Jameela Jamil On Celebrity Fundraisers, Reacts
Jameela Jamil once got seriously real about celebrities who post fundraisers to their social media accounts, and people are so glad that somebody finally said it out loud.
In a resurfaced clip from her 2025 appearance on the Grave Conversations podcast, Jameela did not hold back as she began: “It’s my favorite thing when wealthy celebrities start a GoFundMe on Instagram.”
“Who was the celebrity who recently had her, I think it was, like, her hairstylist had cancer, and she’s a billionaire,” Jameela went on, bursting into laughter. “And she just forwarded a GoFundMe on Instagram, and it’s like… You could pay that bill with no harm to yourself whatsoever; it’s a drop in your ocean.”
The use of the word “billionaire” made many think that Jameela was shading Kylie Jenner here, whose hairstylist Jesus Guerrero died “very suddenly and unexpectedly” last February at 34 years old.
Jesus was also a hairstylist to Jennifer Lopez, with both Jen and Kylie paying tribute to him after his death. When news of his passing first broke, Jesus’s younger sister, Gris Guerro, set up a GoFundMe to raise money to help bring Jesus’s body home to Houston, Texas. However, Gris later closed the GoFundMe page to explain that Kylie had privately reached out to take care of everything. She wrote at the time: “When this go fund me was set up we created it thinking we would have to take care of all the expenses ourselves. We didn’t want to burden any clients with this. Our family deeply appreciates Kylie for later offering to cover funeral expenses and offering up all her help and support.”
A source told People that Kylie was “shocked and very upset” by Jesus’s death, sharing: “As upset as she feels, she knows it’s so much worse for his family. She doesn’t want them to stress about money. She’s taking care of expenses, including those associated with his funeral.”
However, Kylie has faced heat in the past for sharing fundraisers. In 2018, she asked her followers to donate to makeup artist Sam Rauda’s GoFundMe after he was involved in a car accident and needed help covering medical expenses.
Kylie donated $5,000 at the time, and responded to backlash for not giving any more by explaining that she no longer had a “personal relationship” with Sam, and donated how much was needed to meet the original goal. She wrote: “I saw my current makeup artist and friend Ariel post about Sam’s accident and his family’s gofundme… it compelled me to visit his gofundme which was set at 10K. They had already raised 6k so I put it in 5k to reach their original goal.”
A year earlier, Kylie’s then-best friend Jordyn Woods launched a fundraiser to help cover the cost of her father’s funeral, with a goal of $50,000. While Kylie donated $10,000 at the time, many felt that she and her famous family could have contributed more considering their huge combined wealth.
Away from Kylie, Megan Fox sparked backlash in 2023 when she shared a link to a fundraiser for her friend and nail artist’s dad, who had recently been diagnosed with pancreatic cancer, telling her followers: “if you guys are able to help please do.” It was quickly noted that Megan herself had not contributed to the page at all; at the time of her sharing, the highest anonymous donation to the fundraiser $180, and the top donation overall was $300.
For reference, the page’s original goal of $30k was exactly how much Megan’s then-partner Machine Gun Kelly had spent on a diamond-encrusted manicure that the friend helped create for the Billboard Music Awards in 2022. However, Megan defended herself by saying that donating a large sum of money would create an “uncomfortable” dynamic between her and her friend.
In 2024, Alyssa Milano faced scrutiny when she asked fans to donate to a GoFundMe to help her son’s baseball team go on a trip, and last year, Brittany Mahomes was criticized for sharing a GoFundMe for her neighbors who were looking to raise $9,000 after losing their home in a fire.
Also last year, Mandy Moore actually responded to backlash after she posted a fundraiser for her brother-in-law, who lost his home in the Los Angeles fires. Replying to the critics, Mandy said “of course” she is also helping her family financially, and said that she had also “just lost most of” her life in a fire, too.
With those examples — and many more — in mind, it’s perhaps unsurprising that Jameela won immediate praise for her candid comments, with one popular comment on a Reddit forum reading: “She’s not wrong. Saying what everyone’s thinking.”
“It’s what we’re all thinking and the fact that it doesn’t even occur to the billionaire is bonkers to me,” somebody else added. One more quipped: “She’s right, but that’s not how the rich end ups rich 🙃”
“If wealthy celebrities share gofundme’s, they should at least tell their audience how much money they parted with to contribute,” another commented. While somebody else wrote: “They do this then a week later show off a purchase that cost tens or hundreds of thousands of dollars.”