On Sunday we discussed the dash-cam videos from Reese Witherspoon’s arrest – the first videos came out last Thursday, but then on Friday night, even more videos became available. My takeaway is that Reese was either A) drunk, a great liar, obnoxious and bitchy or B) not all that drunk, a great liar, possibly pregnant, obnoxious and bitchy. Reese reacted to the public airing of her arrest videos by stepping out on Saturday wearing an “Atlanta Police Department” baseball cap as she and Jim Toth and baby Tennessee moved through LAX. Personally, I think that move was SO obnoxious. But what makes it worse – somehow – is that the hat is just some cheap knockoff:
The Atlanta Police Dept. tells TMZ … they DID NOT give Reese Witherspoon a free hat after her arrest — in fact, cops say the “A.P.D.” cap she was wearing this weekend is nothing more than a CHEAP, UGLY KNOCKOFF!
We spoke to Senior Officer Stanionis from the Public Affairs office of the APD, who told us point blank — “We did not give her that hat. We have no idea where she got that hat.”
“In fact, that’s an awful hat,” Stanionis continued … “Looks like a patch glued onto a hat and it’s not a good one.”
Wearing a phony police hat??? That is beyond …
I actually went to AtlantaPD.org, and I couldn’t find “APD Store” online. Meaning that there’s no way to buy an official hat online. So I guess that’s why Reese had to “make do” with her cheesy fake hat. You know what she should have done (although I probably would have thought it obnoxious too)? She should have made a big, public contribution to the Atlanta Police Foundation. That would have been a better PR move than a dumb fake hat.
But maybe Reese doesn’t need to part with her AMERICAN CITIZEN money. All has been forgiven, at least in Hollywood. Reese is in talks to star in a new film called Three Little Words. She’ll be reuniting with her Walk the Line director James Mangold. According to The Wrap, the film is based on the bestselling book Three Little Words: A Memoir by Ashley Rhodes-Courter, and the story follows “a young Florida girl who gets lost in the child welfare system for five years until she’s discovered by an unpaid volunteer (Witherspoon) who must convince the girl’s biological mother to release her parental rights.” It sounds a lot like The Blind Side, right? Reese is searching for some Oscar-bait?
Photos courtesy of WENN and Fame/Flynet.
Reese is getting annoying now with her CHEAP, UGLY KNOCKOFF.
I bet she can’t wait to go back to her ‘goody goody blonde’ hair – so we can all forget this raven-haired bitch who gets in a car with a drunk man, lies about being pregnant, obstructs justice and them pulls the ‘do you know who I am’ card. I bet she has her honey blonde all picked out as soon as filming wraps – and the brunette Reece everyone now derides can disappear forever. Or so she wil hope.
+100
PR stunt.
So, so, so tacky. Not to mention immature, petty and super bitchy. You’re not nearly as clever as you think you are, RW.
Not clever but that baby is hella cute. Seriously! And I don’t like babies. So imagine how we’ll this or must be working on them soccer moms.
Reese makes the cutest children ever. That Ava is gorgeous….
Her baby is adorable! I wonder where they hid the nanny for these photos?
Not working on this soccer mom.
Ugh. Just… Ugh.
Disgusting and classless.
LOL poor Reese, she’s trying so hard and now everyone laugh at her.
Sorry little miss Americana, not watching anymore movies you’re on. Your shtick is getting tired. Go home & stay sober!
Cheap move. I’m not a fan but liked her more after she provided a place of refuge for Sparkles last summer. The video showed her to be classless trash.
Seriously. Is she really so generic that neither she nor her “people” can get their hands on a genuine APD hat? It’s like she mocking them with the whole thing. I really dislike her these days.
Is anyone seriously still going to defend this mega bitch?
I will, sort of. The hat move was stupid, but who cares if it’s a knock off? Why does that make one bit of difference? Hate it because it was just a dumb, transparent move, not because the hat is cheap.
