Kevin Smith slams Reese Witherspoon and Nicole Richie

From the New York Daily News:

Loose-lipped movie director Kevin Smith better hope he doesn't cross paths with Oscar winner Reese Witherspoon or "Simple Life" star Nicole Richie after his foulmouthed tale-telling the other night at the University of Pennsylvania.

The 35-year-old guest speaker — best known for Clerks," "Chasing Amy," "Dogma" and his disastrous Bennifer picture "Jersey Girl" — told the Philadelphia audience about his insane dislike for 30-year-old golden girl Witherspoon. "I did vote for her for 'Walk the Line' because she was so good," Smith confided. "I forgot how much I hated that c—!"

Smith also claimed, to roughly 1,000 laughing undergrads, that the 24-year-old Nicole Richie once lured Jason Mewes, a frequent character in Smith's movies as the Jay of "Jay and Silent Bob," into a restroom for a spirited quickie. Richie's spokeswoman, Cindy Guagenti, told Lowdown: "She didn't know his real name till I explained, then said: 'I met him but, ewwwww! Are you kidding me? I've never ever had sex with him.'"

Campus journalist Shruti Dave, who covered Smith's remarks for the Daily Pennsylvanian, said Smith described Witherspoon's alleged rudeness before he considered casting a close friend of hers, actress Selma Blair, for a movie role.

Smith recounted that he asked Blair, "You know where that b— lives? I want to roll up on Weezy Reesey's house and egg that mother_f— 'cause f— her!" But Blair refused to supply the address and she didn't get the part.

Witherspoon's PR rep declined to comment.

In two agitated E-mails to this column, Smith confirmed the essential accuracy of the quotes. "The sentiment's roughly the same, but the wording wasn't nearly that concise," he advised.

As for Richie and the 31-year-old Mewes — an admitted former heroin addict who's been clean for the past three years — Smith quoted his friend as saying that since he's been sober, he enjoys sex more frequently and remembers it better, but it doesn't last as long.

Once, Smith continued at Penn, Richie "pulled Jay into a bathroom and just sat on [him] and started going at it." Richie, an admitted ex-heroin user herself, "had had a few drinks or something," Smith added, before making an unprintable crack about the aftermath of the alleged encounter. Mewes' flack didn't respond to detailed messages.

Smith unhappily E-mailed: "That wasn't my exact wording, I don't believe, but it's close. This is all secondhand information about something that happened 2 1/2 years ago. … [But] it came from Mewes."

The director cautioned: "It's not my story; it's Jay's. And it's one thing to tell that tale out of school at a college Q&A [in the context of a far larger, longer story about Mewes' hard journey from heroin abuse to three years of total sobriety], and a completely different thing to just pull the stuff about bathroom sex and run it in a gossip column. … [It] makes it all seem like unsavory locker-room chitchat."

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