Remember way back when white South Africans took advantage of black people and assumed they would do whatever was demanded of them, whether they gave their permission or not? Treated them like objects? Thank goodness those days are over, huh?
The Nelson Mandela Foundation has accused actress Charlize Theron of selling a meeting with the former leader without permission.
Oscar-winning Theron, 34, raised £85,500 for charity last week by auctioning the chance to visit her native South Africa and meet the elderly former president…
Achmat Dangor, chief executive of the Nelson Mandela Foundation, said: ‘There is a very rigorous process that is followed to secure a meeting with Mr Mandela, and as yet, we have not have had any such request from Charlize Theron…’
Mr Mandela, who turned 91 in July, has now fully retired from public life and only grants personal audiences to a tiny proportion of those who request them.
His spokesman said he did not usually agree to be offered in charity auctions.
Mr Dangor added: ‘It should also be noted that even the charities that he created have never auctioned off time with Mr Mandela.‘We nevertheless wish Ms Theron well in her charity work.’
Reportedly, when Theron met Mandela in 2004 after she won an Oscar for portraying an ugly person, she burst into tears and blurted, “I love you so much!” Apparently in her mind, his failure to tell her to knock it off constituted some sort of lifetime permission slip to just drop by any old time.
How presumptuous. Sure, it’s nice to raise money for charity, but why would you make a promise like that without even checking with the guy first? What, because she’s so famous? Has she done anything of note since Monster? (I’m not sure Hancock really counts. On second thought, I’m really sure Hancock doesn’t count.) Who’ll be next to presume an audience with the guy, Gretchen Mol?
At least the winner’s consolation prize was a kiss on the lips from Theron. Even better: the winner was a chick. I mean dame. Broad?
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I’d hit it!
hmm, good point Jrod. Why would you want to meet with some old African politician who is SOOO 1984 when you could meet her instead.
Sheesh, does she sell tickets to meet the Pope too? This is very odd.
Well, well,well. She is not worth nearly as much as she thinks she is. Pretty presumptuous.
I’m tempted to give her the benefit of the doubt and assume that this is just some big misunderstanding…because nobody could be this stupid, could they?
Seriously, who does that?
“the winner was a chick. I mean dame. Broad?”
Slippery slope, that.
“Sheesh, does she sell tickets to meet the Pope too?”
What? She better not be musclin’ in on my racket!
Wow. When I heard about it on the radio, it sounded like she was hosting the auction or that the meet was already on the table and she offered the kiss to try to up the bidding price (apparently making it shoot up $100k). Wonder what’s going on…you’d think that his people would be aware if there was a meeting arrangement with anyone though. Very odd.
How much good do you have to do to “grant personal audiences” rather than having coffee or whatever with people?
Ok, I got a ticket for dinner with Abe Lincoln. Starting bid, $5,000…anyone? Anyone?
This chick is so self-important, it’s going to ba a real joy to watch her age. Badly.
That’s “be”. Curse you, nearsightedness!
Does anybody think that she looks like a young Bridgette Neilsen? You know, the skank that was married to Stallone for awhile.
it’s that nielsen hairdooo that only a beautiful face could get away with. No doubt she is beautiful now. But, yeah, we all get old – can’t avoid the ravages of aging unless you die young.
There must be more to this story, though. Like maybe some charity-organizing yayhoo told Theron it was a done deal and she is just too important to check the details – that’s what the help is for and she’s just there to lend her celebrity status – sign on the bottom line, please. How could anyone be that dumb to sell tickets to meet someone without prior consent from that person?
I agree with Mermaid. Celebs don’t (can’t?) sweat the details – that’s why they have ‘people’. And those people deal with other people’s people. Hell, even Mandela has people, and he’s retired. Not that one shouldn’t take responsibility for one’s people, but still I expect the real screwup was somewhere down the chain of command. Theron can be blamed, probably, for poor oversight of her affairs.
I take great joy in the fact that she wakes up every morning, sans makeup, looking exactly like Aileen Wuornos.