And while I think pulling the “do you know who I am? move is lame, I’m not so judgmental about it. If I were famous – especially drunk and famous – it would probably slip out of my mouth a few times if I thought it would get me out of a messy situation. I wouldn’t be proud of it afterwards or anything, but I’m not going to go around FOR-SHAMING! every celebrity that has done it.
I’ve never liked Reese. This incident doesn’t make me like her more or less.
“Why does that make one bit of difference?”
Precisely.
I don’t think it makes much difference, but I can see the argument that if she had purchased an official hat, the (small amount of) money would have gone to the police department she was a b*tch to and it could have been seen as more of a mea culpa. As is, it comes across even more as her being passive aggressive and mocking a situation where she was clearly in the wrong. Though I think the latter was her intention so I guess she succeeded?
Though I agree that I didn’t like her before and I don’t like her now.
I agree with you J. If I were famous and saw my husband getting arrested I would probably panic too–and say whatever desperate thing I could think of to get him out of it.
The hat is no big deal. It’s either a dumb joke or a cryptic way to show everyone the episode is still on her mind, she is not trying to sweep it under the rug. Either way it’s kind of funny,imo. It’s self-deprecating.
To be honest, I like Reese a lot more after this episode. To me it shows how loyal she is. She did what she thought was necessary to help her husband. And remember, they weren’t falling down drunk. They made an honest mistake of too much wine with dinner. It’s a mistake that many, many people make in life and then NEVER do it again.
I think that will probably be the case here.
Mmmm. HER husband committed the DUI. Why the need to attack her to death. What she did was wrong but after a certain point its overkill. Defense rested.
See, it could have been over and done with. But she keeps pushing the PR campaign and making it worse.
Toth made a really really dumb move. But Reese also made an incredibly dumb one. The difference is Toth is more like an average person. Reese pulled the celebrity card and tried to use her celebrity to manipulate the law. Regular folks find that incredibly obnoxious. It’s turned the crowd against her. Nobody really knows her husband in comparison, so between her status, her behavior, and continuing insincerity, Reese is getting negative press.
It’s because she’s pulling a LeAnn Rimes move. Instead of letting it go and moving on, Reese is keeping this in the news (interviews and now the cap) for cheap publicity.
And like LeAnn, Reese doesn’t seem genuinely contrite, she seems to be reveling in the attention.
She placed her body in front of a cop trying to do his job. The job the cop was trying to do was one that is utterly legitimate.
DUIs are terrible. Drinking and driving is horribly wrong. Reese Witherspoon was a co-conspirator to it. And unlike the man doing the driving, she tried to get away with it.
Getting in the way of a cop trying to save lives is a level of disrespect for the law and for the public safety that is… beyond. Reese Witherspoon already called me and a whole lot of other American women a “bad girl” for having private naked photos, unlike her, little Miss Southern Rich Blonde “good girl” who would never be so very very wicked as to… pose naked. TEH EBIL! Now she got in the way of a cop trying to save lives.
It will never be “over”, and she will not be punished “enough” until she disappears from the movie theaters forever. And yes, along with a whole lot of other Hollywood assholes who get away with spitting on us over and over again and get paid for it.
Mob mentality in play.
Her career is in the toilet for a while. What was her last successful movie after Walk the Line? Exactly.
There’s nothing more pathetic than watching a phoney trying in vain to sweep the dirt back under the carpet. Do the crime, pay the fine and move on.
Reese did the lead voice in Monsters vs. Aliens and that was a fun movie for families. And she’s in the new movie Mud. That’s gotten good reviews so far. These are her films post Walk The Line that did well and she had more than a small role in.
All before that wasn’t a lot and they were basically flops or broke even. She really should have made a sizable donation. Often, celebs donate to a PD with budget cuts and such, but instead she probably had an assistant pick up the hat from a street vendor.
Hm. Wasn’t ‘Walk the Line’ out like ten years ago?
She hasn’t had a hit since? No cheesy unfunny romantic comedies, no serious ‘message’ movies, no Marley and Me type of thing…nothing?
