TMZ Live - 10/14/2026

Welcome to TMZ Live. We now know what happened to Diddy when he was rushed out of Fort Dix over the weekend with a head injury. And it has to do with all of the goodies that people in that prison were enjoying and taken away because of one Diddy inmate. Exactly. And you could say that Diddy's really put his foot, stepped in it this time. Oh, yeah. Because the person he pissed off happens to be a guy who's been referred to by some people as the real kingpin of Fort Dix. A guy whose name is Christopher Coke, but on the street they call him Dudus. And he is, or was, a Jamaican drug lord who's serving 23 years at Fort Dix. And this is the person that Diddy got into a fight with last Friday. so according to our sources uh diddy who was already in solitary because of that NBC report and we should explain that report was that diddy was enjoying all sorts of things he was enjoying hennessy massages he had a cell phone where he was getting nude pictures of an ex-girlfriend and when that report came out um they started an investigation threw him in solitary in the shoe and they um and then a sweep began across the prison where guards went in everybody started losing everything all their fringe benefits all their phones uh everything was confiscated and so you have angry inmates you got angry inmates and they're all angry at diddy so diddy gets out of last friday gets out of solitary and ends up coming face to face with dudus now they have some what we're told there's some conversation about what went down and the raids uh clearly everyone is blaming diddy diddy's speaking up for himself and that's what started the fight and diddy ends up getting the worst end of that fight uh injuring his head so the thing is um both of them are now in solitary in the shoe right because of Friday's fight because of Friday's fight and what we've been talking about all morning is when Diddy gets out of solitary, what are they going to do with him? Because this could be an ongoing issue. You have the two biggest, you have the most high profile prisoner, that's Diddy. And then you have the guy who's been in there much longer than Diddy with the power, with the power who is clearly more connected. What happens now between these to going forward. I think it's a very dangerous situation, actually, for Diddy, who doesn't have as long of a sentence. But this man, Doo Doos, is serving a 23-year sentence, of which he's served about half so far. So he has a much longer stint left to serve there. He wants his privileges, I'm sure. He blames Diddy for getting them all taken away. And there's a crackdown across the entire prison. So other prisoners, I'm sure, also blame Diddy and may side with Doo Doos. This could be a very volatile situation and quite dangerous for when he gets out. I think there's a Jeffrey connection here. And what I mean by that is Jeffrey Epstein, when he died, that prison took a lot of heat and there were people fired. There were investigations. I don't think this prison for dicks wants a repeat where something bad happens to a high profile inmate under the, on their watch. And I think there are discussions about what do we do now? Because if that were to happen they would get skewered i think they would but the social dynamics of the prison work the way they do even though they have personnel and they have guards and the warden can crack down in various ways it's going to create friction with his fellow inmates and i'm not sure how you can create a situation that is completely called just to be clear like on on the how these two compare obviously everyone knows who Diddy is and they know his wealth and his success and clearly he's a powerful guy in a different way. Dudus is a guy who is also very, very powerful and connected, certainly outside of the prison, and I would imagine, I don't know this, inside the prison as well. He's been there 12 years. Just to give you a little background, because most people don't know this, but when they extradited Dudus from Kingston to the U.S. to face these charges, there was a war, almost like a tiny civil war in Kingston where the drug lords the drug gangs were defending him because they didn't want the soldiers to take him away knowing that he was going to be extradited to the U.S. and so there was like a full-out war on the streets for some time before he went, he's a bigger figure, he's got more power than Diddy does and now Diddy is the guy that had all of the perks removed for everybody so Diddy is uh on a in a bad position a bad very very bad bad list close starts from McKinney Texas hey Harvey Charles team i think that you all make some very valid points so in terms of what the prison has to do to try and think about what could this mean for long-term stays for both of these inmates that clearly have this power dynamic that's one area of consideration but i also think that Diddy just got to be smart and he got to press one for more options and think about do i want a luxury lifestyle that you know, when there's a crackdown on me, it's going to impact other inmates and then that's going to ruin their good thing and constantly