LOS ANGELES — Did Taylor Swift really utter an expletive to Selena Gomez when One Direction and former love interest Harry Styles took the stage for the MTV Video Music Awards?

Don't ask Selena Gomez.

Swift's seemingly foul-mouthed reaction shot lit up social networks and became an instant GIF. But Gomez reprimanded a reporter who asked what Swift said at the premiere of Gomez's new film, "Getaway," on Monday.

"Don't try that with me," Gomez told him.

The young star later said that she's protective of her friends.

"I think girls need to be more supportive of each other. I definitely agree with that. I'm all about that," she said. "Taylor has been one of those girls. We have been friends for five years. She is very strong. She doesn't care what people think and she inspires me."

Gomez won best pop video for "Come & Get It" at the ceremony Sunday and said she didn't expect to win.

"So I am watching the beautiful boys, One Direction who are not bad to look at, then they said my name. I looked at Taylor ... it was surreal. Because I do put so much work into my music. There's so much talk of everything. But I did put my heart and soul into it so I was really excited. It was great."

The Corey Feldman-hosted orgies of your dreams will never live up to their nightmarish realities.

Since the release of his terrifying music video (see above), "Ascension Millennium," the former Goonie hasn't had the best summer. First Vice confirmed that his birthday party was the most depressing and disturbing Los Angeles event of the year. Then Defamer came out with a first-hand account from a drug-fueled sex party at his home.

Lila Whitney gave Defamer a description of what said party looked like. It wasn't pretty.

The party reminds me of that episode of Saved by the Bell where a fictitious celebrity comes to Bayside High to film an anti-drug PSA, and then offers Kelly some weed. Only, the drug is ecstasy, not marijuana. And everyone is naked.

Things got really depressing really fast.

Suddenly, Corey stops f**king the hot blonde and tells her to change the song on the CD. Bewildered by the request, and the circumstances, I start to listen to the music. It sounds vaguely familiar. I realize Corey has requested to hear his own CD. He’s having an orgy and listening to himself sing at the same time.

Both accounts -- his birthday bonanza and this undated orgy -- give us reason to believe that the Corey Feldman comeback tour will probably never happen. We're not even sure if we want it to.

Click over to Vice to see some truly horrifying and NSFW photos of Feldman's birthday party and to Defamer for the entire story of the Corey Feldman-hosted orgy. Once you see, you will never unsee.

Everyone has skeletons in their closet, and Jeff Daniels' include diarrhea and Pepto-Bismol!

Jay Leno revealed an incredibly embarrassing Pepto-Bismol commercial starring Daniels from the ‘80s last night (Aug. 26) on his talk show. In the commercial, Daniels states that there are a "whole lotta students with diarrhea! And doctors gave our group Pepto-Bismol.”

The audience loved the throwback, and Daniels may have received the first-ever standing ovation on the show.

The "Newsroom" actor is currently nominated for his first Emmy. Winners will be announced on Sept. 22.

Watch the video above to see the hilarious clip.

Liberace's Las Vegas mansion has finally sold and the buyer is supposedly a HUGE fan of the performer.

According to Get Surrey, the nearly 15,000-square-foot home was bought for a mere $500,000 by Martyn Ravenhill in honor of his 50th birthday. “It felt like destiny when I bought it. It was almost surreal," he told the website. "Everything has happened very quickly but it is a very exciting time.”

Liberace lived in the 2-bedroom, 10-bathroom house from 1974 until his death in 1987. Since that time, the property has had multiply owners and was seized by JPMorgan Chase through foreclosure in 2010. But pieces of the pianist's grandiose lifestyle still remain, including crystal chandeliers, the spiral staircase and a mural in Liberace's former bedroom that's reportedly worth $1.5 million.

And Ravenhill has every intention to preserve the legacy Liberace left in the mansion. “I want to restore this place to its former glory,” he said. “I am working closely with the Liberace Foundation who have been very supportive."

Click through our slideshow to see photos of the home, and be sure to head over to Redfin and Get Surrey for more information.

