Actress Tiffany Haddish praises the health benefits of drinking toxic turpentine in unbelievable interview

Link to the GQ interview.

Oh man. I really really like Caity Weaver from her Gawker days. And I was really liking Haddish...until now.

OK wait Haddish told a DL EST in the interview:

[quote] “There was this actress there,” continues Haddish, keeping her voice low, “that's just, like, doing the mostest.” One of the most things she did? “She bit Beyoncé in the face.”

OK, DL, surely someone can address the turpentine issue?!

I have always heard people tell of taking a teaspoon full of turpentine with sugar for a chest cold but it was not done in my house. I definately have seen people use it to deworn litters of rabbit dogs. It’s derived from pine trees and not petroleum based.

WebMD recognizes it’s use for toothaches, so I imagine it is safe for consumption in small doses.

Incidentally, I had an old maid great-aunt who would eat a couple of tablespoons of Vick’s Vaporub when she had a cold. It would turn her teeth an unbelievable purple-ish blue for a day or so.

Wow, strange. There are a lot of people on YouTube and online in general calling themselves experts or gurus without qualifications, very scary. I hope she at least checked with her doctor first - I like her, she's really funny - I heard her on a podcast and she had a lot of childhood trauma (her mother was mentally ill and abusive and she had to go into foster care) and has worked really hard for her success.

I've heard of it. I have a coworker who is very into... esoteric health remedies and she's recommended turpentine to me before. She uses it so it's clearly not lethal. Still I will probably pass..

Wasn’t she raised primarily in foster care? I was raised by her grandmother and this is old people talking. They go in for remedies like this as a cure-all for damn near anything. Worms in the body is a really old point, Hell even my grandma used to say that L.

By my grandma* bahaha no i was not raised by Haddish’s grandmother.

Voice recognition betrays.

"Watch your tone and take some of your incredulousness out of your tweets"

Be sure to read the whole tweet thread at r11.

r11 Nah, sorry. We shouldn't (positively) discriminate when it comes to unscientific woo-woo. I routinely call out mainly white anti-vaxxers and I sure as hell won't stop at Tiffany Haddish extolling the benefits of turpentine.

Her mom was mentally ill? Well that is often hereditary?

There may be no science behind it R13, but it's not seriously harmful, many people take it often. While not vaccinating your kid will have real consequences for them and others. But I take your point that this isn't necessarily racially motivated. I just reject that particular comparison

[quote] I was raised by her grandmother and this is old people talking. They go in for remedies like this as a cure-all for damn near anything

Oh, yeah. My next door neighbor's mother advises putting chicken fat up your nose to relieve sinus pressure. I kid you not. Hey, let's introduce some bacteria on a direct pathway to your brain! She's country folk and there was no way her daughter and I could unconvince her.

I used to teach ESL back in the day. I had a cold one week and a Vietnamese student brought me a bottle of wintergreen oil and swore up and down that taking a spoonful would alleviate my symptoms. Of course, the bottle said topical use only.

Her condescending superiority confuses folk wisdom with the delusions of an ignorant trash-mouth.

Kiss that Oscar gig goodbye, Miss Hashish, you nattering shit head.

[quote]“Honey, back during slavery — let me teach you something, okay?”

[quote]“There’s worms inside your body. There are worms inside your body.”

[quote]My thought patterns was coming quick, quick, quick. Girl, you just look it up — just do the research.”

[quote]“The best doo-doo of your f*cking life.”

There are many things which seem like a very bad idea.

But, you really can't save people from themselves. You can provide warnings and direct them to sources of information, but you can't force them to believe, nor do I think we should try. I wouldn't recommend or suggest to anyone that I actually liked that they consume turpentine, but if someone wants to do something like that, I'm not really going to stop them.

There are many reported cases of people who eat paper, dirt, metal, and tons of other crap.

The information is available for people to make their own choices. This is different from cigarettes where the industry actually tried to hide scientific studies which linked them to negative health consequences. Even with the information available, smoking is legal and many people choose to do it.

Of course, that's wholly separate from the public policy issue where society must incur the myriad costs of treating people who made poor life choices. But really, where would you draw the line? Fatties are at greater risk of cardiopulmonary diseases. People who engage in unprotected sex are at higher risk of sexually transmitted diseases. It would be very difficult to draw a meaningful line between behaviors that wasn't arbitrary.

^^^ Of course, if she were feeding turpentine to children, that's a whole separate ball of wax.

Then again, we society doesn't take children who smoke away from parents - and most studies indicate that the majority of smokers not only begin smoking before the age of 18, but actually form brand preferences for the rest of their lives as young as 13 or 14.

I've never heard of her before, so I don't know her usual style of presentation or what her baseline behavior is like, but the "worms inside your body" and "My thought patterns are coming quick, quick quick" and the "let me teach you something"(having special knowledge to impart) that only they know) could be symptoms of schizophrenia or bipolar disorder with delusions associated with a manic phase. There is a spike in incidence of both disorders in women in their late thirties and early forties and given her mother's history... Or she could simply be imparting the BS old people told her.

