She May Be Hot, but She Is Also Really Crazy: Celebrity Deconversion Narratives Andrew Connolly Abstract: Both Megan Fox and Katy Perry have discussed their Pentecos- tal past in magazine interviews, but the follow-up press has reacted very differently to the two celebrities on this subject. This paper looks at the formal differences between the interviews which prompted the different responses. Keywords: celebrities; religion and popular culture; Pentecostal; neo- liberal; spirituality Re ´sume ´: Megan Fox et Katy Perry ont toutes les deux aborde ´ la question de leur passe ´ penteco ˆ tiste au cours d’entrevues accorde ´es a ` des maga- zines. Cependant, les de ´clarations de chacune des ce ´le ´brite ´s a ` ce sujet ont e ´te ´ rec ¸ues de fac ¸ons tre `s diffe ´rentes par les me ´dias. Cet article analyse les deux entrevues du point de vue de la forme, afin d’expliquer la diffe ´rence dans les re ´actions qu’elles ont suscite ´es. Mots cle ´s: ce ´le ´brite ´s ; religion et culture populaire ; penteco ˆ tisme ; ne ´oli- be ´ralisme ; spiritualite ´ In a 2013 interview with Esquire magazine, actress Megan Fox talks openly about her religious upbringing. She specifies that she was raised as a Pentecostal and that she spoke in tongues, a form of ecstatic speech practiced by Pentecostals. Rather than framing the experience as part of her childhood, Fox expresses nostalgia when she recalls speaking in tongues. She admits that her description of the experience makes her “sound like such a lunatic” (Katz, 65), but this self-conscious acknowledgement did little to ameliorate the subsequent coverage of her statements. “Megan Fox May be Hot, but She is Also Really Crazy,” read one headline, on CBS © Canadian Review of American Studies / Revue canadienne d’études américaines 46, no. 3, 2016 doi:10.3138/cras.2016.001