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X17 EXCLUSIVE - LeAnn Rimes Sits Down With Maya Angelou For Life-Changing Interview
Posted on Tue Oct 4, 2011 01:05 PM PDT
LeAnn Rimes has just returned from North Carolina where she was interviewed by Pulitzer Prize-nominated poet Maya Angelou. The intimate sit-down took place at Angelou's home.
The 83-year-old legend is filming the new show The Celebration Table ... premiering in January on the Hallmark Channel. The upcoming project will focus on celebrities that have inspired Ms. Angelou over the years.
Leann tells X17online exclusively:
- "We talked about forgiveness, marriage, children, poetry, music, food ... and drank great wine together. Her spirit is infectious. Meeting her changed my life. She's a walking angel and the wisest person I've ever met. She invited Eddie, the kids and me back to her home soon for a few days because she wants to cook for us."
The 29-year-old songstress also has a pelvic tattoo inspired by Ms. Angelou's famous poem about slavery that reads, "Still I Rise." LeAnn adds, "I'm happy to call her my friend and she calls me her daughter. What an honor."
A source close to the production says the poet believes the country singer has an "ancient soul":
- "Maya has loved LeAnn since she was thirteen and thought she was an older black woman the first time she heard the song Blue. It wasn't until she saw a photo of LeAnn that she realized she was a little white girl."
The source adds, "Before the show was even given the greenlight, Maya knew she wanted to interview Leann to get to know her better."
Two highly successful women ... you can't beat that!
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Comments
Homewrecker
Leann was a child star she hasn't released anything with style or substance since then.
Did Maya ask LeAnn how her eating problem is working out?
How about how she feels breaking up a family with children in it, knowing full well what it's like since her parents were devoriced?
Maybe she should ask her if she's ever considered plastic surgary to correct that horse-face she was born with?
Tell us LeAnn, Maya and the rest of the world are waiting with bated breath.
Lovely accomplished women
HOME WRECKING WHORE
Love both these women.
I'd eat them out.
Leann is highly successful? At what? Tipping off the paps?
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4. LeAnn Rimes and Eddie Cibrian
Eddie Cibrian leaves all the talking to his country singing wife who loves to hop on Twitter and remind all the haters, who chastised her and Eddie for being cheaters, how happy and in love she is as Mrs. Cibrian. We even get plenty of pics of the skinny stepmom in skimpy bathing suits prancing down the beach with her man.
“I love me the way I am & I don’t care what jealous people think,” tweets Rimes.
Note to Leann Rimes: Cancel this interview.
It's more than obvious what this all about. Her interview with Ellen failed to get sympathy and so she went to plan E: get sympathy by talking about EC kids and justifying her affair with EC by giving in interview with a member of society that people respect.
This isn't going to go over to well with the public because everyone has witnessed just how mean and nasty LR is as person.
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HOME WRECKER! What goes around comes around.
Maya A didn't get EC memo:
"A six year old and a two in a half year old do not need this kind of negative media attention or any type of public exposure."-Eddie Cibrian
A former Madam/poet counsels leannn on what?
Do NOT watch this interview!
This is an extreme attempt to get sympathy for breaking up a family with CHILDREN. She will never get it. I can't wait for the day that Eddie is caught with his hands in the ccokie jar! Then SHE will
know the pain she put Brandi through!
How can Eddie look at those HUGH nostrils and Fake horseteeth? Oh, thats right,
he remembers she has "Cha-Ching!!!!
The Old Bag interviewed the Douche Bag.
LeAnn and Mr. Rimes only want to keep his children out of the press when what is being said makes him or his horse faced 'bonus whore' look bad. Otherwise they're fine with using his and Brandi's children to garner press.
Maya Angelou and LeAnne Rimes are BOTH annoying!
Love LeAnn Rimes and she should feel so honored that his wise & beautiful lady even wants to spend time with her. Can't wait to see this special.
Did Leann get Bonus advice about being a Bonus Whore? No matter who she interviews with NO ONE WILL LIKE HER!
Careful Maya, as the saying goes..."If you lay down with dogs, you're gonna get fleas".
Hopefully Maya also taught her humility, dignity and the art of STFU!
Skank
After the way she has conducted herself as of late, I've no interest in anything that she or now ex-playboy have to shill.
Doesn't she have an album that just came out? Why is she not promoting it more instead of talking about being bullied (not true) and her home life?
Strange.
Is Maya Angelou senile?
With full respect to Maya, I will not watch or promote anything with her in it. Same goes for her douchy husband.
Yes, she's a homewrecking whore... but it takes two to tango. Eddie must have wanted it just as bad as she did. Vagina's do not have magical powers and waving one in someone's face will not continue them to leave their wife and break up their family for you.
It was years ago. All parties have moved on. I think it is time for us to as well.
Both of them cheated with men and did what they wanted and now pretend to be nice ladies.. but perhaps they didn't have the tools to understand morals and respect of their souls, and not fall to greedy grasping for money, power or to gratify their lusts..
That is so nice
LeAnn's latest venture is an IPO she bought into for a web site that helps spouses cheat by manufacturing alibis for them. LeAnn has even offered to write a monthy column for the site to despense with tips and advise.
try hard.
Man by now I thought she was 50,she is so annoying go away!!
@8:02
Hi Leann.
Did x17 know that the Hallmark Channel has ties to NBC? So this interview with Maya was set up by Leann's friends at NBC. What a shame that Leann only gets jobs through favors from her friends. So if LR wasn't BFF with the producers over at NBC, this interview with Maya A wouldn't even exist.
@10:42
Al parties have moved on? Not according to LR interview with Maya, in which she states that she is still talking about her affair with EC.
EC didn't want LR, why do you think he called her a speedbump in his marriage? Well I guess that's where NBC comes in. LR gets EC a job on CSI and a Hallmark movie, that is how she got him to continue the affair with her.
Leann tells x17 exclusively?
Yeah because she is paying you, right?