make me a target. Or do I sort of figure out something different? Yeah. But the problem is, don't you think that Chip is saying the die is cast now and now he's got to figure out how to live in this situation going forward? Absolutely. So he's got to figure out how do I change this narrative? Because listen, whether he's at this prison, Fort Dix or a ship someplace else, that theme is going to follow him. So it's in his best interest to really feel, figure out a way, rather, and how he can get back in the good graces of this dude, this guy and not cause any future incident or pay someone to figure out what's going to happen to me in terms of the lifestyle I want without encroaching on the lifestyle of these other inmates who clearly have a different power dynamic. She says something really interesting, which is a transfer to another prison where you get a reset. And Fort Dix- Remember, he wanted Fort Dix because it's closer to- But now, there may be an issue with him staying at Fort Dix. Boo Kelly Clarkson. Oh, you've got to stop with the boo Kelly Clarkson. I think we are closer, maybe, to figuring out who really is at fault in the war between Kelly Clarkson and this store in Brooklyn, The Art of Play. I thought we just decided that. No, you decided that, but I don't think the rest of America has decided. and what may settle it is the surveillance video of Kelly at the store. This is something that Pablo Torre got. So we should explain. She went into this store. She saw this mechanical bird. It was for sale for $15,000. She said, I think I want that bird. And they said, well, we can get you another one that's a lot cheaper for $2,000. That's Kelly's version. That's Kelly's version. Right. And she felt offended by that. And somebody would dare think that she couldn't afford that. So she puts them on blast and everybody's going after the store. She compared it to the Pretty Woman moment where they didn't think that she could afford the stuff from Beverly Hills. Now can we just say, boo, Kelly Clarkson. So the surveillance video shows Kelly in the store talking to one of the clerks about the bird. She's pointing to it on the wall. They're pointing to it on the wall. Seems like it's going fine. But then there's another part where she's leaving the store and clearly she's a little more animated at this point when she's leaving the store and gesturing with her hands and clearly, as we know now, upset about the fact that they would not sell her that bird. Now, they say the bird was a display and that their position was, yeah, the artist could probably do another one for $15,000, but it would take days to do. they had another bird there which was comparable that they would sell her for a couple thousand dollars and i guess the question is why not just say that to her if you really want that you can get it for you it's just going to take a couple days as the as the whole as the son of a liquor store owner i can give you the answer and again it is a bird in the hand that if that no because i'm serious if they said that and then and two days later she says i changed my mind you want to get them when they're in the store and so yeah as a salesman i would say yeah let me sell you the two thousand dollar bird right because at least i know i'm going to get a sale totally and they're they're saying that they sold that they told her that but she didn't stay long enough to see whatever this two thousand dollar bird was but what i noticed in this video is her version was that she got the pretty woman treatment, right? You know, you all think back to the movie where Julia Roberts was dressed really sexy. It's not about how she's dressed. But, yeah, it is, because that was the whole part of the movie. When you say pretty woman... That's not what she meant when she said pretty woman. But, Charlie, the difference is... And she's blending in here. Charlie, the difference is that Julia Roberts went to a fancy schmancy store on Rodeo Drive, and they didn't think she was the right customer. Whoa, whoa, whoa. Are you saying Brooklyn isn't fancy enough? What I'm saying is, look at that video. It's a very busy store. It's very hipster. But everybody's dressed the same. Right, it's not about how she's dressed. But that is what she said. And when people think of Pretty Woman, they think that she looked like she was poor. And that is why they tried to offer her something cheaper. I do think what it is, is that they just didn't recognize Kelly Clarkson as being Kelly Clarkson. So then she wants a celebrity treatment. I want celebrity treatment is what you're saying. No, she's saying that she... You didn't recognize... We went and we spoke to one of the owners of the store. This is what he had to say about the interaction with Kelly. We are legitimately worried about the safety of our shopkeepers because Kelly Clarkson has put us all in danger by using her platform to try to squat this liquor store This is a place of magic and joy. We've created this place to make people feel like kids again. Anyone that walks through the door, we invite them to sit down, pick things up, and play with them. It doesn't matter