For her, it was all about the psyche
Sheryl Crow says it was hard to be apart from ex-fiance Lance Armstrong after she was diagnosed with breast cancer earlier this year.
“It was difficult, you know,” the 44-year-old singer tells Vanity Fair magazine. “I know he wanted to be there.”
Crow and Armstrong announced their breakup in February. She says the split was “devastating” for both of them.
After her diagnosis that month, she called the seven-time Tour de France champion.
“It was the cruelest twist,” says Armstrong, who is a survivor of testicular cancer. “I actually turned around to make the drive to L.A. We talked along the way and she said, `You know, I just don’t think that’s a great idea.”’
He says Crow told him she felt “it would be hard on her in trying to manage the breakup and the diagnosis. And I totally understood.”
Crowe, who underwent surgery in late February, begins a new tour next month. A portion of the proceeds will be donated to The Breast Cancer Research Foundation.
Kylie’s comeback continues
In her first TV interview since her recovery, Australian singer Kylie Minogue fought back tears as she described the moment in May 2005 when she discovered she had breast cancer.
“The moment my doctors told me, I went silent,” Minogue, 38, tells a British interviewer. “We all fell to pieces, but I was saying, ‘No, I’m getting a plane’ (to continue her tour), and they said, ‘No, you’re not, sit down.’ “
Minogue is working on a new album, but vows not to put her body under undue stress: “We’re taking one baby step at a time.”
A new Crowe in the nest
Danielle Spencer, wife of Oscar-winning Australian actor Russell Crowe, gave birth Friday to the couple’s second child.
Tennyson Spencer Crowe weighed in at about 8 pounds, Crowe’s manager said. The couple also have a 2-year-old son, Charlie.
Try, Frey, again
Amber Frey, Scott Peterson‘s former mistress who was a key witness in his murder case, has married her Fresno, Calif., neighbor.
Frey, 31, and Robert Hernandez, who works in law enforcement (but was not involved in the Peterson case), were wed on Wednesday.
A massage therapist who dated Peterson in 2002, Frey was the prosecution’s star witness during his trial on charges of killing his pregnant wife, Laci, and their unborn son. He was convicted and remains on death row.
Merry old land of Oz
A fire Thursday at Ozzy and Sharon Osbourne‘s English country mansion was the result of a faulty lamp, investigators found.
No one was home at the time; daughter Kelly had left shortly before the blaze started.
The Osbornes had to flee their home last year when a fire broke out in the living room. In 2004, Ozzy unsuccessfully tried to tackled a thief who stole a large amount of jewelry, and in 2003, he broke several bones in an all-terrain vehicle accident on the grounds.
The birthday bunch
Singer Steve Lawrence is 71. Actor Jeffrey Tambor (“Arrested Development”) is 62. Actress Anjelica Huston is 55. Actor Kevin Bacon is 48. Country singer Toby Keith is 45. Singer Beck is 36. Actor Milo Ventimiglia (“Gilmore Girls”) is 29. Actress Sophia Bush (“One Tree Hill”) is 24.