Two weeks later, Carolyne ended up in the Post's "Page Six" gossip column. She went to some party at the Tunnel, and when the doorman wouldn't let her in, she started screaming at him; he tried to escort her to a cab, she punched him, he wrestled her to the ground, and the next day she made the publisher of the downtown publication she worked for call up the Tunnel and try to get the guy fired, and then she called up "Page Six." When the item came out, she bought twenty copies of the paper.
Then Cici got kicked out of the apartment she was sharing with a lawyer from Philadelphia — the older sister of one of her high school friends. The woman said, "Cici, you've changed. I'm really worried about you. You're not a nice person anymore and I don't know what to do." Cici yelled at her that she was just jealous, then she moved to Carolyne's couch.
Around that time, an unfortunate item came out about Carrie in one of the gossip columns. She was trying to ignore it when Cici called up all excited.
"Omigod, you're famous," she said. "You're in the papers. Have you read it?" Then she began reading it, and it was awful, so Carrie started screaming at her. "Let me explain something. If you want to survive in this town, never, ever call anybody up and read something terrible about them from the papers. You pretend you never saw it, okay? And if they ask you if you did, you lie and say, 'No, I don't read trash like that. Even though you do. Get it? Jesus, Cici," she said, "whose side are you on here?" Cici started crying, and Carrie hung up the phone and felt guilty afterward.