Would you feel guilty if you shoplifted from corporate America? In Winona Ryder’s first interview on that fateful day in 2001 at the Saks Fifth Avenue in Beverly Hills, she says that she really didn’t.
I didn’t have this tremendous sense of guilt, because I hadn’t hurt anyone. Had I physically harmed someone or caused harm to a human being, I think it would have been an entirely different experience.”
Well, she didn’t kill someone, but stealing technically does cause harm someone who’s trying to run a business.
But the million-dollar question after all of these years is why a famous, wealthy woman would actually steal. She blames it on painkillers that she got from a “quack” doctor.
Two months prior to that, I broke my arm in two places, and the doctor, a sort of quack doctor, was giving me a lot of stuff and I was taking it at first to get through the pain. And then there was this weird point when you don’t know if you are in pain but you’re taking it.”
The painkillers left her in a state of “confusion” But the arrest was a blessing in disguise because she never touched those pills again. She moved to San Francisco to be close to her parents and kept a low profile until now. She’s apparently gearing up for her three movie releases this year: Ten, Sex and Death 101, and The Last Word.
Well, I welcome back Winona. She’s done the classy thing and stayed on the down-low for years. Imagine that in the young Hollywood world we live in. You’ve got to admire that.
Loading …by Jenny July 18th, 2007 in News.
Would you feel guilty if you shoplifted from corporate America?
You mean Suks? No, cause I would feel guilty just shopping there.
They’re greedy exploiters who purchase stuff from sweatshops and then sell items a thousand times their value to make sure only extremely wealthy people can purchase them.
If I understand the wonders of that super-mega-judicial masterpiece, there’s no difference between spacing out and stealing with a clear intent, especially when one’s credit card is at the desk? Bang! Double felon, one toe away from jail. Ouch.
Ryder case top priority over a double murder case? Uh? Did we miss anything or do we already live in braindead land, in some Orwellian subdimension?
I feel so sorry for Suks, the poor little darlings. I wonder what could have been the cost if they had simply asked Ryder to use a card which they indeed had instead of calling the cops, the tabloids and then go on a campaign of “get it from Saks” with hired models.
Hey, good news by the way, Suks Filth Avenue are going to get themselves a ZIP code with our taxpayer’s money. Isn’t that supercool? Call it thievery? Nope sir, it’s legal. Good, good, me glad, me happy, me law-abiding idiot is very content. As long as it is legal, I don’t mind being buggered real hard. I’m gonna stuff myself with some Jay Leno tapes.
Anyways, I’m also happy that Kenneth Lay died in his bed, corporate America had a sweet legal break. I wonder if OJ Simpson will have the grace to stop playing golf with his Hollywood and Corporate buddies too.
The sheer idiocy of citizens who accept being ripped off, brutalized, ruined by unscrupulous companies but cannot get beyond Ryder’s screwing up after 5 years really knocks me down, real heavy feathers !!!
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I guess Winona was just a victim of abusing people who doesnt like to know but victimize innocent customers.Thats so sad there are still people roaming around looking to get victim and thats hard cos u cant rely on somebodys even side the store. maybe have extra careful will really be exerted. so to winona becareful when are you to shop.
Winona poor victim stealing corporation to.We stupid ppl buy to stuff.Even side the store to story telling victim no good.We know no what to doing to self to store : (
who the f@ck! what the f@ck! pathetic bitch whore dont have money! old cunt sell ur body if u dont have money!
Stealing is not a victimless crime as Ryder appears to believe. I used to own a business employing 200 people - 185 full time. A major theft from my main client was blamed on my employees and the client canceled our contract. THe result was that the business was unable to continue and 200 people lost their jobs. These were jobs with full benefits. I certainly felt victimized and I imagine my former employees felt victimized also when we had to fire them.
The point is that when you steal you really don’t know the ewffect it will have on your victim. The theft in question for my company was of 24 laptops. Someone probably thought that no one would miss them. Instead I lost my company.
Stealing is serious. I hope Ryder might consider this.
This comment is, in the first place, a really disappointingly shallow and immature rationalization of doing something that even a five-year-old understands is wrong. In the second place, it contradicts her initial stated reasons for stealing when it first occurred. She had said at first that she stole to prepare for a film role. So,the fact that apparently this was a lie makes her seem only to be a selfish and greedy (she wasn’t stealing bread to eat for goodness sakes) liar who still apparently shows no growth since that day she was caught breaking the law and taking things that didn’t rightly belong to her. Her loss that she chooses to abandon any improvement on her obvious lack of character in favor of clinging to excuses.
anagurl has a point, as well. Ms. Ryder seems to ignore the fact that her grandiose belief that her actions have no consequences is an offense in itself. Not to mention that those of us who choose to pay in full when we aquire something of value do have to pay for the transgressions of theives. Her very lame rationalization (I didn’t physically harm anyone, so I didn’t feel guilty) really demonstrates a concerning lack of conscience, which is always very creepy.
If we all figured that when we commit an act that is universally believed to be morally wrong, we can always just point toward something worse and get ourselves off the hook, then this world would be much worse off. Let’s see, I’m angry at my husband, so I’ll just flirt with his friend a little. He’ll never know, so I won’t be hurting him directly, so I don’t have to feel guilty…I mean, I didn’t physically harm him or anything, right? So, there’s nothing to feel guilty about, right?
Someone did not raise this girl right.
Eh things happen and usually for a reason. Ok so she made a mistake, boo hoo. Everyone, no matter their status, makes them. Winona is a great woman and she is timeless. I hope everyone can see that and cut her some slack. People need to stop trying to publicly humiliate others. What, they have nothing better to do with their time or have such low self-esteem they need to bash others to make themselves feel better? Those people need to be mature, grow the hell up and get real. Winona, you go girl.