Call Her Daddy - Megan Fox: Burned at the Stake (FBF)
Episode Date: March 21, 2025Join Alex in the studio for a sit-down interview with Megan Fox where nothing is off limits. Megan sets the record straight on some of the craziest rumors she’s heard about herself - like being in t...he Illuminati, performing Satanic rituals, and what plastic surgeries she’s had done. She talks about her childhood, dysfunctional family dynamic, and how she never really fit in at school. Megan gets real about feeling different from everyone else and how that often left her feeling lonely. She opens up about her complicated relationship with her body, when she first started to criticize it, and why she’s never felt like a “sex symbol.” Megan discusses all the ways she’s been hyper-sexualized and brutally bullied by the media throughout her career and why she’s nearing her breaking point. Finally, she discusses the toxic romantic relationships she’s had in her past and even gives insight into her current relationship with MGK. Daddy Gang, get ready to learn so much about Megan Fox and truly see a side of her you’ve never seen before… Enjoy!This episode includes discussions of disordered eating, intimate partner violence, and descriptions of sexual violence. Please keep this in mind when deciding if, how and when you’ll listen.The National Domestic Violence Hotline provides free, confidential support 24/7. Call 1-800-799-SAFE, or visit TheHotline.org.
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What is up, daddy gang? It is your founding father, Alex Cooper with Call Her Daddy.
Megan Fox, welcome to Call Her Daddy. Thank you.
I am so happy we are doing this tonight. Same.
And I say tonight, which is crazy, I have never done an interview this late in my life. It's 10 o'clock at night. Are you a night owl?
No, but I find that interesting because you've interviewed so
many rappers and I do I refuse to believe that they showed up on
time or in the daylight.
Okay, offset didn't show up on time, but it was the daylight.
But no, I have never done a late night interview. But I do feel
like it's kind of a vibe.
You might end up loving it. Okay, well, I was gonna say a late night interview, but I do feel like it's kind of a vibe. You might end up loving it
Okay. Well, I was gonna say guys it's raining right now. There's thunderstorms in LA. We've got candles going
This makes sense for a Megan Fox episode when you are like late night by yourself. Your kids are asleep
What is your favorite thing to do at night usually?
Well, I usually stay by the fire and I like to read and I read a lot of
metaphysical books but right now I'm reading whatever that new like adult version of Twilight
book that's out. It's like an erotic fairy book. Wait isn't it like the king of or the court of
thorns? Yeah I'm reading that. Wait does it like kind of make you horny? I haven't gotten to the horny part yet,
but I know that I'm gonna get there
because I know that he has like the ability
to bind her energetically with magic
and I'm already like, I'm here for that.
That'll do it for you.
I remember my friend was reading it.
She was like, Alex, I'm not kidding you.
I keep waking my boyfriend up in the middle of the night
because I'm like, I'm reading about fairies,
but something get me going.
I'm like, I don't understand it.
Maybe I need to read it.
I'm not there yet, but I feel like you should.
And it's definitely a lot more interesting
than most of the like psychological textbooks
that I read by the fire at night.
You're reading textbooks over there?
Sometimes.
You enjoy that?
Can't say I enjoy it.
I think that I do it out of...
I made like a really clear decision when I was young to avoid the pitfalls or like the traps of
social media or just internet usage in general. And so I kind of go out of my way. And maybe it's
annoying to be this way, but to counter that by attempting to educate myself.
By the way, I didn't graduate high school.
So I think a lot of that is just pursuing things that I'm interested in and wanting
to have as much information about it as possible and trying to not become just like a plebeian
or like a mindless brainwashed sheep.
I think most of us today are mindless sheep because I
feel that way sometimes when I'm on social media too much. I'm like, what is happening up here?
Like I'm not when is the last time I had an original thought I'm mindlessly scrolling.
Yeah, it gives me anxiety. Like I have group chats with my friends and they'll send me links to
things but I don't keep like the Instagram app downloaded or anything like that. But even just like if they send me a link
to something on Twitter and I open the Twitter website,
just the energy from the website gives me so much anxiety
that I feel like I immediately contract like ADHD.
And I can feel how I'm not able,
my thoughts are not able to sustain the same way.
And that's just from being exposed to it for like five seconds. 30 seconds. Yeah, like get me the fuck out
of here. So I can't imagine like what it's doing to everyone, especially like younger
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Something I also noticed about you is you just announced
kind of that you have like a whole new sleeve tattoo
on Instagram.
Yeah. What was the story behind that? Like, how did you decide to do that?
Well, I back when I dyed my hair from the Auburn colored red that it was to this color,
it was like a bright red. During that metamorphosis, I decided I had bought these weird.
I became a victim of Timo. Wait, what? Do you know what that happened?
Yes, only because of Super Bowl.
Someone introduced me to Teemu and I was like, what is this though? And I was victimized
and I ordered a bunch of stick on tattoos and fun things to do with my kids. And some
of them were fake sleeves because I was like, oh, my kids will love to do this. And I did it on me and I was like, wow, I love it.
And I instantly made an appointment to get my arm done.
And I started it, but the artist I was working with
had a different vision than what I wanted.
And so we got halfway up my arm,
dust and the wind was playing
and just that line repeating over and over again,
nothing lasts forever, but the earth and sea and your tattoos that you get kept playing. And I was
like, okay, I have to stop because this isn't my vision. It wasn't a bad tattoo. It just wasn't
what I wanted. So we stopped with half the tattoo. I kept that for like six months. And then I found
an artist to cover it. Most people would say I'm grounded, but I'm also very impulsive.
When I decide to do something, it must be done right then.
I can't decide it and then do it months from now.
I can't plan far into the future.
It has to happen instantly.
And so once I found the cover artist, I was like, we have to get it done.
And we just did it four days in a row.
It was like six hours a day.
They won't tattoo you usually past six hours in one sitting
because your skin starts rejecting the ink.
So I just did it four days in a row and sleeved it.
And then it healed very weird.
It like didn't even peel.
It was very weird.
It just healed.
It was just fine.
Someone that you know also got a lot of new ink
and I have to ask about it
or I would get roasted on the internet.
MGK, should I call him MGK or Colson?
Colson or MGK, whatever you want.
He posted and I saw all the comments
of everyone mostly being like,
what does Megan think about his new tattoo?
What does Megan think?
What does Megan think?
And now I'm sitting here in person with you
and I'm like, I have to ask you,
what did you think when you saw the tattoo?
Well, he has like a really special story
behind why he did that,
which obviously I'll leave for him to tell,
but he had a relationship with the tattoos that he had
that he was very conflicted emotionally,
whatever they represented, and I don't actually know,
he didn't like to revisit those memories of some of those tattoos that he had
and he wanted to get rid of them. But I think the piece that she did for
him is very like, I think it's very art. It gives me like
Rick Owens. It gives me like, you know, it's like an elevated version of
all of those tattoos that were pieced together. I think it's really elegant and it's
kind of ahead of its time. I think in 10 years, that'll be a trend. I don't know how many people
can take that kind of pain. So I don't know, people will be put to sleep and get the tattoos
done, but he did it like fully awake with no painkillers and no numbing. I went to one of the
sessions. There were many there's probably many.
There were many, yeah.
And it didn't feel like something,
to me, it felt like he was going through
like a spiritual initiation
and that space needed to be respected
and I didn't need to be there.
I stopped by one of them though,
but I don't actually know how he endured that level of pain
because he's also tattooing on top of tattoos.
So you're tattooing the scar tissue,
which makes it even more painful.
I don't know, I don't know.
His liver is also probably not doing well at this time.
Prayers for Colson.
I was thinking about as I was reading those comments,
I'm like, the internet is such a wild place.
What is the craziest rumor you've ever heard about yourself on the internet is such a wild place. What is the craziest
rumor you've ever heard about yourself on the internet?
There's lots of those. We could talk about that for a while. Let's talk about it. I guess
one of the ones that's very persistent is that I'm like satanic or do satanic rituals
or maybe adjacent to Illuminati or something in that vein, which I think really started.
I don't know why it started.
There was just like that one time that I said
I drink blood ritualistically.
And then everybody was like,
wow, she's into satanic rituals.
Classic.
But that was a very misunderstood thing.
Let me try to explain it.
Yeah, give us some context.
Okay, here's the context.
Everything is a matter of what you're accustomed to
or what is currently socially acceptable or normal.
And back in the 50s even,
how many times did you see like, probably never
but like on Leave It To Beaver or like movies from back then or even the 80s. How many times
did you see like little boys would go out with like their little pop guns and they would
cut their fingers and like be blood brothers, right? And they're like, we're best friends
forever now. And they would like smush the blood together on their fingers. That's not satanicanic, right? That's normal and that's cute. That's sweet. That's like an innocent like-
Little bond.
Yeah, it's a little bond between kids who love each other. They have a pure friendship.
