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Woman in Sheen incident plans to sue

NEW YORK

Aftershocks continue from Charlie Sheen’s stormy night last month in a Manhattan hotel. Capri Anderson, the woman who was found locked in the bathroom of his suite, said she’s suing the actor for battery and false imprisonment and plans to file a criminal report with New York City police.

Appearing on ABC’s “Good Morning America” on Monday, the adult-film actress said Sheen yelled racial slurs, threw a lamp at her and grabbed her by the throat. The 45-year-old actor was briefly hospitalized after security at the Plaza Hotel reported he was disorderly and had broken furniture in his room.

Anderson told “GMA” host George Stephanopoulos that she had been hired for $3,500 to join Sheen for dinner Oct. 25. She called “absolutely untrue” reports that she expected to be paid for sex. She said Sheen became increasingly unruly as the evening wore on.

Beyonc begs off the baby rumors

NEW YORK

Beyonc is tired of the baby rumors. “At this point, they say that I’ve been pregnant like eight times, so I am kind of used to it,” the 29-year-old singer said in an interview with The Associated Press. “I just hope that one day when I decide to be pregnant that people are happy for me. ... One day, hopefully, I will be. It’s part of being a celebrity, I guess.”

Beyonc is delivering something else — a concert DVD titled, “I Am ... World Tour,” which goes on sale Friday. Footage from the DVD will air Thanksgiving in her second prime-time special on ABC (9:30 p.m.), “Beyonce’s I Am ... World Tour,” but this time, she shows a more personal side.

“I felt like I’ve done so many different things, it’s time for me to show a bit of who I am. The hardest thing was showing that, because a lot of things that I filmed, I filmed in my computer, and I would never have gotten so open if someone else was in the room,” she explained at her DVD premiere Sunday.

Bishop apologizes for harsh comments

LONDON

A British bishop apologized Monday for his “deeply offensive” comments in which he gave Prince William’s upcoming royal marriage to Kate Middleton about “seven years.” Bishop Pete Broadbent of Willesden, an area in northwest London, said he apologized to William, Middleton and Prince Charles after British newspapers picked up comments he made on Twitter and Facebook. The bishop also said he was planning to be out of the country on a “republican day trip to France” the day the couple weds, which may be declared a national holiday.

“I accept that this was a major error of judgment on my part,” Broadbent said. “I recognize that the tone of my language and the content of what I said were deeply offensive, and I apologize unreservedly for the hurt caused.”

T.I.: Drug problem began with painkillers

NEW YORK

T.I. says his drug problem started when he received prescriptions for OxyContin and hydrocodone after a series of dental surgeries this year. “After the pain went away, I kept taking it. I had like five, six prescriptions. So, I had, like 80 pills. Everybody else might drink or smoke a blunt; I took a pain pill,” the 30-year-old says in an interview win the December issue of Vibe magazine.

T.I. said he is now clean and sober, thanks in part to his September arrest in Los Angeles. Police found ecstasy pills on him, and though the case eventually was dropped, a judge found him in vialotion of his probation stemming from a 366-day prison stint for trying to buy illegal guns and sentenced him to 11 months in jail.

Vindicator wire services