Fucking brain dead celebrities raised up as the authority on everything and cannot be challenged simply because of their skin colour.

One of my ancient great uncles swore by chewing tar to whiten your teeth. We all thought he was crazy,but theres no denying when he died at 96 he had a mouthful of his own teeth,and they were white !

Besides turpentine, here's another use for pine tree sap: rosin baked potatoes.

I understand they are quite the delicacy though I have not had the pleasure of seeing them on any menu.

This is the way I end my career

I end my career

I end my career

This is the way I end my career!

Early in the mornin'

My aunt in Spain (who would be 105 if alive) would use ash from the wood burning stove (yep, they still had one in the '70s) to brush her teeth convinced of its abrasive properties. Her daughter took her to the dentist and claimed that he scraped ash deposits from her teeth. My mother, her sister, went through a phase of using Ivory soap to brush her teeth. I don't know if she did it because she truly believed it would clean her teeth better than Crest or to fuck with me because it freaked me out. Maybe the latter because my mother was nuts in many ways. Her sister wasn't, just an uneducated farm woman.

Even Cracker Barrel serves rosin baked potatoes. They are quite common in the south.

Will this kill her career? Is she now the wormy bitch who drinks poison?

The actress from Fault of Our Stars used to talk about eating clay until someone told her that she sounds crazy. White girl. She’s still starring in movies.

Who cares if she wants to drink turpentine it’s her body.

[quote]My next door neighbor's mother advises putting chicken fat up your nose to relieve sinus pressure.

Schmaltziest post of the day!

[quote]I have always heard people tell of taking a teaspoon full of turpentine with sugar

As I told you, boys and girls.

It's the turpentine pine gum that is medicinal, not the oil or petroleum based solvent. My deep southern white grandmother used to talk about using this for respiratory infections. It's been around for years, as a home remedy.

[quote]Incidentally, I had an old maid great-aunt who would eat a couple of tablespoons of Vick’s Vaporub when she had a cold.

I remember being fed Vick's as a kid, but I can't remember if it was my mom or one of my grandmothers who did it.

What a stupid bitch

When she hosted SNL last fall, during the opening monologue she said she was in foster care and group homes for something like 8-9 years. So yeah, I'm betting she didn't get the greatest education or close adult supervision for at least half of her childhood. I can't help feeling it contributed to saying this kind of stuff in interviews.

Dear Tiff:

My mom and family have some colorful and eccentric practices and beliefs but I’m not chatting about them in an interview.

This Tiffany isn’t too bright.

[quote] It's the turpentine pine gum that is medicinal

Is it supposed to work like Vicks VapoRub?

Any guess about the drugged out actress who bit Beyonce's face?

I'm thinking Jennifer Lawrence.

R39 LSA is convinced it’s Sanaa Lathan.

She is wearing on the nerves.

I remember someone telling me about ingesting Vicks VapoRub -- I pointed out that the label clearly says "External Use Only." I'm pretty sure turpentine doesn't even have such a label because they figure no one would be stupid enough to think it should be swallowed. (And it's not a medicine in the first place.)

Every tangible item know to mankind has a warning label, R42. Thank the dumb bastard parents who let their kids play with plastic garment wrap.

Turpentine will age you.

Turpentine wiki page

"LSA is convinced it’s Sanaa Lathan."

Donna Tubbs bit Beyonce?

Michigan water tastes like sherry wine. But Mississippi water taste like turpentine.

R21 I like her and find her very smart and funny, but I've always thought she was mentally ill. Her interviews on the circuit last summer for her big girls trip movie in particular set off tons of red flags. She told so many wildly exaggerated and straight up improbable stories as truth, that she sounds like a pathological liar at best and touched in the head at worst

The world loves a Hollywood train wreck! Less polish! More mania! Don’t say the nice, scripted thing, say the mean, regrettable thing!

I haven’t seen Girls Trip but her stand up special on Netflix was laugh free. She’s getting by on her “outrageous” persona and it’ll be interesting to see how far she can ride it.

My grandmother said that back in her day soaking your hair in gasoline was considered a cure for head lice. Just because something is old timey doesn't mean it's not bullshit.

This bitch crazy.

Vicks vapor rub has essence of turpentine in it (last time I used it was 2002). Tiffany Haddish's mom is a schizophrenic....so you know there's that.

Turpin Hydrate. We always had this stuff around when I was a kid, as my mother had chronic bronchitis. One of the medicinal ingredients was oil of turpentine. Tasted horrendous and knocked you out cold. The doctor used to prescribe "Coca Cola syrup" to be taken with cough medicines to kill the taste. They pulled it off the market late '80's, I think, as it was found to not be proven to actually be truly beneficial. You can still get it, apparently, from a compounding pharmacist. Not quite the same as drinking poison, but pretty vile just the same.

She needs to GOOP it up. Endorse a brand of carbonated turpentine that comes in assorted flavors: acai berry, pomegranate, and green tea.

