Khloe Kardashian has taught her friends Natalie Halcro and Olivia Pierson how to handle public scrutiny and ignore online hate, the reality television stars said during a joint interview on the E! series Hot Goss.
Halcro and Pierson, who star in the Hulu series The Girls: A Khloe Kardashian Project, praised the Good American founder for mastering the art of remaining unbothered by gossip after two decades of fame.
"Just being under the microscope, you see a lot of stuff they go through like hate or people not saying accurate things and the resilience and the ability they have to not let it change who they are," Halcro told hosts Eyal Booker and Lonnie Marts IIV. "To still be so kind and light-hearted."
Halcro and Pierson have been part of the Kardashian inner circle since appearing on the E! series WAGS: L.A. Halcro said she is in awe of the family's ability to "be able to protect yourself from all that, but still maintain the integrity of your character," noting that Khloe, Kim and Kourtney Kardashian "just handle themselves with so much class and grace."
Pierson praised the family's business acumen, adding, "Their work ethic is like none other."
The Hulu series is produced by Kardashian. "I think why they've lasted so long too is they're family," Pierson told Hot Goss. "Even with us, we can't imagine like I just came out here [alone] and shot WAGS. There is power in having that support system and being able to take in that hate and just go, 'Nope, that's over there. You guys know who I am, my friends know who I am and that's all that really matters.'"
With her relatives still residing in her hometown of Vancouver, Canada, Pierson said having Halcro by her side as they build their brands "helps us feel grounded."
New episodes of Hot Goss stream on E! Online and the network's YouTube channel on Thursdays at 11 a.m. Pacific Time.
Cameron Diaz and Nicole Richie
The entertainment industry features several other notable long term friendships, including actress Cameron Diaz and designer Nicole Richie. Richie is a longtime fan of her sister-in-law's films.
Richie told the Everything Iconic with Danny Pellegrino podcast in May 2024 that she asked Diaz to recreate scenes from the film My Best Friend's Wedding.
"We were in Chicago and I said to her, 'Cameron, I need you to give it to me. I need you to get behind the luggage cart and run towards me, towards the airport,'" Richie said. "I really think like at a certain point, we were driving past things and I was like, 'Say this. Say this. Say this.' And she really just let me have it. It was very generous of her."
Amy Schumer and Jennifer Lawrence
Academy Award-winning actress Jennifer Lawrence emailed comedian Amy Schumer after watching her 2015 comedy Trainwreck.
"I emailed her after I saw Trainwreck and said, 'I don't know where to get started. I guess I should just say it: I'm in love with you,'" Lawrence told The New York Times. "We started emailing, and then emailing turned to texting."
Schumer invited Lawrence to join her and her high school friends in the Hamptons. Schumer told The Daily Show she relaxed when she realised Lawrence is "the coolest chick you'll ever meet," adding, "She's the best hang, she was like one of the gang."
Jennifer Lopez and Leah Remini
Singer Jennifer Lopez and actress Leah Remini have been close since meeting at the 2004 premiere of the film Man on Fire.
"It was one of those instant chemistry things where you just feel like, 'I love this person. I love being around this person. This person makes me laugh,'" Lopez told Entertainment Tonight of her Brooklyn-bred friend.
Remini celebrated Lopez's performance at United States President Joe Biden's inauguration. "I wrote her and said, 'You know, you're a girl from the Bronx. Like, what you did today was really inspiring, and it was just beautiful to watch,'" Remini told E! News. "Just beautiful."
Friends cast members
Actresses Jennifer Aniston, Courteney Cox and Lisa Kudrow have remained close since sharing salads on the Warner Brothers lot while filming Friends.
"They grew up together and went through this formidable life experience that was Friends," a source told E! News.
The trio ensure they schedule happy hours and major reunions. "Geographically it's not hard to be at Courteney's Sunday dinners or at a pool party at Jen's house," the source said. "They all feel incredibly close and always will be."
Tina Fey and Amy Poehler
Comedians Tina Fey and Amy Poehler met during improv training in 1993 and later co-starred in the 2015 film Sisters.
"I think that Tina and I are chosen sisters," Poehler, whose only sibling is her younger brother Greg, told PopSugar. "I think we are chosen family, so I think it's been fun to experience that thing I never got to experience in real life."
Michelle Williams and Busy Philipps
Actresses Michelle Williams and Busy Philipps connected immediately on the set of the television drama Dawson's Creek.
