Maybe Mommy-To-Be Nicole Richie has decided to ditch a crop of friends after discovering they had sold her out to the tabs.

“This year, my biggest struggle has been realizing that some people close to me are not good for my life. I’m a girl and I love to gossip, but when I hear that people I consider friends are talking about me, it hurts a lot.”

“It’s not, ‘Is Nicole OK?’ but more like, ‘I heard that Nicole blah-blah.’ There are a handful of girls who are the subject of every joke.”