As a youngster, Cameron Diaz purchased marijuana from Snoop Dogg, who attended the identical highschool as her.
For years, the declare has circulated on-line that actress Cameron Diaz as soon as purchased marijuana from rapper Snoop Dogg when the 2 had been college students on the identical highschool. One model of the declare, posted (archived) by X person @notgwendalupe on July 4, 2024, had obtained round 3 million views, 49,000 likes and a pair of,000 reposts on the time of this writing.
(X person @notgwendalupe)
The declare has popped up on X, Facebook, TikTok, and elsewhere across the web for greater than a decade. In 2013, when a Reddit person posted “TIL Cameron Diaz was in highschool with Snoop Dogg, and Snoop Dogg was her drug seller” to the r/todayilearned subreddit, essentially the most upvoted response learn, “TIL that is posted on Reddit roughly each 35 days.”
The declare originated with Diaz herself throughout an interview on the Jan. 19, 2011, episode of comic George Lopez’s discuss present “Lopez Tonight,” which aired on TBS from 2009 to 2011. In a recording of Diaz’s interview uploaded to YouTube by an unofficial fan account named @LopezTonight, Diaz mentioned attending highschool with Snoop Dogg beginning across the 1:03 timestamp.
Diaz made the declare that she bought marijuana from the long run rapper across the video’s 1:22 timestamp, saying, “I am fairly certain I purchased weed from him. I needed to have!”
Obvious affirmation of Diaz’s account got here a number of months later, when Snoop Dogg appeared as a visitor on a March 31, 2011, episode of “Lopez Tonight.” Beginning across the 3:11 timestamp within the under video of the interview, which was additionally uploaded to YouTube by the @LopezTonight fan account, Lopez performed the clip from Diaz’s interview through which she claimed to have purchased weed from Snoop Dogg in highschool.
On the finish of that clip, across the 3:54 timestamp, Snoop Dogg laughed and stated, “I’d’ve offered her a few of that white woman weed.” By “white woman weed,” he went on to elucidate, he meant “sticks and stems and seeds” — in different phrases, the least-desirable elements of the hashish plant, at the least for leisure consumption.
Was the declare real? One a part of it, particularly that Diaz and Snoop Dogg attended highschool collectively, is verifiably true. Because the Los Angeles Instances has confirmed, Diaz graduated from Lengthy Seaside Polytechnic Excessive Faculty in Lengthy Seaside, California, in 1990. Snoop Dogg — born Calvin Broadus Jr. — was a member of the identical college’s class of 1989; because the Lengthy Seaside Press-Herald reported, he hosted a lavish 30-year reunion social gathering for his classmates in 2019.
The opposite a part of the declare, that Diaz bought marijuana from Snoop Dogg whereas the 2 had been college students, is much less simple to verify. As detailed above, Diaz herself was the primary to make the declare, and Snoop Dogg, the one different individual concerned within the declare, didn’t deny promoting marijuana to Diaz when requested about his personal recollections in 2011.
Snoop Dogg seemingly gave stronger affirmation of the declare in a 2019 episode of radio persona Angie Martinez’s We TV interview collection “Untold Tales of Hip Hop.” As may be seen within the under video clip from the episode, which Martinez shared to her public Fb web page in 2022, Martinez requested Snoop Dogg whether or not the declare he “dealt weed to Cameron Diaz in highschool” was “truth or rumor.” The rapper responded that the declare is a “truth,” however offered no additional data.
Nevertheless, Snoop Dogg used hedging language when he initially described his reminiscences of the alleged state of affairs to Lopez again in 2011, saying that he “may’ve” offered the actress some weed — not that he undoubtedly did. Likewise, in her interview with Lopez, Diaz stated she was “fairly certain” the sale occurred, not that she was fully certain. Within the years since, Diaz has by no means publicly claimed to be totally sure {that a} transaction of this type befell between the 2 of them.
Snopes has reached out to representatives of each Diaz and Snoop Dogg for remark, and can replace this story if we hear again. For now, we have rated this declare as “Analysis in Progress.”