"It was like, you know, how people say love at first sight? We had that thing," Philipps told Entertainment Weekly. "We had that friend connection. It was just an immediate: 'Of course we're drinking wine and smoking cigarettes and getting in bar fights.' We just had an immediate love for each other that's continued over the years."
The pair continue to wear coordinating outfits to red carpet events, and Philipps occasionally dyes Williams' hair millennial pink.
Kerry Washington and Eva Longoria
Actress Kerry Washington says she tries to pay it forward after receiving advice from other women while pregnant.
"I really do try to have those conversations openly and honestly as possible, especially with my soul sister, with Eva," Washington told Entertainment Tonight.
When Grand Hotel actress Longoria welcomed her son Santiago in 2018, she called the former Scandal actress "basically my doula."
Ben Affleck and Matt Damon
Actors Ben Affleck and Matt Damon won an Academy Award for writing the 1997 film Good Will Hunting and have recently collaborated on The Last Duel.
"I've known him for 35 years, and we grew up together," Damon told Entertainment Tonight in 2016. "We were both in love with the same thing, acting and filmmaking. I think we fed on each other's obsession during really formative, important years and that bonded us for life."
Oprah Winfrey and Gayle King
Broadcasters Oprah Winfrey and Gayle King met in 1976 working at a television station in Baltimore. Winfrey anchored the 6 p.m. news while King was a production assistant earning $12,000 a year.
They did not typically socialise due to "the newsroom hierarchy," King recalled in their O Interview.
During heavy snow, Winfrey invited King to sleep at her house. "The next day," Winfrey said, "we went to the mall." Their friendship formed over sweaters at the retailer Casual Corner.
Serena Williams and Meghan Markle
Tennis champion Serena Williams and Meghan Markle, the Duchess of Sussex, became friends after meeting at a 2014 Super Bowl event.
"We hit it off immediately," Markle wrote on her former lifestyle website The Tig. "Taking pictures, laughing through the flag football game we were both playing in, and chatting not about tennis or acting, but about all the good old fashioned girly stuff."
Markle has since watched Williams compete for Wimbledon and United States Open titles, and the pair have spent time together at a royal palace.
Sophie Turner and Maisie Williams
Actresses Sophie Turner and Maisie Williams played Stark sisters on the HBO fantasy series Game of Thrones, and Williams served as maid of honour at Turner's 2019 wedding to Joe Jonas.
"It was like one big elaborate thing to find me a best friend. This whole show!" Williams joked to E! News at the final season premiere of the eight-season series, which won 12 Emmy Awards. "I'm kidding. It's been incredible. To have a friend like that on something as wild as this is just like a godsend, really."
Reese Witherspoon and Jennifer Aniston
Actresses Reese Witherspoon and Jennifer Aniston star in the Apple TV+ series The Morning Show, having portrayed sisters on the NBC sitcom Friends in 2000.
"I was 23 years old and had just had a baby," Academy Award winner Witherspoon told Harper's Bazaar of her two-episode appearance. "I was nursing Ava [Phillippe] on set, and Jen just kept going, 'You have a baby?' I was like, 'I know, it's weird.' And I remember her being like, 'Where are you going?' And I was like, 'I'm pumping!'"
Witherspoon said Aniston was extremely sweet, adding, "We've been friends ever since."
Martha Stewart and Snoop Dogg
Lifestyle entrepreneur Martha Stewart and rapper Snoop Dogg, a marijuana-loving 17-time Grammy winner, solidified their friendship at The Comedy Central Roast of Justin Bieber in 2015 before teaming up for the VH1 cooking show Martha and Snoop's Potluck Dinner Party.
"She different, ya know, than what I'm accustomed," Snoop Dogg told LA Weekly about the Westchester-based domestic doyenne. "But then again she's so what I'm accustomed to. 'Cause she people. She just look different and she was born in a different era, but if you hang out with her and chill with her, she just like anybody else. That's why it works, because she never says nothing that's crazy in my ears. It's always like, 'Damn, I thought you would say that. OK.' That's why we get down, that's why we connected, Martha. 'Cause it feels like holy matrimony, and not holy macaroni."
Adele and Drake
Singers Adele and Drake, who share more than a dozen Grammy Awards, have publicly expressed interest in a collaboration.
"I really want us to do an official remix," Adele told the Canadian program etalk. "I love Drake. I love Drake so much. I even got the coat that's in the video, I got it delivered the other day, I ordered it. The red one."
Drake replied, "I'd do anything with Adele. I'd literally go to Adele's house right now and do laundry for her."
The pair have since eaten together and visited a bowling alley in Los Angeles.