I don’t know the back story – I don’t follow this woman’s career. How can it have been ten years since she’s had a genuine hit. Shouldn’t she be retired by now???
RW should just go spend time with her cute baby in California and stop endangering the rest of us.
Her career is in dire shape- since ‘Walk the Line,’ she’s done really bad romcoms (‘Just Like Heaven’, ‘Four Christmases’, ‘This Means War’) and awards-bait that has gone exactly nowhere (‘Water for Elephants’, ‘Rendition’, ‘How Do You Know’).
She hasn’t had an actual hit, a movie that got great reviews OR a movie that made money, since 2005.
I quite enjoy Four Christmases and This Means War but ONLY because of the male leads. Vince Vaughn carries the movie and so does Tom Hardy. Reese’s acting/role is not spectacular, any blonde actress could do about the same work.
She’s got no remorse- just mad that she couldn’t go drinking with Chelsea one day earlier than she did. The tape of her husband BEGGING her to stop- PLEASE stop- “not tonight”* is pretty telling about her character, so a fake hat is about par for the course.
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*seems like there are lots of other rude/drunken nights for her
The not tonight comment tells you everything you need to know! Not to mention she sounded stone cold sober on those videos. But you’re 100% right her husband saying not tonight proves her behavior that night is common.
Jim Toth sounds like a wimp who is cowed by Miz Witherspoon. Perhaps he was compromised mentally by the 13.9 alcohol level, but I was really amazed that she seems to wear the pants in the relationship. Perhaps he was star struck when he hooked up with her. He is an agent, so should be used to this.
Wow! I haven’t watched the videos so I wasn’t aware of that comment. That is pretty telling…
I like her a little less daily, and it wasn’t much to begin with..
that’s what reese gets for being friends with chelsea. it rubbed on her – alcohol trashbag
It’s not fair and a cop-out to pin Reese’s behaviour on someone else. Sure, Chelsea’s probably a bad influence and all – but by all accounts Reese had been an epic POS for a lonnnnnng time before she and Chelsea became friends.
The fact that she is wearing that hat (smart ass) proves she is deeply bothered by the incident and her behavior. As she should be. The world saw her true persona.
My thoughts exactly.
Agree Cam.
Mega bitch true colours shining through
“Reese is in talks to star in a new film called Three Little Words.”
Immediately after the drunken tirade, she was said to be in talks to join Keanu’s next big project. I really hope she’s off that one and onto this one.
I think she’s mocking the whole situation with that cap, while getting some extra publicity. Incredibly low-class.
Yes.
I do too. Looking at the photos of her walking through the airport looking at the camera, all I saw was smug.
This is no better than La Cracken having “F”-“U” painted on her fingernails in court. Her little “I’m so contrite and sweet” act is so ridiculous, even she’s mocking it at this point. Maybe Chelsea Handler gave her the hat (snark)?
She is just full of lies. “I told the police officer that this arrest would be national news and he said ‘I don’t give a.. I don’t care.. and she just started yelling at me'” UM. He never did that. She was lying about everything. What a piece of work.
Reese Witherspoon? My give a damn is busted
I was surprised no donation announcement was made, and apparently, not given either. The hat move was so tacky and tone- deaf- for someone who evidently wanted to get this matter over and done, great way to keep it going.
I can’t believe Reese thought mocking the police was a good idea. She’s really showing her true colors and it’s going to backfire.
What a shock! A clear, unobstructed photo of the baby! Pimp that motherhood Reese! More than enough women have proven themselves morons enough to fall for it. So gross.
Right! This is even tackier than the stupid hat. “Don’t forget I’m a loving mother America!”
WTH was she thinking? As a side note, wasn’t it the GSP, not the APD, that stopped and arrested them?
She has a smug look on her face, like she knows exactly what she’s doing wearing that. Ugh.
Oh Lord, she is STUPID on top of being a classless biotch. I agree that a money donation would have been a good move, but it wouldn’t include a photo of HER, so she does this instead.
