Jameela Jamil as soon as received significantly actual about celebrities who publish fundraisers to their social media accounts, and persons are so glad that anyone lastly stated it out loud.
In a resurfaced clip from her 2025 look on the Grave Conversations podcast, Jameela didn’t maintain again as she started: “It’s my favourite factor when rich celebrities begin a GoFundMe on Instagram.”
“Who was the celeb who lately had her, I feel it was, like, her hairstylist had most cancers, and he or she’s a billionaire,” Jameela went on, bursting into laughter. “And he or she simply forwarded a GoFundMe on Instagram, and it’s like… You would pay that invoice with no hurt to your self in anyway; it is a drop in your ocean.”
Using the phrase “billionaire” made many suppose that Jameela was shading Kylie Jenner right here, whose hairstylist Jesus Guerrero died “very out of the blue and unexpectedly” final February at 34 years previous.
Jesus was additionally a hairstylist to Jennifer Lopez, with each Jen and Kylie paying tribute to him after his dying. When information of his passing first broke, Jesus’s youthful sister, Gris Guerro, arrange a GoFundMe to boost cash to assist carry Jesus’s physique dwelling to Houston, Texas. Nevertheless, Gris later closed the GoFundMe web page to clarify that Kylie had privately reached out to maintain every little thing. She wrote on the time: “When this go fund me was arrange we created it pondering we must maintain all of the bills ourselves. We did not need to burden any shoppers with this. Our household deeply appreciates Kylie for later providing to cowl funeral bills and providing up all her assist and help.”
A supply instructed People who Kylie was “shocked and really upset” by Jesus’s dying, sharing: “As upset as she feels, she is aware of it’s a lot worse for his household. She doesn’t need them to emphasize about cash. She’s caring for bills, together with these related together with his funeral.”
Nevertheless, Kylie has confronted warmth up to now for sharing fundraisers. In 2018, she requested her followers to donate to make-up artist Sam Rauda’s GoFundMe after he was concerned in a automobile accident and wanted assist protecting medical bills.
Kylie donated $5,000 on the time, and responded to backlash for not giving any extra by explaining that she not had a “private relationship” with Sam, and donated how a lot was wanted to satisfy the unique objective. She wrote: “I noticed my present make-up artist and buddy Ariel publish about Sam’s accident and his household’s gofundme… it compelled me to go to his gofundme which was set at 10K. They’d already raised 6k so I put it in 5k to succeed in their unique objective.”
A 12 months earlier, Kylie’s then-best buddy Jordyn Woods launched a fundraiser to assist cowl the price of her father’s funeral, with a objective of $50,000. Whereas Kylie donated $10,000 on the time, many felt that she and her well-known household may have contributed extra contemplating their enormous mixed wealth.
Away from Kylie, Megan Fox sparked backlash in 2023 when she shared a hyperlink to a fundraiser for her buddy and nail artist’s dad, who had lately been identified with pancreatic most cancers, telling her followers: “in case you guys are in a position to assist please do.” It was rapidly famous that Megan herself had not contributed to the web page in any respect; on the time of her sharing, the very best nameless donation to the fundraiser $180, and the highest donation total was $300.
For reference, the web page’s unique objective of $30k was precisely how a lot Megan’s then-partner Machine Gun Kelly had spent on a diamond-encrusted manicure that the buddy helped create for the Billboard Music Awards in 2022. Nevertheless, Megan defended herself by saying that donating a big sum of cash would create an “uncomfortable” dynamic between her and her buddy.
In 2024, Alyssa Milano confronted scrutiny when she requested followers to donate to a GoFundMe to assist her son’s baseball workforce go on a visit, and final 12 months, Brittany Mahomes was criticized for sharing a GoFundMe for her neighbors who have been trying to increase $9,000 after dropping their dwelling in a fireplace.
Additionally final 12 months, Mandy Moore truly responded to backlash after she posted a fundraiser for her brother-in-law, who misplaced his dwelling within the Los Angeles fires. Replying to the critics, Mandy stated “in fact” she can also be serving to her household financially, and stated that she had additionally “simply misplaced most of” her life in a fireplace, too.
With these examples — and plenty of extra — in thoughts, it’s maybe unsurprising that Jameela received rapid reward for her candid feedback, with one fashionable touch upon a Reddit discussion board studying: “She’s not improper. Saying what everybody’s pondering.”
“It is what we’re all pondering and the truth that it does not even happen to the billionaire is bonkers to me,” anyone else added. Yet one more quipped: “She’s proper, however that’s not how the wealthy finish ups wealthy 🙃”
“If rich celebrities share gofundme’s, they need to no less than inform their viewers how a lot cash they parted with to contribute,” one other commented. Whereas anyone else wrote: “They do that then per week later showcase a purchase order that value tens or a whole lot of hundreds of {dollars}.”
