Jared Leto emerges from 12-day desert meditation into ‘very different world’

The docu-series Tiger King has become a phenomenon since it launched on Netflix, and Chrissy Teigen, Gwyneth Paltrow and Jared Leto are among the show’s celebrity fans.

Jared Leto has delighted fans by dressing up as Joe Exotic from Netflix’s hit documentary Tiger King.

Turns out we aren’t the only ones who can’t get enough of Tiger King: Murder, Mayhem and Madness on Netflix. Oscar-winning actor Jared Leto, 48, dressed up as Joe Exotic, star of the must-see docu-seriesand hosted a viewing party which he live-tweeted on March 26.

Jared Leto is the Twitter king of the "Tiger King."

The masses have crowned Netflix's Tiger King: Murder, Mayhem and Madness the ruler of the Quarantine Nation, and Cardi B, 2 Chainz, Sam Smith, Jared Leto and other celebs are pledging fealty on their socials.The show, which has everything from gay throuples to trainers getting their arms ripped off, dumpsters full of expired meat, murder, dynamite, teenage magicians, sex cults and the Tony Montana of zookeepers, is the ultimate guilty pleasure during the days and weeks of this national shutdown

Photo courtesy of Jared Leto/Instagram Stories.

Like many of us, Jared Leto has turned to watching movies to pass the time while self-isolating amid the coronavirus crisis.

The new series sees Leto live-tweeting classic films and shows

Jared Leto made headlines last week when he came back from a phone-free meditation in the desert to learn of the pandemic, but now he’s all caught up to speed.

Getting in on the shelfie game! Jared Leto took a “shelfie” snapshot and shared the contents of his refrigerator with all of his social media followers.

Jared Leto just returned from a 12-day silent retreat and he had no idea that the world was crumbling under the fear of Coronavirus pandemic. The 48-year-old actor learned about the COVID-19 crisis after emerging from a meditation retreat where he had no access to the outside world. “Wow. 12 days ago I began a silent meditation in the desert. We were totally isolated. No phone, no communication etc. We had no idea what was happening outside the facility,” he wrote on Instagram. 

By Amanda N'Duka

This sounds like something straight out of a VERY bad movie…

That we are living in the time of corona shouldn't be news to anyone at this point — but if you're Jared Leto, it very much is. The former Joker was enjoying a 12-day silent meditation retreat in the desert as the virus spread across the United States. In classic Leto form, he released a statement on his Instagram upon leaving the facility and learning that there are well over 4,000 cases of COVID-19 nationwide.

Believe it or not, Jared Leto is just now waking up the coronavirus crisis. The Thirty Second to Mars singer posted a series of tweets on Tuesday morning (March 17), explaining that he's been off the grid at a silent retreat for the past two weeks --and when he got home on Monday night, he was floored by how quickly things had changed since Pres. Trump declared the COVID-19 pandemic a national emergency last week. "Wow. 12 days

Jared Leto said he first learned about the coronavirus pandemic Tuesday, after emerging from a 12-day meditation retreat in the desert.

Jared Leto was left stunned by the scale of the global coronavirus pandemic after returning home from a 12-day silent meditation in the desert.