if they're going to make a purchase. It doesn't matter if they're wearing sweatpants, or they're nine years old, or they're a celebrity that we don't recognize, they all get treated the same way. And Kelly Clarkson's problem is that she got treated like a normal person, and because of that, her ego was bruised, and she decided to throw a Molotov cocktail into our shop. I have a lot of sympathy for the pressure that she's under, but the actions that she took, it's a representative of what you see in the world. It's asymmetrical social warfare. Inside, it takes a look at itself, and it gives celebrities a pass when they do things like this. Preach, Charlie Cotton. I am. It literally looks like Charlie Cotton. You walked by a monitor. I thought it was for a second, yeah. But no, but I mean, he's essentially saying that. He's saying that, hey, this is, you know, this is somebody who got all upset because we didn't recognize it was a big celebrity. I mean, that's what he's saying. Yeah. Right? Now can we, in unison? No, I'm not going to say. Go ahead. You guys can do it. No, it's fine. Hi, Harvey. Hi, Charles. I'm Jackson and I'm in New York City. I have seen the tapes. And here's the thing. The only thing that they tell us is that the owners of this store are incredibly dramatic and messy. If you we're releasing surveillance tapes from your own store, it's because you're fanning the flames of the controversy. And here's the thing. There's no audio in that footage. And so what could the tape possibly tell us it can't tell us anything the point of it is to continue the controversy if they wanted to end this whole scandal it could have been done in five days they're choosing not to do it and here's the thing Harvey it's not about her being a celebrity i really don't believe that she wanted the red carpet rolled out for her but then what did she want i think she wanted to be treated politely not rudely How is it rude? What was rude about it? What would have been polite would be to say, Ms. Clarkson, or whoever you are, if you'd like this, we can have the artist make one for you, but it's going to take a few days. We'll take your information down, and even your payment if you want. I'd rather sell you a $2,000 bird. But instead, you try to do that. I'm a salesman. Well, that's not polite. The customer is always right. The customer wanted that bird. One of us worked as a salesman. Excuse me? I worked in sales. Excuse me? Excuse me? I sold wine at 13. Okay, we need to talk to the state. Coming up, the story about R.J. Mitty, the Breaking Bad star who died this week by suicide, has gotten even more sad because we've learned what he was going through in the days before his death. Be right back. Well, the story about R.J. Mitty, the Breaking Bad star who died this week by suicide, has gotten even more sad because we've learned what he was going through in the days before his death. We are essentially told that his fiance, her name is Kennedy, told him that he had to choose between her and his mother because she and her and his mother did not get along. She felt the mother was interfering with their relationship, and it reached a boiling point where R.J. had to make that choice, and for him, it seemed impossible. What? I mean, that is... It was described to us as literally an ultimatum. It was me or your mom, and we know from tons of people that we have spoken to that R.J. would never have given up his relationship with his mom. Him and his mom were very close. I mean, he was living in Texas either near his parents. Near his mom. His mom was really only a few blocks away, but we were told he was close with all of his family members, but especially his mom and sister, and that people that knew him said this would have never happened. He would have never done what the fiancé wanted him to do. And by the way, we're not trying to paint the fiancé as the bad guy here at all. It's that she was not able to continue the relationship, she felt, Right. With the mother and the way she felt was the mother intermeddling and controlling RJ and that, you know, she felt if there's going to be a relationship, she had to be first. And so he was in this very difficult position and it was weighing heavily on him. We're told that in the weeks before he died, he was distraught and was making that clear to people. Yeah, someone I spoke to said he was calling over the last couple of weeks, calling close family members and friends, saying, I'm in this really tricky situation. This is what's going on in my relationship. And it was very clear, like you said to people that knew him, that this was really wearing on him and not in a good way. So he, what we are told is about a week before he died, they had not broken up, but their relationship was clearly on the rocks. we do the ultimatum had already been issued at that point right we do not know if she ended it um in the days before um he died but the week before he died he was really upset about it was i even unsure about whether to go to see her or go to you know with his family and um in that week before a full week before he had not broken up with her that could