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Actress Michelle Rodriguez sounded off about what it’s like to be a woman in Hollywood, comparing the glamorous lives of females in Hollywood to slavery.

A TMZ photojournalist caught up with Rodriguez at Los Angeles International Airport recently, where she was asked about actor Seth Rogen’s suggestion that he is responsible for raising awareness about the gender wage gap.

Actress Michelle Rodriguez in Cannes, France. (Ian Gavan/Getty Images)

“That’s the world we live in. It’s a patriarchal society,” the “Fast and Furious” star told TMZ.

“Yes, I get paid a lot less than my colleagues. I don’t complain. I’m not going to whine about it,” Rodriquez said. “It’s like being born a slave. It’s like, ‘Aw, damn, darn my luck.’ You know? I wish I was born somewhere else or maybe some other way, but it is what it is.”

Asked whether she ever “talks about it” with other celebrities, Rodriquez responded, “Nope. I don’t care.”

“I’m not about money or power,” Rodriquez said. “I don’t care about money.”

Rogen starred in the controversial 2015 film “The Interview,” which depicted an assassination plot against North Korea leader Kim Jong Un. Hackers later broke into Sony Pictures Entertainment’s computer system, leaking company data, some of which revealed that actresses were paid less than their male counterparts.

Asked about the gender wage gap last week, Rogen made light of the breach.

“Thanks to our Sony hacking, everyone knows about [the gender wage gap] now,” Rogen said, according to E! News.

(H/T: TMZ)

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Zakia Belkhiri instantly became the darling of the left when the hijab-wearing Muslim woman — lips puckered and offering a peace sign with her fingers — was photographed taking a selfie in front of an anti-Islam demonstration in Belgium last week.

The story of Belkhiri “trolling” the haters was picked up by many outlets. ChristianToday said the protest “backfired” due to the her presence. Mashable noted Belkhiri’s “defiant selfies,”Huffington Post UK described her actions in the face of “hostility,” and the BBC highlighted her “cheeky selfie.”

“This wasn’t a protest at all, this was just to share joy and peace,” the 22-year-old told the BBC in an email, adding that she wanted “to show that things can be different. And that we can live together, not next to each other but with each other.”

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“Hitler didn’t kill all the Jews, he left some,” she wrote in a November 2012 tweet. “So we know why he was killing them.”

Image source: Twitter via the Times of Israel (redacted)

In a March 2014 Facebook post, Belkhiri used an expletive for Jews and then wrote: “I hate them so much.”

Since these revelations, Belkhiri deleted all her social media accounts, the BBC reported in a follow-up article, adding that she hopped on Twitter in an attempt to explain her past remarks: ”My opinion many years ago was meant on the zionist back then, that spread hate instead of love so to all the other jews peace be upon you!”

Image source: Twitter via BBC

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So she returned to Twitter with a longer post and apologized “to everyone in the Jewish community which I’ve hurt with my comments of several years ago.”

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“I am not an anti-Semite,” she added. “Even if it seems so because I haven’t thought of deleting my angry comments from when I was younger and ignorant.”

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Pop star Demi Lovato used her Sunday evening performance at the 2016 Billboard Music Awards to make a statement on the bathroom controversy that’s currently gripping the nation.

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Lovato wore a top emblazoned with a symbol combining male and female bathroom symbols, often used by proponents of genderless or “inclusive” bathrooms.

The controversy erupted over a North Carolina law requiring that transgender individuals use bathrooms and changing facilities that correspond with their biological sex rather than their gender identity.

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A Maine couple whose son went missing in 1977 received a letter recently from an anonymous source who claims to have information regarding his mysterious disappearance.

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At the time of his disappearance, Ross, 18, was living with his parents in Fort Kent, Maine. He was last seen May 12, 1977.

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