It's like that, except instead of rubbing your fingers together, the drop of blood goes
together, the drop of blood goes in your mouth. And I don't know what why that becomes satanic. I understand people are like, Hey,
that's weird. But guess what I think is weird. I think it's
weird that girls are out here letting guys come in their mouth
and they don't know these guys. You're letting somebody put
their sperm in your mouth and you don't know what he does. He
doesn't even have a job you met him on fucking Tinder. He's an entrepreneur or whatever. He's in a startup and you just let him
sperm in your mouth. That's disgusting. That makes my back hurt. That makes me sweaty. So
fuck you. You're so offended that I got a drop of Machine Gun Kelly's blood in my mouth.
You have Brandon from Silicon Valley's sperm in your mouth.
He didn't even buy you a nice drink.
I'm crying.
Honestly though, it's a matter of perspective.
What is so gross about what I did with my soulmate?
You guys are out here letting strangers come on you.
This is disgusting.
These are the facts we really needed to discuss today, Megan.
We get in the interview here, you know what I mean?
Because this is the hard hitting truth and I appreciate the honesty because when you
give us a little context, it does kind of make fucking sense.
And you're right.
Like anyone can look at it anyway, like just like Christianity, when they're like drinking wine
and they believe it's the blood of Christ,
like everyone has their thing, like let everyone fucking live.
What do you give a shit?
Are you drinking someone's blood?
No, so why do you fucking care if I do?
Like it doesn't matter.
But this is a great point about the come
and we should circle back on that for the women
at the end of this episode and really talk about
who should be coming inside of you and your mouth and yeah I appreciate this. What other rumors do you have any that come to mind?
Oh that's just the main one. That's the first one and just to clarify because I didn't go on record
of saying that's not true. I actually was raised like Pentecostal Christian. I don't I'm not
currently like a part of the church but I definitely identify with Christ consciousness and I'm not currently like a part of the church, but I definitely identify with Christ consciousness.
And I'm actually a very spiritual positive person,
except for recently.
Except for recently, I've been going through it a little bit
in terms of positivity.
But definitely have never been a part of a satanic ritual.
Don't know any people who have been a part
of the satanic ritual.
I'm not sure if the Illuminati is real.
It probably is.
I have not been extended an offer to join.
I feel like if it was real, I would have been given an offer to join by now.
So yes, just to squash that.
Not a satanist or any kind of like an evil witch, light worker.
Yes, I do, you know you know rituals but that doesn't
that's not a negative thing. Anything is a ritual. Taking doing your skincare routine is a ritual.
Going to church is a ritual. So I think people have to separate that word. That word has been
demonized for so long that it's just been very misunderstood. And also, I think we exacerbated it
because Halloween of that year,
I dressed up in bondage with a dog collar around my neck
and he dressed up as a priest
and he was feeding me communion on my knees.
And we played Marilyn Manson's Sweet Dreams.
We played that, that was the song to the vet.
And people felt like that was a confirmation
of the satanic rituals.
So you can kind of see like where people may like.
I can see where I planted a seed
and there grew a tree in its place.
But you're here to chop down the tree
and be like, it never fucking happened.
Yeah, he didn't want me to clarify.
He was like, it's actually so much just let them think this that it's so much
cooler that people think we're this bizarre that we're this
weird that we're doing this kind of weird, magical weird shit in
our basement, like let them think that this is what's going
on.
But it is kind of a testament to like everything they see on
social media is face value. And it's like, it's not that deep.
Yeah, it was Halloween. Halloween. Let's go back to
the beginning Megan Fox. What were you like as a kid? I told my mom when I was two that I was going
to be a famous actress. So I knew and that wasn't out of passion for acting. I'll be honest. I just
always knew that that's what it was going to be. I had like an awareness of my destiny for some reason at a young age.
And I was a tomboy when I was a little kid.
I was always outside.
I had like a very assertive energy as a child.
And whenever my mom would get like secret psychic readings
because she was Pentecostal.
So that was a no-no to see psychics.
They would always read that she had an older daughter
and a younger son and the younger
son was me.
And I'm not really sure why I always came through that way, except that I have no one's
going to know what I'm talking about right now, but I have Mars on my ascendant in astrology.
So I have like a warrior energy that I was born with.
And I think that was translated as being like maybe masculine
as a child because it wasn't docile. But I was like a good kid. I was like a little mischievous
and never interested in school always knew that that was not for me.
What was the dynamic like in your house?
My parents got divorced when I was three. And prior to that, I just remember both my parents are still alive.
And so I want to be careful not to drag them, but while also being honest.
I remember my mother's depression was really, really affected me very deeply.
And it was very visceral for me.
And like, if I were to draw an image of my mother from my childhood, it would be her like, this is not a literal image, but she
just always seemed like, like a soaking wet blanket or like, like draped over a couch
like weeping. That was, that would be like my image of mother because I was so connected
to her sadness or her, her feelings of being unfulfilled and also her resentment
towards relationships.
My dad, before I skip ahead, my dad is like really outgoing and funny and charming and
like really unique and sparkly.
And they, she was, I don't know, she was not fulfilled in that relationship for whatever
reason.
They got divorced.
From my perspective as a three-year-old,
he kind of disappeared for a little while.
She immediately got remarried.
My stepdad who was passed was,
probably had borderline personality,
but back then he was diagnosed, I think, bipolar.
And so he was emotionally and mentally
and verbally very abusive, to me, not to her.
And he isolated me from her and just in general, like I wasn't allowed to have friends over or like go to anyone's house.
So I spent a lot of time isolated in my room and wasn't able to really even spend much.
He wanted her, I guess he isolated her
is really what was happening.
But it seemed as though I was the one being isolated.
Then I watched her depression
through that relationship as well.
And so the messaging that I received is that men
and marriage in particular drain you of your life force
and keep you from being able to express your creativity
or express your unique desires.
And it's an oppressive experience to be in a relationship
or to be in love or to be married.
In particular, being married.
Like when I say the word being married,
I feel my chakras tighten up.
I feel my back like, yeah, get tight.
Even though I was married for a long time. So does that answer your question about my chakras tighten up. I feel my back get tight, even though I was married for a long time.
So does that answer your question about my dynamic?
It is interesting. And you have one sibling?
Are you older or younger?
No, I have an older sister, but she's 12 years older.
So she was going to college when I was still really young.
And she was gone a lot because prior to that, when I was really young,
she was in high school and she wasn't around much.
And she had a boyfriend and she got married and she moved out.
So I was alone a lot and trying to make sense of my mom's depression and the disconnect
and then the emotional violence coming from my stepfather and also wanting to be with my dad more
and not being able to be around him
because he always was a light and he still is a light.
But he was separated from me in a way
where I couldn't get to the light.
It's kind of like you can't get to God,
that constant wanting to connect with the father figure,
either spiritually or literally.
Yeah, I feel like a lot of people that I've talked to,
I have such empathy for people that,
whether literally or just by age,
kind of had a upbringing that you're essentially
an only child, like your sister being so much older than you, like you were in the house alone.
And I feel like a lot of times when there's such chaos
from the parents, like there is,
I found you can have such an emotional connection
to siblings because you can look at someone to your right
and your left and be like, oh,
we're going through the same shit.
Whereas when you're an only child,
essentially in those moments,
you can only internalize, think what's wrong with me,
or hate what's going on around you
and try to do the complete opposite
of what your parents did.
I feel like obviously we've seen in movies,
you play just like the most popular hot girl.
And when you got to high school,
because I know you said when you were younger,
you were very tomboyish, you would be alone.
What was your high school dynamic like? Like, were you the cool girl or were you the opposite of that?
No, in middle school I had I was always a loner I guess and not necessarily by choice but
have you ever taken the Enneagram test? Do you know what that is?
I do know what that is.
Do you know what number you are?
I completely forget what number I'm in now.
You're probably a one if I had to guess. Oh my god what does that
mean? Is that a good one? Or a seven. Actually you're probably a seven, the enthusiast. Take it and
then tell me. Take it and then like I don't know how this works but like insert it into this
interview and tell me if I was right. My face pops up like I am a one. No no a seven a seven. I
think you're the enthusiast. I'm a four, which is, I think in that one,
they call it the romantic,
but it's a personality that's been developed
where I identify as being an outcast
or being so incredibly unique and unusual
that no one could ever understand me.
And so for me, like the worst insult you could give me
is that I blend in with
everyone else or I have like a vanilla personality or that I'm normal. But that actually stems from
a family environment where I didn't feel that I belonged and never felt a part of anything.
And then as I went out into the world in school, that was also reflected back to me where I didn't
fit into a friend group and I wasn't received well by kids. And then as I left school and went out into the world
as a famous person, the world received me that way as well with a lot of contention
and a lot of negativity and a lot of projection. And so it's a part of my identity, but it's a survival net mechanism to say, I'm a pariah.
I'm an outlier.
That's who I am and I'm proud of that and that's who I need to be now.
That's how I self-identify.
