Here are photos of LeAnn Rimes and Eddie Cibrian at last night’s Trevor Live! at The Hollywood Palladium, a concert event benefiting The Trevor Project. Lady Gaga performed and was honored. LeAnn and Eddie only attended. So… should we talk about LeAnn’s outfit? You know it probably took her HOURS to get ready for this red carpet. Hair, makeup, selecting the right oversized sack-dress… the dress is actually a pretty color on LeAnn, and it makes her look healthier than the colors she usually wears (neutrals, pale colors). But it feels like this whole “look” was a waste of a time, energy and money. The cut of the sack dress is terrible, her hair is awful and her makeup is meh. I’ll give LeAnn and Eddie credit for one thing, though – they look nice together. They seem to have a lot of physical chemistry in these photos.

While I was trying to find the designer ID on LeAnn’s sack dress, I came upon this recent interview LeAnn did with a sycophantic columnist for The Las Vegas Review-Journal. The guy was already primed to defend LeAnn, attacking “celebrity bloggers” who “attack” LeAnn Rimes. When it came time for LeAnn to speak, the delusion flowed like wine as she spoke to a like-minded crazy:

She says she’s not going to let tabloids and bloggers define her, not after “everything I’ve gone through.”

“I mean, my God, I’ve gone through lawsuits with my father,” she adds. “Everything is water under the bridge. It’s time to move on. I’m in a really good place in my life. I don’t like to drag it up and talk about it very much. But when you start so young, people want to see you as America’s sweetheart. They forget you’re human.”

She thinks any cruel blogger who has that much time on his hands to “spew hate is a bully.”

“They obviously have issues of their own,” she says. “They have to take it out on someone else that they do not know. As you’ve said, you’ve met me and I’m not anything but nice. … I’m not faking it. That’s who I am. I have great respect for fans and people in general. My mom raised me that way.”

She’s not saying she’s faultless. (She did, after all, marry Eddie Cibrian after they had an affair while both were married.)

“Hell, I’m human. I make mistakes. I get over them. I move on. I learn from them and don’t make them again.”

But it’s as clear to her as it is to me that celebrities are treated in blogs and tabloids like punching bags when they don’t deserve it. (I’m all for treating celebrities like punching bags when they behave like jerks to other people.)

“Unfortunately, we are in a world where people can sit behind a computer screen and there are no repercussions for what they say,” Rimes says.

She insinuates some bloggers need to man up.

“God knows most people would never say anything that they say on a blog to my face.”
She has perspective. She stresses it’s not the whole media that attacks her, just the meanest at certain blogs and tabloids.

She wishes those writers would actively work on their own happiness and find more hope in humanity.

“People don’t want to believe the good in people, sometimes. It makes them feel better about themselves to believe that someone is worse than they are — whether they’re mean-spirited or mean-hearted. I wonder how a lot of people in tabloids and things like that sleep at night. … It’s all such lies.”

Is she jaded? No, she says. That partly comes from the joy of working on behalf of gay rights (which isn’t exactly the cause celebre of most country artists).

“I think it’s completely wrong as human beings for anybody to tell you who you can’t love.”

And it fulfills her and keeps jadedness at bay when she works with homeless causes and then sees many other people helping needy people.

“The biggest accomplishment I’ve felt most proud of is seeing that something you’re doing makes a difference in someone else’s life.”

[From The Las Vegas Review-Journal]

I’m sorry, it was all an eye-rolling blur after LeAnn referred to herself as America’s Sweetheart AGAIN. Bitch, you are not America’s Sweetheart, and you NEVER were. Stop trying to make that happen. So what did she say after that? …..Oooo, burn. Except not really – from what I‘ve seen and written, most of the stories written about LeAnn are just properly identifying her tweets or her own words in an interview. Those aren’t “lies” – it’s just “this is what she said then”-style reporting. And yes, if I met her, I would call her a delusional dumbass to her face.

Photos courtesy of WENN.