Melissa Etheridge felt ‘guilt’ and ‘shame’ after son’s death from opioid addiction: ‘I did the best I could to keep myself alive’

Melissa Etheridge felt ‘guilt’ and ‘shame’ after son’s death from opioid addiction: ‘I did the best I could to keep myself alive’

Come to her window.  Rock star Melissa Etheridge takes a leaf out of Johnny Cash’s book and performs at a prison in her new docuseries, “Melissa Etheridge: I’m Not Broken.” “I grew up in Leavenworth, Kansas, and most people know it from all the prisons,” Etheridge, 63, told The Post.  “I could see [the federal … Read more

Cara Delevingne says being sober helped her cope with $7M LA house fire: ‘I would still be reeling’

Cara Delevingne says being sober helped her cope with M LA house fire: ‘I would still be reeling’

Cara Delevingne is thankful she was sober after her $7 million mansion burnt down in March. “It sucks but everyone was safe and, like anything, if I’d not been sober I would still be reeling over that,” the 31-year-old actress told The Times in an interview published Sunday. “It would still affect me really deeply,” … Read more

Queen of clubs: NYC nightlife legend Susanne Bartsch pumps up Pride with a big bash — and a new book

Queen of clubs: NYC nightlife legend Susanne Bartsch pumps up Pride with a big bash — and a new book

For years, decades even, the biggest VIP in the gay scene of New York nightlife has been a straight, Swiss-born woman. That would be Susanne Bartsch, the legendary club queen who has presided over generations of queer party boys — and other children of the counterculture — in the City That Never Sleeps. “You know, … Read more

Nina Dobrev reveals how boyfriend Shaun White ended up making a cameo in her new movie ‘Reunion’

Nina Dobrev reveals how boyfriend Shaun White ended up making a cameo in her new movie ‘Reunion’

Though short-lived, former professional snowboarder Shaun White was able to live out his acting dreams in Paramount+’s new comedy/mystery “Reunion.” “He wasn’t supposed to be in the movie,” Nina Dobrev, who plays Amanda Tanner in the film, exclusively told the Post. “The scene was actually born from him coming to visit me on set.” Nina … Read more

Andrew McCarthy shades his own movie ‘Pretty in Pink’: ‘I didn’t think it was very interesting’ 

Andrew McCarthy shades his own movie ‘Pretty in Pink’: ‘I didn’t think it was very interesting’ 

 Not so pretty. Andrew McCarthy said that he wasn’t a fan of his 1986 coming-of-age film “Pretty in Pink” at the time that it came out. “I didn’t think it was that interesting,” said McCarthy, 61, in an interview with PEOPLE published Saturday. “I didn’t quite get the movie at the time. I thought, this … Read more

Nina Dobrev is open to leading TV series after ‘The Vampire Diaries’ — but hasn’t ‘found anything’ worth doing yet

Nina Dobrev is open to leading TV series after ‘The Vampire Diaries’ — but hasn’t ‘found anything’ worth doing yet

Nina Dobrev is willing to go back to her television roots. Since departing from “The Vampire Diaries” in 2015, Dobrev has taken mostly movie roles. The only TV role she’s played was Clem in the series “Fam” for 13 episodes in 2019. However, it seems the actress isn’t against leading a television show again after … Read more

Kevin Costner reveals what it would take to get him back on ‘Yellowstone’ after abrupt exit

Kevin Costner reveals what it would take to get him back on ‘Yellowstone’ after abrupt exit

Kevin Costner might be making a “Yellowstone” comeback. The 69-year-old actor told “CBS Sunday Morning” on June 16 that he’s willing to return to the hit Paramount series, which recently started production on the second half of its fifth and final season. “If I like the story, where it was going, I would go back,” … Read more

Danny Pino brings disco and drama in ‘Hotel Cocaine’ crime thriller: You can ‘feel the aura’ of the ‘70s

Danny Pino brings disco and drama in ‘Hotel Cocaine’ crime thriller: You can ‘feel the aura’ of the ‘70s

He’s a cocaine cowboy.  Danny Pino stars in the ‘70s era crime drama “Hotel Cocaine,” a fictional account of the golden era of Miami’s Mutiny Hotel — a real location that was frequently compared to Studio 54. It was a glitzy hotel and nightclub frequented by celebrities, musicians, international narcos, CIA agents and sports stars. … Read more

Rumer Willis reveals Father’s Day plans with dad Bruce amid his dementia battle

Rumer Willis reveals Father’s Day plans with dad Bruce amid his dementia battle

Rumer Willis is ready to celebrate Father’s Day with her dad Bruce Willis. The 35-year-old actress and singer exclusively told The Post how her family plans to honor the “Die Hard” actor, 69, this weekend as he continues to battle dementia. “I’m sure we’ll go over there,” Rumer said. “Father’s Day is such a special … Read more

Henry Winkler turns on character voice when he’s interviewed by unwitting Irish journalist about hotel fire

Henry Winkler turns on character voice when he’s interviewed by unwitting Irish journalist about hotel fire

Henry Winkler was plucked for an interview by an unwitting Irish reporter Wednesday who didn’t realize she was speaking to a famed actor and comic. The legendary “Fonzie” star didn’t identify himself when he recounted being evacuated from Dublin’s Shelbourne Hotel after a fire broke out around 10:30 a.m. “When I heard the fire alarm, … Read more

