Martha Stewart confronts New York Knicks star Jalen Brunson for breaking her big toe: 'It wasn't okay at all'

It wasn't a "very good thing" whenMartha Stewartbroke her big toe at a New York Knicks game last May.

The lifestyle guru was sitting courtside at Madison Square Garden when the home team's point guard, Jalen Brunson, dove for a ball out of bounds — and "crashed" right into 84-year-old Stewart, who was wearing open-toe sandals.

As her big toe throbbed in pain, she knew immediately the 190-pound athlete had broken the bone.

Nearly a year later, she recently got the chance to confront Brunson on his podcast,Roommates Show, cohosted by his teammate Josh Hart.

The two-time NBA All-Star was deeply apologetic, although admitted he didn't remember the moment, which went down as the Knicks squared off against the Indiana Pacers in the Eastern Conference Finals.

As Stewart recounted, Brunson not only landed on her, he even sat on her lap.

"You jumped up really fast. And I remember saying to you, 'It's okay.' You had no idea that you had hurt me. I didn't say you hurt me, but I said, 'It's okay.' It wasn't okay at all."

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After the game — which went into overtime, much to her painful chagrin — Stewart headed straight to the Hospital for Special Surgery on Manhattan's Upper East Side to have her toe checked out.

"They've named it the 'Stewart-Brunson fracture,'" she joked. "I have an X-ray, I'm going to leave you a picture of it... it was actually a break, so anyways, it's better now… It took one year to heal."

Stewart previouslytold the storyonThe Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon, and revealed she actually ran into the NBA star's parents, Knicks assistant coach Rick Brunson and his wife Sandra, in the Hamptons. And she couldn't help but tell them what their son did. "They were laughing," she told Fallon. "They thought it was so funny."

Brunson now adds a little more to the story: His dad FaceTimed him to virtually apologize to Stewart. He later also sent her a basketball, which she gave to her grandson.

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In the end, there's no bad blood — and Stewart learned a valuable lesson.

"It's my fault for wearing open-toe shoes to a basketball game," she reasoned. "I look back at it as just something silly, stupid, and funny. It was stupid of me."

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Martha Stewart confronts New York Knicks star Jalen Brunson for breaking her big toe: 'It wasn't okay at all'

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Dakota Johnson says she once failed an audition by being polite: 'I was like: What?’

IsDakota Johnsontoo friendly to be an actress? She thinks that's true in at least one case.

"I had an audition once, and it was a callback, and I went into the room, and I shook everyone's hand and introduced myself. Then I did the scene, and I left," Johnson toldHits Radio. "The feedback I got was that because I had gone and introduced myself and shook everyone's hand is that I was pompous. That I was schmoozing, and I was full of myself."

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TheFifty Shades of Greyactress was perplexed.

"I was like: 'What?' I didn't get the job because they said that I was being cocky," she recalled. "But I just had manners… It was pretty crazy."

The actress has since enjoyed much more positive developments in her career, including not just playing Anastasia Steele toJamie Dornan'sChristian Grey inFifty Shades of Grey, but movies such asMaterialists,Splitsville, andHow to Be Single.

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Johnson has noted that she'd like toportray a psychopathand do an action movie in the future.

"I'm open to anything," she told reporters in July at the Karlovy Vary Film Festival in the Czech Republic, perVariety. "Certain things [just have] to align."

And that goes beyond acting. Johnson, the daughter of Oscar-nominated actressMelanie Griffithand Emmy-nominated actorDon Johnson, is also a producer through her TeaTime Pictures. Her producing credits also includeAm I Okay?andDaddio.

"So much of why I wanted to start a production company and make my own movies is because I want more from this industry," Johnson told Variety. "I want more from my experience as an artist. I felt so thirsty for more conversation and more creativity and more collaboration. I found myself as an actor, a few times, showing up to the premiere of a movie to see it the first time and saying, 'Woah. That is not what I thought we were making.'"

She described that as "such a weird thing to do."

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Bruce Springsteen wants your attention, plans livestream from tour opener in Minneapolis

Bruce Springsteenwants his No Kings message to be heard around the world.

