Juno writer Diablo Cody has blogged about how surprised and mortified she was to learn that the elegant shoes she was lent by famed designer Stewart Weitzman to wear to the Oscars were worth a cool million. She said that no one from the company told her ahead of time and that she assumed they were adorned with rhinestones, not diamonds.

Yesterday, my stylist took me to go try on my Oscar shoes, which were made for me by Stuart Weitzman. They were sparkly. Kind of retro. With hefty brooches to be affixed atop each narrow toebox. I was pleased, but it wasn’t, like, an event.

Today, I read this. NEWS TO ME, kids. I must have somehow missed the part where my shoes cost a MILLION F*#$ING DOLLARS and my “choice” of footwear would be publicized nationwide. I honestly thought they were just sparkly shoes. Mr. Weitzman did mention that the diamonds were real when I tried them on, but I’m not Nancy Rockman, Expert Gemologist. I didn’t, you know, bust out my miniature spyglass and assess the potential worth of my kicks.

I swear to God, I have the most bizarre life. Truly.

This looks really attention-whorey, and for once, I didn’t do it on purpose.

I’m flattered that they picked me (surprise!) to wear the Pimp Shooz, but WTF, right?

ETA: I’m actually really pissed about this, now that I think about it. They’re using me to publicize their stupid shoes and NOBODY ASKED ME. I would never consent to a lame publicity stunt at a time when I already want to hide. I’m sorry if I sound like a party-pooper, but Jeebus.

[From Diablo Cody’s MySpace blog via WENN]

I love that she called them the Pimp Shooz! I’m not too familiar with Diablo Cody, but she’s on my short like of people to write favorably about after reading her blog. MSat says she’s a fan of hers and that she’ll gladly cover it when she wins the Oscar as expected for best original screenplay.

I enjoyed reading Cody’s Wikipedia entry and learned that she worked as a stripper in Minneapolis for a year in her early 20s and wrote a book about her experiences, called Candy Girl: A Year in The Life of an Unlikely Stripper. It was published when she was 24 and she wrote the screenplay for Juno shortly afterwards.

JayBird, MSat and are all on live tonight to cover the Oscars. None of us will be wearing clothing worth more than $30, but I guess I should speak for myself.

Here is Diablo Cody at the National Board of Review Awards along with a pic of those million dollar shoes, thanks to PRPhotos and D-Listed.

Update! Here’s my quickie transcript of the red carpet interview with Diablo Cody and the interviewer Steven from ProSeiben, the German channel covering the Oscars.

Interviewer asks question I didn’t write down…
Diablo answers: “I didn’t anticipate the film being made, so to be at the Academy Awards is amazing.”

When they called you and told you were being nominated, how was it?
Shocked… This whole experience was surreal.

What are you doing next?
I’m just a writer and I’m going to go write more.

She’s wearing a leopard print dress and her hair is in a bob.