When I first started LaineyGossip, Cameron Diaz was one of our main characters. Because she was one of Hollywood’s main characters. 

 

Cameron was at the top of the Hollywood hierarchy in the early 2000s, the queen of rom-coms, during the Charlie’s Angels era, and prestige work in films like Gangs of New York. And … FIONA. She’s FIONA in Shrek. All of this made her one of the highest-paid actresses of the time, at a rate that few actresses now command, if at all. 

 

And that was just the business of it. There was also the gossip. Her love life: Jared Leto, Alex Rodriguez… Justin Timberlake! That whole relationship was a major gossip storyline in its day. Remember in 2007, after the Golden Globes? Cam and JT had confirmed their split the week before and they were both at an after-party following the show. JT was seen talking to Jessica Biel, then Cam rocked up, Jessica exited, Cam and JT had words, she stormed off, he followed her into a side room where they remained, arguing, for 45 minutes. When it was over he slammed his fist into a table. The gossip industry fed on this for months, if not years. Which, yes, is an insensitive thing to say.

 

Did we not appreciate her enough? I’ll speak for myself and for this site, the answer is yes. Underappreciated and maybe disrespected. And we learned our f-cking lesson a few years ago when she decided to step away from the industry to focus on family. 

So the movie she’s now promoting, Back in Action, is apt! Cameron Diaz is back in action, here in Berlin with Jamie Foxx, on a premiere red carpet, her own premiere red carpet for the first time in sooooooo long and my god, it’s great to see her. Serving!

 

All black everything – long coat, jeans, top, relaxed but still chic, and that red lip, it feels so familiar to me under her cheekbones, I could cry… which is a weird reaction, I know, but that’s what nostalgia is, non? This is the Cameron Diaz I recognise, and I’ve missed her. The movie could be sh-t and I don’t care. Because she’s back, and can we keep her for a while if she wants to stay?