For the kickoff of the 20-dateLand of Hope & Dreams Tour– fittingly taking place in Minneapolis, a recent hotbed of political uprising – the first two songs of the set will stream for free on Springsteen'sYouTube channel.

The March 31 concert at the Target Center in downtown Minneapolis will launch at 8:30 p.m. ET.

Springsteen's touris strategically routed with the first few dates landing in cities heavily targeted byImmigration and Customs Enforcement. Following Minneapolis, the band will perform in Portland, Oregon April 3 and Los Angeles April 7 and 9. The tour ends May 27 at Nationals Park in Washington, D.C., the only stadium date.

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"The tour is going to be political and very topical about what's going on in the country," Springsteentold the Minnesota Star Tribuneon March 23. "Minneapolis and St. Paul, that was the place I wanted to begin it, and I wanted to end it in Washington."

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Springsteen and the E Streeters will be joined by longtime comrade for social justice causes, Tom Morello of Rage Against the Machine.

Morello also guested with Springsteen during theNo Kings rallyin Minneapolis on March 28. The gathering was one of more than 3,000 nationwide to protest the policies and leadership of PresidentDonald Trump.

Rock legend Bruce Springsteen took the stage on March 28, 2026, to perform his protest song "Streets of Minneapolis" at the Minnesota State Capitol in Saint Paul on Saturday. Springsteen performed during a "No Kings" protest — the third nationwide "No Kings" protest held against the Trump administration. Musicians Joan Baez and Maggie Rogers were also scheduled to perform at the protest.

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Rock legendBruce Springsteentook the stage on March 28, 2026, to perform his protest song "Streets of Minneapolis" at the Minnesota State Capitol in Saint Paul on Saturday.Springsteenperformed during a"No Kings" protest— the third nationwide "No Kings" protest held against the Trump administration. Musicians Joan Baez and Maggie Rogers were also scheduled to perform at the protest.

Springsteen performed his recently written song, "Streets of Minneapolis," which he penned over a weekend in January as a reaction to the fatal shootings of Minneapolis residentsRenee Good and Alex Pretti.

"This past winter, federal troops brought death and terror to the streets of Minneapolis. Well, they picked the wrong city. The power and the solidarity of the people of Minneapolis, of Minnesota, was an inspiration to the entire country," Springsteen said, and then added of Good and Pretti, "Their bravery, their sacrifice, and their names will not be forgotten."

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LeAnn Rimes breaks down while undergoing 'deep jaw release' in emotionally raw video: 'Oh, my god'

LeAnn Rimesis healing following an intense procedure to relieve tension in her jaw.

Inan intimate Instagram videoposted by fascial maneuver providerHuman Garageon Sunday, Rimes, 43, undergoes a "deep jaw release" technique with co-founder, Garry Lineham.

After Lineham puts his hands in her mouth to realign her jaw — as a fellow practitioner holds her head still — Rimes immediately lets out sobs of relief. She holds her face and says, "Oh, my god" a few times before Lineham instructs her, "Say 'that part of my life is over.'"

The "Blue" singerresponds, "That part of my life better be over."

She adds, "Oh, my god. You just don't realize how much tension is in there," before Lineham chimes in, "Until it's gone."

In the caption of their video post, Human Garage shared that "healing isn't always quiet. Sometimes it's a physical letting go of things we didn't even know we were carrying."

"In this powerful session, @garrylineham works with @leannrimes on a deep Jaw Release," the note continued. "You can see the exact moment the tension breaks and the emotional weight lifts, leaving her feeling visibly lighter and more aligned."

The self-care provider claimed that "the jaw is one of the body's primary storage sites for stress" and that when we hold it all in "the fascia in the face and neck 'locks' to protect us."

"By using the maneuvers to signal safety to the nervous system, we can finally allow that stored energy to move," Human Garage wrote.

Rimes shared more of her journey with fascia tension in a March 23 post onInstagram.

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"For as long as I can remember, my body has held tension like it's been bracing for something. My jaw, my neck, my shoulders... especially the TMJ (temporomandibular joint). It's never really let go. And as someone whose voice is literally my instrument, that kind of tightness doesn't just live in my body; it shows up in how I breathe, how I express, how freely I can sing."