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"Glee's" Cory Monteith tribute episode will air in October, and according to E! News, several old cast members and guest stars will make appearances.

Titled "The Quarterback," Monteith's tribute episode will reportedly feature Amber Riley (Mercedes), Harry Shum Jr. (Mike Chang), Mark Salling (Puck), Jayma Mays (Emma) Dot-Marie Jones (Coach Bieste), Kurt's father Mike O'Malley (Burt Hummel) and Finn's mother Romy Rosemont (Carole Hudson-Hummel. Dianna Agron (Quinn) and Heather Morris (Brittany) will not be making appearances, according to E!

The episode -- which has been described as "gut-wrenching" -- went into production on Friday, and Lea Michele, Monteith's on and offscreen girlfriend, tweeted a photo of herself wearing a "Finn" necklace.

Today... ❤ pic.twitter.com/K51iTNrqZB

— Lea Michele (@msleamichele) August 23, 2013

Additionally, Jane Lynch (Sue Sylvester) tweeted about the episode when she read the script last week.

Just read Cory Monteith memorial episode. Most beautiful thing. Thank you, @MrRPMurphy@BFalchuk Ian Brennan.

— Jane Lynch (@janemarielynch) August 21, 2013

Fox did not immediately respond to The Huffington Post's request for comment.

"Glee" Season 5 premieres on Thurs., Sept. 26 at 9 p.m. ET on Fox. "The Quarterback" will air on Thurs., October 10.

According to our count, Joe has been ordered to serve at least 270 DAYS in county jail.

Girls nights aren't just for us non-famous plebes -- celebrities need to bond over manicures and ice cream pints, too.

Take Heidi Klum and Mel B. The "America's Got Talent" judges spent some quality time together last night. In between presumably gabbing about their crushes and baking cookies, the stars took some time to wipe off all of their makeup and slather on some eye cream. Heidi even took to Twitter to share the moment with her followers. (She's not shy about going without makeup, after all.)

Looks like a fun night to us! Check out the photo below and tell us if you'd like an invite to their next slumber party.

PHOTO:

eye treatment! you wont recognize us tomorrow night on AGT. pic.twitter.com/rO25XAhHuL

— Heidi Klum (@heidiklum) August 27, 2013

Who needs makeup?

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I've never been a Disney fan. But after watching Miley Cyrus's minstrel hip-pulverizing, tongue-thrusting, simulated sex and teddy-bear parade, I wanted nothing more than to turn back the hands of time and find comfort in a small, small world where childhood is the stuff of wonder, and where one doesn't need to wonder what in the world Hannah Montana is doing this time.

I remember Hannah Montana, the squeaky clean, little-bit-hip and oh-so-cool teenager that my pre-pubescent daughter once idolized. Hannah made my eyes roll back then with her Disney image, but not in an entirely bad way. I sort of liked her -- she was the hip girl that made mothers smile, the twenty-first century's answer to Gidget, with a touch of sass thrown in.

But I'm a realist. I know squeaky clean girls either grow up to become Sarah Palin, or they run the other way. And life as a gazilllionaire teenager in the celebrity spotlight is not just hard, it's insane. I get it. But enough is enough. If there's anything the Miley Cyrus VMA spectacle should teach us is that it isn't "slut shaming" to say what was televised is not okay. No one, male or female, should be having sex on stage for a show that children and families watch -- even if they do keep their latex underwear on while they go at it.

It's not because I'm a prude who thinks sex is something children and families should hush up about, that her adolescent butt-thrusting exhibitionism turned me off. It's because I want my daughter to experience and enjoy her own sexuality that such a flagrant travesty of sexuality and womanhood leaves me rattled. How has it come to be a marker of conservatism to seek limits and controls over the hyper-sexualization of women (and increasingly of men) in the public sphere? Is there no room among liberals for social controls over our bodies and how they are displayed?

