Jodie Foster Offers Words of Wisdom to Kristen Stewart

Actress Jodie Foster wrote an open letter to the Daily Beast on Wednesday, expressing sympathy for her “Panic Room” co-star Kristen Stewart. A child star herself, Foster slams the media and fickle fans for attacking Kristen, following headlines that she cheated on Robert Pattinson with director Rupert Sanders.

“Lift up beautiful young people like gods and then pull them down to earth to gaze at their seams,” she wrote. “See, they’re just like us. But we seldom consider the childhoods we unknowingly destroy in the process.”

Reflecting on her time spent with Kristen on the set, she remembers how they “talked and laughed for hours, sharing spontaneous mysteries and venting our boredom. I grew to love that kid.”

When she found out that Stewart, then 11, wanted to pursue acting, Jodie asked her mom, “Can’t you talk her out of it?” These days, thanks to “Twilight” and the cheating scandal, KStew can’t escape the pressures of Hollywood.

What does Jodie want Kristen to know? “Eventually, this all passes. The public horrors of today eventually blow away. And yes, you are changed by the awful wake of reckoning they leave behind. You trust less. You calculate your steps. You survive.”

She added, “Hopefully in the process you don’t lose your ability to throw your arms in the air again and spin in wild abandon. That is the ultimate F.U. and – finally – the most beautiful survival tool of all. Don’t let them take that away from you.”

Financial troubles, infidelity may have led to fatal shooting

RALEIGH -- Wake County sheriff’s investigators are searching the computer records of a South Raleigh business owner to determine if financial difficulties led to the fatal shooting of his wife this month.

Sheriff’s detectives are also trying to determine if marital infidelity was a catalyst in the July 3 shooting, according to a search warrant filed Tuesday at the Wake County Clerk of Courts Office.

Sheriff’s deputies charged Fernando Palma Carias, 47, with the first-degree murder of his wife, Marisol Mendoza Rojas. In the search warrant, obtained three days after the shooting, Sheriff’s investigator E.A. Welch recounted what officers saw when they arrived at the scene: Rojas was lying on the living room floor of the residence, fatally shot.


The couple’s children were home, and told the deputies that their parents were having a heated argument when Carias got a handgun out of a closet, stood over his wife and shot her several times. Sheriff’s investigators also learned during the investigation that “marital infidelity and financial concerns” may have played a role in the shooting, according to the search warrant.

Carias and Rojas were owners of Mexico Lindo, a white-brick convenience store that sits in a tiny retail strip at 2601 S. Saunders St., Welch said.

Investigators searched the business and seized a desktop computer, a Wachovia checkbook belonging to Rojas and a second checkbook found behind the counter of the business, court records show.

Carias remained in custody at the Wake County jail on Tuesday without bail, a jail spokesman reported.

Immigration officials have placed a retainer on Carias because they think he may be in this country illegally, the spokesman said.

BY THOMASI MCDONALD - TMCDONALD@NEWSOBSERVER.COM