You don’t get to be a star in Hollywood by being smart. Most of them are extremely stupid people, with a few exceptions. They’re paid to play pretend. What I don’t get is why we’re supposed to be interested in all their advice and judgments and supposed deep thoughts.
The hat thing reminded me of Julia Roberts many moons ago, wearing a navy blue blazer (rather than a navy blue Barber coat) and a tee shirt that read, A Low Vera, I think to jab at her nemesis, Vera Moder, a bit deeper.
I was going to post a similar thought. This is another version of JR’s little stunt. RW wanted that hat photographed, just as JR strutted around in that silly t-shirt.
Hahaha! She had someone make that hat for her. Which is bad, but even worse, is the fact she got pulled over by Ga State Patrol. She couldn’t even throw shade at the right police organization.
I used to like her, but seeing how she is trying to make some kind of lame point with this hat just screams low rent. The fact is, her and her husband should never gotten in a car and drove drunk when they can well afford to hire a driver. She acted way worse than her husband did and he was the one being arrested for DUI, she was acting foolish and trying to throw her celebrity around. Quit the passive-aggressive BS Reese!
I don’t think that wearing the hat is a good idea at all. Of course, I didn’t think that Alec Baldwin going on SNL making fun of American Airlines because of the Words with Friends kerfuffle was great either, especially since SNL co-signed his obnoxious behavior by allowing him to do it. Another example of privilege- sure, White goody-two shoes women whose careers are on the wain still can get away with much, but nothing compared to a White male who is making money/garnering buzz/parlaying notoriety for a bunch of other people.
It’s an unfair world, and frankly, Reese would’ve been served better if she released a statement about being an absolute @$$hole as soon as her arrest hit the news. Then, maybe, she would’ve done her press for the movie and not waste time doing that blinky blinky head-shaking apology.
Blinky blinky head shaking apology – perfect! Like I just don’t know WHAT happened, it was so UNLIKE me. Crazy! Yeah right, whatev’s Reece.
She looks SMUG!
I think the real Reese has come out. Entitled, loud and a narcissist. This entire thing is a PR nightmare. Her popularity has tanked because of the arrest and her behavior in the weeks that followed.
The one thing I always notice about her husband is that he’s missing a big patch of hair on the side of his head.
Whose idea was that? Stupid, tacky.
I didn’t stop liking her even after her arrest and how obnoxious she was with the cops. But this was a bitchy move. It was unnecessary and I agree, that it’s a fake hat makes it even bitchier.
She should have left it at the sincere apology & made a financial contribution. That would be enough. The hat just says “I’m sorry… That he got caught.” Flashing the baby is as cheap a move as the hat, even if he’s absolutely adorable. I hope they strapped him all the way into his carseat before they drove away and hired a driver!
Jim Tosh looks exactly like Grumpy Cat.
You couldn’t just let it go, could you Laura Jean? Nope, you had to be a big b*tch. The cap is crass.
This woman has always been a mean-girl bitch.
this incident just exposed how much of a bitch she really is.
for those who don’t know, read the anecdote from Kevin Smith (of “Clerks”, etc) about his encounter with her. Then you’ll understand why he calls her Greasy Reese (pronounced “greezy reezy”) Witherspoon.
I will admit I still like her and will watch her movies. Well, if they look good. Maybe she’s a b!tch, but she seems like she might be a fun b!tch. Lol She never should of worn the hat tho, come on, she had to know how cheesy and obvious it was, it is almost like she did it on purpose….
Very cute baby 🙂
I have to say “thank you” to Reese Witherspoon. Anytime I disagree with someone (OK, my husband), I stand up and yell, “DO you know who I am?” or “I am an American citizen!”
It pretty much ends all tension right there.
Haha!
Reese is as fake as her hat.
As soon as she pulled the “Do you know my name” schtick, she automatically went on my shit list; tacky, entitled, special – unfortunately, like most in hollywood.
