14 DAY TRIAL // Perez Hilton is not what you would call one of the most beloved figures in celebrity blogging. He has risen to fame only on scandal and by taking advantage of other's people's misery. Oh, and by drawing male genitalia on photos of famous people, which has to be the highest form of journalistic accolade in his mind.
The 36-year-old blogger has been involved in his fair share of scandals over the years and he never backed down from a fight. So when Jennifer Lawrence decided to blast him in her recent interview with Vanity Fair about the fact that he was among the very few celebrity blogs which went ahead and posted her leaked intimate photos, he went ballistic.
In a 5-minute video, he vented his frustration with Lawrence, going from apologies, to cursing her out right and then reverting back to apologies. The video started making headlines and attracted a lot of attention, mostly because Perez doesn't hesitate to F-bomb Lawrence.
Perez actually has the gall to make the Jennifer Lawrence leak about him, thinks he is the real victim here
Let's stop and dissect the entire incident for a minute: Perez has the actual guts to post racy photos of Jennifer Lawrence on his blog, at a time when he knew no one else would dare, out of fear of legal consequences, or, at least, out of support for Jennifer Lawrence, and then gets mad when he gets called out for it.
Now he claims that he simply “made a mistake,” that he didn't realize he was going to hurt Jennifer. What did he think was going to happen? The bottom line is that he knew the photos would hurt Jennifer and that they would, at the same time, boost traffic to his site exponentially.
Later, he took down the photos and posted a video in which he apologized, wringing his hands, and trying to be as convincing as he could. So you can't really blame Jennifer Lawrence for accusing him of being fake.
This drove Perez mad. He recorded another video, calling out Jennifer Lawrence, and telling her that his apology was sincere and that only she was to blame for her troubles. He made a point that only Jennifer was pitied by the public in the leak scandal, while other victims, such as Kim Kardashian, didn't get any sympathy at all.
The blogger pities Kim Kardashian because she didn't get sympathy from the public, despite also being hacked
He seems to forget that Jennifer was actually hacked, whereas Kim Kardashian never really lost any sleep about those leaked photos, since it wasn't anything the world hadn't seen before. The woman has a raunchy tape out which is still making her money, not to mention taking selfies with as few clothes on as possible, and stepping out in clothes that would make an exotic dancer blush.
Then he begins to curse out Jennifer, as if she's to blame for the fact that the world is now turning on him. That's like stealing, and when someone catches you in the act, you lash out at them for not minding their own business.
Perez knew perfectly well what publishing those photos meant, but he chose to do it anyway. So he hasn't any right to lash out at Jennifer for telling him off. He should lower his head and admit he was wrong. But being so full of himself, Perez chooses to turn the tables on the actress he mockingly calls “America's Sweetheart,” like it's a bad thing.
Perez points the blaming finger at Jennifer, telling her she should have known better
Reaching level of hypocrisy that are hard to fathom on a normal person, Perez berates Jennifer, telling her that she should have known better. He seems to be oblivious to the fact that Jennifer was hacked, that the photos were never meant to go public and that they were destined for Nicholas Hoult, with whom she was in a long-distance relationship at the time.
But the fact that Perez can't stand being exposed for what he really is has caused this very angry response. Perez actually switches tones as many as three times in the 5 minutes it takes him to rant about Jennifer. This, to any person with the least bit of common sense, indicates a man with some deep personality issues.
You simply can't apologize to a person, then swear at them, and then apologize to them again in a 5-minute interval and expect people to think you're normal, it doesn't work like that.
In her Vanity Fair interview, Jennifer claims that she was shocked and disgusted to find the photos on PerezHilton, and that “He took it down because people got [expletive], and that's the only reason why. And then I had to watch his apology. And what he basically said was ‘I just didn't think about it’ … ‘I just didn't think about it’ is not an excuse. That is the exact issue itself.”
But Perez's argument to that problem is an F-bomb directed at Jennifer Lawrence, spoken in a fit of rage that she didn't accept his first apologies which he swears were honest.
Perez: "Just because I make mistakes all the time, that doesn't make me a [expletive]-up"
He condemns Jennifer for judging him for his past mistakes. He makes this big point about being a better man than he was ten years ago, making a big show about self-discovery and improvement. He also comes to the conclusion that, despite the fact that he made mistakes in the past, has recently made another mistake and will continue to make mistakes in the future, that doesn't make him a [expletive]-up.
Most normal people would beg to differ, saying that is the exact definition of the word and that that is another proof the man has lost touch with reality at some point and he believes himself superior to all others.
The blogger actually managed to convince some of his readers, who then turned on Jennifer Lawrence
What's even worse is that Perez's video got many positive responses from his readers on his website, from people who are unable or unwilling to see behind his real motives for posting the photos and even the video, that has now been picked up by news outlets and is increasing traffic to his site as we speak.
Some people, a few, blasted Perez for being fake and promised to never return to his website again, but most comments to his video rant were in the lines of “Good job, Perez! So glad someone has the courage to speak the truth.”
These are probably the same people who thought it was OK to ogle at Jennifer's intimate photos since she was a celebrity and she “should have known better.” She should have known better than to take photos without any clothes on, deleting them, and knowing that Apple actually doesn't delete your material and is also vulnerable to hacker attacks, and those hackers had no problems exposing the photos online.
The bottom line is that Perez is a seasoned “journalist” (and I use that term lightly) and that he should have known better than to post an angry video, right after he had read Jennifer's interview. He should have taken some time out, think about the consequences, think about his own actions that have led to this, and admit that he was wrong, that he did it for the money, got caught with his hand in the cookie jar, and apologize from the heart.