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The WNBA has been making more headlines than ever in recent months.

Unfortunately, most of the coverage has little to do with the players’ accomplishments on the court and much to do with various controversies pertaining to politics and social issues.

The latest drama began during a game — when Chicago Sky forward Dijonai Carrington was ejected after committing a flagrant foul against Sophie Cunningham of the Indiana Fever.

But it heated up on social media.

After she was ejected for giving Cunningham a forearm to the face, Carrington took to X (formerly Twitter) with a post that read simply, “WHITE PRIVILEGE.”

She also tagged Cunningham’s team.

The post didn’t sit well with many commentators and sports journalists, as Carrington’s ejection seemed appropriate, given the brutal nature of her foul.

One journalist who chastised Carrington was former NFL linebacker Emmanuel Acho.

“The refs made the right call on DiJonai Carrington. There’s no white privilege involved in that specific call,” Acho said on his Speakeasy YouTube show on Monday.

The remark led Carrington to allege that Acho had misinterpreted her comments.

“I’ve never once claimed that the assessment of the foul was white privilege,” Carrington wrote on X, reposting a clip of former NFL star Emmanuel Acho discussing her response.

“Try exercising your critical thinking skills, I know you studied psych. Furthermore, I’m the LAST thing from ignorant or asinine when it comes to speaking on ‘white privilege’, do ya research on that one.”

Carrington, who graduated from Stanford, added, “I actually went to school, one of the top universities, might I add, to educate myself on this exact subject. I would never use that term as a rhetorical weapon knowing the historical and social weight it holds without having the proper evidence to substantiate it.”

The rebuttal lead to a sarcastic response from Acho.

“You are correct, DiJonai Carrington, my assumption, along with the majority of the sports world, was that you posting ‘white privilege’ immediately following being thrown out of a game for fouling somebody white was regarding the foul.

“But if the two things are somehow not connected, that’s on me. I’ll stand corrected,” Acho wrote on X, adding:

“However, America is a speaker oriented country, so the burden is on you for being clear, direct and easy to understand.”

For her part, Cunningham downplayed any racial bias, saying “there’s no reason to even play that card.”

She went on to dismiss Carrington’s hard foul as “her just trying to get attention.”

The grudge might resurface the next time Cunningham and Carrington face off on the court.

For now, it’s another WNBA scandal in a season that’s been loaded with them.

Dijonai Carrington Addresses ‘White Privilege’ Remarks Following Sophie … was originally published on The Hollywood Gossip.

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In recent years, there has been a lot of concern and discussion regarding Kate Beckinsale’s weight loss.

Like Ariana Grande and Kelly Osbourne, she appears to be dangerously thin.

Unlike those two beloved public figures, Beckinsale says that she can explain her alarmingly gaunt features.

The talented actress revealed her health condition. She then purged her social media, wiping the slate clean.

‘I receive an enormous amount of comments’

On Monday, August 10, Beckinsale shared a lengthy yet now-deleted post on her since-scrubbed Instagram account.

“As I’m sure you’re aware, anytime I post a photo of myself, I receive an enormous amount of comments,” she lamented.

Beckinsale wrote that these comments are “telling me how disgusting I look and I’m anorexic or I’m on meth or that I’ve lost so much weight.”

She even shared screenshots, sharing insight into how much she has fixated upon these comments.

The examples that Beckinsale cited accused her of using GLP-1 medications such as Ozempic and expressed overall concerns about her gaunt appearance.

“First off, I’ve lost my entire family, except my precious daughter, in a short amount of time,” Beckinsale wrote.

Both her mother and her stepfather passed away, back-to-back.

“The second thing is, I have a condition, which is an autoimmune condition called mast cell activation syndrome, and there’s another one called mast cell disease, and there’s mastocytosis,” she detailed.

“This is something that I was diagnosed with 16 years ago,” Beckinsale shared.

She recalled: “I was really, really lucky that I had an amazing GP in London who called it and sent me to, at that point, the one guy in the world in New Jersey who was the expert in that.” She called her stomach “ground zero” for her health issues.

Kate Beckinsale lost her mom, her stepdad, and nearly her whole family in a short span, and people online called her weight loss proof she’s on meth pic.twitter.com/X6aCxm0i3y

— Thought Catalog (@ThoughtCatalog) August 11, 2026

‘You don’t want to be the last straw for somebody’

Even so, one follower implored her to eat something.

“Having just made a several slides post about how eating could actually kill me this is a little beyond,” Beckinsale lamented.

She reminded her fans that they do not “know what’s going on in people’s lives,” even if social media makes it appear otherwise.

Additionally, Beckinsale advised that it is “not necessary for everyone to know your opinion on what somebody else’s body looks like.” Real.

“Treat people just how you’d like to be treated yourself, give people a little grace. If you don’t have anything nice to say, maybe don’t say anything,” she urged. “You don’t want to be the last straw for somebody, you don’t want to be the thing that makes them more sick, just keep going, it’s not hard.”

Later, Kate Beckinsale was provoked by another commenter into saying that she would “delete everything except for the books I recommend.”

She was not bluffing.

Her Instagram account is no more.

Beckinsale’s profile photo is now a graphic, which reads: “‘Honey, what do you want to be when you grow up?’ ‘A threat to the new world order.’”

While we hesitate to speculate on what Beckinsale means by that, we don’t believe that she’s some sort of QAnon or Illuminati conspiracy theorist. She seems very frustrated and we hope that she feels better soon.

Kate Beckinsale Slams Body-Shamers, Explains Health Struggle Causing Gaunt Appearance, … was originally published on The Hollywood Gossip.

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