Chelsea Handler is trying to find her footing with her new Netflix talk show, Chelsea. Not only has the lack of format made the show messy, most critics say it’s “just like the talk shows it says it isn’t.” To help promote ratings, Chelsea sat down with Us Magazine for their 25 Things You Didn’t Know About questionnaire. There is nothing too earth-shattering in her answers but the title didn’t lie, there were a few things about Chelsea I didn’t know. For instance, she can’t drink anything room temperature and she is apparently a shoe person. Below are a few of her other answers but you can read all 25 here.
My first time getting intoxicated was at my sister’s wedding. I was 16 and had four Long Island iced teas. My dad sent me to my room.
If I could be any person, I’d be Adele.
My ideal date is having a drink in the afternoon and having it unexpectedly lead to a fun dinner.
I’ve bailed on hookups at the last minute based on a guy’s personality or body or small penis or weird walk.
All my cars are chocolate brown. 50 Cent got me on that. I bought a Havana Chocolate Bentley when we dated.
In high school, I was very judge-y: “Don’t do drugs, they’re bad.” Then I took a hit and was like, “I love pot.”
I was a waitress for a long time. I think everyone should wait tables for six months of their lives to learn how to treat people and servers.
Nothing gets me more excited than a 12-hour flight. I’ll just take a Xanax. I love to read and sleep.
I don’t like water, so I have to put tons of lemon and cucumber in it.
The grossest thing I’ve ever had to do is change a diaper.
I’m messy, so I have a lot of help. If [my rescue dog] Chunk peed in the house, I won’t be cleaning it up.
Serious question, how do you not like water? Maybe you don’t crave it for taste but how can you openly dislike it? If she consumed four Long Island Ice Teas at 16, I suspect her father sent her to her room as a precaution before she passed out – especially if she didn’t drink water because she hates it. I found the car answer funny because after we purchased my husband’s last car, it occurred to him that his last four cars have all been silver, completely unintentional.
Changing diapers is not my favorite pastime either but I think she gave that answer to play into the image she wants to project. Especially considering she doesn’t clean up after her dog because she is messy, not because it is also disgusting. Most of her answers are fine but as CB said, my reaction to them is different because they come from her. I completely agree about waiting tables being a pretty good life lesson but I wouldn’t hold her up as an example of a people person. The waiting tables thing goes both ways, in my opinion. I worked at a few higher end restaurants when I was in school and some of my co-waiters were horrible to prom kids because they knew they probably weren’t going to get a good tip. I felt like we received good tips the rest of the year, why not give back a little by adding to an important memory? I wouldn’t really peg Chelsea as a pay it forward kind of person, though.
Photo credit: Fame/Flynet Photos and Getty Images
What a joke. She thinks she knows how to treat people?
she’s horrid
You are right. She is horrid & I loathe her. Sadly though, I agree about water. I detest it. I have to drink it but don’t care for it at all. Makes me grumpy that I have to agree w/her about something
Ugh. She really isn’t in any position to be lecturing others on how to treat people. I think her answers are meant to be funny, but they just make her seem so vapid and superficial.
Also, lots of people don’t like water. I like plain water when I’m working out or just REALLY thirsty but otherwise I drink flavored seltzer water or put True Lemon in my water because I find it so boring and flavorless.
Poland spring sparkling water is nice.
It is, but Polar is still my favorite. I don’t know if you’ve tried it before because it’s a Maine-based company and not available country-wide but they come out with new seasonal flavors every year and the best one out of the current summer batch is the raspberry pink lemonade. They brought back the Pomegranate Sangria this year as well and that’s one of my favorites.
@Kitten, Polar is based in Worcester, MA. The polar bear is visible driving through on 290. I’m in mourning for Unicorn Kisses.
Oh really? Where did I get Maine from. I saw the Unicorn Kisses on the shelf but neglected to buy a bottle and the next day it had been completely cleared from Roche Bros shelves–same with the jalapeno margarita one they released for Cinque de Mayo. Although I managed to snag one bottle of it and I loved it.
Did the Unicorn Kisses taste like anything? I hesitated buying it because I thought it was just plain seltzer..
