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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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Yvette on May 2nd, 2012

she has no idea what it is like to lose your hair. I wish I had hair like her–I lost mine during my recent chemo treatments—it’s a horrible thing to go through.

Eli on May 2nd, 2012

She had this exact same hair in the Holiday and it is cute. Long hair ages her face. Obviously her hairdresser knew best.

Stef on May 2nd, 2012

I’ve been a hairdresser for 17 years, and hair can be like a security blanket for some people, whether she’s had it that short before or not. She was just telling a story, yeah, some people cry when that happens. And let me get this straight, because there are people that have to go through chemo and are waiting to find out if they have cancer, she has to watch what she says about her own hair? Get off your high horses.

JD on May 2nd, 2012

How sad that she is so consumed by her hair issues. I grew my hair for 6 years to get it long enough to send to LocksofLove.org. My long hair made me look ten years older than I am but I did it because it was important.

Shame on Ms. Diaz for being so shallow.

amy on May 2nd, 2012

If I was her, it wouldn’t be my hair I’d be crying about. POOR Cameron!

JD on May 2nd, 2012

@Stef, yes she needs to watch what she says as do you. As you said “I’ve been a hairdresser for 17 years, and hair can be like a security blanket for some people” you talked about Cancer and it is obvious that you haven’t dealt with a Cancer patient who is losing or has lost their hair. You have no idea how hard that is and damn straight you should be quiet and so should Ms. Diaz until you get the reality of people who have it much harder than you do.

I hope in the near future you will donate some time to help Cancer patients with their hair issues as it will give you a new perspective on your profession, your humanity (which at this time seems to be nil) and a passion for helping others who could be you in a heart beat.

I wish you the best and hope you become more grounded as to what is important.

Steve on May 2nd, 2012

‘Until you lose your hair from chemotherapy treatments, you have not right to make a statement like that. ‘
I mean.. I was soooo thinking the same thing… until you have been in a head-on collision and been like TOTALLY decapitated you have no right to complain about a haircut.

Dee63 on May 2nd, 2012

This is the most pathetic story. Try having cancer multiple times and your hair never having a chance to grow back! I now where amazing wigs that are very authentic, but she’s crying after a haircut when women are losing their hair through cancer and chemo? The woman needs a reality shot in the arm.

Lisa on May 2nd, 2012

I think the new short hairstyle looks good on her. It is so silly for her to cry over it; especially when she looks better with shorter hair. She also has to realize that there are a lot of ladies out there who are losing or have lost all their hair due to illnesses and treatments and she has no right to make a statement about having no hair.

Stef on May 2nd, 2012

@JD Uh, yes, I HAVE dealt with cancer and chemo patients, I’ve also lost several family members to different cancers. My salon also gives free haircuts to anyone donating to Locks of Love. So don’t tell me what I know or don’t know. What I was just saying was she was just relaying an antecdote about a misunderstanding with her haircut. Does that mean she shouldn’t talk about how stuffed she is from the huge meal she ate last night because of the starving children in third world countries?

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