Drugs & Alcohol

Meta de Mark Zuckerberg se aseguró de diseñar Facebook e Instagram para que sean muy difíciles de dejar y el resultado ha sido negativo para la sociedad, al menos esa es la alegación del Fiscal General de Tennessee y otros 41 estados.

Jonathan Skrmetti, el policía más importante del Estado de Voluntarios, se unió a nosotros el miércoles en "TMZ Live" para exponer por qué 41 estados  —y Washington, DC— están demandando a Facebook y a la compañía matriz de Instagram por supuestamente perjudicar a la juventud de nuestra nación.

Alegan que las aplicaciones de redes sociales están diseñadas intencionalmente para aprovechar la forma en que todos estamos conectados, haciendo las plataformas extremadamente adictivas con características como el desplazamiento infinito, recordatorios y notificaciones, solo por nombrar algunas.

Skrmetti dice que Meta es plenamente consciente de que las aplicaciones son difíciles de dejar y lo malo que es para la gente. Dice que causan problemas de sueño, ansiedad, déficit de atención, depresión y suicidio potencial.

En sus ojos, solo hay mucho que los padres pueden hacer para detener a sus hijos de engancharse a las redes sociales, y es en un punto ahora donde el gobierno tiene que intervenir para hacer cambios.

Wiz Khalifa dice que ha estado sobrio durante 8 meses y es un hombre mejor gracias a esto. Sin embargo, no tiene planes de abandonar la hierba y los hongos.

El rapero de "Black & Yellow" está de vuelta con un nuevo álbum "Khali Sober". En el podcast "Cuhmunity" explicó como es su nueva y sobria vida viviendo en el Golden State.

Wiz dice que la clave para dejar de beber fue que dejó de tomar sorbos entre tomas mientras grababa en el estudio y cuando estaba en asuntos familiares.

Wiz Khalifa, el cantante de "High School Reunion Tour", se embarcó con Snoop Dogg en su gira "High School Reunion Tour" y todo el mundo celebró sin tener que preocuparse por las resacas.

Los raperos han estado mostrando su show a diestra y siniestra este año. La última vez que hablamos con Lil Uzi Vert, elogió el acto de sobriedad, después de haber grabado "The Pink Tape" libre de drogas antes de que se convirtiera en el primer álbum de hip hop en llegar al No. 1 en 2023.

French Montana, Busta Rhymes, Method Man y varias otras leyendas del rap se unieron recientemente por una iniciativa más sana... parece ser una tendencia en desarrollo.

Mark Zuckerberg's Meta made sure to design Facebook and Instagram so they are super hard to quit, and the result has been bad for society ... at least that's the allegation from Tennessee's Attorney General, and 41 other AGs.

Jonathan Skrmetti, the Volunteer State's top cop, joined us Wednesday on "TMZ Live" to lay out why 41 states -- and Washington, DC -- are suing Facebook and Instagram's parent company for allegedly harming our nation's youth.

He says the social media apps are intentionally designed to take advantage of the way we're all wired -- making the platforms extremely addicting with features like infinite scrolling, reminders and notifications, just to name a few.

Skrmetti says Meta is fully aware the apps are hard to quit and bad for folks -- he says they cause sleep deprivation, anxiety, ADD, depression and potential suicide.

In his eyes, there's only so much parents can do to stop their kids from getting hooked on social media, and it's at a point now where the government needs to step in to make changes.

Wiz Khalifa says he's been dry for 8 months and is a better man for it ... but he's got no plans to abandon weed and shrooms.

The "Black & Yellow" rapper is back with a new album "Khali Sober," which he explained on the "Cuhmunity" podcast as his custom spin on sobriety living in the Golden State.

Wiz says his key to quitting drinking was he stopped taking sips in between takes while recording in the booth and ultimately decided to stop after the occasional lapse during performance time or family functions.

He tested out being booze-free on the road for the first time ever this past summer when he and Snoop Dogg embarked on their High School Reunion Tour ... and had everyone getting in shape without worrying about hangovers.

Rappers have been cleaning up their act left and right this year ... the last time we spoke to Lil Uzi Vert, they praised the act of sobriety, having recorded "The Pink Tape" drug-free before it became the first hip hop album to go No. 1 in 2023.

French Montana, Busta Rhymes, Method Man and several other rap legends recently banded together for a healthcare initiative ... it's a growing trend.

