Posted on 11/14/2016 5:28:57 PM PST by grundle
Amy Schumer‘s new movie Trainwreck draws heavily from her own life, but there’s one embarrassing incident that didn’t make it to the big screen: her arrest for grand larceny shoplifting!
Schumer has previously admitted that she had sticky fingers well into her adult years. “It was just all from, like, department stores,” she told Rolling Stone last year. “I guess the impressive part was that I would return it for cash, and the most that I’d ever made was probably around $1,000. But I did it a lot.”
When she was 21, however, her bad habit caught up to her, and she and sister Kim Schumer — who is now a writer on her show — were arrested during one foiled heist.
“We were arrested for grand larceny,” the Inside Amy Schumer star admitted, but her relationship with uncle Charles Schumer, a New York Senator, came in handy.
She said, “[The cops] were like, ‘You’re lucky you have this last name.’ And they pleaded it down, to like disturbing the peace or something.”
The case is so old that no publicly available records remain in New York, but Schumer, now 34, has said the incident almost torpedoed her chance at fame.
“I really thought that sh*t was off the record, until I was on Last Comic [Standing, in 2007] and they asked me if I had any arrests,” she told Laughspin in 2011, “and I was like, ‘Eh, not really.’ They have real lawyers … and they knew everything I’d stolen.”
You wouldn’t believe the tall tales I heard as a clerk. It made me furious! I would say the thieves got away with their crimes more than 90% of the time, maybe even more than that.
Not me. I am an INNOCENT TWINKIE!
Twinkie King
I’d prefer Tonya Harding...
That is truly disgusting.
Or Ned Beatty, circa ‘Deliverance’.
You’re risking a chop to the side of the head from an ice skate with Tonya Harding.
You’re risking a really long walk of shame and being made fun of by your friends with Amy Schumer.
Oops, was responding to post 26 when she was at LAX.
I saw this kid take a block of high end culinary lives right off the shelf and bring it to me and say he wanted to return it because his Grandmother gave it to him for Christmas. I said nice Grandma can you wait here while I check something? He left before security could get there.
Another time a woman tried to buy gift certificates with a stolen credit card.Problem was she couldn’t even spell the name on the credit card correctly.
She got away but I still got $50 for recovery of the card.
I’d never heard of this criminal pig POS before this election cycle. (haven’t watched teevee in 4 years...blatantly socialist t.v. in 10-15 years)
Good for you! I like knowing there are others keeping a vigilant eye.
No need for a bodyguard. Darned few molesters would be interested.
I had a minor crush on Wynona Ryder up until that point. I don’t think too highly of wealthy actresses who resort to shoplifting.
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