Parents, whether conservative or liberal, have every right to be disturbed when turning on a television show means there will be sex in the living room. Actresses have every right to be disturbed if having a career means they must show their breasts (or more) to the world, no matter what the script. And children have every right to be disturbed if watching their teen idols having simulated sex while dancing with teddy bears confuses them.

It's high time to reconsider why it was that Disney was so near and dear to our hearts once upon a time so long ago. It provided a safe refuge from the realities of the adult world where vulgarities ran rampant. Make no mistake, I'm well aware of the underbelly of Disney that has brought us a lily-white version of the colonized world, and I could write for hours on all that's wrong with the corporation and the concept. But the one thing it got right was the romance of childhood and how short-lived it really is.

We don't need any more Gidgets and we don't need any more Donny and Maries. But we don't need any more porn masquerading as pop in order to promise our daughters a world where they can own their own sexuality and take pride in who they are, and what they feel, and what they want to feel, inside and outside their own skin.

"I'm not exactly a guy who makes new friends easily."
--Tom Petty


"Trust is hard to come by. That's why my circle is small and tight. I'm kind of funny about making new friends."
--Eminem


"Brothers don't necessarily have to say anything to each other -- they can sit in a room and be together and just be completely comfortable with each other."
--Leonardo DiCaprio


"New friends are like new hemorrhoids, you didn't ask for the old ones either."
--Me

Dear Mr. DiCaprio,

I assembled these quotes to illustrate something you should understand before delving any further into this letter: I do not take the notion of friendship lightly. I prefer the deeper, fraternal connection you so eloquently described above, and that -- as we both know -- is a hard one to come by.

However, I couldn't help but notice the recent photos of you tooling around NYC on a Citi Bike and wearing an Auburn University hat without thinking that I had, in fact, discovered a long-lost brother. And so it is with the utmost sense of purpose, even duty, with which I reach out to you.

In the simplest of terms, I think you and I are exactly alike in practically every way. We both live in New York City. We both like Auburn (I went to school there and have been going to games at Jordan-Hare stadium since I was a toddler... you have a hat). We both enjoy biking. We both wear cargo shorts even though every single other person in the world thinks they're stupid. You were in Blood Diamond and I want one. We're both 38 when every other human is either 23 or 86.

Weird, right? The conclusion is inescapable. You are my missing piece (ref: The Missing Piece, Shel Silverstein, pgs. 1-all).

I'm sure you already agree that it is incumbent upon us to meet. To eschew such potential friendship would be tantamount to seeing the shirt you've always wanted in a store window and then burning that store to the ground just because you're Leonardo DiCaprio and people let you burn down stores for no reason.* Sure, there's some immediate gratification, but that lost shirt will haunt you for the rest of your days.

Think about it: a friend with shared values and sense of style who gets all your references ("Valerie's Family" just wasn't the same, was it?) who happens to live in the exact same city as you? Is there a God, because it sure seems like there is.

So, LdC (you can call me CrH), here is what I propose. Auburn's opening game of what is sure to be a season of rebirth (let's go, Gussy!) is this Saturday, August 31. We're both busy people and though we'd love to hop on a jet and fly down for the game, who has the time? (Aside from the Time Burglar, of course? Or the Clock Monster. I digress.)

I have a solution, however. I live in Harlem and own an 80" screen TV. Yes, they make TVs that size, LdC and yes, you can fit one in a New York City apartment.

Why don't you come over and watch the game with me and we'll make this inevitable friendship a reality, one plate of organic jalapeno poppers at a time?

I'll make homemade salsa, we'll have some "Gatsby" cocktails (it'll be our little "insider's" joke) and we'll root the Tigers on to victory. We'll be like old pals, mixing it up. I'll rib you about having never actually gone to Auburn. You'll laugh at me for not being in every single Martin Scorsese movie.

We'll make some Vines and then not upload them because they're just for us. We'll play the, "Is That Someone Opening Our Front Door Or The Neighbor's Front Door? Oh, It's The Neighbor's Front Door" game. You'll look through my photo album and pick my next three #ThrowbackThursdays. I'll tell you what movie to do next. It will be fun!

