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Tina Campbell

Jennifer Aniston opens up on weird rumours - including about therapist's ashes

Jennifer Aniston has finally set the record straight on a number of long-standing rumours about her.

The Friends and The Morning Show actress, 55, was quizzed by US late night talk show host Jimmy Kimmel, 56, about the weird and wonderful whispers doing the rounds about her.

‘You have a zip-loc bag filled with your dead therapist’s ashes? That was a little bit true, right?’ asked Kimmel when she appeared on Jimmy Kimmel Live.

Aniston looked a little taken aback as she joked: “Can I plead the fifth?”

She then confirmed: “It’s a little true, I’m going to sound like I really need a therapist after this!”

To which Kimmel quipped: “Sounds like you need one one way or the other.”

Aniston previously spoke about this in an interview with GQ back in 2012 where she explained that she was one of many guests at a funeral to receive the ashes.

She told the publication: “I have my therapist[‘s ashes] in a bag. She thought of me sort of like a daughter, and I thought of her sort of like a mum.

“I went to her funeral. They split her up into little ziploc bags they handed out like party favours.”

While he had her, Kimmel also had the screen favourite confirm if other rumours were true, including whether or not she gets salmon sperm facials.

I did,” she said. “But let me explain to you. It’s not like, how do you get sperm out of a salmon? It was sort of unclear.

“I just took the woman’s word that that’s what it was. And I was like, ‘Sure’.”

She continued: “I don’t know, supposed to be little, tiny like the micro needling that they do.

“And then it was to push in the salmon sperm. Don’t I have beautiful salmon skin?” she asked the live studio audience jokingly.

She also confirmed the one snack she refuses to travel without.

When questioned if she travels “abroad with jars of olives?” she outright replied “Yes.”

She was also asked if it was true that she used to belly dance for her relatives on Christmas Eve as a child.

“Not just Christmas Eve… Any kind of a family dinner… It’s like, when you say to your child, ‘Play piano for everyone,’ or “Let’s sing for everyone,’” she clarified.

Adding: “I get such anxiety when my friends do that to their children, because I have inner trauma from having to perform and belly dance for my Greek aunts and uncles and grandmothers. I get it.”

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