Rimes said she has tried to take care of herself by focusing on "nutrition, hormones, nervous system work, therapy, [and] supplements," but none of those "healing paths" worked until she discovered fascia research.

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"On the other side of it, I'm experiencing a level of freedom and openness in my body that I haven't felt in a long time," she added of the jaw release.

The9-1-1: Nashvillestar explained that fascia "responds to our lived experience, to the moments we didn't fully process, to the times we had to hold it together instead of letting something move through."

This isn't the only health scare Rimes has faced in recent months. After her false teeth fell out mid-performance last year, she combatted "micro-toxins" in her body byundergoing a "plasma exchange"in January.

"Listening to my body and choosing what feels supportive for this season of healing, especially after a very busy year of filming and touring," Rimes captioned anInstagram videoat the time. "I demand so much from my body and it's incredibly important to me to take the best care of it I possibly can."

The country singer explained that this was her second time getting the treatment, which helps "clear micro-toxins, such as mold and microplastics," adding that she's also "added stem cells to encourage overall repair."

Rimes is currently on her "30 Years of Blue" tour through July.

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Did Savannah Guthrie Receive Message Saying Mom Nancy Is Dead?

As the search forNancy Guthrieenters its eighth week, speculation is mounting that a secondalleged ransom notewas actually an apology letter revealing the 84-year-old had died.

The speculation was brought up on the March 28 episode ofMegyn Kelly's SiriusXM program,The Megyn Kelly Show, in which she spoke with former FBI supervisory special agent James Hamilton and veteran investigator Maureen O'Connell about the alleged contents of the ransom notes.

Kelly citedan X postfrom a user named Nerdy_Addict, whom she claimed has been accurate in their reporting throughout the investigation. In the post, the user wrote, "I now have two sources confirming that one of the letters sent to the media in the Nancy Guthrie case allegedly states the sender apologized, claiming they did not realize how serious her heart condition was and that she has 'gone to be with God.'"

Nancy, the mother ofTodayco-hostSavannahGuthrie, has beenmissing since January 31,when police believe she was abducted from her home in Tucson, Arizona. Since then, investigators have releaseddoorbell camera footageof a masked suspect andshared a descriptionof the potential abductor.

Previous reports noted that Nancy'spacemaker stopped syncingwith her Apple Watch in the early hours of February 1. Pima Country Sheriff Chris Nanos also revealed Nancy had limited mobility and required daily medication for high blood pressure and heart issues.

The X user claimed that "investigators believe the message came from the same individuals who previously demanded Bitcoin, though this latest letter reportedly made no demands and was framed solely as an apology."

Early in the investigation, law enforcement and media outlets, including TMZ, received two alleged ransom notes. The first included an offer to return Nancy in exchange for the cryptocurrency Bitcoin. According to TMZ, the value of the Bitcoin demanded was in the "millions."

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Savannah said she wouldpay the ransomin an Instagram video shared in early February. However, TMZ recently confirmed that the Bitcoin wallet, which they have continued to monitor, hasn't received any funds.

"Why didn't the Guthrie family ever pay a ransom if they believed, as Savannah told us yesterday, that two of those ransom notes they received were authentic?" Kelly asked, referring to Savannah'srecentTodayinterview, in which she said, "I believe the two notes that we received, that we responded to, I tend to believe those are real."

Kelly, who noted the claims about the apology letter should be taken with "a grain of salt," went on to say that Savannah's Instagram plea "sounded like they believed Nancy was no longer alive."

"Return our mother to us so we can celebrate with her'—'celebrate' possibly being a term of art, like a celebration of life… That could dovetail with reporting that the second ransom note was more of an apology, claiming they had Nancy's body and that she had gone to be with God," the former Fox News anchor stated.

However, Hamilton wasn't so sure about the authenticity of the ransom notes, despite Savannah's belief that they were legitimate.

"All I'm hearing, Megyn, is what scam artists do. They prey upon grief. They prey upon your vulnerability," he explained. "They're saying anything they can to get paid. It really doesn't move the needle a lot for me."

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