So just have your people call my people to set it up. And since I don't have people, you can have your people find me on Facebook.

I await our best-friendship/brotherhood with a glorious sense of anticipation. Moreover, I think the power of our finally meeting will propel Auburn to an undefeated season and a national title. The world will thank us... and it will be right to.

War Eagle!
CrH

*Arson is never funny, LdC. I only use this as an example. I'm sure you knew that, but for legality's sake, I felt I should clarify my feelings on the topic.

Don't understand "twerking"? It's OK, Morgan Freeman is here to explain twerking, the buzziest word of the summer.

Freeman read the definition of twerking while on HLN.

"The word 'twerking' has now been added to the Oxford Dictionary. Here's the definition they gave: 'To dance to popular music in a sexually provocative manner involving thrusting hip movements and low squatting stance,'" Freeman said.

Reading the definition was the first time Morgan said he heard of twerking.

It won't stop: Miley Cyrus, Justin Bieber and rapper Lil Twist (he's the one always driving Bieber's cars at lethal speeds), have collaborated on "Twerk," a song which leaked this week. Twist teased the single -- which is supposedly on his second album -- in July. Sources tell HuffPost that the song is an authentic leak. It's sure to disappear from the web soon, but in the meantime, take a listen.

Before "Beverly Hills, 90210," "Charmed," three marriages and a drunk driving incident, Shannen Doherty was the spitting image of innocence.

Doherty played little Jenny Wilder on the wholesome TV show "Little House on the Prairie" when she was 11 years old. It was just the beginning of her long and rocky acting career, but in 1982 she looked ready to take on the world. Or at least the prairie.

Leah Remini is going from Dianetics to disco ... TMZ has learned, the famous ex-Scientologist will appear in the upcoming season of "Dancing with the Stars" ... and Snooki will be making her post-pregnancy debut along with her.

Geena Davis shows off her archery skills for Funny or Die. So maybe be careful around Geena Davis.

Faster than Justin Timberlake can expose Janet Jackson's breast, the entire world is alive with mock outrage over the Miley Cyrus performance at this week's MTV Video Music Awards. Parents locked their kids in their rooms. Teachers planned special discussion groups to help students to cope with the trauma. And Disney is all but placing a warning sticker on every single copy of Hannah Montana merchandise in existence. All because Miley Cyrus dared to act...sexy?

But that's just it: Miley Cyrus wasn't sexy. She wasn't sultry. She wasn't shocking, nor was she scandalous. Miley Cyrus was, simply put, trying too hard. She so wanted to shock us and to show us what a big, sexualized rock star she's become. Instead, she just looked like someone who really, really wanted our attention, just not in the way we're giving it. She wanted to show us she's all grown up, but instead looked like she brought a bottle of schnapps to a pillow fight.

You can't really blame her. The 20-year-old singer has been living in the shadow of her Disney character for so long, she's been beating herself senseless trying to be seen as anything other than bubblegum princess. Anyone who has been paying attention for the past few years has seen this coming for a long time. It seems pretty obvious that, for a teeny-bopper desperate to shed her skin and re-invent herself as an adult, the VMAs would be the perfect place.

Scandals always happen at the Video Music Awards. The fact that we play along at all is amazing at this point, considering we've seen it so many times in the past. Kanye West was a jackass who interrupted Taylor Swift. Madonna pulled the equivalent of drunken spring breaker when she locked lips with Britney Spears. And, not for nothing, but Madonna was also the first VMA shock artist when she ungracefully rolled around on stage in a wedding gown singing "Like a Virgin." At this point, outrageous displays of idiocy, narcissism and vulgarity are more common at the ceremony than actual music videos. Oh, yeah...remember when MTV had those? They should have an award ceremony for them or something.

