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Cameron Diaz Cried After Chopping Her Hair

05/02/2012 at 06:00 PM ET

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Cameron Diaz recently told InStyle her short haircut was “freeing” — but she had very different words for Jay Leno Tuesday night.

“There was a little misunderstanding,” she explained on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno of her pre-Christmas cut. “I said, ‘Oh I just want a little bit off’ … and it went from here to here,” she added, gesturing two very different hair lengths.

Once Diaz saw the new do, her reaction wasn’t so pleasant. “I just burst into tears and started crying, and I felt so vulnerable,” she explained. “For a woman to all of a sudden have no hair, oh my god.”

What made the situation even more awkward was the fact that Diaz’s hairstylist happened to be a good friend. “I felt really bad, she felt really bad, she started crying, I started crying, a couple of other people started crying,” Diaz said. But soon the situation smoothed over. “I ended up writing her a few emails after, the next couple days, assuring her I wasn’t going to kill her.”

As Leno pointed out, it’s unique that Diaz gets her haircuts from a friend (in that friend’s kitchen, no less) — not at a chic Los Angeles salon. But the actress said she’s been getting kitchen haircuts from this friend — and her own mother — for quite some time. She joked, “I’m in her kitchen often with the cape around my neck, going, ‘I hope we’re not going to cook after that.’” Tell us: Would you let a friend cut your hair?

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J on

If that is all one has to cry about in life, they are doing pretty good. Signed: indigent, abuse survivor/elderly family member caregiver, not actress/model.

Lezley Roth on

I take great offense to the comments generalizing all hairdressers as basically butchers. I have been a Cosmetologist for almost 20 yrs now and I have NEVER had ANYONE complain I didn’t listen to them or cut too much off. Don’t stereotype people , unless you want to find yourself stereotyped.

Jess on

What’s with the criticism? I know that every single woman would cry if they lost several more inches of hair than they had wanted. Cry and rant and demand it be fixed even if they can’t. Stop saying she’s some petty woman because chemo people don’t have hair. Are you going to begrudge her food because there are starving kids in Ethiopia too? Give the woman a break! She is, after all, still human.

Guest on

Don’t like her; don’t like her hair. Why is this news?

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[...] Getty Images (4); Courtesy Photos (2) Cameron’s Haircut Made Her Cry, Rodarte Goes to the Opera, and More!May 3, 2012 @ 1:00 pm1. Have you ever cried over a haircut? Cameron Diaz did when her stylist went shorter than she expected! [People] [...]

Cathy on

… all of a sudden have no hair? What an insult to all who have lost hair, for whatever reason!! How tacky!!!

sarge89 on

she can afford hair extensions…if this is his worse thing in life, boo hoo

nacho on

Give me a break!! Does she can cancer? Is she going through Chemo, does she have alopecia ??? Trichotilomaia?? Until then she can please shut the F up about not having any hair.

charlotte on

I don’t see what the drama was about, she’s had her hair even shorter than this before.

jessiie johnson on

awww, poor cameron, i woulda got really mad if that happend to my hair:(

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