Jennifer Aniston has confirmed that she has a Ziploc bag containing her late therapist’s ashes—although she’s coy on publicly sharing further details.
The Friends alum made an appearance on Wednesday’s installment of Jimmy Kimmel Live! to promote her new picture book, Clydeo Takes a Bite Out of Life.
Host Jimmy Kimmel took the opportunity to playfully grill the actress about a range of tabloid headlines that have been written about her in the past, including a magazine cover bearing the headline, “The Truth About Jen And Barack.”
The article in question, claimed that Aniston, 55, had developed a close friendship with former President Barack Obama. Aniston told Kimmel that she had only met Obama “once” as the pair shared a laugh about the headline.
Kimmel then proceeded to ask Aniston to confirm or deny other rumors, including one that she has “a Ziploc bag filled with your dead therapist’s ashes.”
Aniston gasped in response, saying after a lengthy pause: “Can I plead the [Fifth]?”
“That’s one’s a little bit true, right?” Kimmel asked, prompting his guest to confirm: “It’s a little true.”
“Oh, I’m gonna sound like I really need a therapist, well, after this,” Aniston added, raising laughs from the studio audience. The star opted to forgo sharing more details.
Elsewhere, Aniston shot down claims that she “installed a $4,000 anti-aging water filter” in her home for her dogs and has a “black belt in jujitsu.” However, she admitted to having had a salmon sperm facial, carrying a jar of olives when she travels abroad, and once being approached for a selfie while nude at a sauna.
When questioned about claims that her family would make her “belly dance” every Christmas Eve, Aniston responded: “Not just Christmas Eve… Any kind of a family dinner… It’s like, when you say to your child, ‘Play piano for everyone,’ or ‘Let’s sing for everyone.'”
Jennifer Aniston is pictured on September 15, 2024 in Los Angeles, California. The actress has addressed a rumor that she has a Ziploc bag of her late therapist’s ashes.
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“I get such anxiety when my friends do that to their children, because I have inner trauma from having to perform and belly dance for my Greek aunts and uncles and grandmothers,” Aniston added. “I get it.”
Sharing further insight into her childhood in New York City, Aniston also told Kimmel about her futile attempt to meet Duran Duran vocalist Simon Le Bon after learning that his band would be performing on Saturday Night Live.
“I was in love with Duran Duran,” she told Kimmel. “I mean, like I was an official ‘Durany,’ as they called them, and Simon Le Bon was just everything.
“I even camped outside one night of their hotel… They were appearing at a video store to sign copies of the latest album, or whatever. So my girlfriend and I show up at 5 in the morning with a rose, and then we wait, and this line’s already around the block. [We waited] there all day till about 4 o’clock. And then they shut the gates because it got really rowdy. And so we didn’t get to go in.
“So [we took] our droopy roses, and we went back to our house. And then they were appearing on SNL that night. And, you know, they always say, ‘Guests of Saturday Night Live are staying at this hotel,’ which they’re not. We headed over there to meet them on their way home from doing their appearance, and they never showed up.”
However, Aniston finally got to meet Le Bon several years later. “Simon, I actually got to interview him for Interview magazine,” Aniston said, before joking, “I got to tell him how he destroyed my childhood.”