Now, in yet another attempt to pretend the VMAs are at all relevant any more, we have the faux outrage over Miley Cyrus. She stumbled around awkwardly, wearing more clothes than the average Hooters Girl, and rubbed up against Alan Thicke's son. Frankly, I was more shocked when Christina Aguilera didn't come out onstage and join them. After all, weren't we just as gossipy back when she pulled this same stunt over a decade ago?

At least Aguilera was sexy that night, all those years ago. And at least she appeared to know what actual sex is. Cyrus, unfortunately, looked more like the girl you knew in high school who constantly bragged about all the sex she was having yet was secretly a virgin. Tongue wagging? Crotch touching and butt-grinding? Her moves weren't sexy as much as the attempts of someone who has no idea what sexy is trying desperately to make us believe she does. It was kind of like asking an Amish guy to explain digital porn.

Yet all over the Internet and in the media, people are still acting as if what Cyrus did was remotely as scandalous as what we actually witnessed. All we really saw was the equivalent of someone getting drunk at the office holiday party and jumping onstage with a karaoke mic. The kind of thing we'd snicker at and pat her on the back for the next morning. All while reassuring her the hangover will eventually go away. But instead we're tweeting desperately about it as if it was just revealed she's been cast to play Catwoman in the Man of Steel sequel.

Instead of being shocked at Miley Cyrus and her shenanigans, be shocked by the fact that MTV apparently still has music videos and apparently still gives them awards. Be shocked that the statuette is still that Moon Man that Miley Cyrus is far too young to remember. And be shocked that people tune in to cheer for awards to videos they'll never see...unless Robin Thicke is in it with a bunch of naked women.

Oh, and for the record, the best video of all time is still Thriller.

As a Global Maternal Health Advocate, I get to travel the world quite a bit meeting individuals and visiting programs with tremendous potential and incredible vision to improve the quality of life for countless others. These trips help to educate me about the challenges and solutions facing vulnerable populations, particularly mothers and children, in regions where maternal and infant mortality ratios are disproportionate. When I visit many of these places on behalf of Every Mother Counts (EMC), the campaign I founded to reduce preventable deaths related to pregnancy and childbirth around the world, I am reminded that what's often most needed is education and access to others who are educated. When I say education, that includes primary and secondary schooling, yes, but there are many other levels of education that are also required to meet and improve upon the health needs of so many. Sexual and reproductive health education and human rights education are almost always lacking, even when others are available. When you look at education through a global health lens, the ripple effects of higher education on communities and populations sharpens immensely.

One of the best examples I can think of to illustrate this point is in Haiti, where I last visited this past spring. My trips to Haiti over the past few years have taught me that the people of this beautiful country are quite capable of combating their current climate of high maternal and newborn death rates (the highest in the region) through training, mentoring and the education of nurses, midwifes, and skilled birth attendants.

Even though Haitian women are considered the "poto mitan"-- the "central pillars" of the family and their communities -- they are often the most underserved members of already poor communities. Like too many other developing countries, Haiti and its 10 million people suffer from a shortage of skilled healthcare professionals. There are only 25 physicians and 11 nurses per 100,000 residents, and only one midwife/nurse-midwife for every 1,000 live births.

Though I have seen this countless times in other countries, my travels to Haiti offered several opportunities to witness how access to trained maternal health professionals can dramatically impact the health and education of entire communities. I also saw how outreach to traditional birth attendants in rural communities can provide a much-needed bridge to the healthcare system. In a country where more than 70 percent of women deliver at home, it is essential to leverage traditional attendants so that women can be linked to skilled providers in medical facilities.

Back in January of 2012, Every Mother Counts visited the already impressive construction site of the Hôpital Universitaire de Mirebalais (University Hospital) with Partners In Health (PIH) and their Haitian sister organization Zanmi Lasante (ZL) for the first time. What struck us most then was the infectious enthusiasm of PIH co-founder Dr. Paul Farmer and his Haitian colleagues about what this facility represented to the Haitian people just two years after the devastating earthquake that destroyed much of the capital city, including the main public hospital there. The mission of University Hospital is to train a wide range of healthcare providers to deliver the highest standard of healthcare to the Haitian people. We were also impressed with the general layout and plan of this hospital, with easy access to the emergency room and its proximity to maternity and NICU departments. Since that first visit we knew we had to find a way for EMC to support the training of the staff that would provide care and support to expectant mothers at University Hospital. I returned last April for an opening celebration of University Hospital to see much of PIH co-founders Dr. Paul Farmer's and Ophelia Dahl's dreams for Haiti that began so close to this hospital's site -- nearly 30 years earlier -- much realized.