have changed in the days before he died people are mainly wondering the chats if RJ was close with his dad and what that means for the situation you they know he lived close to his mom um but what's this what's the situation with his dad do we know anything we don't know i don't know that he was never mentioned you know he was never mentioned part of that and and just i don't know why he chose between solely his mom and his fiancee um if anyone i don't think he chose well yeah in a way he may have chosen maybe yeah yeah hi my name is karina i'm from toronto and you know learning about rj's death is something that impacted a lot of people and I think that learning the news now about you know him having to choose between his mother and his fiancee is heartbreaking you know we saw clips of him in interviews and he is a very kind and genuine person and you know seemed to have a very good relationship with his mother his family and his fiancee and having to choose between you know who am I gonna choose my fiancee or my mother, something like that, maybe just was very difficult for him and um it's just very unfortunate but but again to give her some grace here um it may have been impossible for her too right she was just saying that that's just the reality of it right um but man what it's a tragedy so terrible tragic especially because he had so much in his career that was going so well as he's described to some friends this was as good as his career been since Breaking Bad yeah awful well some college students down in Texas are in a uh standoff with a neighborhood over parking. This sounds like a very nothing story, right? It sounds like a people's court case. Actually, well, it is not even that. And yet it has turned into there are protests now outside this university. It's an HBCU in Austin. It's called Houston Tillotson. I believe I pronounced that right. Houston Tillotson University in Austin. And it's an HBCU in an historically black neighborhood as well. But there are some people who have moved into the neighborhood who are not black. And they have some strong feelings, these new residents, about students parking on the street. Everyone who's parking is parking legally. And that is why this has turned into a big thing now. Because one particular neighbor has been walking around leaving notes on people's cars saying, you can't park on this street. But it's legal to park there. But it is legal to park there. they seem to have these new residents have a beef with these students and one of the students walked up to the neighbor to politely tell her hey this is okay and look what happened you know it's legal to park on this street it's only illegal to not park over there i'm asking you y'all keep riding on people's cars telling them not to park here right well it's like we had a park delivery this morning we paid we paid 1.5 million dollars Okay, what y'all pay to live in a, you're in a historically black neighborhood. This is our neighborhood, okay? Yes, Karen, you pay to live here on a street that is legal to park. Don't scream at me. Don't raise your voice at me. First of all, you're riding on some faces, car. You can park. Don't tell me what to do. Karen, I'm on public property. Call the cops. You Karen lady, and I can't wait to put this online so everybody can know how you moved into this neighborhood and how you act towards the people who lived here. I mean, in fairness, she is a Karen. I mean, we don't know what her name is. I mean, but to say we paid $1.5 million. I don't care what you paid. And therefore. And your graduation rates are only 25%. What does that have to do with anything? And therefore, you can't park legally on the street next to us because we don't like it. And mind you, Karen moved into a historically black neighborhood. So, Karen, get away. I don't care what you paid for your house. It is interesting that. That's ridiculous. The first thing she said is we paid $1.5 million. Is it racial? Because I don't know. Well, I mean, she could just be. The fact that she said one, the first two things she said, 1.5 million for our house and your graduation rates are only 25 percent. What is the graduate? I don't care if the graduation rate is 1 percent. If they're paying to go to the school and they're parking legally, that's all that matters. I'm not saying it's not racial, but I know maybe it's not racial. I guess. Yeah, because if if this was a white school. Right. I think I'd be doing the same. You think so? Yeah, because she doesn't like the car. I think so. She doesn't want the cars on the street. Okay, but I challenge you. I challenge you. As an HBCU goer, a lot of these students, when they pull up, they're blasting rap music. The bass is bassing. You don't typically see that at PWI. Let me just say, if Tawanda... Taylor Swift. Tawanda. Tawanda. You would complain. But if they were blasting ABBA, you would not have an issue with it at all. Okay, first of all, I know you're going to deny this, but... I'm a little Houston, Texas. So you move into a predominantly black neighborhood and you demand your respect straight off the bat. I'm going to honestly go off