Denis Leary to Jenny McCarthy: Bring It

sweatpantsmom — Fri, 06 Feb 2009 20:05:00 GMT

Looks like the feud between Denis Leary and Jenny McCarthy isn't quite over yet. As you may remember, McCarthy called Leary "obviously stupid" for making jokes about autism in his book Why We Suck: A Feel-Good Guide to Staying Fat, Loud, Lazy and Stupid. Well it appears Leary may have feelings after all, and is swinging his little arms back at McCarthy.

"I can guarantee you that Jenny McCarthy did not read the book and at this point I refuse to continue to be the punching bag for autism because I’m not even going to stand here on my own defense. I don’t think it’s number four on the New York best sellers because people want to laugh at somebody who is making fun of autistic kids."

"My motivation, which I’ve said a million times, for writing the chapter was because I have friends who have autistic children and I think it’s ridiculous that there’s people out there who are bad parents and are trying to solve the bad behavior of their spoiled brat children by getting a low-level diagnosis. It’s true, if people don’t want to believe it that’s fine, but that’s what I was writing about."

Leary's book was quoted as saying people diagnosed with autism are “stupid. Or lazy. Or both.” McCarthy, who has said that her six-year-old son Evan was recently cured of autism, shot back, "First of all, let me tell you, the autism community has received probably 10,000 emails [saying] ‘Go kill him!’ ‘Go yell at him. [But] it’s so hard to even get up enough juice in me or energy in me to even try to fight someone that is obviously stupid.”

Leary may learn the hard way that hell hath no fury like an ex-Playmate mom protecting her child against the barbs of a B-list actor. Time to get up your juice and take out that can of whoop-ass, Jenny.

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Emma's Noble Cause

trix — Mon, 09 Jun 2008 17:03:00 GMT

Celebrities are always going on and on about their favorite causes, but in an interview with The Sun Emma Noble tells us about a subject near and dear to her heart.

Emma Noble, 36, and seven-year-old Harry,who was diagnosed with autism in 2003, live in Cambridge. Harry’s dad is Emma’s ex-husband James Major, the son of former Prime Minister John Major.

On losing his speech before he was diagnosed: “When he lost his speech it was terrible. It breaks my heart but his final word to go was ‘Mummy’. He was trying so hard but all he could get out was ‘Mu, Mu’. All the time I was desperately willing him on. That look of fear and confusion on his face will never leave me.”

Dealing with the diagnosis: “It was like slowly building the bricks back up which had just been knocked down. It was Harry who pulled me out of that despair. I started doing courses on autism and could then see tiny improvements – they meant everything to me.”

How he has progressed: “Harry really is amazing. He is like a little encyclopedia now, loves birds and knows all there is to know about their habitat, diet, markings. He talks ten to the dozen now and is a real chatterbox. When I think how I felt after his diagnosis it is like another lifetime. I felt I really wanted to know why. I was very angry, very upset. It was a form of grieving, a bereavement. But that feeling dies – the desperate wanting to blame – and what takes over is the day-to-day living.”

Perspective.

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Denis Leary to Jenny McCarthy: Bring It

Emma's Noble Cause