But really that comes from a deep wound of looking to have belonged somewhere at some
point in my life and never finding a place that I fit.
That's really actually interesting to hear because I was going to say like on one hand
it is a survival mechanism for you to get through but I'm also like, isn't that lonely?
Yeah.
Yeah, it's super lonely but I was a lonely baby.
I've been lonely my whole life.
And when I meet with like I've met every healer, every psychic, every they're
always like, well, this is your nine life path. This is your life last life. You're an old soul.
Old souls are lonely. Old souls are sad. You've been doing this a long time. You've been through
a lot of trauma. You've had every kind of experience you can have. And there's like this sort of bittersweet experience of it's lonely, but
I also know that part of my purpose is to be in service to others, my children in particular.
But yeah, it's not a particularly like, I feel alone.
Yeah, a lot.
But to answer your question about high school and middle school, I wasn't cool.
I had an eating disorder in middle school, a really bad one.
I had to be hospitalized twice and I was left in there.
My mom will say she took me out for Christmas.
I don't think that's accurate.
I think I was in there for Christmas, but I was in there for a few months at a time
every time they would put me in.
Essentially I was 51-50 because my eating disorder was so bad.
I had braces, I had plucked out all of my eyebrows. And when you do that, when you pluck your eyebrows,
by the way, for anyone that's ever gonna do this,
if you do that when you're sick
or your immune system is down, those hairs don't grow back.
So plucked my eyebrows out, most of them never grew back.
Why did you pluck them out?
It was like cutting or or any kind of a,
I was just doing things to myself to like,
not disfigure myself, but it was a compulsive action
that I didn't understand at the time.
And then in high school,
like if you saw my high school yearbook picture,
by that point I was cute again.
I had figured it out somehow,
but Ihuilia is lonely and isolated. I had a friend, but I've never had a friend group.
How did boys treat you in high school?
I had a high school boyfriend. I don't know. At that point, I had started some modeling
in Miami and doing auditioning for acting things.
I think during high school,
I did that Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen movie.
I'm not exactly sure.
I think I was 16, 17.
The kids in school,
I didn't get a real reaction from the boys in school.
But as I went out into the world doing that stuff,
I started getting reactions,
but also from like much older men, which was weird, because they were not my peer group,
obviously. And that sent a whole nother like set of confusing messages.
Yeah. I'm curious before we do get into that, like, when people probably think of Megan Fox
in high school, they're like, I would have killed to look like you.
Like, did you have insecurities?
Yeah, I've had body dysmorphia since I was probably like, five.
I can remember sitting in the back of my sister's car.
She was getting married.
And I even remember what I was wearing.
I had black shorts that had white polka dots on them.
And I was five.
And this is crazy when I look at my children, because now I understand what it is to be
five years old. And I was in the backseat looking at my legs being like, I look at my children, because now I understand what it is to be five years old.
And I was in the back seat looking at my legs being like,
I have such fat thighs.
My thighs are so fat.
I was five.
But I also had like, I think I was blonde in a past life
or, and or, I mean, I've had many past lives.
Whenever I would look in the mirror as a child,
I was like, that's not me.
That never felt like me.
Nothing about that face, the hair, the skin color,
the body, that wasn't me.
I never associated that with me.
And so I think that's because I have a strong tie
to some of my other lifetimes.
And it was always hard for me to accept
that this is who I am in this lifetime.
And that goes back to when my parents were still married.
So I was like two or three.
My mom said that I used to go into the bathroom and stand on the toilet and pull up my shirt
to see if my boobies had grown.
And I would get really upset that I didn't have big boobs.
And now I $30,000 later and I do. Solved that problem.
Honestly, girl, get it. I was going to ask you, I know you've been open about body dysmorphia and
I know that doesn't just go away and where do you think that control of, because that's essentially
a control thing of you're trying to control how were you, what do you think now you look back,
you're trying to achieve?
I think ultimately at the time that I was going through it,
it was loss of control because of the dynamic
between myself and my stepfather
and having no like, no autonomy whatsoever.
And like not being able to have friends
or to leave the house or to even like,
do things freely inside the house. But prior to that, it was just a feeling of being defective or being unwanted.
And for whatever reason, I'm not sure why it manifested specifically as that and not
as addiction issues, which I've never had. But it manifested as body dysmorphia and self-esteem
I've never had, but it manifested as body dysmorphia and self-esteem instead.
Your ex-husband made headlines recently when he said
that you never got to experience being a single young woman
because you guys met when you were only 18
and he was 31 at the time.
Do you agree with him?
Like, do you feel like you missed out on anything
because of that relationship?
I feel like, first of all, let me just say,
I was not a great girlfriend to Brian.
I will be very honest.
And like, he was not great to me either all the time,
but I think it would be easy for me to lean into
and complain about or let
it seem like that relationship was one way that maybe I was not great, because I was
young and really should not have been in a relationship of that level of commitment and
that magnitude with that. I shouldn't have been involved in that when I was 18, 19, 20,
21, 22, 23. I shouldn't have been. So I did a lot of like falling in love
with other people all the time.
I would go to work and fall in love because I was a kid.
And yeah, I never had the full freedom
to like be single and experience that life.
And I thought for a minute when I got divorced
that that's what I was gonna do. And I was for a minute when I got divorced that that's what I was going to do.
And I was single for like three weeks. And then you just met that guy. Yeah, I thought I was
really going to go full like Leo DiCaprio for a while. That would have been really like fun to
watch. Everyone says that. Everyone agrees.
I now need to know because you referenced in the beginning of this interview, like,
it literally makes your skin crawl when you think about marriage, but you did get married.
Like, how did you decide to do that?
I think because then I was so unaware of my feelings because I was so much younger.
And this is before I had my kids and most of my growth and like awareness came
after childbirth.
So prior to that, I was very, I just wasn't aware
that oh, marriage makes me feel any particular way.
That was something I did kind of impulsively.
Also, it was like an adventure to go on and to do.
And I'd already been with him for so many years at that point. And I do feel like,
karmically, I was supposed to have those kids with him, of course. So I didn't realize, you know,
I wasn't looking at myself being like, oh, I'm reenacting my mother's life, or I'm carrying my
mother's burdens, or I'm carrying my mother's burdens.
Or I'm carrying the things that she projected onto me.
I was not able to recognize any of that.
I was just in the moment and had not had therapy
or anything like that.
And I had not started reading and educating myself.
So I was just acting and doing.
And I got myself into a relationship,
which I of course found no shade to Brian, unfulfilling, because
inevitably that's what I was going to do because I was reenacting what I watched my mother do as a
child. Yeah. Yeah. I think that's something that's fascinating when you get into therapy. You're like,
oh, fuck. I literally said I didn't want to be like my mother and I'm turning into my mother and it's
on us obviously to take some accountability of our lives to be like, mother and I'm turning into my mother and it's on us obviously to like
take some accountability of our lives to be like pause how do I try to change this but it's really
fucking hard to not do what we saw growing up when I think about you and and since the rise of your
career I feel like your name in the public eye has been synonymous with the phrase sex symbol, right? How does that make you
feel? I've never been like particularly attached to that, to be honest. I'm not like, I don't have
an emotional reaction to that. I don't believe, but let me sit here and analyze it while you're
asking me. I think it adds pressure to a girl who, like I said, has body dysmorphia
and didn't really ever see herself that way. And the things that I thought were my strengths,
like my mind, my intelligence, or my sense of humor, which is granted like very niche
sometimes, but those things are not acknowledged
and instead I'm being acknowledged for something
that I don't identify with or as.
And so that's almost like this artifice,
it's like forcing me to wear a character
that I don't actually, I wasn't trying to wear.
And then also you assign the character to me
and then you torture and demonize the character.
And I was never that, I was never her.
Like you created her and then you murdered her.
And that, I love that I started this out by being like,
I don't have an emotional attachment to this.
Like you fucking killed me bitch.
But I think to just being called a sex symbol,
I don't initially have a reaction.
But to the whole process of what really happened
and it goes, it's into just being famous in general
and the process of fame has been really haunting to be honest because like I said
the media and people built up this character and then decided to destroy her because I don't know why there's a need to worship and then destroy.
Worship and then destroy.
And I was always a sensitive kid,
but I had to wear armor to survive my childhood.
And I had to wear armor to survive being famous.
And so there's this energy of me
of that I don't give any fucks. And to some degree, that's true in terms of I would never change anything
about myself in order to get someone to like me. So in that way, I don't give any fucks.
That doesn't mean that I don't get my feelings hurt. And that when I'm being bullied or dragged,
that that doesn't cause me to be mentally unwell sometimes because it absolutely does and did.
And in 2009, crossing into 2010, I had been famous not even that long, only a couple of
years but the fame was so heightened, it was so intense that all the energy started peaking
and I was going through this process of,
I was getting crucified in the press every day.
And on whatever the blogs were at that time,
there was no social media, but like Perez Hilton and like,
was it Nicki Swift?