The Arizona Diamondbacks won the pennant AND the postgame party on Tuesday ... going totally bonkers in the locker room after defeating the Philadelphia Phillies in the National League Championship Series -- and the pics of the boozy bash are nuts!!

The D-Backs came back from a 3-2 deficit to win the final two games of the series ... logging a 4-2 victory at Citizens Bank Park in the elimination tilt to punch their tickets to the World Series.

Of course, no one expected Arizona to face off against the Texas Rangers in the Fall Classic ... considering the D-Backs only won 84 games in the regular season.

Corbin Carroll led the charge for Arizona in Game 7 ... going 3-4 with two RBI, two runs, and two stolen bases. The D-Backs also got some big help from the bullpen, which combined for five shutout innings.

Ketel Marte had the best performance of the series ... batting .387 throughout the seven games for the NLCS champs -- earning MVP honors.

Arizona made sure to celebrate the huge accomplishment ... taking all the Budweiser, Michelob Ultra, and champagne bottles they could and letting the liquid fly!!

There wasn't a dry spot in the locker room ... as all the players threw on their ski goggles and NLCS championship shirts for the festivities.

It's a World Series no one predicted -- the Diamondbacks were 125-1 odds to win it all before the season, and the Rangers were 50-1.

The matchup might not feature the biggest markets in the league ... but it's shaping up to be an entertaining series.

7:31 AM PT -- Jason Alexander's got a bad case of revisionist history, at least when it comes to how sober he and Britney Spears were on their wedding day. Eight years after the ceremony he told ABC News they'd been drinking and had "party favors."

When asked if he meant drugs, he coyly pointed out alcohol, caffeine and cigarettes are all drugs. Point is, they were far from sober, and Britney fans are calling him out for lying.

Jason Alexander, Britney Spears' ex-husband, is clapping back at her claim she only married him because she was drunk and bored ... instead, he insists it was true, sober love.

Jason, who was married to Britney for a whopping 55 hours in 2004 before getting an annulment, tells TMZ ... readers shouldn't believe a word Britney says about their marriage in her new memoir.

In "The Woman In Me," Britney says she and Jason "got sh**faced" before tying the knot early one morning in Las Vegas back in January '04 ... adding, "People have asked me if I loved him. To be clear: he and I were not in love"

Britney also writes, "I was just honestly very drunk -- and probably, in a more general sense at that time in my life, very bored."

JA says that's BS because they were absolutely in love and weren't boozing -- which, btw, is exactly how their wedding officiant described the couple in a previous interview.

Jason says they've been friends since childhood, and he still cares for and loves her -- however, he adds, he'd never buy her memoir, and would only accept a copy if it was signed ... and, even then, he admits he'd probably "sell it to the highest bidder."

So much for the love!

Britney's revealed a ton of bombshells in the book ... and Jason says, in his opinion, Britney's abortion from her pregnancy with Justin Timberlake was a "horrible decision." Jason believes the two would've had enough money to raise a kid and get help as well.

He also weighed in on Britney's rationale for her nude photo posts ... saying he sees it as "childish behavior" from a mother, but he believes Justin cheated, and then broke up with Brit in response to her cheating. That's his 2 cents, anyway.

7:31 AM PT -- Jason Alexander no tiene muy buenos recuerdos de lo que pasó ese día con Britney, al menos cuando se trata de recordar cuán sobrios estaban el día de su boda. Ocho años después de la ceremonia, Alexander dijo a ABC News que habían estado bebiendo y que tenían "recuerdos de la fiesta".

Cuando le preguntaron si se refería a drogas, señaló tímidamente que el alcohol, la cafeína y los cigarrillos son drogas. La cuestión es que estaban lejos de estar sobrios y los fans de Britney le están llamando la atención por mentir.

El ex marido de Britney Spears, Jason Alexander, ha negado que se casara con él porque estaba borracha y aburrida, él dice que ella no estaba borracha y que estaban enamorados.

Jason, que estuvo casado con Britney por solo 55 horas en 2004, le dice a TMZ que los lectores no deben creer una sola palabra de lo que Britney dice acerca de su matrimonio en su nuevo libro de memorias.

