14 DAY TRIAL // Tia Mowry must be breathing a sigh of relief right now, because she can still go to spin class at SoulCycle like before: Charlize Theron isn’t trying to get her banned for life from the establishment.
At the end of last month, in an interview with one of the glossies, Mowry talked about her most awkward celebrity encounter ever, revealing that she and Charlize went to the same gym. One day, when Tia saw Charlize, because she had always loved and admired her, she assumed she could just go over to her and make her acquaintance.
Hilariously, when Tia said “Hi,” Charlize responded with an eye roll and an “Oh my god!,” which, Tia revealed, was the most shocking thing to ever happen to her. She was so taken aback that she even went on the record saying that Charlize had been “very mean” to her, and for no apparent reason too.
Shortly afterwards, word got out that Charlize was so furious that Tia went to the tabloids with this story and thus violate her privacy that she was talking to the gym’s management to get her banned for life. As they say, hell hath no fury like a woman celebrity scorned.
Turns out it isn’t so. “This is totally fabricated and completely not true,” a source close to the Oscar winner tells E! News. The actress is yet to directly address the report in any way, but knowing her, she probably never will.
However, it seems that Tia too is backing down publicly, even though she was the one who got this whole thing started: she talked to the press again the other day and she tried to downplay her earlier comments, the same media outlet reports.
“I do not know her. I do not know Charlize. I absolutely love her, she's my ‘woman crush Wednesday,’ you can even see it on my Instagram! I'm obsessed with her, I love her, it was definitely blown out of proportion. So that's all I'm going to say about that,” she said.
It sure looks like someone was looking to get some extra publicity by namedropping a bigger star, and now that she’s gotten the snowball going downhill, she’s trying to stop the avalanche because she realizes what she has done.
Either way, it was Charlize who got the biggest blow, image-wise. One insider told the media that, when she went to the management to see that Mowry was banned, she yelled something along the lines of, “This nobody who was famous for a minute 20 years ago can complain to the tabloids about me but I can’t expect you to protect me from hangers on in your studio?”
Not few were those who believed her capable of saying such things, so they didn’t doubt the scandal was as real as it gets. No matter how much backtracking Mowry does now, Charlize will probably always be remembered as the star who raged about a “nobody who was famous 20 years ago” violating her privacy.