Now, four months since the hospital has been officially opened and receiving patients from a catchment area of roughly 3.3 million people, Every Mother Counts is thrilled to announce a new grant to support the training of Haitian nurses including auxiliary nurses, nurse-midwives, and birth attendants in normal birth management; how to better diagnose and manage complications; and to provide emergency obstetric care at University Hospital. The grant will also include the training of Ajan Fanm (women's health agents -- including former matrons), to be able to identify high-risk pregnancies in their communities, so that they are better able to refer and accompany those cases to the appropriate level of care. We are so excited about the potential of this new group of health workers who will undergo training through this partnership because we know that the ripple effect of the knowledge and skills they will gain at University Hospital will spread beyond their communities and that someday, everyone in Haiti will have access to the same quality of healthcare.

As Dr. Paul Farmer said,

As we've learned through our work in Haiti and elsewhere, the effective delivery of high-quality maternity care requires systems that link women in their homes to community health workers, who are their neighbors; to clinics able to provide the basic women's health services all women need and deserve; and to hospitals and health safety nets. Building the capacity of these systems requires dedicated partnerships integrating research, training, and service. So I'm grateful to Christy and the whole Every Mother Counts team for sharing this vision, and for helping us make it a reality at University Hospital in Mirebalais. This grant, and the clinicians and specialized community health workers whose training it will support, will improve the lives of women and children we serve at the new hospital -- and far beyond it.

Credit: Rebecca E. Rollins/Partners In Health

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Apparently, the Internet has mistaken a baby Drake for Blue Ivy Carter.

Us Weekly reported Wednesday that fans took to Twitter, asking if Blue Ivy is on one of the alternate covers for Drake's new album, "Nothing Was the Same," due out Sept. 24. The artworks, which are oil paintings by artist Kadir Nelson, were revealed on Instagram on Wednesday, Aug. 21. One shows the profile of a young child and the other a profile of Drake, both against a cloudy blue sky. When placed side-by-side they appear to be looking at each other.

Instagram users and tweeters alike began chattering about how much the baby in the portrait resembles Blue Ivy. Some even wondered, "Why is Blue Ivy on Drake's album cover?"

While both Blue Ivy and the baby in the painting have curly hair and adorable cherub faces, the illustration is no homage to Beyonce and Jay Z's daughter. It's actually little Drake, then known as Aubrey Drake Graham.

"It's a child version of myself staring at myself now," the Canadian rapper explained to MTV. "Sometimes when I try and think back through this journey it's so hard to pinpoint all these moments and it gets foggy. ... What that album art is to me is the fact that this is my most clear, concise thoughts from now and my best recollection of then. ... There's something about it that captures you."

Nelson says he tried to convey the depth of Drake's new music with the imagery.

"The music that I heard was very emotional," he told Complex. "I think I aimed to capture that, but also, Drake is a lot of fun, he likes to have fun, he's very personable, and he leaves you with his heart. I think there's no better way to show that than a child, looking heavenward, up into the sky and to the clouds. I think certainly that kid is still there, and as an adult, that's one of the things he really likes to think about or feel. That joy and fun of being a child."

Miley Cyrus' performance of "Blurred Lines" at the MTV VMAs with Robin Thicke was racist. Wait, it wasn't racist. It was creepy, it misdirected the media, it was proof that "America is dead inside."

Or maybe it was proof that we're all a bunch of hypocrites.

That's the message in a new song by Canadian Comedian and "The League" actor Jon Lajoie.