Kevin Spacey implies King Charles reached out amid sex scandal: ‘I don’t want to drag him into all this’

Kevin Spacey implies King Charles reached out amid sex scandal: ‘I don’t want to drag him into all this’

Kevin Spacey implied that he received support from King Charles III, though maybe not directly, after his sexual abuse scandal blew up. The former “House of Cards” star told Piers Morgan on Tuesday about his relationship with Charles, 75, who knighted Spacey the year before the actor’s fall from grace in Hollywood. Morgan, 59, asked … Read more

The Apollo at 90: Harlem legend Leslie Uggams recalls doing ‘29 shows a week’ at the iconic theater

The Apollo at 90: Harlem legend Leslie Uggams recalls doing ‘29 shows a week’ at the iconic theater

When a 9-year-old Leslie Uggams made her debut at Harlem’s historic Apollo Theater in 1952, she instantly won over the notoriously tough crowd as the “extra added attraction” on a bill with jazz great Louis Armstrong as headliner. “It was terrific … They loved me,” Uggams, now 81, told The Post about her 20-minute act, … Read more

Mariska Hargitay gets emotional over ‘Law & Order: SVU’ 25-year milestone: ‘I couldn’t have dreamt it’

Mariska Hargitay gets emotional over ‘Law & Order: SVU’ 25-year milestone: ‘I couldn’t have dreamt it’

Mariska Hargitay got emotional when The Post asked her about being an icon. “Wow,” she exclaimed at the Gotham TV Awards, seemingly at a loss for words. For the past 25 years, the 60-year-old actress has played Detective Olivia Benson on “Law & Order: SVU,” making her the longest-running character on primetime TV. And you … Read more

Why ‘Girls’ alum Gaby Hoffmann ultimately returned to acting after childhood fame

Why ‘Girls’ alum Gaby Hoffmann ultimately returned to acting after childhood fame

Gaby Hoffmann knows she had an unusual childhood growing up the daughter of Warhol acolyte Viva and being raised in the famed Chelsea Hotel.  “Special is one of the many words for it,” she tells the New York Post in a recent exclusive interview. “I’m very grateful for it now that I’m an adult and … Read more

Ben Platt reveals Noah Galvin Brooklyn wedding details — and why he ‘panicked’ in dating stage

Ben Platt reveals Noah Galvin Brooklyn wedding details — and why he ‘panicked’ in dating stage

Ben Platt’s new album is titled “Honeymind,” but given the ”Dear Evan Hansen” star’s upcoming nuptials to Noah Galvin, it could almost be called “Honeymoon.” The two singer-actors, both 30 and based in Brooklyn, got engaged in November 2022 — and the groomzilla countdown has begun. “The engagement is on!” Platt said in The Post’s … Read more

Leonard Nimoy’s son reveals ‘Star Trek’ actor ‘butted heads with everybody’ — but not like ‘Mommie Dearest’

Leonard Nimoy’s son reveals ‘Star Trek’ actor ‘butted heads with everybody’ — but not like ‘Mommie Dearest’

Adam Nimoy has boldly gone where no fan has gone before. The son of the late “Star Trek” actor Leonard Nimoy has written a “reverential” but warts-and-all memoir about his “complicated” relationship with his dad that reveals just how worlds apart they were for most of their lives.  “You know, it’s not ‘Mommie Dearest.’ I … Read more

Ben Platt details the ‘scary’ show that made him shake ‘Dear Evan Hansen’: ‘Really bad stage fright’

Ben Platt details the ‘scary’ show that made him shake ‘Dear Evan Hansen’: ‘Really bad stage fright’

After countless nights owning the Broadway stage in “Dear Evan Hansen” — in his Tony-winning role as the title character — Ben Platt was hit with a serious case of Evan-esque anxiety before his first time singing his own material in public. The meltdown went down in January 2019 at the Bowery Hotel in Manhattan … Read more

Pride walk: Ben Platt takes The Post on a tour of the NYC spots that made him loud and proud

Pride walk: Ben Platt takes The Post on a tour of the NYC spots that made him loud and proud

For Ben Platt, his coming-out party as a pop artist on “Sing to Me Instead,” his 2018 debut studio LP, was no big queer reveal. “When I made my first album, it was sort of received as, like, a ‘coming out’ — and it’s not even something that I anticipated,” Platt, 30, said in The … Read more

William Shatner shades Leonard Nimoy’s son claiming ‘Star Trek’ stars feuded: ‘He wasn’t around’

William Shatner shades Leonard Nimoy’s son claiming ‘Star Trek’ stars feuded: ‘He wasn’t around’

“Star Trek” brothers for life. William Shatner defended his bond with late co-star Leonard Nimoy after Nimoy’s son, television director Adam Nimoy, claimed that the “Star Trek” actors didn’t get along in his new book, “The Most Human: Reconciling with My Father, Leonard Nimoy.” Shatner, 93, exclusively told The Post that Adam, 67, “wasn’t around” … Read more

Miley Cyrus doesn’t know if she wants children: ‘My fans are my kids’

Miley Cyrus doesn’t know if she wants children: ‘My fans are my kids’

Mother Miley. Miley Cyrus revealed that she hasn’t decided if she wants to be a mom in an interview with W magazine published Monday. “I’m 31 now, and I still don’t know if I want kids or not,” she said. “I feel like my fans kind of are my kids in some way.” Miley Cyrus … Read more