Poland Springs is Maine, Polar is Massachusetts. Unicorn Kisses was delicious. It had several flavors in it – some sort of melon was the most noticeable, then a berry and something else. The bottles were so pretty. Currently enjoying raspberry pink lemonade Polar.
I’m not the biggest fan of plain water either. I need to start adding fruit to mine. I miss Original New York Seltzer water. It’s not available in my town, but you can order it online. Black cherry was my go-to flavor.
I know very little about her, but as someone who worked in shops I agree. I just hope it wasn’t needed. Some people will always be idiots, but is very humbling to understand how it feels to be invisible and the lack of acknowledgment that goes with that.
Hey, I worked as a hotel mail at a Beach Resort and sometimes I get a tip which I don’t mind. However the who worked with me are not so nice. I don’t mind the guest, who are really friendly and cordial but I have a few mean people who would mess up the place and expects you to clean it up. I know that I was the hotel maid, but some trash the place and behave like hooligans in the rooms. Well my revenge is when they have to pay for the damage, no they were pissed.
Either way, you should be nice to service people all the time, they will bad mouth you if you are not.
SHE is saying this?? While I agree, it clearly doesn’t work for everyone now, does it?
Hardly in the position to speak to treating people kindly. Oh Chelsea, Chelsea.
Doesn’t she have a rep for treating people badly? WTF?
Many people don’t like water. I know people who don’t drink water. They just don’t like it.
I’m the opposite. I love to drink a glass of cold, pure water first thing in the morning. But I like the way our water tastes. I use an expensive water filter that adds minerals, so the water has a crisp taste to it. My parents lived in the Blue Ridge mountains a while back, and they had well water. My mother loved it, while I couldn’t drink it plain, always had to make lemonade or Kool Aid or something.
I start my day with cold water, too. I live in the Alps, the tap water we get where I live is naturally clean and I love the way it tastes.
Our water runs through two filters and I prefer it to bottled water, which has never tasted right to me. Always drinking filtered water or using it for my daily tea – with scones or some other goody.
I think some of it probably has to do with how the tap water tastes in some regions. I know when I was visited New York, the water was so hard compared to my hometown’s that it made me nauseous to drink it. Otherwise, I am all about the water train. I exercise too much not to make a habit of it.
I’ve never waited tables, but I did work in retail during college. I think it’s a good experience for everyone to have, working in the service industry. But her, telling people about how to treat others? No thanks.
Says the person who made a bunch of racists tweets trying to disguise them as jokes.
She’s obviously not a racist then, since she even has brown cars.
Everyone should also work as a cleaner, as a maid, in a nursing home and an animal shelter. It should be like army training when you are around twenty, work a few months in each place. I have to add, I think the tipping custom is strange and everyone should just get paid enough by their employer.
Where I live, young men have to decide whether they want to spend 9 months training for the military or do community service instead, which includes working in accident ambulance, nursing homes, or working with handicapped people. Every single guy I’ve talked to who did community service said that they had learned valuable life lessons during this time.
In my early twenties I worked in many different jobs, including cleaning, warehousing, catering, watersports tourism, tutoring, and then later bartending for one year. My first summer job was working at a construction site for two months. These jobs were hard on different levels, but I learned to have a lot of respect for professions I had previously taken for granted. I think the time when you’re around twenty is perfect for experiences like that. On tipping: When I see a waiter/waitress struggling & trying their best while customers are getting angry (like my stepdad – he’ll never understand), I’ll tip them even more, because they might have a tough time with their boss, may be short of staff, whatever. But I agree, wages should be fair to begin with.
Where are you from? This is awesome! I wish it was mandatory for everyone to work community services.
Hi @Noma, I live in Austria. This happens right after people graduate from High School. Some guys feel like it’s a burden at first, that it’s keeping them from exploring the world; but once they get started, they usually start seeing things from a different perspective. My ex said he felt very lucky to have had this opportunity to make those experiences. I also think it’s great to have this mandatory year between High School and college because it offers young men more time to decide on what they want to major in. For young women, there’s nothing mandatory after High School, but for about ten or fifteen years now they have been able to sign up for the same nine months of military training young men have the option of going through.