There was some other bloggers, so mean, Daily Mail, whatever.
Do you remember what they would like say about you?
The same exact things they say right now.
You could swap the articles from this year with 2009 and 2010.
It's the exact same thing.
Obviously like being a slut, being a whore.
Now I have kids for people to project on and be like, but you're a shitty mom.
I didn't have that at the time, but it was just like, you're a shitty person for whatever
reason.
Plastic surgery, fake, talentless.
There's so many headlines. I used to get chased by paparazzi who would be like,
Megan, everybody's saying that you're overrated.
Do you think that you're overrated?
Megan, everybody's saying that you shouldn't have got your nose done that you're overrated? Megan, everybody's saying that you shouldn't
have got your nose done.
Nobody likes your new nose.
Are you embarrassed that you got your nose done?
Are you sad?
Do you regret getting your nose done?
Megan, why are you such a bitch?
Why does nobody like you?
Like grown men, right?
Chasing you with, back then this was like TMZ cameras.
They don't talk to you like that anymore,
but back then they did.
So you're in life getting bullied
by actual grown adult men with cameras everywhere you go.
Then there's like the online presence
of just getting torn to shreds
for everything that you do, everything that you wear,
how you look, every single flaw, every pimple,
every scar, every five pounds you gain,
five pounds you lose, you can't win. And that energy
was peaking and it was every day. And during 2009, they had a blackout, a Megan Fox blackout,
where the media all agreed to not post any content about me for a whole day. Which by the way,
I was like, I hope you do this every day. Thank you.
But that attitude was that, oh, this is that I was a fame whore or an attention whore,
which is the opposite of the truth.
I'm extremely introverted and horrified by having to be in front of people or cameras.
But it got so bad at that point.
I was just like, Hey, I can't survive the criticism
and the bullying anymore.
I actually can't live every time I step out of my house,
someone has something to say about how I look,
or it's gonna be, it started to become a witch hunt
where I felt like tabloids would send photographers
with the intention of getting a bad photograph
or getting a bad story.
This was around the time, it may have been a little before, but it was in the years of
when Brittany shaved her head.
And so the media at that time, they were on witch hunts and they would set out to try
and find something negative.
The ugliest picture they could get to splash it everywhere. Because
that's what people want to... That gets the most engagement, obviously, even back then before
socials existed. And that's when I sort of stepped away for a long time. And I was like,
I'm good to just not be involved in this anymore because I actually can't sustain this amount of
damage. It's not normal. And I also feel like it was kind of just me at that time. Whereas
now, all of us get it. There's so many other girls that are
getting it constantly. But back then, it really was kind of just
me. There wasn't another actress that was getting it the same way
I was getting it.
Like as I'm listening to you, it's first of all, it's fucking
exhausting. Like I cannot imagine,
and what you're sharing with me in the beginning of this,
being like at such a young age, I looked in the mirror
and I was like, I literally cannot connect
with my physical appearance.
And it's so hard for me to look at myself and be like,
is that me in the mirror?
I don't feel that way.
To know the eating disorders and the body
is more feel like what you were going through,
how exacerbated it then became because you became famous. If you had to say, and I know there's like no answer, but like
why do you think people are so obsessively trying to pick at you and pull you down?
I don't know. I think like if I were to try and speak about it from a spiritual angle, that's...
I'm the architect of this experience and so I'm drawing this to me because my soul needs to
learn and deal with these feelings and be able to transcend this. I believe in a past life I
actually was burned at the stake for being a
witch. So I think that's an energy that I've had like through lifetimes and it's carried into this
lifetime as well because that is essentially what is happening today every day. People don't realize
it but they all wake up and they're just a reincarnated medieval mob and they have their
pitchfork and their lantern and they're like, who do we get to burn the stake today?
Who do we get to cancel today?
Who do we get to destroy today?
And that's the first thing they do.
They go on Twitter and they're like, what's trending?
This, I wanna join in on this.
And that's also something that should be studied is like,
why do people want to join in on something so,
which is essentially psychological violence? Why do you want to join in on that?
Because I think most people, if you were walking on the street and you saw me or you saw Kim
or Kylie or any of these other girls and we were being beaten by a mob of people, your
instinct is not going to be to join the mob and to beat us.
It would probably be to either the mob and to beat us, it would probably be
to either help or to go get help. However, when you watch that same thing happen online,
and it's the psychological violence, the instinct is to join. And that's a very weird,
that's a very weird instinct that people have that they should ask themselves, like, why do I want to be a part of tormenting,
torturing, mocking, making fun of, or bullying
when we do understand the ramifications
and the danger of doing this?
It's such a good way to look at it,
and it's fucking terrifying.
And I think that as I'm sitting here listening to you,
I also just have to acknowledge
you are conventionally a beautiful woman.
You have been called in certain years
the most beautiful woman in the world.
And I think people cannot accept that you could have it all.
You can't be this beautiful and be smart.
You can't be that beautiful and be a good person.
And I think it brings so many insecurities out in people
when they look at you.
I think for women,
like I remember I just saw a TikTok of this woman
who was like, I just lost a hundred pounds
and my life is so different
because I used to walk in rooms
and women would befriend me and men treated me like shit.
And now it's the opposite.
I walk in a room and every fucking woman
looks at me like a threat.
And every man is opening the door for me,
treating me like a queen.
And I'm like, whoa,
I just lived two different fucking experiences in a year.
And I'm like, which one would I choose?
But I think you threaten women
because you're confident and beautiful
and educated and smart.
And we're all like, fuck you, you can't be like that.
But to men, I mean, I was gonna read this to you.
I was like, what the fuck is wrong with the world?
I read an old article, okay?
And they described you as a screensaver
on a teenage boy's laptop, a middle-aged lawyer's shower fantasy, and a sexual prop used to sell movies.
Like, the objectification of you, Megan Fox, is so much larger than you.
It is like the embodiment of misogyny and what's wrong with our fucking
society. And it's terrifying even hearing though it come from your own voice of like,
I didn't ask for this. I didn't, I'm not out there selling my body and my soul to this. Like,
I'm just trying to do my job. And somehow people are like, take her the fuck down. Like,
my job and somehow people are like, take her the fuck down. Yeah, it was always confusing to me because I never really did anything bad.
I was never associated with drugs or alcohol.
I was never around until recently anyone who's been associated with drugs or alcohol.
I was never caught at clubs.
I was never caught at clubs, I was never arrested. I was never, I never did anything outside of having like
a kind of Andy Kaufman-esque sense of humor,
which people don't understand.
That is my greatest crime.
And so it was very hard to understand in the beginning.
And I'll be honest with you, it's hard to keep enduring it
because I did step away for a decade
and I did all this work on myself spiritually
and thought that I was transcending and growing
and becoming a better person.
And so when I got divorced and I started dating Colson
and inevitably I was sort of thrust back into the light,
the synthetic light, not the real light.
And I thought that either it would be different,
I would be attracting a different experience
to myself this time because my level of consciousness
was so much higher, or my ability to deal with it
would be so much better at this point
because I was a different person.
And I have not found that to be the case at all.
Like I've been doing it, it's going on the fourth year now.
And it is wearing me down, I'll be honest.
Like it's very hard, I think,
because I don't have a family support system
or like a large group of, I don't feel that I belong
because I am, I do feel so alone.
Like you said, when you have to deal with something
and you don't have siblings
or you feel like you're by yourself, you internalize and then it can become very grim very quickly.
And I do, I am kind of getting to the end of my rope with that. I'll be honest. Like
I'm, I'm, I'm struggling with it again. It feels like I was in a wormhole. Like I left
2009 and I'm like right back in where I left off
and there was no growth, which makes me feel defeated.
And I just, I really, I can't believe how
negative human beings are and how
cruel they need to be to everyone.
This is not just me, but that also weighs on me because I have
kids and I have one kid who's like an artistic savant and that kid will inevitably be in the
spotlight somehow. It's impossible that they won't. And I know how cruel the world is because I've
lived through it and I don't think I can endure watching what my child is gonna have to go through.
So I'm really struggling with that as well of like not wanting my kids to have to be exposed.
I was gonna say it's also just like this vicious cycle like you said like everyone builds someone
up we've seen it with so many stars online and then the minute you're at the top they break you
down and I already know it's like if you disappear disappear again, and you go away, oh my God, we miss Megan.
It happened to me twice.
When I went away, there was like this surge of like,
I hate this phrase, but it applies.
I would not normally say this.
There was that peak in energy
where I was getting crucified every day.
I went away, I disappeared.
I was like, fine, fuck it, you win.
The world had like their post-not clarity
and they were like, wait, but why did we kill her?
Why did we murder her?
She never did anything.
What did she do?
She was actually like, she was actually a positive.
She stood for a lot of really good things.
Like we should have given her our flowers.
Why did we do that?
Fuck.
And then I stepped back.
I'm like, was someone knocking?