on a limb here and say you were sold a dream when you were sold the home. There is no way in the world that you go putting letters and notes on people's cars. And then you follow up that statement, saying the percentage of graduation rate and what you paid, babe, it doesn't work that way. If you honestly pay. It's hard when you're the first one to gentrify. This woman's going to have a hard time living pretty much anywhere. Sayonara, Karen. Coming up. The forensic expert that Nolan Wells' family hired to go through his phone, they've now released their full report on what they found there. And we're getting a first look at some of the messages that Nolan's friends were sending to each other. And some of them will certainly raise eyebrows. Be right back. TMZ's got every freaking thing. Big celebs, big stories, big events. Donald Rawlings took TMZ DC on a city tour. You know what the irony of this is? A black man takes a white person to the White House. It's TXE. Well, the forensic expert that Nolan Wells' family hired to go through his phone, they've now released their full report on what they found there. And we're getting a first look at some of the messages that Nolan's friends were sending to each other immediately after he disappeared. And then a lot of them, obviously, after they learned that he had died and some of them will certainly make raise eyebrows and go, why would those kids be saying that? And there are others that make it very clear that these kids, some of them clearly cared very deeply about Nolan and were very upset about his passing. So a couple of them that, you know, don't cut so well for the friends. And again, we don't know which friends are saying this. They've redacted that. They just released the messages. A lot of these are Snapchat. Is this the family or the police? This is the family. A lot of them are Snapchat messages. Some are text, but I think most of them are from his Snapchat. Here's one that read, the smart move, this is the friends all talking to each other. The smart move is to ask for an attorney, and that doesn't mean we're guilty. It's just smart so we don't get played by some potentially biased cop. Do we know what preceded that? That was sent after he went missing, but before his body was found. What I'm saying is, the one thing I've learned is, when you look at it on its own, you're thinking, huh. You need the full. But you want to know what preceded that to cause that person to say that. And the conversation was about, the police had called one of the kids, and they're saying, hey, if you hear from the cops, this is what you should, it was sort of advice. There's nothing in that statement. Nothing, nothing at all. Absolutely not. It's actually kind of smart that kids that age would be saying that. Some more messages. We need to go to Nolan's funeral and get with all our other black friends to prove a statement for the media. Now, that one doesn't sound so great. When was that? Before his funeral, but after he had been found. And, yes, there was already... That's what I'm saying. Yes, there was already the buzz about... That kids are racist, that they have killed him. in him and perhaps did something to him kind of stupid i don't know maybe it's a dumb comment right and this one said i love nolan he would want us to stay together through this and be there to live on his legacy i'm sure there's a typo there but you get the point and that's a nice thing for the kids to say there were again there are 300 pages another one said i'm praying you get everything you deserve i'm praying you get everything you deserve that wrong will be shown and that if anyone did something to hurt you, that they will be accounted for and punished. So can you tell from this, like, if anything was deleted? Because that's the part that is the most interesting. They did say, and the expert came out and said, they had initially said that someone had gotten on his phone and deleted things. That's not what happened. They said there were people who deleted some of their Snapchat messages. So in other words, they deleted that from their phone. When you send a Snapchat message, you can delete the message you previously sent. And I think there were some people who had done that, but not the friends. Not going onto Nolan's phone to delete it. They deleted it from their devices. By the way, there were messages. I was so happy when I read this one because there was at least one of his friends who said what I've been thinking all along. And they said there were thousands. I thought it was hundreds. They said there were thousands of people on Horn Island. How did nobody see what happened to Nolan? I agree. I mean, I think that's the point, is that, I mean, the kids that everybody was accusing at the beginning, you know, there's no evidence they did anything wrong. In fact, there's evidence they didn't. But you're right. I mean, there were a lot of people on that island, and somebody saw something. And did they talk to everybody they possibly could? Right. Did the police talk to everybody? Did the police. And so I agree with you that just to say we don't know there were