Brenda Dickson on E! True Hollywood Story

[gyqz]

I can so totally see, why this is the subject of all kinds of parodies!! 'Oh...everybody has to hear about my harsh life and how people treated me...' Get back down on earth! You're nothing but a overrated overpaid actress....

[ladyruth54]

What a whiny, foot-stomping little diva. I never liked her anyway. I liked Deborah Adair and the current one is now Jill Abbott to me.

[jonnystaub1]

"Bal Bell..."

[MrGunnySax]

@jonnystaub1 LMAO

[restless103]

well she was clearly in the wrong business. she sounds like a whiny bitch.

[Branigan4ever]

Bill Bell ruined the show when he fired her.

[TheOriginalSupreme]

Do you by any chance have the whole THS episode?

[fanmail59]

"Then it was over the wire service"

well honey, we call it the internet nowdays

[68yeroc1]

@Messylin She was much better!!!!!!!!!!

[brinpol]

She looks good after all this time.

[privatedancer06]

right or wrong? she was the BEST jill on that show!!!

[upscalebohemian]

I interned on The Bold & the Beautiful in the early-1990s and anyone who knew BIll Bell would NEVER believe any of this. Bill Bell was always kind and warm and decent to me, a lowly intern, when he had no reason to be. He was the kind of man that would walk past you and put his arm on you in a fatherly way as he did so. For Ms. Dickson to claim the writers were telling her one thing and Bell was telling her something else is utterly not believable. Bill Bell's word was final.

[DegrassiInstantStar]

Anyone have the full episode of Y&R's E! THS???

[RoRoFab79]

Maybe Brenda dug her own grave....she has an air of always ACTING all the time! If that story is true, perhaps she should have toned down on the melodrama.

[marcusrob02]

Okay. I'm 27 years of age. But a longtime Y&R viewer, all my life. I have SOME memory (from when I was three years old) of Brenda Dickson's Jill, and sorta stumbled upon this particular clip. I've always heard Dickson's name used in a sense that she carried a lot of "controversy", so can SOMEBODY sorta fill me in (in an unbiased manner) on why people/the media/society/Hollywood seemingly holds this lady in negative regard??? I'm confused and need clarity on what made her so "disliked".

[DA90027]

She was and is delusional. As far as the parodies, when you are able to laugh at yourself it speaks volumnes about your personality. I've lived here in Hollywood all my life and 99.9% of what goes on here is BS, so you have to have a sense of humor about it. Poor Brenda has none and really thinks she is the greatest thing since sliced bread. I don't think she has ever had any humility of humor about herself.

[MrVerliebtinyeah]

she is great

[Messylin]

Brenda would be a good addition to Mad Men - how about Joan Holloway's sister? Classy... sister?

[papatoony]

That poor, poor woman. What is the moral that can be learned from this story?

[MrBigYum]

We need Labor Reform.

[MrBigYum]

This is blacklisting 101. If they can do it here, they can do it anywhere.

My name is Kenneth.

I fight back.

[TheOriginalSupreme]

I liked Brenda as Jill but I don't see her story being completely true. From what's I've heard, those who worked under Bill Bell were all on the same page with him, some saying he was the best of the best. I do believe she had medical problems but she could've went on medical leave if she was in the pain she claims to have been in. I sympathize with her about the aftermath but she isn't completely out of blame. I hope that one day she'll make a comeback because she's a good actress.

[blubylly]

She's an annoying cunt! She isn't God, she isn't Jesus,...Hell! God and Jesus aren't even real...fuck you losers!

[PikachuBen]

wow after hearing this.... i feel extremely sorry for her. My goodness God bless her

[DA90027]

I like anyone until I find they have no sense of humor. All these parodies were hilarious and if she had any brains she would embrace it. Because that old video she did was so over the top campy it was almost a parody unto itself. Other stars that are cool and down to earth often poke fun at themselves or can laugh at what they did 20 years ago. She can't. Her recent behavior only proves she has a screw loose.

[myrnaturner]

"Bell Bell"

[DMJ9012]

You know i have never seen this entire episode & I would so love too & it would be nice if E! actually showed other True Hollywood Stories, besides the ones about P!nk, Miley Cyrus, Corutney Cox & Friends all the damn time. Dont get me wrong I enjoyed those ones but you can only watch those episodes so many times before they start to get old, especially when E! has about 50,000 other episodes to show.

[snoops71]

@DMJ9012 Amen to that!!!

[DegrassiInstantStar]

@DMJ9012 I've looked everything, and it's not online!

[Aarona13760]

I wonder if Bill Bell really said "You don't have a Career"......

[catheterhero]

She's dramatizing this. Lets do the math, you've just invested a fortune in an actress, economically speaking does it make sense to randomly fire her for being sick? Now let's looks at it from CBSs perspective, you've invested a fortune in an actress that is never on set when she needs to be, chooses to battle producers on everything, and has a history of storming off. Financially speaking, she was a risk and CBS felt they could afford to lose what they've invested in her instead of keeping her.

[yandrsupreme]

@catheterhero Financial risk? Firing someone with 8 weeks left on their contract, when all they had to do was suck it up and deal for two months? THAT is financial risk, and CBS had to pay those lawyers a ton of money for that lawsuit.

[djmixnmagic]

Poor Brenda! Hoofin' it on Vicodin and the like for the valiant cause!

[DegrassiInstantStar]

Does anyone have the full THS for this?

[Plasvi]

Brenda's a little messed up... I guess her glamorous Hollywood life made her ''a little'' ill.

[SWSimpson]

You're welcome. It must seem really vicious all these comments and parodies about her. I understand that... I would never intentionally set out to hurt someone and I would never be disrespectful to her or anyone else for that matter. Its the environment of the web that allows humor and opinion to reach outrageous levels. Thank you for pointing that out, I honestly will keep that in mind. She is a human being, not a video.

[OriginalBasaliskos]

@SWSimpson The parodies aren't personal attacks.

[SWSimpson]

I actually do feel bad for her, but we have all had shitty times in our lives and we just have to deal with it. "Famous" people's pain isn't any worse than yours or mine. She is probably very confused at all the youtube talk and parody about her, which is sad, but it isn't about her anymore - the joke itself is now the joke - people parody the parody; so when she tries to market a very old video as "new," that is crazy. Her fashion tips from the 80's are worthless 30 years later.

[ThorneAstor]

Poor Brenda.

[SWSimpson]

Yes, mental illness is very sad.

[ThorneAstor]

@SWSimpson Come on, be sensitive. She was sick and nobody cared. She was treated horribly.

[SWSimpson]

Yes, really, God bless her.

[ThorneAstor]

@SWSimpson Thank you.

[yolowell]

"The actress was experiencing irregularities with her menstrual cycle. Brenda was taking Provera a hormone medication to correct .."a problem" ROFL!

[tgreer72]

@yolowell "the" problem...I think they said...