This explains so much.

R51 is our resident dullard, bumping old threads with inane comments because he got busted back when he bumped them with just one word.

She should just drink the entire bottle, a non-entity who'd do/say anything to be famous

Slaves used to use this and other..."remedies" back in the day as their slave Masters (owners) wouldn't take them to the doctors (not a top priority. One dies....they would literally go out and buy another). So a lot of remedies were born out of necessity and ignorance. Considering the "Tuskegee syphilis experiment" not to mention some medical books still being used to this day that states that blacks don't feel pain as strongly as whites........Google this shit cuz I ain't making this up.....I can understand her logic. Many black people don't trust doctors. She grew up poor and in foster care (a lot of fc parents don't care for their charges let alone their health. I know this because I knew people in the system). I think she's very funny but I also KNOW there is something wrong with her. She looks, moves acts like a coke head/ drug addict. Like seriously I wish this bitch would get some PR. *** Someone needs to sit her down and tell her "honey, you're not Jennifer Lawrence. You're black, white people find this earthy down home shit cute in her and even that is wearing thin.". She is going to end up dead, just you watch. She is going to end up dead by her own hand.

R50 I always heard it was kerosene.

perhaps it was used back in the day as a folk remedy when it was made from natural ingredients. These days, I would guess it is a cure for living.

R59- ditto. Kerosene was a common cure for head lice way back when. R50- I've never heard of gasoline being used before for that purpose. Pretty scary when you consider the prevalence of smoking at the time.

Kerosene and gasoline are not too different, kerosene is just less refined. Both wildly flammable. Kerosene ignites at only 350 degrees or something like that.

I remember my mom saying in the old days they used vinegar.

She is ignorant.

THE WHACKNESS

Whatever.

[quote] “Honey, back during slavery — let me teach you something, okay?” Haddish argued.

oh GOD...

No offense to Tiffany, but I'd like her to cite her sources. There are many folk remedies like this that are taken as truths which tend to circulate it poverty-stricken communities, and that is the sort of environment in which Tiffany was raised. I heard an interview with a black female comedian awhile back on the Joe Rogan show who was raised in poverty by a crackhead mom in the south, and she swore on her life that rubbing government (food stamps) butter on you would get rid of cellulite. Joe tried to press her on it, but she adamantly believed it--but only the government butter.

[quote] Slaves used to use this and other..."remedies" back in the day as their slave Masters (owners) wouldn't take them to the doctors (not a top priority. One dies....they would literally go out and buy another).

That's not entirely true. If you go back and read plantation ledgers, you would see that the owners would call on the doctor, if it was a serious condition, for two reasons. 1) slaves were expensive property, you didn't want them to just die and then have to replace them. It would be like a modern farmer buying an expensive tractor and never doing any maintenance on it, because they can just buy another one. You can but it would make zero financial sense. 2) plantations were basically mini communities, if a slave came down with a communicable disease it could affect the entire plantation, both slaves and masters. Which an owner would not want to happen, as he would be placing his finances and family in peril.

Now it is true they didn't call the doctor out for less serious cases, but for serious ones they did.

Negros Say the Darndest Things.

I don't know that slave folklore is unimpeachable, Tiffany.

Do you also paint your porch pale blue to keep away the haints?

Bless her turpentine laced heart.

Have you tried Drano?

Does turpentine remove unsightly moles?

Tiffany Lincoln I've been thinkin' What's that stuff that you've been drinkin'?

Tiffany Lincoln I've been thinkin' What's that stuff that you've been drinkin'?

She was horrible as Wilona.

Another Lainey favorite who is a wreck. She sure can pick 'em!

I hope someone cares enough about this poor lady to check into any other substances she might be ingesting.

Had no idea this was a thing.

Yuck!

If she's this backward in the US, imagine so much of the rest of the world.

You can buy something called Turpenhydrate at the pharmacy but you have to sign for it. My dad would use it when he had a cough or cold. It burned like hell and made your eyes water. I wouldn't doubt this is a variation of what she's talking about. Perfectly legal.

Tiffany's career started out strong but it's really taking a death spiral. Too much exposure too soon and now she's done.

Why is she famous? Plenty of average looking women tell unfunny sex jokes. What makes her so special? Is it the poison she drinks??

At home we have Allen’s cough mixture with pine oil. That’s been around for donkeys and still sells well in the U.K.

No turpentine in the mix, however.

Here's some information on Terpin Hydrate...has turpentine in it and can be purchased at a pharmacy.

She’s a person hired to act like a stand up. She’s an actress. She doesn’t write her own material. Also, she’s gay and closeted. The poor girl back story is for the “relatability” with black audiences. Just like this babble about slave era medical “treatments”.

Is she getting the chances Mo'Nique could have had if she played the game?

R87 No, they are completely different in age and style. They would not be up for similar roles.

[quote] Tiffany's career started out strong but it's really taking a death spiral. Too much exposure too soon and now she's done.

Yup.