too many people there Not to be able to connect some dots. It's way too soon to call this a cold case in my I agree with you Hi, this is crystal in Atlanta, Georgia And with this whole entire Nolan Wells situation, first of all, my condolences goes out to the family But I honestly believe that the race narrative that pushed India and I call it the race grift narrative actually caused the community as they said thousands of people there nobody had anything to say well with the race narrative and all the threats that came about this is why people didn't want to speak if they never brought in the race narrative it's a really good point that that when you see people getting skewered it's like do I really want to come forward and say something where I'm going to what a good point what a good point coming up the DEA the Federal Drug Enforcement Administration is now investigating to find out the source of the ketamine that was used at that frat party where Jane Doe says she was sexually assaulted. Be right back. Welcome back to TMZ Live. We now have new information. I think this is really significant. The DEA, the Federal Drug Enforcement Administration, is now investigating to find out the source of the ketamine that was used at that frat party where Jane Doe says she was sexually assaulted. Yes. And the ketamine is such a, plays such a central role in the entire narrative from both sides, both from the, the accused frat brothers and also from Jane Doe. They are all talking about, it's so prevalent from the first time we read her lawsuit and then And in everything, all the text messages that we've seen, the word ketamine is used so often, and it's almost casually mentioned how much ketamine they were doing. It clearly happened a lot on that campus. Happens a lot on the campus, and they refer to it. By the way, everywhere. They refer to it in the text messages as key, so they're very familiar with this, and now it makes sense that the DEA is going to spring into action here. And clearly used as a party drug. I mean, there's no question because ketamine can be used for depression, anxiety and everything else. This was clearly a party drug. They were snorting it off Jane Doe's body. She was snorting it off a body part of one of the frat brothers. So this is and by the way, the DEA is working with local law enforcement. So in tandem, they are trying to find the source. Now, I will say this is a story we never did. We just broke this DEA story a couple minutes ago, but there's something we worked on a week or so ago where we were told you should check to see if in the chemistry classes or whatever, that's where they're making it. The answer is no. It was no, but the reason I think someone was thinking, because it is so prevalent, we're told, around campus. Well, you know where we're told they're getting it is, and this is somebody who is connected to all of this, is Ithaca. um that Ithaca New York uh you can get ketamine and by the way that's no shock because you can get it in just about any town where Cornell is if for if you're unaware but i want to say that it's it's not just the campus it's the town around the campus i want to say one other thing that you know we have seen the DEA jump into action with Matthew Perry um it would not surprise me at all if they're involved with uh Presley Gerber and we know that they're involved in Hayden Panettiere and we know they're involved with Hayden Panettiere so with celebrity deaths they get involved they don't get involved in every ketamine death they get involved in these high profile ones this is interesting because it wasn't a death it's not a ketamine death but it is so very high profile and ketamine has been mentioned so much uh it's i'm not surprised that they were drawn to this and we pointed out that the ketamine use is going to be critical in any court case that goes forward because as one of our viewers raised yesterday how can any of them have been lucid lucid when they were all admittedly doing so much ketamine no that's true Crystal helicopter is wondering how is finding the drug dealer any different than finding the alcohol supplier for the party well one is that alcohol is is legal assuming they're um they're of age but uh ketamine the way they're getting it. I doubt they're getting it from a doctor for therapeutic uses. So this would be pretty clearly illegal. Personal question here, how hard is it going to be for the DEA to find the ketamine dealer of that party if the whole campus is doing ketamine? Well, you could ask the same thing of Matthew Perry. You know, how do they track it down? They track it down because they can, you know, one person... They bring in one person, ask the questions... And they fold and they tell them something and that leads to somebody else and somebody else. but they're able to find a trail. I mean, that happens. Will they go for all the ketamine dealers at the college? We have no idea what they're going to find. Jessica from Charlotte, North Carolina. I actually agree with the concept that there's probably multiple different dealers of this ketamine. And also we have to consider that college