Were you guys calling me?
I'm here.
I'm here to receive my flowers.
And it was immediate, just murder.
Immediately.
And so, experiencing that cycle, like you said,
if I were to disappear again right now,
like I did in 2009, which believe me,
I am very tempted to do because I am not well
at this moment, the same thing would happen
where people would be like, oh, but she brought,
she had this messaging, she was such a smart girl,
she was a grounded girl, she was encouraging,
she was supportive of other women,
she was this, she was that. She women, she was this, she was that.
She was, I promise you, 40 years after I'm dead, it's going to be like with not to compare
myself to Marilyn, but the way she died and then everyone's like, well, you know, she
was a genius.
You know, she had 142 IQ.
That's going to happen to me too.
Years from now I'll be dead and then somebody will have something nice to say about me.
But living, it's not gonna happen.
It's even like making me think as you're just talking
and I'm staring at you, like you are so bright
and you have so much to offer.
And it makes me sad because I know so many people
will listen to this and be like,
wait, she's actually like really fucking dope,
but it shouldn't take you sitting for an hour and talking.
If you're a kind person,
you've never done anything to anyone.
So you shouldn't have to prove yourself,
but it's like frustrating that there's this pull
and push on the internet and you just can't fucking win.
And I'm sorry, you have to deal with that.
I'm curious, like how did and how has this like extreme
focus on your look and body impacted like how did and how has this like extreme focus
on your look and body impacted your relationship to sex?
That's a good question. I have Virgo on my eighth house, so.
Megan, you gotta like talk to the girlies that are like,
bitch, I have no idea what you're talking about.
Give us like a little. I know, I know I'm trying.
I think- Google it.
Yeah, you gotta deeply Google to understand what I'm talking'm trying. I think- Google it. Yeah, you gotta deeply Google
to understand what I'm talking about there.
But I, it does affect, obviously anything that's going on
with your self-esteem affects your relationship to sex.
But I will say, I feel like as I took more control
of my body actually, because when I was younger,
it was like really scandalous to get anything done.
So my boobs have been fake by the way,
since I was 21 or two,
I got them done in between the first and second transformers,
but I had them done conservatively.
I've done this way too many times during this interview.
I hate it.
You gotta like, you gotta AI those out.
I can't keep doing that.
I'll just bump it in your face when you do it.
Okay.
Where was I?
Okay, so I had them, I had, they were very conservative
because back then you had, everyone did the work,
but you had to do work that was undetectable.
Obviously people have been doing work since Hollywood began.
The studios would bring you in and do a screen test and be like, okay, John Wayne needs a
chin implant.
Marilyn, she needs a nose.
She needs this.
She needs that.
That's the oldest story ever told.
But back at that time when I was doing it, it had to be unnoticeable.
But I always, that little girl that was in the mirror, like, where are my boobies?
I always wanted big boobies.
And so I wasn't happy with the first set.
The same thing with like,
can we just talk about plastic surgery
since we're on this?
Yeah, let's talk.
Okay, so I'm just gonna go through
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Can we just talk about plastic surgery? Okay. on this talk? Yeah, let's talk.
Okay, so I'm just gonna go through all the things
that I've done.
Love.
Because I feel like there's this stigma
and I'm not gonna win.
I'm gonna do this, I'm not gonna win.
However, I'm hoping it sets some people free.
Let's go.
Because I feel like people are like,
well, if you were to ask women, they would be like, well, we like, we,
if you were to ask women, they would be like,
well, we say these things, we bully you.
Some of my favorite comments are from women
and I don't often read them, but sometimes I'm in the mood
and I'm like, I wanna interact with a troll.
And it takes one second for them to start pouring
into my Instagram feed or my comments.
And they're often from women where I'll be like,
holy shit, that is a particularly cruel thing to say.
Who is this person?
And I'll click on it and she'll be like,
women's life coach, crystal healing,
loving God, tantric lessons, divine feminine.
And she's under my comments being like,
you know, crucifying me for being plastic or whatever.
So there's, but if you were to ask her,
she would be like, well, that's because
she perpetuates an unhealthy standard of beauty, right?
But, and so here I am, I'm gonna be fully transparent.
I still won't win because there are some girls
who have been transparent.
I don't wanna like bring people in,
but someone like a Kylie has been very transparent.
That is not helping her.
Women are still brutally dragging her just the same
and totally undeserved.
She's a beautiful, healthy, young, gorgeous girl.
And I actually feel for whatever reason, very protective.
When I watch other girls go through this.
I want to defend them or go to war for them.
But okay, I'll go through.
Here's things I haven't done
that I have been accused of doing.
And then I'll confirm the things I have done.
I've never had a facelift of any kind.
So no mid-facelift, no like lateral brow lift,
although I would like one or no regular brow lift.
I've never done threads.
I have researched them.
That's not because of some moral thing.
I just don't really believe they work.
And I'm also afraid that they would interfere
when I do need to have a facelift.
But I am very tempted to go have my eyebrows
snatched like all the way.
I want that look sometimes that seems fun.
And you can do it on a lunch break
and I see why it's so tempting.
And I have researched it, have not done it yet.
I've never had this done, what is this?
Oh, buccal fat, buckle fat.
Buccal buckle fat.
I've never had that done.
I'll never have any fat removed.
I'm a very like lean person
that doesn't have enough body fat or fat in my face.
So I will only ever put fat in.
I will never be taking fat out, which leads me to I've never had any like liposuction
or body contouring or anything like that.
I've never had what are other things you can have.
But implants.
I mean, I'd be so flattered if somebody thought I had a BBL. That ass, Megan. If I could, I would.
I don't have the extra body fat.
I would get it done if I could.
That dump truck.
And that surgery is such a hard one to recover from.
It's so insane.
It's basically like three months you
have to lay flat on your face.
It could never be me.
You're bruised for an eternity.
If I were to ever do that, I would come out with,
I would be like, if I'm going to survive that surgery,
you're going to give me an ass that's like an anomaly.
Like I'm gonna walk through a park
and I'm gonna turn around and everyone is gonna be
whispering and laughing and talking because they're like,
what, what are we looking at?
Like circus freak that if I'm going through that healing
process, you're gonna do it.
I want that.
I'm not coming out with like, Oh, did she been,
has she been like really hitting the gym lately?
Extra squats?
No, I want it to be massive.
Yeah. It's gotta be, it's gotta stop people in their tracks.
Okay. But I don't have the body fat to do that,
so that's never gonna happen.
But at the time, when in the future,
you can take donated fat from people,
I will be doing that and you will be seeing this situation.
The situation go down in the park.
Okay, what you have done.
What I have done, like I said,
I had my boobs done when I was 21 or 22.
I had them redone after I was done breastfeeding my kids
because I don't know where they went, but they went.
And then I had to have them redone very recently
because the first set,
I didn't have enough body fat to disguise.
You could see the rippling of the implant.
So I had to switch them out to this set.
I don't like surgery.
My body does not react well to general anesthesia.
And so when I go to have a surgery, it's a very big deal.
And all my doctors have to meet with me before and have to tell me if they've seen any omens,
if they saw any owls, crows, if anyone stepped on a spider, if there are any dead insects.
My doctors have to go through this with me
because I'm very afraid of dying under general anesthesia.
So I don't take surgery lightly
and therefore I have not had many of them because of that.
So that's probably a saving grace
that I have this paranoia or this fear
because God knows what I would have been up to.
Do your doctors think you're insane?
They're like, oh this bitch.
No, they love me.
No, they love me.
They're like, yes, I saw an owl,
Megan, let's reschedule. No, we all, we all.
And by the way, I'm like, I'll still pay for the surgery.
Just do not also make sure the music playlist,
no music comes up that reminds you of like
your ex-girlfriend or an ex-wife
or anything that's gonna make you upset
because you are the surgeon.
You need to be in a good head space.
If you have a fight with your wife,
do not come in for surgery.
I go through all of these protocols because-
You should make us all like a list
of like a little pre-op situation.
You don't want to, any surgery is a risk to your life.
I don't care what anyone says.
That's the truth.
Going under general anesthesia is a risk to your life.
So when I had to go in for this set,
I was like, look, if you're gonna put me to sleep,
if I'm gonna be sick for two months
from the general anesthesia, if I'm gonna feel, if I'm gonna go through,
cause I'm not fully ever asleep.
So my soul's like fighting on the surgical table to wake up.
It's a very traumatizing experience for me.
I was like, I better wake up
with the biggest boobs you can fit in my body.
And that is what he said he did.
And they're not even that big.
They're a 32 D, which is not that big.
They just look big on my body,
because my body's tiny.
Right, right.
But if he could have gone bigger,
I would have had him go bigger,
because I don't like surgery.
And the fact that I had to do it, I was like,
I want a reward for the suffering I have to go through.
I don't want to wake up with a full B cup.
There's no fucking point in that.
