jesse somehow managed to charm all their logic skills away.
I imagine Kat must be feeling really stupid right now. It’s has to he immensely embarrassing to have to the world say “I told you so” at the same time. So, I kind of don’t blame her for having a melt down like that. I probably would too. Of course, I would also hope that I would never publicly date a walking pack of diseases and lies like Jesse James… But, that’s another story.
Her reality show does make her life fair game though. So, she should have sucked it up and answered the question. That is the price one has to pay for putting your entire existence on a weekly TV show.
One last thing; I checked in on Jesse James’ Twitter and noticed that he responded to (an actually funny) joke from Mancow Muller about how he and Kat had broken up, but that they would “share custody of the syphilis” by basically saying “you would know, I got it from your mom!”. Wow, Jesse? THAT’S your come back? I would question the maturity of a 12 year old using that line. But, a 40 year old? WTF? It just makes me wonder, how does Jesse get all these girls? Seriously? Has he learned hypnotism at some point? Is the magic stick really that good? I just can’t figure out why ANYONE would want to be with this neanderthal.
Anyway, end rant.
@jover, AMEN. The 24-hr. news cycle has been responsible for an astonishing amount of shite. Remember when there was network news – way before Fox News – and you didn’t hear about murders in Ohio and Florida? Why in God’s name do we need to hear about such things? Why do we need “reality” shows about white-trash teenagers having babies? They’ve always done that – just in anonymity.
LA Ink makes me miss Jonathan Antin’s show Blow Out.
I was watching TV last night and Anderson cooper was going on about this chick. You work in a trashy tattoo shop, you document your life in a reality TV show and you got JJ’s face tattooed in your arm pit and using it as a hook to hawk your new season, and now people are talking about it, you call it disrespectful?!?!? What a dumb twat.
What goes around, comes around. And it’s comin’ around for Kat, huh?
Exactly 20# the casey anthony case was a local news story nothing more – yes it was a tragedy for the victim, but otherwise it had no bearing on policy issues – it was presented as entertainment masquerading as news, but because is was easy to cover in the formulaic news way, it became a national “story.” Notice, it’s already receding from view.
She should get another tatoo about this latest experience.
@jover
thanks! cos I feel they’re alot of really down to earth and artistic tattoo artist that should be celebrated but they don’t need (or care to) be famewhores about it. They’ll make a reality show about any GD thing these days, waiting for “Lets watch paint dry” or “Koi in a pond all day long”!
Kat, there’s an old saying something like, you lay with dogs you’ll get up with fleas (and not the cool RHCP kind either!
I have to ask… Is that the only dress she owns? Seriously. That’s the only thing I’ve seen her in for weeks now.
Just noticed that the lady behind her in the last picture is all, “B!tch, please.”
Since when are the brainiacs at Good Day LA to be taken even remotely seriously, ESPECIALLY Jillian Barberie? Kat didn’t say her breakup couldn’t be discussed, she just asked that it not be part of her introduction. That really isn’t too much to ask.
Just. . . GROSS!
Is that Sandra Bullock I hear laughing hysterically?
Did she honestly think she would be on the show for any reason other than to talk about the split?
I wish the trash took itself out at my house.