Director claims Jennifer Aniston ‘humiliated’ her with ‘mean-spirited’ X-rated gift
Director Penelope Spheeris has claimed Jennifer Aniston once “humiliated” her with a “mean-spirited” X-rated gift when they worked together 15 years ago.
Spheeris, 80, worked with Aniston on the set of Five in 2011. In a new interview this week, she claimed the Friends star, 57, gifted her a bedazzled sex toy at the time which she believes was given to embarrass her in front of the crew.
Director Penelope Spheeris and Jennifer Aniston worked together on the set of Five in 2011. Getty Images/Kevin Winter
“Jennifer Aniston gave me a dildo as a present ... It had rhinestones pasted on it. You couldn’t even use it,” Spheeris told Michael C. Moynihan on and episode of The Moynihan Report.
“At the end of the shoot day the assistant director comes over and says ‘Have a seat in the chair’. The whole crew gathers around and her producer Kristen walks up with a gift box.”
Spheeris said she was initially delighted by what she believed was a thoughtful gesture, until she opened the gift box to find a bedazzled sex toy.
“It was a mean-spirited dildo to humiliate me in front of the whole crew,” Spheeris claimed.
Aniston did not personally give Spheeris the gift, but the director was led to believe that it came from the Out of My Mind actress because the toy came in a gift box that resembled another she’d seen Aniston give out previously.
“It had to come from [Aniston] because when we got nominated for the Director’s Guild, she comes walking in and she’s got the same kind of gift box in her hand,” Spheeris claimed.
“I asked her ‘Oh what you got in there, another dildo?’ She goes, ‘No it’s a present for Marta Kauffman.’
“It was the same gift box. So those are Jennifer Aniston’s gift boxes.”
Spheeris quipped, “I’ll get sued for that, but whatever.”
Spheeris claimed she was led to believe it was Aniston who gave her the questionable gift because it came in a similar gift box to another present she’d given. Getty
Nine.com.au has contacted Aniston’s representatives for comment on Spheeris’ claims.
A source apparently close to the situation told The Daily Mail that Aniston has “no recollection of her ever having given this gift” and questioned why she wouldn’t have left a card if she was behind it.
Five, the project on which Spheeris and Aniston worked together, was a Lifetime anthology with five short films each focusing on the impact of breast cancer.
Aniston and Spheeris each directed a segment, as did Alicia Keys, Demi Moore and Patty Jenkins.