I'm not doing it. Right, you want titties. I want't want to wake up with a full B cup. There's no fucking point in that. I'm not doing it.
Right. You want to be I want to cities I said I want I don't
care what's on trend. Give me 1990 stripper titties. That's
what I want. And he did it. Girl, you look amazing. Thank
you. And then I had my nose done when I was in my early 20s. And
that's something I've literally been accused of having like six, seven, eight
rhinoplasty surgeries, which is impossible. Your nose would get necrosis and fall off.
I haven't had a rhinoplasty since I was, I'm going to say 23. It's been well over a decade.
I haven't, I've not touched my nose since then. We didn't contour my nose.
This, we didn't contour my nose.
No, we didn't.
Your nose looks tiny.
Shut the fuck up. Fuck Jenna.
We didn't contour it. Jenna, you're fired.
Should we contour it half?
Should we show everyone how I contour my nose?
Shut the fuck up.
You, your nose looks, no.
I can make it tiny like a little Elvin princess.
I make it so small within, within one inch of its life I contour.
And so I think people think I keep constantly working on it.
It is just the contour.
I can't believe I'm doing an interview
without nose contour on.
I'm traumatized.
You don't understand what a big deal this is.
This is like me not having done my eyebrows.
Very scary for me.
I'm traumatized that you think that your nose won't look good right now because I'm like the
fuck does my nose look like? I like to contour it down until it's just nostrils like Voldemort.
Just no nose. Just two holes here. Wait, after this can you teach me how you
contour your nose and I'll do it next to you? Yeah, but I'm I'm freaking out and I'm not I don't have it on you look so gorgeous. You're gonna keep going
This is good for you. This is good for you. She's got to keep going. Okay, so you had your nose done
You've had your tits done and what Botox and filler? That's yeah, that's it, right? Oh
there's one thing I had done that I'm gatekeeping because
Sorry, what it was it was really good and it's not a known Oh, there's one thing I had done that I'm gatekeeping because, sorry. What?
It was really good and it's not a known like plastic surgery.
People don't even really know about it.
Will you tell me off camera?
Yeah, you don't need it.
I don't think.
Really?
You're not going to want it.
I wanted it very badly and I needed to do it and it's something that...
Can you give us a hint?
No.
No.
Okay, so that's it.
Yeah, it's actually not that much. In terms of surgery, it's not that much. Now, when it comes
to lasers and stuff like that, I've done everything you could possibly think of doing, and I always
will. I don't understand the point of shaming people for getting stuff done. Granted, I'm not
encouraging anyone to do anything crazy.
And like I said, you need to be very safe
and very careful when you do any of this stuff,
even fillers, like people that get fillers in their nose,
you can get necrosis from that.
Like none of this shit is really safe.
It all comes with a risk.
So I'm not encouraging people to just go out like blindly
and do things, you should do your research.
However, it's a very weird thing to shame somebody for.
And coming back to your question about sex,
the more that I've taken control of my body
and done the things that I've always wanted to do,
the more comfortable I am in my body
and the more freedom I have sexually
and the more embodied I feel sexually
and am more like playful and
confident in that way versus when I was wearing a body that didn't feel like my body because
I always wanted it to be different.
Yeah, I appreciate you sharing that though because I think you're right.
It's like to the women that are shaming women for getting work done, if you are so triggered,
that probably means you
have an insecurity. Where maybe you've thought of getting fillers or Botox or something, but maybe
you're too scared, so then you shame women that have done it. And if you don't want it, why do
you care if another woman gets it? It's all projection. When someone is so angry looking
at you, it is based in some form of jealousy. We have to just call it what it is.
But also where does the logic end of why won't you take it to shaming people for coloring their hair?
So true.
You know what I'm saying? Or wearing gel nails or where does that logic stop?
Spray tan, yep.
What's natural enough for you and then what's fake and what's the enough for you, and then what's fake,
and what's the barometer?
And like, why do we all have to follow
some kind of a standard?
It doesn't make any sense.
Can we talk about your book for a second?
Yeah.
So you released your book, Pretty Boys Are Poisonous,
and you basically write about the fact that you
have your entire life kept the secrets of men, which again, if
anyone asks like, why it's like, we kind of talked about that
today. It's like, well, what the fuck you're gonna if you say it,
no one believes you or they shame you or they call you a
whore. Like, there's certain reasons why women don't come
forward and say these things. And you wrote a lot in this book.
One of the things, one of the common themes I wrote down
was like throughout the book,
you talk about minimizing yourself
in order to make a man or men feel comfortable
and confident and important.
When was the first time you remembered doing that
in a relationship?
Like bringing yourself down.
So tricky because my relationships are public.
So it's hard to say, but I would say very early on,
like when I first started going to award shows
and things like that, feeling judged for my naive excitement over first experiencing some
kind of success or being at, like, oh my God, I'm at the MTV Awards.
Like, whoa, this is so cool.
And not being met with what felt to be criticism or judgment and then me shrinking and receiving the message that it was embarrassing to
like these things or to be happy to be a part of these things and that I needed to
quell that and reject it maybe. Have you ever had someone that
ever had someone that had a very strong opinion to be like, you're not allowed to wear that, or don't be as outgoing at events? How controlling have you experienced relationships become?
I haven't had somebody control clothing and things like that. But definitely, yeah, definitely just down to like
maintaining too much eye contact with someone else
or having, being too curious during a conversation
or to the point where it's like,
well, I just won't talk to anyone.
I just won't look at anyone.
I won't shake anyone's hand.
Like I'll just sit.
And that's one of the poems you're referring to is,
I think it was the art of becoming an accessory
and feeling like an accessory where I'm there,
but why am I there?
And what am I doing?
I don't have like, I don't have a presence here
because I'm not allowed to be.
Another theme is toxicity in the book.
I wanted to read you this particular line.
I prefer the agonizing psychological abuse of this trauma bond to the prosaic tedium of a regular
life. Why do you think you gravitate towards toxicity over stability. Because stability sounds boring.
I get it.
It does.
And that's the truth.
It sounds like it's not romantic.
It doesn't sound like it's passionate.
The literal definition of passion is to suffer.
And it doesn't, it just sounds,
I would rather be in something.
This is not to encourage others to do this,
but my personal psychosis and issue
is that I would prefer to be in something dramatic
and toxic versus something stable.
Keep in mind, I've never experienced like truly stable. So if I were to honestly
experience it, I would probably have a lot of peace and would accept it. But I've never
had it. So to me, the idea of it sounds very boring.
I want to read part of this heartbreaking poem that you wrote because it's fucking heartbreaking. You say, there was a time where I had never heard a man
call me stupid, pathetic, bitch, cunt, slut, idiot.
And there was also a time when I had never felt
a man's hands hit me, suffocate me,
or throw me to the ground.
But now, if one of those things hasn't happened by Wednesday,
I consider it a miracle.
When I read that to you, how does it make you feel?
I dissociate from the physical violence a lot.
Even when I talk to my therapist,
I have yet to be able to have like
a strong emotional reaction to that
because I compartmentalized
that.
And that sort of just jumped over my, my, my logic, my logical brain and went right
into my body.
So I need to probably do a lot of like somatic therapy to work on that.
But I am not able to feel emotional when I write about it or when I talk about it.
It's basically like describing a movie.
The gaslighting and the name calling and the mental emotional abuse, I do get very emotional
about that.
I am very like present with that.
But how do I feel about it?
I don't know.
Well, part of me feels like exposed because I wrote this book with things like that in
it.
And so to hear someone else read it, I'm like, okay, I wrote that for everyone to read for
all of eternity, they can revisit that book.
And I did it, but I did it for a reason.
Why did you do it?
One for myself, I think because obviously it was therapeutic to get it out and to get it out in a way that's different
than to just talk to a therapist and like the words float away into nothingness.
To put it into a book, I know that it'll find even if it's only one person, it'll find someone
that needs to read it and they will experience some kind of healing
or some kind of inspiration from it.
And therefore that gave my pain a purpose
versus me just trying to heal privately.
It also just felt like a demon
that I needed to have exercised from my body.
Like I needed to get it out in this way.
Do you remember the first time that a man hit you?
Yes.
I can't, I don't know that I can tell the story.
I have to be so careful.
Of course, of course.
I guess I could just ask like,
once something happens more than once,
there's a way that you can almost,
I don't wanna say like normalize it, but you have,
you do.
You acclimate to it, yeah.
When it happened the first time,
do you remember your reaction
and like how you handled it and move?
Yeah, I fawned.
That was my initial reaction of freeze, fight, flight, fawn. Fawning is like,
it's a combination of freezing and then also attempting to soothe the other person.
So that was my initial reaction. And it was very, it was definitely shocking. but like I said, I almost immediately compartmentalized it
and went into the, like took on,
went into nurturing the other person
to like calm the situation.
And I don't know, I just took it on as my own burden
right away instead of feeling the trauma.
But I think that's like really relatable
and that's how fucked up it is to be a woman.
