Podcasting Confessions

Just a week after launching her new Netflix culinary series With Love, Meghan, the Duchess of Sussex is back in the podcast game.

Meghan Markle has launched Confessions of a Female Founder with Lemonada Media.

“I’ve been having candid comments with amazing women who have turned dreams into realities and scaled small ideas into amazingly successful businesses,” the Riven Rock resident explains.

“They’re opening up, sharing their trips, trials (and troubles) and letting me pick their brains as I build out my own business, As Ever.”

Meghan adds: “It has been absolutely eye-opening, inspiring, and fun. Because what’s the point if we can’t have fun on this wild adventure?”

It debuts April 8.

Local Mom Raves About Healing Journey

Montecito actress Gwyneth Paltrow has opened up about a psychedelic journey that improved her relationship with mother Blythe Danner.

While talking with her close friend Amy Griffin on a Goop podcast, the Oscar winner confessed to using MDMA. 

The longtime friends bonded over their unique experiences with what the Drug Enforcement Administration classified as a Schedule 1 drug.

Paltrow was the first to try MDMA, a synthetic drug known as Molly or Ecstasy, and Griffin noticed a change when she saw her again a few months later.

“There was this peace about you,” Griffin told Paltrow on the podcast. “There was this calmness.”

Her relationship with her two-time Emmy Award-winning mother also became more “gentle.”

Something Old

Kim Kardashian’s emerald cut 18-carat ring for her Montecito wedding in 2011 to basketball player Kris Humphries was mostly paid for by the TV reality star, she has revealed.

After the 72-day marriage, which I covered for CNN at a private estate on Sycamore Canyon Road, Humphries, 40 – who played for the Utah Jazz, Dallas Mavericks and Boston Celtics – demanded the Skims co-founder, 44, return to him the ring created by celebrity jeweler Lorraine Schwartz.

“In order to divorce him he said I had to give the ring back,” says Kardashian. “He just contributed one fifth of the price.”

Sightings

Meghan Markle lunching with friends at RH… Kevin Costner noshing at Tre Lune… Former state senator Hannah-Beth Jackson grabbing her Java jolt at Pierre Lafond.

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