Director claims Jennifer Aniston 'humiliated' her with 'mean-spirited' X-rated gift
Filmmaker Penelope Spheeris claims Jennifer Aniston once 'humiliated' her with a 'mean-spirited' gift.
The 80-year-old, known for directing Wayne's World, Dudes and The Beverly Hillbillies, worked with the Friends star, 57, on comedy/drama Five back in 2011.
With a 75 percent Rotten Tomatoes rating, Five consisted of five short films that examined the impact of breast cancer on women's lives and their relationships.
Aniston did not act in the anthology film, instead, serving as executive producer and director of the segment 'Mia'.
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On set, however, Spheeris alleges that Aniston gifted her a bedazzled sex toy in front of the entire crew.
“Jennifer Aniston gave me a dildo as a present... It had rhinestones pasted on it. You couldn’t even use it,” Spheeris told Michael C. Moynihan on an episode of The Moynihan Report.
While Aniston didn’t hand over the gift personally, she claims she knew it was from her because the gift box resembled another she’d seen The Switch actor give.
“At the end of the shoot day the assistant director comes over and says ‘Have a seat in the chair’. The whole crew gathers around and her producer Kristen walks up with a gift box,” Spheeris added.
“It was a mean-spirited dildo to humiliate me in front of the whole crew.
“It had to come from [Aniston] because when we got nominated for the Director’s Guild, she comes walking in and she’s got the same kind of gift box in her hand,” Spheeris claimed.
“I asked her ‘Oh what you got in there, another dildo?’ She goes, ‘No it’s a present for Marta Kauffman’.
“It was the same gift box. So those are Jennifer Aniston’s gift boxes.”
Spheeris quipped, “I’ll get sued for that, but whatever.”
However, a source told The Daily Mail that Aniston has 'no recollection of her ever having given this gift' and 'wouldn't have given a card' if she did offer Spheeris the sex toy.
During the red carpet premiere of Five, Spheeris praised her directorial role, telling E! News that 'the kind of work [Jen] does is phenomenal—it's for a good cause. She's just got that thing, she's like the sweetheart of the country'.
Aniston, meanwhile, said to Glamour in 2011 that 'we want people to walk away with hope and information but feel incredibly entertained'.
"Cancer affects all of us, whether you're a daughter, mother, sister, friend, coworker, doctor, patient," she added.
"These films touch on that reality. The film I directed is called Mia, and it's about a woman who takes her diagnosis as a death sentence and gives up—only to discover she's gone into remission. We want people to know it is very possible to conquer breast cancer."
LADbible Group has contacted Jennifer Aniston's representatives for comment.
Topics: Celebrity, Jennifer Aniston
Anish Vij