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Ursula the Sea Witch Conjured Some Gossip

Ursula the Sea Witch Conjured Some Gossip

And YES OKAY we ARE still watching Grey's Anatomy but we're NOT happy about it.

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Good news! We have a fresh Blind Item to discuss, courtesy of Melissa McCarthy, who, parenthetically, definitely has a seat at an imaginary Drinks With Broads table. Melissa gave a very charming interview to The Guardian this week as part of the PR push for the live-action remake of The Little Mermaid, and dropped this nugget:

Has she had experience then, of screamers and egos? She pauses. Yes. “I did work for someone once who ran such a volatile, hostile set that it made me physically ill. My eyes were swelling up, I was absorbing all of this nuttiness.” What did it look like? “There were people weeping, visibly so upset by this one person. And I think that’s why the manipulation worked, because to get to me, this person would fire people I loved, which kept me quiet. It was very effective. Then one day, I was like, ‘It stops today!’ I just kept saying to them, it stops, it stops. And I know now I’ll never keep quiet again.”

Listen, McCarthy’s got a ton of credits on her resumé; it see…

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