En "The Woman In Me", Britney dice que ella y Jason "se emborracharon" antes de casarse una mañana temprano en Las Vegas en enero de 2004 y añade: "La gente me ha preguntado si lo amaba. Para ser claros: él y yo no estábamos enamorados".

Britney también escribe: "Honestamente estaba muy borracha y probablemente, en ese momento de mi vida, muy aburrida".

Jason dice que eso es mentira porque estaban absolutamente enamorados y no estaban bebiendo exactamente lo que su oficiante de la boda describió en una entrevista anterior.

Él dice que han sido amigos desde la infancia y todavía se preocupa por ella y la ama.

Mientras que Jason dice que todavía apoya a Britney, nos dice que nunca compraría su libro y solo aceptaría una copia de sus memorias si estuviera firmada, así al menos podría venderla "al mejor postor".

Britney ha revelado una tonelada de polémicas en el libro y Jason dice que el aborto de Britney de su embarazo con Justin Timberlake fue una "decisión horrible", en parte porque "mataron a un bebé".

The off-duty Alaska Airlines pilot who tried taking down a sister airline's plane is blaming the incident on a nervous breakdown and a serious lack of shut-eye, and also admits to taking shrooms.

Joseph D. Emerson admitted to law enforcement he tried shutting off the plane's engines during a "nervous breakdown" in the cockpit, adding he felt dehydrated and tired and had not slept in 40 hours.

According to the criminal complaint, obtained by TMZ, Emerson told investigators, "I didn't feel okay. It seemed like the pilots weren't paying attention to what was going on. They didn't ... it didn't seem right."

Emerson copped to pulling both emergency shut-off handles, explaining ... "I thought I was dreaming and I just wanna wake up."

Police say Emerson told them he wasn't taking any medication, but said he had been depressed for about six months ... and then the conversation turned to psychedelic mushrooms.

The complaint says Emerson told investigators about his use of magic mushrooms, saying it was his first time taking shrooms. The complaint does not make it clear when or how many mushrooms Emerson ingested, but there's an insinuation he might have been on mushrooms during the flight.

As we reported, Emerson was arrested and booked on 83 accounts of attempted murder for the incident on a flight from Washington to San Francisco.

Now, the feds are charging him with inference with flight crew members and attendants ... a charge carrying a prison sentence of up to 20 years behind bars.

Remember ... the captain and first officer subdued Emerson in the cockpit after he tried to shut off the engines mid-flight.

The pilots told cops that before Emerson reached for the handles he stated, "I'm not okay."

The complaint says after Emerson was subdued, he told a flight attendant, "You need to cuff me right now or it's going to be bad." Another flight attendant says Emerson stated, "I messed everything up" and the attendant told investigators, "he tried to kill everybody."

El piloto fuera de servicio de Alaska Airlines que intentó derribar el avión de una aerolínea hermana le echa la culpa del incidente a un ataque de nervios y a una grave falta de sueño... además admite haber comido hongos.

Joseph D. Emerson le confesó a la policía que trató de apagar los motores del avión durante un "ataque de nervios" en la cabina, añadiendo que se sentía deshidratado y cansado y no había dormido en 40 horas.

Según la denuncia penal obtenida por TMZ, Emerson le dijo a los investigadores: "No me sentía bien. Parecía que los pilotos no estaban prestando atención a lo que estaba pasando. Ellos no...  nada parecía estar bien".

Emerson copped trató de tirar de las dos manijas de cierre de emergencia, explicando: "Pensé que estaba soñando y solo quería despertar".

La policía dice que Emerson les dijo que no estaba tomando ningún medicamento, pero dijo que había estado deprimido durante unos seis meses y luego la conversación giró en torno a los hongos psicodélicos.

La denuncia dice que Emerson le dijo a los investigadores acerca de su uso de hongos mágicos, diciendo que era su primera vez tomándolos. La denuncia no deja claro cuándo o cuántos hongos ingirió Emerson, pero hay una insinuación de que podría haber sido durante el vuelo.

Como informamos, Emerson fue detenido y fichado por 83 intentos de asesinato por el incidente en un vuelo de Washington a San Francisco.

Ahora, los federales lo acusan de interferir el vuelo... un cargo que conlleva una pena de prisión de hasta 20 años.

Recordemos que el capitán y el primer oficial al mando sometieron a Emerson en la cabina luego de que intentara apagar los motores en pleno vuelo.

