Table of contents for November 8, 2021 in Globe

NOTORIOUS boozer Vince Neil broke his ribs during a Mötley Crüe concert when he horrified the audience by suddenly toppling off the stage. The 60-year-old was urging the fans to clap their hands when he suddenly pitched off the platform and onto the hard concrete floor at the Oct. 15 Monster on the Mountain fest in Pigeon Forge, Tenn. Sources say recovery could take as much as two months. Along with his performing, Neil’s notorious for drinking issues. In 1984, the booze-fueled singer crashed into another car in L.A., killing his drummer-pal passenger and leaving the two people in the other car with brain injuries. He pleaded guilty, paid $2.6 million restitution and served 18 days in the slammer. He also pleaded guilty to a June 2010 DUI in Las…

FORMER NSYNC boy bander Lance Bass can say Bye Bye Bye to getting a good night’s sleep for a while after welcoming twins via surrogate with husband Michael Turchin, who calls the tots “pure perfection!” Lance, 42, announced the Oct. 13 arrival of daughter Violet Betty and son Alexander James on Instagram by gushing, “The baby dragons have arrived!!” The singer tied the knot with the pop artist, 34, in 2014 — eight years after coming out as gay.…

TROUBLED Britney Spears has turned to hypnosis in a desperate bid to banish her lingering demons from living like a prisoner for 13 years under a court-ordered conservatorship, say sources. While her dad, Jamie, is walking away from the conservator role, Britney’s still plagued by what she sees as abusive treatment — including forced birth control and electronic bugs in her bedroom — that has caused her to seek mind-calming hypnotic therapy to ease her fears, sources say. The 39-year-old Oops! I Did It Again songbird admits she’s still bedeviled with issues, saying: “I’ve waited so long to be free from the situation I’m in and now that it’s here I’m scared to do anything because I’m afraid I’ll make a mistake!” The Toxic singer’s undergoing hour-long hypnotherapy sessions several…

MORTIFIED George Clooney is STILL reeling in shame over turning in a bad performance in the 1997 bomb Batman & Robin — and he will NEVER let wife Amal or their four-year-old twins, Alexander and Ella, watch it! “I f**ked it up so bad,” admits George, 60. “There are certain films I just go, ‘I want my wife to have some respect for me!’” George also says the prominent “bat nipples” on his caped crusader costume didn’t help.…

CLUELESS cutie Stacey Dash is coming clean about a drug addiction that cost her as much as $10,000 a week! The 54-year-old claims she got hooked on Vicodin after getting a prescription to treat painful fibroid cysts. At one point, the mother of two confesses she was “taking 18 to 20 pills a day” and ultimately “lost everything.” Says Stacey, “I almost died. That’s what stopped me. My kidneys were so infected my blood was septic, and my organs were shutting down.” She was hospitalized for three weeks and had a full blood transfusion but, amazingly, continued to abuse drugs! As her ordeal continued, the actress reveals she contemplated suicide before kicking pills. Now five years sober, Stacey claims she first tried drugs when she was eight years old and…

SURVIVOR star Michelle Yi barely survived an attack by a homeless woman who beat her bloody and stabbed her in front of a pilates studio. The 37-year-old beauty, who appeared in 2007’s Survivor Fiji, was opening the door to her Santa Monica studio Oct. 14 when the woman, carrying a knife and metal baton, came at her, yelling: “’You stole my identity,’ and ‘You’re a prostitute,’” says Yi. The crazed gal stabbed Yi in the upper arm and bashed her head with the baton. “My face split open,” she says. “Blood was everywhere.” Yi later got stitches. Cops busted the woman and said she’d attacked three people that morning.…

SOAP queen Deidre Hall’s demonic possession and horrifying yellow eyes has the set of Days of Our Lives so spooked — a show bigwig brought vials of holy water and crucifixes to calm the cast and crew, insiders dish! The uproar was triggered by the new story line where 74-year-old Deidre, who plays Dr. Marlena Evans, is possessed by Satan — like she was way back in 1994. At that time, the evil Stefano DiMera, played by the late Joseph Mascolo, drugged her, leaving her too weak to fight off possession. This season Marlena is possessed again after agreeing to let the devil invade her body if he’d leave the aging character Doug Williams, played by Bill Hayes, alone. But Deidre’s transformation and immersion in her role has castmates freaked!…

BULLHEADED Travis Tritt refuses to be cowed by venues demanding proof of COVID vaccinations or negative tests for fans — and instead canceled four concerts! Blasting the strict protocols — including mask requirements — as discrimination, the country music star, 58, made good on an earlier promise and says his actions prove he’s “putting my money where my mouth is.” In August, the Foolish Pride singer huffed he was willing to “sacrifice” to stand up for the freedom of Americans.…

