Breaking down the past. More than a decade after the Bling Ring robberies, Rachel Bilson sat down with Alexis Neiers and Gabrielle Neiers to discuss their involvement.“I had super conflicting feelings about this in particular.
And I have to let you guys know I have always stayed very distant from anything having to do with the Bling Ring and everything that went down,” the Hart of Dixie alum, 41, said during her “Broad Ideas” podcast on Monday, October 10. “I never read anything, I never saw anything and I never supported the movie Sofia Coppola did.
I felt like it was weird to bring so much attention to something that had such a big impact personally for me and for other people involved.”Bilson, who was robbed by the infamous group in 2009, noted that motherhood allowed her to separate from the situation. (The actress shares daughter Briar, 7, with ex-fiancé Hayden Christensen.)The podcast’s cohost Olivia Allen, however, defended Bilson’s ability to be upset about the past. “You are allowed to speak your part and we can give them time to speak their part,” she told The O.C.
alum. “You don’t need to go into making them comfortable because the truth of the matter is the situation wasn’t comfortable.”The Bling Ring — consisting of Rachel Lee, Nick Prugo, Alexis, 31, Courtney Ames and Diana Tamayo — became infamous for stealing roughly $3 million in cash and belongings from Lindsay Lohan, Paris Hilton, Orlando Bloom, Audrina Patridge and many more from 2008 to 2009.Alexis and Gabby, 30, reflected on the situation on Netflix’s The Real Bling Ring: Hollywood Heist last month.
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