The conservatives would have us believe that “cancel culture” is truly the biggest issue facing the country today. It is not and they’re stupid and they should be cancelled. One of the best things about the whole “cancel culture” conversation is that A) most of it is just a–holes complaining about how they’re being held accountable for being terrible and B) the lack of conversation around Shame Culture. Sometimes, a good public shaming actually *works*. Someone f–ks up and you publicly shame them for a day and everybody learns something. So it is with Kylie Jenner, who recently got some well-deserved sh-t for only donating $5,000 to a friend’s GoFundMe page for his medical treatment. Kylie was mad that people were calling her cheap. Kylie issued a statement explaining why she gave so little. And now she learned her lesson, the lesson of the noblesse oblige: rich people need to be seen giving big chunks of money to charity. So here we are!
Kylie Jenner gave $500,000 to create a state-of-the-art hospital lounge for teen cancer patients that was unveiled on Wednesday. The reality star and makeup mogul donated the funds to support her friend, singer-songwriter Harry Hudson — who was diagnosed with Hodgkin’s lymphoma in 2017.
The donation — with money from rockers Roger Daltrey and Pete Townshend’s Teen Cancer America — led to the “Hey, I’m Here For You Teen Lounge” at the Monroe Carell Jr. Children’s Hospital at Vanderbilt in Nashville. The lounge is named after Hudson’s cancer charity, as well as the title of his 2020 album.
A source told us, “When Harry was diagnosed with Hodgkin’s lymphoma in 2017, one of the things that really struck him and his best friend Kylie, who sat with Harry through his chemo treatments, was that there was a great need to give more emotional support to teenagers and keep them hopeful and inspired during the process. One of the things that Kylie and Harry found to be equally important as the science was the ability to treat the patient, specifically the teenage demographic, in a space that reflected positivity and healing.”
The lounge includes video games, a big screen TV with streaming capabilities, a meditation room, and more. Hudson said in a statement: “I am so grateful for Kylie’s friendship and the impact she’s had on my life and my cancer journey… She has always been there for me, and together, we wanted to figure out a way to be there for other young people who are battling this disease.”
Jenner, the CEO of Kylie Cosmetics, is worth a reported $900 million. Last year, she donated $1 million to one of her physicians, Dr. Thaïs Aliabadi, to “help us buy hundreds of thousands of masks, face shields, and other protective gear” during the pandemic, the doc said.
It’s nice that she did this, and she clearly donated the money long before her recent shaming. But she definitely wanted credit for it, and that’s fine. She deserves credit – good for you, Kylie. This was a nice thing to do and sick kids will have a really nice space to recuperate and hang out. Her publicist was like, “Oh mention that Kylie donated a million dollars last year too!!”
Photos courtesy of Kylie’s Instagram.
This is the equivalent of me donating $5. She’s still garbage.
I don’t think those kids that are actually impacted by the donation feel the same as you. And how they feel matters the most.
Would you rather they not have the space?
Is this April fool’s spin? I have a hard time believing this family would donate as much.
Shame on ya’ll. By no means am I a Kardashian/Jenner/Whatever stan. But who cares? This thing means something to her and she did a good thing. Taylor Swift needs credit for every good thing she does and NO ONE cares. People just give her credit. When someone does a good thing why do we have to be dicks? Kids are going to be happy, that is what matters.
They actually donate a ton of money to good causes. They bring a lot of attention to issues and they get a lot of publicity for people and organizations that wouldn’t otherwise. There isn’t anything wrong with that. They cannot win, even when they do something nice. Shame on ya’ll.
Seriously. I also think other rich people will look at this and maybe do the same. I don’t think it’s better or necessary to keep it secret, unless that’s what the donor wants.
Good to hear she’s doing something to help others, reluctant and PR as it all sounds. She has the power to help a lot of people and I hope she continues.
Hopefully she’ll also lay off the plastic surgery and stop trying to look like a blow up doll. She was such a natural beauty, not sure why she had to ruin that. Le sigh.