PRINCE HARRY’S estranged father-in-law, Thomas Markle, is blasting the rogue royal — and his own daughter Meghan — as “childish” brats greedily chasing after killer paydays. Now retired in Rosarito, Mexico, the 77-year-old former movie lighting director confesses he hasn’t spoken to his 40-year-old daughter in nearly four years and has yet to see his grandkids Archie, 2, and infant Lilibet. But he notes Meghan has “disowned” both sides of her family, including her royal in-laws, adding: “The kids are going to grow up without knowing that they have two families.” As for Harry, 37, Markle took a potshot after seeing photos of the prince on an electric bike in Montecito, Calif. — followed by a security team — sneering: “All he does now is ride a bicycle around his…

A SHOCKING UFO attack on a U.S. nuclear missile — kept secret by the Pentagon for 57 years — has just been exposed by a military whistleblower in Washington, D.C. During a talk at the National Press Club, former Air Force First Lt. Robert Jacobs revealed, “I was part of an U.S. Air Force cover-up” after a spacecraft “shaped like a flying saucer” fired laser-like rays at a missile as it released a nuclear warhead. “This is the most important event in the history of mankind,” says Jacobs, now a professor at Bradley University in Peoria, Ill. “We are not alone.” Back on Sept. 14, 1964, Jacobs headed a 100-man team sent to California’s Big Sur to film the launch of an Atlas-D missile from Vandenberg Air Force Base, which…

The Good Wife star JULIANNA MARGULIES is hinting she may have played for BOTH teams in real life after raising eyebrows with lesbian love scenes featuring REESE WITHERSPOON on Apple TV’s The Morning Show. When confronted about starring in the same-sex TV hookups even though she’s married to lawyer KEITH LIEBERTHAL, the 55-year-old snapped, “Who’s to say I haven’t had my own gay experiences? We’re making assumptions!” What’s more, Julianna isn’t afraid of gay backlash for her role, saying, “Will lesbian actresses be angry? I can tell you I would never, ever be angry if a lesbian played a straight woman!” She explains her steamy new story line spices things up. “You’ve got JENNIFER ANISTON and Reese playing these two very strong characters, and instead of bringing a man in…

PERKY perfectionist Katie Couric used to puke up her food because she “aspired to be thin and lanky,” the newsgal admits in her tell-all, Going There. The former Today darling, 64, says she struggled with bulimia for nearly eight years in her youth and explains, “Starve, cheat, binge, purge — the cycle would take years to break.” But she recalls being “shook” by the 1983 death of anorexic singer Karen Carpenter from heart failure and changing her unhealthy eating habits.…

NEW York City cop Yvonne Wu is charged with murdering her ex-girlfriend’s new lesbian lover in a chilling ambush just three weeks after a bitter breakup, stunned police say. Wu’s former love Jenni Li, 23, survived the shooting in her Brooklyn apartment, but her new squeeze Jamie Liang, 24, later died at the hospital. Lawmen say 31-year-old Wu turned herself in after the bloodbath and confessed to the shooting. She was held for psychiatric evaluation. Assistant Chief Michael Kemper describes Wu as strangely “calm and collected and very forthcoming” after the incident. “She just seemed so detached,” he says. “Everybody else was like in hyperdrive and she was just so calm.” Police say the five-year NYPD vet and Jenni had stayed in touch after breaking up three weeks before the…

FEISTY Selma Blair reveals she rolled the dice on an experimental stem-cell treatment for her advancing multiple sclerosis — despite being “mortally afraid” of what was involved! “I was mortally afraid of chemo my whole life,” she says, revealing she opted for the treatment in desperation when her progressive immune-system condition reached a “critical point” in 2019. The 49-year-old Hellboy actress says she’s “doing great at this moment” and still dreams of returning to acting despite problems with speech and movement!…

INCURABLE and progressively worsening Parkinson’s disease ravages the central nervous system. But experts say prompt treatment can help delay the onset of severe illness. Here are nine symptoms that may be early warning signs of the neurodegenerative condition. 1 Tremors while at rest, including those in the hand or jaw. 2 A change in handwriting, such as smaller letters or words crowded together. 3 Losing the ability to smell fragrant foods, such as bananas, dill pickles or licorice. 4 Thrashing in bed and physically acting out dreams. 5 Dizziness or fainting from low blood pressure. 6 Stooping, leaning or slouching while standing. 7 Face masking — appearing expressionless. 8 Muscle stiffness, such as no longer swinging your arms while walking. 9 Vocal changes, including speaking more hoarsely or softly.…

MÖTLEY Crüe star Nikki Sixx nearly died from a heroin overdose when he was 29, but his drug-taking began long before that — when he was kindergarten age. That’s the shocking confession of the 62-year-old rocker, whose real name is Frank Feranna, in his just released book, The First 21: How I Became Nikki Sixx, that leads up to just before he and drummer Tommy Lee formed the legendary band in 1981. One early memory is his mom Deana’s then boyfriend Bernie turning him on to marijuana when he was a tyke. “I have faint memories of Bernie and my mother drinking and smoking weed,” he writes. “And Bernie asking me if I wanted to try what he was smoking. “I recall feeling kind of tripped out, and it wasn’t…

