Penelope Spheeris and the “Friends” alum worked together in 2011 on the Lifetime anthology film “Five,” each directing a segment.Penelope Spheeris and the “Friends” alum worked together in 2011 on the Lifetime anthology film “Five,” each directing a segment.
Director Penelope Spheeris called out Jennifer Aniston for allegedly gifting her a sex toy to “humiliate” her on the set of “Five” in 2011.
The 80-year-old concluded her recent appearance on the “Moynihan Report” podcast by claiming the “Friends” alum “gave [her] a dildo” with “rhinestones pasted on it” that “you couldn’t even use.”
Spheeris noted the present came from a producer but was inside of a gift box she believes Aniston frequently gifted.
“At the end of the shoot, the assistant director comes over and says, ‘Have a seat in the chair,’” she recalled. “I sit down and the whole crew gathers around. Her producer walks up with a gift box.”
While the filmmaker initially thought the gesture was “so sweet,” she raged, “There [was] a f–king dildo in there in front of the whole crew. I’m supposed to open up a dildo?”
She called the present “mean-spirited” — and explained why she believes it “had to come from” the “Friends” alum.
“When we got nominated for a Directors Guild Award [in 2012], she comes in with the same kind of gift box in her hand,” Spheeris explained. “She comes over and I go, ‘What’s in there? Another dildo?’ And she goes, ‘No, it’s a present for [producer] Marta Kauffman.’
“But it was the same box,” she continued. “The same gift box. Those were Jennifer Aniston’s gift boxes.”
Spheeris quipped, “I’ll get sued for that but whatever.”
Aniston’s rep did not immediately respond to Page Six’s request for comment.
“Five,” notably, was a Lifetime anthology with five short films each centering around the impact of breast cancer.
Aniston, 57, and Spheeris each directed a segment, as did Alicia Keys, Demi Moore and Patty Jenkins.
The “Morning Show” star told Glamour in August 2011 that her goal with the project was to be “informative without being heavy-handed.”
At the time, Aniston added, “Cancer affects all of us, whether you’re a daughter, mother, sister, friend, coworker, doctor, patient. These films touch on that reality.”
She made headlines the following month for touring a breast cancer center with Jill Biden and speaking to survivors.
The sequel to “Five,” “Call Me Crazy,” came out in 2013 and tackled the topic of mental illness, with Bryce Dallas Howard, Bonne Hunt, Ashley Judd, Laura Dern and Sharon Maguire directing.