campuses are the major option for any drug dealing because it's such a large group. There are small communities. They want to be secretive. And the unfortunate thing about all of this is peer pressure. Kids probably don't even have access to ketamine at home. They get here, they overuse it, and then we combine that with alcohol use and we have a major issue. It is obviously a serious issue on a lot of college campuses, but the spotlight is on this one because of the allegations and how central it is to those allegations. There is something really despicable happening in the wake of the Six Flags tragedy in Georgia, where this man was thrown from the Goliath roller coaster and died, Hassan Kareem. You probably have seen online GoFundMes being set up for Hassan's family. Well, we've spoken to his family, and they want to make it very clear. They have nothing to do with those things. They said, these are scammers who are just trying to play off the interest, the spotlight on this story, and they're just looking for a way to steal people's money, really, because the family said, we don't need this. Yeah, so unfortunately this is what happens with these national news stories that happen. People try to take advantage. The family's already going through an extremely traumatic situation, and they're extremely upset that there are these people making GoFunds, crowdsourcing. They're saying, we don't need any money. We have not made a GoFundMe. They have no plans on making a GoFundMe. So any of these people that are donating, you're not donating to our family. So there are also, the family is also clearing up some misreporting on this story. Yeah, so I had thought that he was, because of all the reporting, that he was at the park with his wife and that his daughter was down below and had witnessed the whole thing. So I spoke to the family. He doesn't have a daughter and he's not married. So he was at the park with his girlfriend and his girlfriend's daughter and his girlfriend's niece. And it was his girlfriend's niece who was actually on the ride with him. On the ride with him when it happened. Yeah, so they wanted to... Because somebody had said a son. Yes, but it was actually his girlfriend's niece who was on the ride with him at the time, and that is all not true, all that misreporting that's been done. Now, the park is reopening... On Friday. On Friday, but the ride itself is not going to be... That ride's been shut down, and there's other rides around the country that I'm assuming are made by the same manufacturers that have also shut down, like SeaWorld and some other places. So we still don't know what happened here. It is a mystery. The company that supplies the restraints, they have a good record. And so it's just unclear if it was malfunctioned, if it wasn't done properly. Or was it user error by the operator? We don't know. Right. And Eric David saying, honestly, the more and more we find out about the story, it seems like operator error. We don't know. Because a lot of the operators are teenagers handling the lives of many that shouldn't be the candidates. Again, you know, that's too easy, and there's no evidence of that, just to say that because they were teenagers that they did something wrong. We just don't know. We don't know that. Coming up. Okay, we are under three weeks until Election Day, and some people feel that one candidate in Indiana might have had a drink. We have guns, too. Be right back. Okay, we are under three weeks until Election Day, and... I need a drink. Some people feel that one candidate in Indiana might have had a drink before she sat down to do a little candidate forum with her local station there in Indiana. This is amazing. Jamie West, who is a Democrat running for a county council seat in, is it Fayette County? I believe it's Fayette County in Indiana. um she sat down to do this interview and we'll just watch and you will understand why some people think she was drinking we do not know that for sure but man she went on the attack she is a Democrat and she made it clear how she feels about Republicans, what is the one decision that I would make that might not be popular, right? That may be unpopular with some voters, some voters, but is in the best interest of the county. Hiring all Republicans, I wouldn't let them, I mean I don't even talk to them, I don't like them. You made this happen. This ice coming into our communities stealing people's jobs, I mean uh I've been threatened so many times to my face by MAGA, they call you names. It's my sheriff's nephew threatened to blow my head off, but you know what are you gonna do? Well that brings us to um your opportunity to um say just a few last words to the voters. We have guns, too. All right. Throwing her hands up like that. She's a shoo-in. She's a shoo-in. She's in a district where Democrats just don't. Donald Trump got 77% of the vote in her campaign. By the way, the thing she said about the sheriff's nephew, the sheriff said, I don't have a nephew. I don't know who she's talking about. Who knows what was going on there. But that is... By the way, we tried to get Jamie to come on just to explain