Kaia Gerber has spent her whole life on camera, and somehow the wildest thing about her stayed secret until this week: the childhood exorcism, the lifetime of hauntings, and the holy water her supermodel mother packs like sunscreen.
The California native, 24, dropped the reveal on Friday’s Mitch Churi Chat Show while promoting her new FX series The Shards, and she delivered it with the breeziness of someone discussing a childhood allergy. “I was told I was possessed as a child,” Gerber said, explaining she was “haunted” her whole life and remains a magnet for the beyond: “I do feel I attract beings from other dimensions in a very casual and chill way.“
Then came the detail nobody could invent. “Do you know how they did the exorcism? They played a didgeridoo all over me! That’s how they did the exorcism,” she said, before confirming this was not a bit: “That actually did happen. I’ve never talked about it, but it actually did happen.” And the ritual apparently worked, with Gerber joking she is now “all healed.“
The supernatural runs in the family’s routines. Gerber revealed that when she filmed American Horror Story: Double Feature, mom Cindy Crawford sent her to set armed with protection: “My mom gave me holy water to go to set. She was like, ‘I don’t want you to get possessed.’” A supermodel handing her daughter holy water before a Ryan Murphy shoot may be the most Hollywood sentence of the year.
Having confirmed all of it, Gerber moved on, leaving every follow-up hanging like one of her spirits.
The show she came to promote only deepens the delicious weirdness. The Shards, Ryan Murphy’s adaptation of the Bret Easton Ellis novel, pairs her with co-star Homer Gere, son of Richard Gere, and Hollywood trivia lovers already know the twist: Crawford was married to Richard Gere in the early ’90s, years before either of their kids existed. Three decades after that marriage ended, their children from other partners are acting opposite each other on the same show.
The Family Business of Haunted Hollywood
Gerber has built her post-modeling career in the dark corners, from her American Horror Story run to Palm Royale to the Ellis adaptation now airing on FX, making the revelation land less like a confession and more like a résumé footnote. As she told Vogue this month, her entire childhood and teenage years live on the internet, a visibility she has carried since birth.
The internet split between a shrug and a scoff, and the skeptics brought their best material. “I’ll take ‘things that never happened’ for $200, Alex,” one user cracked, while another deconstructed the whole premise: “Using the word ‘exorcism’ to describe someone playing a instrument over you for ‘bad energy’ is peak celebrity drama.” She told it laughing; they laughed back their own way.
The exorcism, somehow, never made it online in all those documented years. It took the one person who lived it to post the story finally, and she did it laughing.