Like we're trained to like make men feel like you're,
it's okay, like make them feel comfortable.
Also because I think it's a survival mechanism
because if you can deescalate a situation with a man,
you don't know how much farther that was gonna go.
So our brain goes to, it's like,
I was talking to my therapist about this the other day. She was like, I call it like the blowjob effect. It's like when
you're about to get sexually abused or something's about to happen. It's like you can rationalize
like, okay, if I just give him a blowjob, that will stop me from having to have sex with him.
And then people will shame you like you gave him a oh, so then but so you did do it's like,
you don't know what's going to happen. They could have a gun, they could try to fucking kill you.
We know what men are capable of.
And so there's moments where it's just survival.
Again, I think it's such a privileged standpoint
when people would be like,
what do you mean you soothed him?
I know exactly what you mean.
You immediately go into survival mode
of how do I completely deescalate the situation.
The poem you wrote called Rape,
did anyone in your life know that you had survived
that type of sexual abuse before you wrote this poem?
Yeah.
Not my parents or like my family,
but people that I've been with like have known, yeah.
Did your family reach out to you once the book came out?
No. Interesting. Did that shock you?
No. I'm so sorry. That's okay. I mean, that's...
But that's telling of the relationship. Yeah, that's, that perfectly reflects as I would
anticipate it to. Yeah. Yeah. We're that perfectly reflects as I would anticipate it too.
Yeah.
We're gonna move on to your relationship a little bit.
Okay.
Okay.
Mr. MGK. We're gonna move on to your relationship a little bit.
Okay.
Okay.
Mr. MGK, obviously this book has a lot of heavy topics and I know you clarified on multiple
interviews you did, like I'm not just writing about one person,
I'm talking about my life experience. But how did that book just like, impact your relationship
in the moment? Did it open wounds? Did you have to have a lot of conversations? Like, I can imagine
it was tough. Yeah, and because some of the poems are about him. And they're obviously about him,
like, yeah, 32 year old narcissist attempts to quantify his crimes is very is about him. Like a 32 year old narcissist attempts to quantify his crimes. It's about him and
he knows it's about him. And there are other ones like Ghost of Christmas Future, obviously
about him. But I also didn't really write anything about him that he hasn't said about
himself in his own music. However, that doesn't make it any less sensitive for him to experience me writing about
it. Because obviously he feels in control when he's telling his own story or even like maybe he's
able to hide behind the music a little bit, even though he's saying all the same things. It felt
different in this format. So obviously he would have to be asked for his experience, but it was
not easy. And I think he was like really nervous and worried because there's a lot of explosive
content in the book, obviously. And there was some fear there. And also, I mean, some
of them are about him and are savage. They are, Megan. They definitely are.
They're... Go read the book, everyone.
I feel like everyone has such like an opinion on your guys' relationships.
You got engaged, then I think it was called off, then we don't know what's going on with you.
How would you describe your relationship with MGK?
describe your relationship with MGK? I think that what I've learned from being in this relationship is that it's not for
public consumption.
So I think as of now, I don't have a comment on like the status of the relationship per
se.
What I can say is that is what I refer to
as being my twin soul.
And there will always be a tether to him, no matter what.
I can't say for sure what the capacity will be,
but I will always be connected to him somehow.
Beyond that, I'm not willing to explain,
but all those things you said were accurate,
things that have occurred,
and I could see them being confusing or interesting to people and them being like, But all those things you said were accurate, things that have occurred.
And I could see them being confusing or interesting to people and them being like, what's up?
Yeah.
I mean, yeah, I think the reality is like reading your book, I was like, holy fuck,
this is some of this is traumatizing.
This is scary.
This is sad.
This is really relatable.
Like I think, and I think that's what you just explained
you wanted to do with the book is like,
I think a lot of women, which is unfortunate and sad
for us as women, that a lot of people can be like,
uh-huh, I've experienced that and that and that.
And I think what's sad is like so many people
probably don't know how many women have gone through that.
How many women have normalized getting hit
or getting verbally, physically, emotionally abused.
Like it's everywhere.
It's one in three women.
Like it's so fucking prevalent
and I think our culture likes to just turn a blind eye
and pretend it's not happening.
So like, I appreciate you writing the book, but I agree.
I think a lot of people are like, you okay?
Like, are we still in this relationship?
And that's for you to decide.
Like, I don't think, I think you're right.
It's like for everyone, fuck off.
You're gonna decide what you're gonna do.
And also he gets to write his fucking music.
And I think you as an actor, it's not like you get to be like,
let's change this role to be more like that.
Like this is an expression for you
that I bet was like healing in a way.
To be like, put it out and let it go.
Yeah, it also is written just from the like one angle
of my perspective, meaning this was me being like,
I'm writing this from my anger of all these men,
all these experiences that I have had.
It's not an objective view of my roles in the relationship.
Like I said, like I failed many times
inside the different relationships
and was not a flawless.
Yeah.
I was not a pure victim.
I did plenty of things and provoked plenty of things, not in terms of violence, but I
provoked pain or issues inside the relationship as well with my behavior.
But the book was not written in a holistic way.
It was written from my anger and my pain needed to speak and that's what the book is.
Yeah.
Okay.
I have a couple more fun questions.
Okay.
First of all,
because we're gonna transition and help the girlies out.
Okay.
How have you gotten to a place in your life
where you do not give a fuck
about what other people think and their opinions?
I have not gotten to that place in my life.
Oh, wait, Megan, I thought you did.
No, no.
No, no, no, we still care.
No, I guess like I said earlier, it is a thing of like,
I would never change anything about myself
to appease someone.
Yeah.
Like publicly, I would never do that.
I actually had to one time during,
Brian was in a custody case with his child.
And sometimes a part of the process is everybody has to do a psych evaluation.
So all four adults had to undergo psychiatric evaluations.
And mine came back and they took note of the fact that I was one of the only people that
had never attempted to slant the test because it's human nature to want your best self to
be seen. So when people are being tested, it's often that they will not lie per se,
but mislead or like present a truth that isn't entirely accurate out of wanting to be liked.
And I don't have that function or that mechanism. So they took note of the fact that that was completely
absent from my psych evaluation,
but not in a like sociopath way.
But in a way where I'm just not somebody who's gonna bend
unless I'm only doing what I believe in, the ends.
Like that will never change.
But that doesn't mean that it doesn't hurt my feelings
when people spew venom or negativity or hatred towards me.
I'm very permeable actually, because I'm very sensitive.
And yes, I've been wearing that armor,
but the armor is heavy.
And at a certain point in my life,
I was down to get some blood on my blade and like go
to war if I needed to. But I'm tired now. And it's actually wearing on me a lot in this particular
moment for whatever reason, things are coming to a head for me. And I'm not in a place where I don't
give a single fuck, I do get hurt. That won't change who I am and how I am and how I speak
and how I proceed with my life.
But I do still feel the pain of that.
How do you as a mother handle knowing people
are like gonna try to get at your kids
through you and knowing you?
Like, are you paranoid at all with that?
Yeah, I lose a lot of sleep about that, especially because
at least one of them is I know going to be in the public.
Probably all three of them. They're like drop dead,
gorgeous kids. And, you know, they're both of their parents
are actors and in this industry. So it's likely that they're
going to have some type of public platform at a certain
point. I worry about that every day.
Do you talk to them about that yet?
Not yet.
My oldest is 11.
And my kids were not allowed, they weren't raised with screens.
And they don't have iPads or anything like that at my house or phones.
I can't keep that up forever.
Eventually that will happen.
I'm trying to delay it as long as possible.
But when they get a little bit older, it's still too early. And it's also, I don't want to put the weight of my experience on them.
I want them to have their own experience. And I don't want to preload it by being like,
this is all the suffering that mommy's been through. This is how the world treats mommy.
Mommy's never been loved. Mommy's always been bullied. Mommy's always, mommy doesn't belong. Like they don't need to feel that. So I haven't found the
right way to talk to them about that, but I will have to with certainty. And yes, I
lose a lot of sleep about that. Somebody should ask Brian that question. He's watched me cry
so many times. He's always like, are you okay? Because every school meeting I'm just
weeping like I'm always crying because I know what's coming and I'm not able to live in this
moment because I know what's ahead and I'm not prepared emotionally to have to do it.
I can't do it. It's a lot. Yes. Okay, you're going to give the girls... I thought you said
they were fun. It's right here, right here, right here. Okay. You are going to give the girls... I thought you said they were fun questions. No, it's right here.
Right here.
Right here.
Okay.
You are funny, by the way.
Thank you.
We should do like a part two where we only talk about funny shit.
Okay.
We just let you go.
Okay.
I want to get your take on a couple of scenarios.
Okay?
What would you say to someone who...
And then like it's a girl going through it.
Okay.
This girl sees a hot guy at a bar, but it's too nervous to go up
to him and make the first move. What would you say to her? It's not going to be worth it anyway.
