The past is being broken down. More than a decade since the Bling Ring robberies Rachel BilsonWe sat down together Alexis NeiersAnd Gabrielle NeiersTo discuss their involvement.
“I had super conflicting feelings about this in particular. And I have to let you guys know I have always stayed very distant from anything having to do with the Bling Ring and everything that went down,” the Hart of Dixie alum, 41, said during her “Broad Ideas” podcast on Monday, October 10. “I never read anything, I never saw anything and I never supported the movie Sofia Coppola did. I felt like it was weird to bring so much attention to something that had such a big impact personally for me and for other people involved.”
Bilson, who was robbed in 2009 by the notorious group, said that motherhood allowed for her to leave the situation. (The actress shares daughter Briar, 7, with ex-fiancé Hayden Christensen.)
The podcast’s cohost Olivia Allen, however, defended Bilson’s ability to be upset about the past. “You are allowed to speak your part and we can give them time to speak their part,” she told The O.C. alum. “You don’t need to go into making them comfortable because the truth of the matter is the situation wasn’t comfortable.”
The Bling Ring — consisting of Rachel Lee, Nick Prugo, Alexis, 31, Diana Tamayo and Courtney Ames — became infamous for stealing roughly $3 million in cash and belongings from Lindsay Lohan, Paris Hilton, Orlando Bloom, Audrina PatridgeAnd many more from 2008 through 2009.
Alexis and Gabby, 30, reflected on the situation on Netflix’s The Hollywood Heist: The Real Bling Ring last month. Shortly after the documentary premiered in September, the younger sister revealed her involvement with a robbery in Bilson’s home.
“I was at Rachel Bilson’s house one of the nights that it was robbed, and I went there willingly. I was drunk but I’m not making any excuses because I went there willingly,” Gabby said during an Instagram Live that same month, claiming her confession was cut from the final version of the doc.
Gabby accused Gabby of her infidelity Pretty WildCostar Tess TaylorThe former model, 32 years old, denied that she took part in the robbery. “I moved on from this long ago and it sounds like the Neiers girls have not. I feel sorry that they still want to rope me into this thing publicly,” she exclusively told Us Weekly. “I have a beautiful life and family that mean the world to me and that is my focus today and always. These women are not my priority. I hope they get the help/healing they need.”
Scroll down for the biggest bombshells from Bilson’s conversation with the Neiers sisters:
