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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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mel on

I agree with drea – as someone who just finished chemotherapy I know what it means to have no hair – anywhere! I cried when it started coming out in clumps – that is totally different than getting a short haircut. Give me a break

guest on

I thought it looked great. She used to wear it like that. She looks beautiful!

GildaGirl on

MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING.

Bman on

Skip ALL you S T U P I D Broads who keep saying its no big deal. MEN Like LONG hair on a woman…and CD just Happens to KNOW that. Chopping off your hair will add 10 Years to you in the time it takes you to cut it. Only OLD non sexual women like Janet Reno should wear it short… So you silly women go ahead and rock your BARBARA BUSH haircut if you want to.

Jess on

How ridiculous, I’m sure by next week she’ll have long hair again. She’s a celebrity, they can pay for the extensions if they don’t like their haircut, unlike all us regular folk!

db on

I am a hairstylist…..and I usually cut my own hair….its true…most stylists are too busy running their mouths to pay attention…my clients complain I don’t take enough off…but I would rather cut it again than have an unhappy client….can’t put it back once its gone!!!!

Meg on

My mom and sister both lost hair from chemo. I had two sisters fight cancer and my mom died of it. This makes Cameron seem really superficial and shallow. It’s just hair. It grows back – and I have had my fair share of bad cuts.

Sarah on

I’m almost 39, and just the other day I had my hair cut at the salon where I go once in a blue moon to get a nice haircut (rather than cutting it myself). She cut it way too short, and for the past few days, I’ve hated seeing my reflection. It looked better before she cut it, and it has looked better after I’VE cut it myself.
So, no, I don’t think she’s just a “spoiled celebrity” as some have suggested. I know how a bad haircut can make you feel, and I was close to tears when I could not find a way to salvage my own bad haircut. It’ll grow out, though, and I’ll live.
The funny thing was my stylist kept saying, “I’m just loving this cut for you!” and I was thinking, “I want to like it . . . but I’m not there yet.” The only thing I could do to change it was to go shorter, and I didn’t want to do that, so I held my tongue, paid her (with a tip; she did her best), thanked her and left.

Susanna on

WTF! She felt so “vulnerable” because she had no hair? She had a whole head of hair. This is an insult to cancer patients everywhere!

Sadie on

Her friend did her a favor

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