Mekin. It's not. You're like, you're the same bitch that's getting fucking cum in your mouth.
Like go home. It's not going to be worth it. Go home. It's not going be worth it. Go home. It's not gonna be good. Would you ever go up and
approach a guy? I can't be bothered. It's not. What do they give you really? What do you get out of
it? Really? I'm sorry. Have you ever gotten a magical dick? Have you ever been gotten a sacred
gotten a sacred dicking down where you're like a better human afterwards? Have you?
Because if you have, please tell me.
But in my experience, that's not what happens and it's not worth the drama that they bring
and they cause.
It's not worth it.
Your dick needs to be in direct proportion to the drama that you cause.
And if it's not, then you need to fuck the fuck off.
Oh, they'd be so little or they'd be huge.
There would be no like medium boyfriend size dicks anymore. Right.
We how did you meet Colson?
Did he go up to you? Oh, no. Oh, no.
No. For the audience.
I did not connect to those things. So I just want to make sure
that's not an ongoing continuation of a sentence. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes.
But how did you meet him? Did you go up to him? I met him on set and we were in a scene together.
Right. The music video. No, no, no. It was before that. We were doing a movie that will forever be
upset that we're, we met on the set of that movie,
but we were doing a scene and I had seen his picture
before he showed up and I knew just from his picture,
I was like, I recognized that person
and then I looked in his eyes and I was like,
oh yeah, it's you, I've known you for thousands of years.
So we were in a situation where it wasn't really
about one person coming up to the other.
Got it. He's very shy and he's he'll tell you he's very awkward as well. So he's not somebody who
like picks up girls. He's just gorgeous and a famous musician. So he gets them easily. But
if if he was not famous, he would be struggling because he's not he's not good at that. He isn't. He's a brilliant musician.
He's not good at picking up girls or conversations.
Are you good at it?
I would say that's so subjective,
but no, I don't think I'm good at it
because I don't like to, I don't,
I see how girls flirt.
I don't like, I can't be bothered to do that.
I also ask them questions they've never been asked before
that they don't want to answer.
Like, like the questions you're asking me
and shit we're talking about now where I'm like,
what's your deepest mother wound?
Like no, no guy likes to talk about that shit,
especially right away when they don't know you.
Right, you're like, let's talk about what happened,
what happened in the childhood.
They're like, huh? Yeah, what happened, what happened in the childhood. They're like, huh?
Yeah, what are you most traumatized by?
What's your weirdest fetish?
What's your like, yeah, they don't like to feel exposed.
So I'm not a good.
I'm not good at that.
Because they just want you to be pretty and really dumb.
And I don't like to play that game.
I agree.
What if a girl keeps comparing herself to her best friend?
How do you stop comparing yourself to women?
That's a great question.
I don't know that I've ever been in that.
You mean from like a standpoint of jealousy
comparing to or, and more of like an envy
because there's so many,
it could have a venomous element
or it could just be like,
wow, I'm really proud of my best friend.
I wish I could get my shit together and be like that.
There's different aspects to it.
One, I think is not necessarily unhealthy
to be inspired by your friends and to take notes
and wanna move in that direction.
But if it's unhealthy and it's toxic,
I don't know that I have great advice.
Like you have to start working on yourself and because you have insecurities and things if it's unhealthy and it's toxic, I don't know that I have great advice.
Like you have to start working on yourself
and because you have insecurities and things
that you need to heal and probably desires
need to be satiated and all of these other things
that you need to work on because jealousy
will always be there with your friend
or with just all others.
Socks.
Okay, what if a girl is hung up on a guy
who ghosted her after a date? What do we do, Megan? I don't know. I can't be friends with that person.
You can't be friends with the girl? No. No. What do you mean? Is that rude?
No, what do you mean? Is that rude? I can't be friends with that person. She's upset after she went on a date with a guy one time and he ghosted her.
And she still is obsessing over him?
No, yes. You can't be friends with her.
I can't do that.
That wasn't the question.
You're like, I cannot be friends with her. I can't do that. That wasn't the question. I can't do that.
You're like, I cannot be friends with her.
Oh my god, I'm peeing.
Oh my god, I'm peeing.
We were not friends with her.
Okay, what about a girl that's too afraid to tell her partner that she's never had an orgasm?
Mmm.
Well, you gotta just, you gotta do that.
You gotta, you gotta say that.
That's, that is, I feel like all of us have been in that position You gotta just, you gotta do that. You gotta say that.
That is, I feel like all of us have been in that position
at one time or another.
That is not worth living like that though.
You cannot, what is the fear that he's gonna feel
so insecure or so overwhelmed?
How would you do it?
Is the question specifically,
I've never had an orgasm with you
or I've never had an orgasm?
With you.
That's a different question.
Okay.
How long has it been?
Well, I'm making this up.
Well, if it's been a week versus 10 years,
that's a different conversation.
It's been like a year.
Ooh, that's a long time because now you're a liar. That's a long time to keep up that lie.
Cause now you're a fucking liar, you cunt.
No, but now you have to answer for,
well, why have you been lying for a year?
Like, don't let it get to that point.
I understand the fear of being intimidated
or worrying or whatever. You can't
live like that. You have to understand that a orgasm, if
he's entitled to an orgasm, you are entitled to an orgasm, the
end. So don't let anything, any kind of fear talk you out of
being able to speak that truth. This is your body and orgasms
actually keep women very healthy. It's a vitamin. And you
have to prioritize that. So
don't be afraid. And if he has a problem with that, he is not for you. And I promised you the
dick wasn't that good anyway, obviously, because you're not coming. Amen. Okay, Megan, last question.
What do you think this next chapter of your life will look like for you? I feel like you're about
to disappear. This is the last we ever saw Megan Fox.
I am on like the cliff of that.
I don't know.
I'm either gonna really have some kind of like breakthrough
where I do transcend into some like blissful
higher level of consciousness
or find some kind of purpose being in service to people
or I will disappear again.
I feel like I handled that wrong the first time though
and I regret some of those years that I lost. So I don't think I'll repeat that. However,
I am on the precipice of what am I about to do and I don't know.
Well, we'll be looking for you. Megan Fox, thank you so much for calling me on Caller Daddy. This
was overdue and it was perfect.
Thank you.
Thank you for staying up so late.
It's midnight.
Let's go.
We did it.
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Okay, Daddy Gang, today I'm going to mix you up a cocktail with two of my favorite ingredients,
Patron Tequila and Unwell Hydration.
This drink is the only thing Matt and I
have been drinking at night, so get ready, here we go.
I was actually a bartender in college.
Um, I was horrible.
I remember this one guy, I'm at the bar,
it's like my third night on the job,
and he is asking me for an Old Fashioned.
Then he asks me for a Manhattan,
and I keep being like, sir, you know what?
We're actually, we're out of those ingredients.
Or I'm like, I just feel like,
that's not like your vibe tonight.
Like, I don't really think you wanna drink that.
And he's like, okay, what do I want?
I literally got him a cup of ice,
and I just poured tequila in it,
and I was like, here, drink what I drink.
That was just my lazy way of saying, like,
I don't know how to make any of that, sir,
but smile, but everything's gonna be okay.
I mean, he gave me a fat tip.
Work smarter, not harder.
But today, I don't need to be a mixologist.
I have the two ingredients that I need.
I'm actually gonna add a third soda water.
Revolutionary.
This cocktail calls for two ounces of Patron Tequila.
Boom.
Today, I am using the Reposado.
I'm a Reposado girl.
Next, we are gonna do the Kiwi Pineapple Unwell Hydration.
This is gonna be the drink of summer.
I can already feel it.
We're gonna fill it up almost to the top with unwell
and we're gonna do a splash of club soda.
I'm someone that likes a little bit of bubbly,
but not too much.
Wait, so sexy.
We're gonna do a little douse.
A little bit of, and now kiwi.
Yeah, I got fresh kiwi for this.
Oh wait, you guys, you know how bartenders do that
where it's like a little,
wait, does that look cute?
Was this unnecessary?
Yes, with tequila, you're gonna need a little bit
of that pineapple.
Oh my God.
I mean, gorge.
Does that look so bad? Maybe we'll put it in there. Is that weird to put it in there? I'm gonna put a globber. I'm gonna put a piece of pineapple in my drink.
That looks disgusting. Cut this.
This literally makes me think about my wedding. I kept having Patrone and just like a splash of
pineapple because when you're on the beach like I feel like that's all you want. It literally makes me think about my wedding. I kept having Patrone and just like a splash of pineapple
because when you're on the beach,
like I feel like that's all you want.
This is delicious.
And on the side of your Patrone, little guacamole.
Never hurts.
Woo!
Daddy gang, thank you so much for making this drink
with me and Patrone.
I am so excited for you guys.
Tag me if you make this cocktail.
Tell me what you think.
I kinda was born to be a bartender. Let's not lie. Cheers. Thanks Patron. Love ya.