Ryan Anderson

Last year Paula Deen was sued by the former general manager of the restaurant she owned with her brother for offenses including inflicting emotional distress with her offensive racial comments. Now, in a recorded deposition, she's pretty much admitted the latter accusations are true.

Today (June 18) celebrities bloviated, gave organizational tips, forgot some things, reclaimed their names and celebrated birthdays.

When Angelina Jolie shocked the world and announced she had undergone a preventative double mastectomy, she was rightly hailed for bravery in the face of a difficult decision. But singer Melissa Etheridge thinks that decision wasn't brave at all, and has no qualms saying so.

Things got a little awkward at the Daytime Emmys on Sunday night, when Aisha Tyler was handed the wrong envelope while presenting an award for Outstanding Informative Talk Show -- and handled it like the consummate (and hilarious) pro she is.

Pageants are typically superficial popularity contests that never end up promoting the inner beauty about which they pretend to care. But every once in a while, a pageant contestant comes along who shatters those expectations and proves to us that brains and beauty are not mutually exclusive. And at Miss USA 2013, that was Miss Utah.

Remember that time self-proclaimed "publicist" Jonathan Jaxson claimed that Amanda Bynes was suicidal, so he helped orchestrate an intervention? Now he's claiming she's admitted her whole nutso schtick is just a ploy for attention -- and he's posted the supposed "proof" on his Twitter account.

In what may be forever known as the last temptation of Yeezus, a Canadian model has stepped forward claiming she slept with Kanye West on two separate occasions -- once during  Kim Kardashian's current pregnancy. Kanye, however, says her pants are on fire.

In a chain of events that some feel brings to mind the harbingers of death in the book of Revelation, Miley Cyrus and Justin Bieber were spotted canoodling at a Los Angeles hot spot over the weekend before leaving together.

Heidi Klum got slightly catty off the catwalk this weekend during a boozy bout with her boyfriend/bodyguard Martin Kristen.

Paparazzos are sometimes annoying or aggressive. A photog who caught up with Kanye West (en route to cure a leper, probs) in New York this weekend was being neither -- but that didn't stop Yeezus from throwing a holy hissy fit.