Los pilotos le dijeron a la policía que justo antes de que Emerson alcanzara las manijas declaró: "No estoy bien".

La denuncia dice que después de que Emerson fuera sometido, le dijo a una azafata: "Tienes que esposarme ahora mismo o esto va a ir mal". Otra azafata dice que Emerson declaró: "Lo he estropeado todo" y la azafata le dijo a los investigadores: "Intentó matar a todo el mundo".

The Texas Rangers are World Series bound ... and the whole squad celebrated like it on Monday -- raging their faces off after their huge American League Championship Series win!!

The Rangers officially eliminated the Houston Astros in Game 7 ... easily handling the defending road champs in an 11-4 victory.

But before Texas switched its focus to the winners of the Philadelphia Phillies and Arizona Diamondbacks series over in the National League, the boys cracked open the bottles of bubbly and brew and doused each other in a locker room party for the ages.

The squad has a lot to be happy about -- it's only the third time they've made it to the Fall Classic in franchise history, and their first since 2011.

Corey Seager -- who won it all with the Los Angeles Dodgers in 2020 -- was at the center of the festivities ... with all his teammates drenching him in alcohol.

Cleanup hitter Adolis García was the star of the night ... winning ALCS MVP thanks to his two-homer game and 15 overall RBI throughout the series.

No, Jake Paul was NOT doing bumps of cocaine in the ring after his brother Logan's boxing match last weekend ... so says the Problem Child himself, who's combating the allegations with comedy.

The 26-year-old internet superstar and pugilist was spotted on camera touching his nose as he stood behind his older bro following his win over Dillon Danis in Manchester ... with many going to social media to accuse him of sniffing the booger sugar in plain sight.

Paul addressed it all in his most recent YouTube video ... poking fun at the wild claims by surrounding himself with Coca-Cola cans and tossing a white powder in the air like LeBron James.

"Y'all want some Coke?" Paul asked his friends as he pretended to be drugged out.

After laughing it off, Paul got serious ... saying his gesture was the result of being a sweaty guy -- even zooming in on his nose to show how moist his skin gets from "five minutes of existing."

On top of that, his involvement in the post-fight scuffle certainly didn't help his perspiration problem.

"This is the thing, is I go to brawl in the ring to save my f***ing brother," Paul added. "Forty grown men around me, everyone's huffing and puffing, I'm yelling, 'You bitch, you're lucky I didn't kill you.' and I'm literally drenched in sweat."

"I come out, everyone knows I'm the most sweatiest person in the world. So I get into the ring to like, go be there for my brother and s***, and I put my hat on and I'm literally sweating down my face, so I'm just like this, trying to get the sweat off of my f***ing face."

Paul's girlfriend, Jutta Leerdam, backed her man ... saying she's seen first-hand how seriously he takes care of his body -- and all the haters need to quit trying to create a false image of him.

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12:57 PM PT -- A rep for Cher reiterated her denial about the kidnapping claim to TMZ, telling us ... "Not true thanks for checking."

Cher says she had nothing to do with the alleged "kidnapping" of her adult son -- this despite the fact her daughter-in-law has claimed the whole thing was orchestrated by mom.

The singer was asked point blank about this by the New York Post, which did a new interview with her chronicling her career and legacy. During the chat, they brought up this bizarre story that surfaced last month ... courtesy of Marieangela King (aka Queenie).

In recent court docs pertaining to her ongoing divorce from Cher's son, Elijah Blue Allman, King made a startling allegation ... namely, that Cher supposedly had Elijah forcibly taken from his hotel room in late 2022 ... this while he and MK were attempting to reconcile.

Per Daily Mail, Elijah had been staying at a hotel in L.A. for several months at the time -- allegedly battling substance abuse -- when this staged abduction/intervention took place ... so says King in a declaration she made in court. She claims that, as they were talking in his room, four men stormed in and snatched Elijah against his will ... dragging him away.

King alleges that one of the men revealed to her that Elijah's mom, Cher, had actually hired them -- adding in her court paperwork, "I am currently unaware of my husband’s wellbeing or whereabouts. I am very concerned and worried about him." She also said she believed he was at a rehab facility at an undisclosed location ... without access to his phone.

Now, one month after all these revelations surfaced ... Cher is outright denying any involvement. She told the Post, "I didn’t do it, and if I did it, I wouldn’t say I did it."