what was going on there. And she told us, I just spoke to my lawyer and he said the best thing to do is ignore all journalists. Just a small town girl who cares about her community and doesn't want her Indiana emergency services and schools to go under. And I should just say, and I'm sorry for being so specific with one person, but if Jamie is listening, Jamie being a former employee here at TMZ, who sent me a text saying you need to... In the middle of the show? Yeah. Is it critical to something we're doing? Not at all. Saying I should dress up like Susan for Halloween. Wait, what's Susan? That's Jamie White. Who's Susan? What Susan does she want you to... Actually, I don't care. Any Susan. Go ahead. Dress up like Susan. It doesn't matter which one it is. It's fine. Coming up. Santa Monica Pier, one of the biggest tourist attractions in L.A., right? Tell me. You wouldn't expect to see a celebrity there. Certainly not a celebrity like Sydney Sweeney, because she would be swarmed. She'd put on a wig. Now, there's something to try and... Watch this carefully, because there's something weird going on. Be right back. On the TMZ Celebrity Tour, we've seen huge stars like Kevin Hart, Ben Affleck, The Rock, and Jamie Foxx. So head to TMZTour.com and book your tickets for the TMZ Celebrity Tour. Santa Monica Pier, one of the biggest tourist attractions in L.A., right? Tell me. You wouldn't expect to see a celebrity there. Certainly not a celebrity like Sydney Sweeney, because she would be swarmed. Except that is exactly where Sydney Sweeney went with a friend of hers, but she put on a wig. Now, there's something... Watch this carefully, because there's something weird going on. So, she and her friend are riding some of the amusement park rides there? Yep. And now they're on that. What's the weird part? You don't like her as a brunette? I can tell you that... Sydney's the brunette. Santa Monica Pier is just packed with people. Where are the people? On a Tuesday. Where are the people? I'm sorry. Yeah, there would still, and that is, wait, unless they went first thing in the morning. If they went, like, first thing in the morning when it first opened. Apparently, they were there for a long time. I smell a rat. I mean, there were, you're right, like, there would be some other people on the rides. Some other people. Where do you see people? What does that think she's doing? I don't do pull-ups at the pier? There's something, something, there's something. I haven't been there in a while. How many people are on this ride? It's just, look, there were two other people I saw. And look at that. There's nobody on that ride. Something's up, guys. What do you think she was doing? I don't know, but something's up. She was doing a little promotion for the pier. This may shock you, but I was not born yesterday. What else do you guys want to talk about? Hey, guys. Laura from Kansas City, and I'm here to talk about, you guessed it, Kelly Clarkson and the Bird Story. Oh, Kelly Clarkson. I think this is a huge miscommunication story. If you go to a furniture store and there's a floor model that you buy, that doesn't necessarily mean that it's available to take home that day. Or even that you can buy a floor model. Right, right. And at this point, like, both parties have doubled down multiple times. At this point, it's become a way huger deal than it should be. I love Kelly, but she mobilized her fans against the store over one worker on an It's ridiculous. It's ridiculous. Like that footage, you can see so many people. She's got to chill, man. Jeez. Okay, one more. Hi, my name is Princess. I'm from Atlanta. My topic is going to be on the Six Flags. It's just a real tragedy to the family, and I just feel like he overcame a lot, and he was trying to live and enjoy life, and it's sad that he lost his life like that, and that's my home Six Flags, so I don't feel safe there anymore, and I would like for them to make some changes. I was going to say, are you going, will you go back? No, no. They would have to, like, update all the rides at this point, and I love roller coasters. It's definitely going to be tough sledding for Six Flags. Coming up, Samuel L. Jackson feeling a little nostalgic for one of his most beloved roles. And I will strike down upon thee with great vengeance and furious anger be right back samuel jackson feeling a little nostalgic for one of his most beloved roles and i have to say it's got it's been what 35 years since Pulp Fiction? Oh my, 32 years oh my god and this guy still remembers his lines like that and i will strike down upon thee with great vengeance and furious anger those who attempt to poison and destroy my brothers and you will know my name is the Lord when i lay my vengeance wow it's not as good without the wig so i gotta tell you he needs the jerry curl okay so i i can do better when i was in high school when i was 16 and it was are you gonna do your spanish class nope okay you want me to do i could remember the I have a dream speech. You want me to do it? Please don't. No, we're out of time. Thankfully, I got it. Thankfully, we are out of time. Second. See you tomorrow.