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Melissa McCarthy brilliantly confronted a reviewer who said she looked 'hideous'
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BRIDESMAIDS ACTRESS Melissa McCarthy has her fair share of detractors, but she’s not about to let people get away with slagging her off willy-nilly.
McCarthy was on The Ellen DeGeneres show yesterday to talk about her new flick, Spy – and discussed a past review that particularly bothered her.
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She told Ellen how she then met the reporter at a film festival, and decided to call him out on the remarks:
McCarthy then gave the reporter a crash course in how to talk about women:
“Just know that every time you write stuff, every young girl in this country reads that and they just get a little bit chipped away.”
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