She adds, "You never stop being a mom -- you go to the end, you go to the mattresses when you’re trying to save your children. But I didn’t do it. And if I did it, I wouldn’t care to tell you." Interestingly, this echoes what she told People about 2 weeks ago.

At the time, she said ... "I’m a mother. This is my job -- one way or another, to try to help my children. You do anything for your children. Whenever you can help them, you just do it because that’s what being a mother is. But it’s joy, even with heartache -- mostly, when you think of your children, you just smile and you love them, and you try to be there for them."

FWIW ... Elijah's father, Gregg Allman, died in 2017 from complications tied to liver cancer. Also, we've reached out to Cher's team for further comment -- so far, no word back.

Cher dice que no tuvo nada que ver con el supuesto "secuestro" de su hijo, que ya es un adulto, esto a pesar de que su propia nuera asegura que todo fue orquestado por ella.

El New York Post le hizo una nueva entrevista sobre su carrera y legado, y abordó el tema sin rodeos. Durante la conversación, sacaron a relucir la extraña historia que salió a la luz el mes pasado, cortesía de Marieangela King (aka Queenie).

En recientes documentos judiciales relativos al divorcio en curso con el hijo de Cher, Elijah Blue Allman, King hace un alegato sorprendente y es que supuestamente Cher habría sacado a Elijah a la fuerza de su hotel a finales de 2022. Esto, mientras él y Marie King estaban tratando de reconciliarse.

Según Daily Mail, Elijah se había estado quedando en un hotel de Los Ángeles durante varios meses, donde había estado supuestamente luchando contra el abuso de sustancias, cuando fue secuestrado e intervenido. Así lo explica King en una declaración que hizo ante el tribunal, donde asegura que mientras hablaban en su habitación, cuatro hombres irrumpieron y se lo llevaron en contra de su voluntad, arrastrándolo.

King alega que uno de los hombres le dijo que la madre de Elijah, Cher, los había contratado, añadiendo en su documentación judicial: "Actualmente, no estoy al tanto del bienestar o el paradero de mi marido. Estoy muy preocupada por él". También dijo que creía que estaba en un centro de rehabilitación en un lugar no revelado, sin acceso a su teléfono.

Ahora, un mes después de que se hicieran públicas estas revelaciones, Cher niega rotundamente cualquier participación: "Yo no lo hice, y si lo hubiese hecho, no lo diría", dijo al Post.

Y añade: "Nunca dejas de ser madre: llegas hasta el final para salvar a tus hijos. Pero yo no lo hice. Y si lo hubiese hecho, no me importaría decírtelo". Curiosamente, esto se hace eco de lo que dijo a People hace 2 semanas.

En ese momento, aseguró: "Soy madre. Ese es mi trabajo, de una manera u otra, el tratar de ayudar a mis hijos. Haces cualquier cosa por ellos. Siempre que puedes ayudarlos, lo haces porque eso es ser madre. Pero es con alegría, incluso cuando duele, sobre todo, cuando piensas en tus hijos, solo sonríes y los amas y tratas de estar ahí para ellos".

Bravo allowed its "Real Housewives" stars to get way out of control -- fueling them with booze and a party environment -- which allegedly led to a man hired as a butler to be sexually abused ... according to a lawsuit he's brought against the network.

The guy, Marco Vega, says he was hired on during season 2 of "Real Housewives: Ultimate Girls Trip" as a butler at Dorinda Medley's Blue Stone Manor in Massachusetts the cast visited in September 2021. Vega says the women were drinking heavily -- shots of bourbon and cocktails included.

He says at one point, a woman came out to perform a strip tease for the housewives, and once that stopped, show producers told him to, "go over and get the women dancing!"

In Vega's lawsuit, obtained by TMZ, he claims during the dancing, Phaedra Parks slapped him on the butt and Brandi Glanville ran over to him, pulled him over to her by the back of his shirt and ripped it off ... exposing his bare chest.

Vega says Glanville yelled, "Earn your money, Marco. Take your shirt off. Do something!"

Vega says after the wild party, he returned to his hotel -- and filled his wife in on the night. Vega claims she was very upset, and the whole thing has caused him some serious marital issues.

Marco's suing Bravo because he says the network has a pattern of encouraging the housewives to engage in sexually inappropriate behavior. He's not suing Brandi or Phaedra.