The message is summed up in these lyrics:

The lines no longer blur, you crossed it, and upset the nation

Don’t get us wrong, we’re super cool with objectification

But it’s hard to watch you play that part, we’ve known you for too long

So please go back to singing the Hannah Montana theme song

And we’ll go back to watching others do exactly what you did

And we won’t be offended because we cannot pictures them as kids

Sounds about right.

Eva Marcille is about to be America's next top mom.

The TV personality, 28, who won cycle three of America's Next Top Model in 2005, is five months pregnant with songwriter-boyfriend Kevin McCall's child.

LOS ANGELES — Paula Patton is having the best summer ever.

Professionally, the 37-year-old actress is busy promoting the romantic comedy "Baggage Claim," which opens Sept. 27. "2 Guns," starring Patton, Denzel Washington and Mark Wahlberg, opened earlier this month.

Personally, Patton is relishing the success of her husband, Robin Thicke, who has the catchy summer hit, "Blurred Lines."

"You couldn't have planned this better. It's a really odd, wonderful coincidence," said Patton of their simultaneous career highs.

"We celebrate in the kitchen late at night after we put our son to sleep, and we're like, `Can you believe this?'" she said with a high-pitched squeal. "And then we do things like (tell each other) `drive the speed limit,' `don't mess around.' It's like `don't mess this up!'"

In an interview earlier this month, Patton talked about prepping Thicke for her sexy on-camera scenes and said a healthy dose of jealousy is the key to a lasting relationship.

AP: What does Robin think about your "Baggage Claim" makeout scenes with Derek Luke, Boris Kodjoe and Djimon Hounsou?

Patton: I always prep him for the sexy scenes. I mean the moment he's not a little jealous is the day that I'm very worried, OK? And I think he feels the same way. You have to have a little bit of jealousy. But mostly it's happiness for each other because we've known each other since we were kids and we dreamt the same dream together and we know how hard it's been. It's had its peaks and its valleys. It's a marathon. So when you have great moments like this, or when you just get to work, quite frankly, you're just so thankful that you can kind of overlook the things that might hurt a little bit.

AP: In the film, your character faces a lot pressure to get married and start a family. Did you experience anything like that?

Patton: You know a little bit because my husband and I met when we were so young and then we lived together, `lived in sin,' and then we had a long engagement. It was sort of that `is it ever going to happen?' But we were so young. We were just kind of having fun.

AP: Will you pressure your kids to settle down?

Patton: I wouldn't do that, no. I find that so archaic to be honest. I'm not really a traditional person that way. I don't think people need to follow anybody's rules but their own. Follow your heart.

AP: Did your son visit you on the movie set?

Patton: My son came to visit me a lot, but there's a lot of scenes that you just don't want `why are you kissing a man that's not daddy?' That's just not good. That's not healthy for a 2-year-old. He's three now, but that could scar him. You know what I mean? So it was a lot of set (visits) to the trailer. He wasn't there for the Boris Kodjoe makeout scene. I can tell you that much.

AP: What if he sees the movie one day?

Patton: Eventually he will and listen, that's part of the deal. No one's parents are perfect. You're going to have to suffer a little humiliation of having to see mommy do these things. It's the way it's going to go.

AP: What's your secret to balancing motherhood and your career?

Patton: You just sleep a lot less. Always tired. Always. I'd be lying to you if I told you something different.

AP: What has motherhood taught you?

Patton: That's it's given me great perspective, made me a lot less self-involved. Maybe before if you lose a role or something happens and you just sit in your bed all day and cry. There's no time for that (now). Somebody needs to eat, they want to go to the park, and it's great because it puts life in perspective and those moments become a lot smaller and a lot less significant once you have a child.

AP: What is it like to experience such personal and professional fulfillment?

Patton: I feel like my son has been a lucky charm. I really do. I don't know what it is and I do think children can be lucky charms. You have to treat them with reverence and respect and discipline, but he did somehow. With him he brought many gifts.

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