I have always felt Reese was pure bit– inside for those that want to be friends with her. I also am a believer that she has quite a temper so even though her first husband Ryan is somewhat of an ass too (seems to have grown up a lot) I also feel & I don’t condone cheating but I do feel Reese is more then a handful to live with. I think her mocking of any police & yes I do feel that is what she has done here but any mocking of officers is tacky & uncalled for. She is totally disregarding what happened. Just plain BS but very Reese. Don’t like her never have.
Wait. Is the foster kid in this situation black? Is Reese wanting to do yet ANOTHER movie about a rich white woman having to swoop down and save a poor black person from being a poor black person?
Flames. Flames on the side of my face.
That hat can be bought at the Atlanta airport gift shop . . . and it’s not cheap!!!
I personally think the cop over reacted. She was asking a question and was naturally concerned her husband was being arrested. He wasn’t in fear of her. She was not preventing the arrest. Her husband was not going anywhere. This was not an intense situation. The cop took the first opportunity to arrest her.
So she asked do you know who I am? Most drunk people in her position would do the exact same thing. Honestly, you know they would.
She is just a human being living her life…imperfectly like everyone else. She has not committed a grave crime. If you don’t like her fine. She does do a lot of charity work. She Doesn’t have to make a donation to the PD. Why? She got arrested like everyone else and paid her fine, like everyone else. she is being publicly humiliated UNlike everyone else. Her tape is released to media, unlike everyone else. I mean she asked some questions, declared her citizenship and was arrested without any real incident. I just think it is non news. She is not a bad person based on this.
Let’s save this vitriol and judgement for the Boston bombers, their friends who helped cover it up, their mom who blames this country, etc…
Reese…..just not that bad.
I agree with you. It seems to me more like she doesn’t know how to handle things after this and in some twisted way is trying to say sorry to the Atlanta PD by wearing their cap.
I think she knows she really messed up. If she however should be arrested again for similar conduct then the vitriol would be validated, but for now we should let it go.
I think Reese was the one overreacting here. Cops are trained to bark out clear, unambiguous orders like “stay still and be quiet” so they can keep control in potentially dangerous situations, Reese was making an unnecessary distraction of herself. Reese shouldn’t have taken it so personally – the cops were only following simple police protocol, they were not rude or abusive to her. If she had real questions, she should have asked them at the police station. She does come off as having some entitlement issues and imo sounded more arrogant than drunk (but who knows perhaps she can just really hold her drink?). But I agree this one incident isn’t a reason to start hating on her, if we were hearing about these incidents every other week like Lindsay Lohan it would be a different matter.
Thank you Annette! I don’t understand why people defend her behavior, she seems like a terrible person, sure she is a human being and she makes mistakes like all of us but she is also more in the public eye than the rest of us and, the overreacting was all done by her. Grown woman like her doesn’t need defending, so Reese fans stop. I’d be defending the police officer that had to deal with her bitchiness.
Extremely poor taste, Reese.
I read an article about their arrest in US Weekly and it made him out to be a problem drinker and that it had been an issue for them. Not sure if the source is close to her or works for her in a PR sense..but he was basically thrown under the bus. It mentioned that at his bachelor party, he was passed out drunk by 7:15 p.m. If he is a heavy drinker, it’s likely he has driven drunk many times before.
Incredibly annyoying! And Jim Toth, if you’re reading…send me a sperm sample so I can have a baby like that 🙂
I’m seeing that hat as a major c*nt move on her part – like she’s flipping off the APD, not paying homage. But regardless of why she wore it, you know she’s totally loving all the attention. Obnoxious, full of herself, bitch.
IA, first thing I thought of was Lindsay’s FU fingernail rather than a weird way of saying sorry. Anyway, why would you have to appologise to cops? They deal with awful people everyday. It’s her husband she should say sorry to, for embarrassing him.
I always thought her face looks weird.
Her making light of her husband getting a dui is incredible to me. I would be mortified. So irresponsible, especially since they are filthy rich!