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  • Rene Russo Talks About Longterm Bipolar Disorder

    Rene Russo no doubt surprised her fans and members of the entertainment industry this week when she announced during a taping of Queen Latifah’s talk show that she is bipolar. The episode that was taped this past Monday will air on October 30th.

    Russo will appear on The Queen Latifah Show to promote her new movie. Nightcrawler also stars Jake Gyllenhaal–who appeared on The Queen Latifah Show with her–and is directed by Rene Russo’s husband, Dan Gilroy. She didn’t go on the show expecting to talk about bipolar disorder.

    Queen Latifah asked both Rene Russo and Jake Gyllenhaal to describe a time in their lives when they were forced to ‘push through’ something and come out successful on the other side. That’s when Russo made her startling admission.

    “I pretty much hit a wall,” she said. “My mom said my whole childhood, ‘You’re stop-and-go.’ I stopped and I had to like, ‘Whoa,’ that was it for me.”

    A shocked silence ensued before Rene Russo began speaking again.

    “For all the people that are having trouble and maybe feel bad about taking medication, I didn’t expect to say this, but that was really it for me,” she said. “It’s okay — you will make it through. It’s not easy but you will make it through.”

    Queen Latifah praised Rene Russo for being brave and asked her what finally compelled her to seek help for her bipolar disorder.

    “I literally crashed, hit a wall and couldn’t get out of bed,” Russo said. “I thought it was depression, but if you take antidepressants it speeds you up more. I’m kind of stop-and-go, I either crash or speed. I haven’t shared this, but I think it’s kind of important. I have some friends who don’t want to go on medication, and they are suffering.”

    Kudos to Rene Russo for sharing that she has bipolar disorder. Hopefully others will see how successful her life has been since starting on bipolar meds, and be inspired by her actions.

  • Queen Latifah Honored By Super Bowl Gig

    Queen Latifah Honored By Super Bowl Gig

    Queen Latifah sang America the Beautiful at the Super Bowl on Sunday and said she was honored to be a part of the biggest football game of the year. She says the history of the game and the responsibility to honor that tradition is a huge undertaking–and one she didn’t take lightly.

    “Anybody who takes it as a joke … to me, I don’t know if they really get it,” she said following her impressive performance. “This is moment where for a change we all can … come together and (have) a sense of pride, and not really worry about anything else that goes on Monday morning.”

    On Monday morning people are talking about little else besides the Super Bowl. Queen Latifah is no doubt back to work, however, as she has new music on her mind. She is using her new show, The Queen Latifah Show as the perfect sounding board for her upcoming tracks.

    “I’m already working on stuff with that,” she said of her new songs. “I can kind of interweave that with the talk show. …It’s time to jack another day at the show, give the interviews a break for one day and just perform and rock the crowd. So, I have the best platform to do it.”

    Queen Latifah is an actor and a singer and now, of course, can add talk show host to her list of successful credits. On Sunday she added Super Bowl performer to her list–but more importantly to her bank of exciting memories. The Super Bowl is an American tradition, and to have sung a song like America the Beautiful to the fans and players there rightly made her proud–of her abilities and no doubt of simply be an American.

    Did you catch Queen Latifah’s performance on Super Bowl Sunday? Will you be checking out her new songs when they are released?

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