B#tch Please.Ask Heather McDonald how Handler treats people?
I know quite a few people who do not like water. It’s always mind boggling to me.
I hate the taste of plain water too. I prefer them flavored with tea or coffee or whatnots, not necessarily sweetened. How long did she and 50 cent date for? Really weird pairing.
My husband and my 78 yr young neighbor hate the taste of water. The hubby puts apple juice in his to choke it down. I don’t get it personally. I love water and think it’s refreshing.
I firmly believe that everyone should work 6 months in food and 6 months in retail (especially around Christmas). I only say this because I’ve done both. But yes, it does go both ways.
I could never do food service because of allergies but I did bus tables at a beer hall in Germany and have done retail, including a Christmas season in Filene’s basement. The worst consumer service experience I ever had was an unpaid internship at a state agency. Every other phone call involved people making speeches about how I had to listen to their rants about illegal immigrants, welfare moms, and drug addicts because their tax dollars paid my non-existent salary.
She’s one to talk. I mean… I agree with her but it doesn’t change the fact that she treats people like crap.
I like my water with lemon as well, but I can drink it out of bottle without it and it tastes just fine. When it’s in a glass though, I absolutely have to have lemon. Is that weird??
No, that’s not weird. Whatever you’re into!! And (fresh) lemon makes it healthier because it supports your liver and kidneys, which helps with the elimination of fat and toxins. So you’re actually doing everything right!
And I agree with her about being nice and humble to people. It’s much less exhausting to love than to hate and no one’s better than anyone else. Although I hear that she’s mean to people and double standards drive me crazy.
Thanks, Tj! I will continue with my lemon water. It’s just so refreshing and I’m happy to know that there are other benefits as well.
Waiting tables is an interesting suggestion. I think it makes you really good at judging if people have money and lying about how happy you are. It may give you some humility I guess, because people treat you very differently when you are staff not owner. You also get sexually harassed pretty much as a rule, by both other staff (kitchen and boss usually) and customers.
Soooo mixed bag on waitstaffing making you a better person. It definitely makes you nicer to service staff, but Chelsea is a prime example of if not making you a nice person in general.
I agree waiting tables gives one an appreciation for living on tips and so, to be generous to those whose jobs rely on tips. It also helps to develop a level of tact and civility in the face of rudeness and beligerance….because if you work in any type of service industry, you will face frustrated angry people but you have to remain calm, professional and diplomatic. She’s just not a person I beleive is genuinely good to people.
She is horrible and looks it. Glad her “celebrity” is on the wane.
Please. I’ve seen this woman in action. All she does is bully, mock, humiliate and berate people, pretending it’s ‘humor’. She’s the last person who should be giving advice on how to treat others.
Then she needs to run to the first restaurant/fast food joint she finds, put on her apron and get to work. Cause this woman is a nasty piece of sh*t.
No, I’ve talked to Chelsea on a customer service call when she ordered online & didn’t sign the card & demanded her money back. (bc the recipient didn’t know who they were from) She was rude & cheap. She sent a cheap bouquet instead of going through a local florist. At first I was just stoked to talk to her, but I gave up refunded her because the bouquet cost next to nothing & it wasn’t worth the 30 minutes she wanted to go round and round with me. I even offered to send out a new bouquet. I’d bought her books but now I’m really disgusted by her.
Everyone already said it
She’s Horrid and her time is up.
She is the rudest of the rude and a genuinely nasty person.
Click Buzz
I’ve noticed people who drink a lot of sweet drinks (sweetened tea, soda, juices, etc.) tend to not like water. Once they stop the sweet drinks water tastes much better. I love water and usually drink nothing else, except for black coffee in the morning. I’ll make iced tea once in awhile on a hot day, but it’s not sweetened.
This comment confuses me ” I’ve bailed on hookups at the last minute based on a guy’s personality or body or small penis or weird walk.” Did she not talk to the guys she agreed to a hookup with? I’m guessing she agreed to a hook up online without any long intros? Weird.