My girl wants to party all the time, party all the time, party all the time. For most of us, that's just a rockin' Eddie Murphy jam that we wouldn’t stop listening to if it literally broke our eardrums with its sheer awesomeness. For Hilary Swank, it's a lesson to take to heart.
The "Million Dollar Baby" actress, who attended the birthday party of Chechen dictator Ramzan Kadyrov along with action star Jean-Claude Van Damme, is now telling fans that all that partying (and the reported six-figure paycheck that came with it) were bad choices.
The Guardian reports that the actress says she "deeply regrets" participating in the evening's festivities, during which she wished Kadyrov a happy birthday and expressed her excitement over being invited to Chechnya.
While Swank has since feigned ignorance over Kadyrov's lengthy history of having his detractors abducted or murdered, it's not for Google illiteracy. When Kadyrov's MC for the evening asked Swank how she knew it was his birthday, she told him, "I read. I do my research." Seriously, who has time to have their assistant read past the first sentence of a Wikipedia page anyway?
Swank may be the most recent celeb with their hand caught in the dictator cookie jar, but she's far from the first. Beyoncé, Mariah Carey, Nelly Furtado and Usher all caught flack for performing for Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi, and later donated their fees to charity. Sometimes it's not just a hefty paycheck that lures the rich and famous into bad company – Naomi Campbell accepted some "dirty-looking stones" from Liberian president/war criminal Charles Taylor, which just so happened to be blood diamonds. Oops!
And of course, if you're Sean Penn, you can party with all the human rights violators you want, because you're Sean Penn, and you ain't gonna apologize for sheeeeet.