AFRICA’S green monkeys have been blamed for passing HIV on to humans, who are now taking the rap for the recent — and world-first — leprosy outbreak among chimpanzees! In the original Central Mexican language of the Aztecs, which named the wildly popular green fruit, avocado means testicle. People have been eating them since 10,000 B.C. Friends legend Matthew Perry lost the tip of his right middle finger in a car door — and actress Daryl Hannah lost the top of her left index finger in a childhood accident. She frequently wears a fake. Minneapolis, Minn., is the same latitude as Venice, Italy, and has an average winter temperature of 24 degrees, while the city known for its canals is about 20 degrees warmer.…

KINKY Cara Delevingne admits she drops the mic during sex — she prefers to enjoy her climax in total silence! “When you just try and not make, like, any noise, you feel it way more, and it’s like, ‘Whoa!’” says the Suicide Squad babe, 29, adding she has gotten over being “conditioned” to make lots of noise during an orgasm. “I remember stopping making any noise or trying to really maintain it and it’s so hot!”…

THE kerfuffle between Star Trek’s George Takei and William Shatner has gone intergalactic! After overstuffed Capt. Kirk rocketed into space at a whopping 250 pounds and became the oldest man ever to leave Earth, Takei, 84, sniped his former costar was “not the fittest specimen. He’s boldly going where other people have gone before. “He’s a guinea pig, 90 years old, and it’s important to find out what happens. “So 90 years old is going to show a great deal more on the wear and tear on the human body. “Although he’s not the fittest specimen of 90 years old, so he’ll be a specimen that’s unfit!” The space mates have famously feuded for years with Takei, who played Hikaru Sulu, accusing Shatner of ignoring him on the set of…

It’ll be a full house of girls for Full House star MARLA SOKOLOFF, 40, and hubby ALEC PURO, who’re expecting their third daughter early next year. “2021 gave us the surprise of our lives,” says Marla. The new baby will join big sisters ELLIOTTE, 9, and OLIVE, 6. Pink Floyd rocker ROGER WATERS, 78, got hitched for the fifth time, gushing, “I’m so happy, finally a keeper.” He met the bride, KAMILAH CHAVIS, 43, when she was chauffeuring him to concerts. He says, “I was in the same place for two weeks and we were being transported between the hotel and the stadium” and nature took its course. Southern Comfort star MADISON LeCROY, 31, is heading to the altar with fiancé BRETT, 35. The handsome mystery man secretly romancing CONNIE…

SOAP legend Peter Bergman followed up his decade-long stint on All My Children with an even longer stretch on The Young and the Restless. The daytime veteran, now 68, first arrived in fictional Genoa City in 1989 to assume the part of Jack Abbott — a role he continues to play today in the drama’s 49th season on CBS. Here are ten things you don’t know about Peter. 1 The son of a U.S. Navy officer, he was born at the Guantanamo Bay Naval Base in Cuba in 1953. 2 His first TV gig was a two-part story arc on Kojak in 1976. 3 From 1976 to 1981, he was married to Emmy-nominated One Life to Live actress Christine Ebersole. 4 He originally auditioned to play All My Children’s Dr.…

ARIES March 21 - April 20 The urge to catch up on correspondence, pay bills and organize your finances strikes Monday — you could discover an uncashed check or a forgotten invitation. A health worry crops up again midweek — schedule a doctor’s visit and put this to rest once and for all. A loved one needs some TLC Saturday. GEMINI May 22 - June 21 Read between the lines before signing any paperwork Monday, Twin. There’s more to what you’re being told and Jupiter could lead you astray. Ask a Capricorn for advice and you won’t go wrong! Midweek, someone new only has eyes for you at the place you pick up coffee or go for cocktails. LEO July 23 - Aug. 23 Make good use of information revealed…

MADONNA was such a control freak when eldest child Lourdes Leon was growing up, the girl wanted to scream: “Mama don’t preach!” “My mom is such a control freak and she has controlled me my whole life,” reveals the model, 25. “I needed to be completely independent from her as soon as I graduated high school!” Lourdes, whose dad is actor Carlos Leon, 55, says she paid for college herself to spite her Material Girl mom, 63.…

MONACO’S runaway royal Princess Charlene gushed she “can’t wait to get home to her children” during a recent interview in South Africa, but made no mention of pining for horndog hubby Prince Albert — adding fuel to rampant chatter the couple is charging toward a $500 million divorce! The former Olympic swimmer, who shares six-year-old twins Prince Jacques and Princess Gabriella with her scandal-smeared spouse, has been holed up in her native South Africa for most of 2021. Albert denies their relationship is on the rocks — even though Charlene, 43, failed to return home in July for their tenth wedding anniversary and has consistently ignored him on social media! In a recently posted Instagram clip, Charlene moans about missing her kids “terribly” and adds, “Any mother out there who…