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13 Inscrutable Celebrity Claims and Humblebrags

August 04, 2023

Celebrities… You’re interesting enough as it is! You don’t have to go around making all the wild claims and self-indulgent, self-inflicted back-pats. We see you. You’re enough. There, we just wanted to start on a therapeutic note, you know, for the celebrities on this list who are clearly reading this. Hey, Snooki! How’ve you been?!

Every once in a while (okay, for several hours a day) we get to scrolling and/or clicking around on the world wide web, and we (along with everybody else) are hit with some otherworldly “news” from the mouths of celebs. There’s a mini internal record-scratch moment, like wait, what?! We move on to something else, but there it is again. And again. Wow, this quote went viral instantly. We think to ourselves, this can’t be true, right?! Well, honestly it might be. Just because a celebrity said some wild shit, doesn’t mean it’s not true. They do live pretty interesting lives after all. True or false, warranted or not, here are 13 inscrutable celebrity claims and humblebrags.

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Gene Simmons’ claim of 5,000 is one thing but…

WILT CHAMBERLAIN claimed he slept with 20,000 women. In his biography, he claimed to have been intimate with about 20,000 women. If you do the math, it would mean that from 15 years old to the time of the claim, he would have slept with 10 different women per ORIGINAL week, every week! Exhausting! - ELIFATE ARLEM RETROTTER SPALDING CRACKED — Fred Palumbo/Wiki Commons
EssentiallySports

12

He made sure to remind us that he’d be in first class.

MARK WAHLERG claimed he would have stopped 9/11. If I was on that plane with my kids, it wouldn't have went down like it did. There would have been a lot of blood in that first-class cabin and then me saying, 'OK, we're going to land somewhere safely, don't worry.' Не later apologized for this statement. CRACKED — John Gress Media Inc/Shutterstock
NPR

11

“Unused” being the operative word.

SNOOKI claimed that kitty litter was the best exfoliant. She told Conan O'Brien that the most effective and inexpensive exfoliant she's found is actually unused cat litter. CRACKED — Debby Wong/Shutterstock,
Andrey_Kuzmin/Shutterstock
Today

10

“We Texans like to eat” would have sufficed.

JESSICA SIMPSON claimed that Texans don't get anorexia. She said, I'm not anorexic. I'm from Texas. Are there people from Texas who are anorexic? I've never heard of one, and that includes me. CRACKED — Everett Collection/Shutterstock
The Fashion Spot

9

He was once more popular for ‘The League,’ but this has definitely overshadowed it.

STEVE RANNAZZISI lied about being in Tower 2 on 9/11. On Marc Maron's podcast in 2009, he said, I worked on the 54th floor of the second tower and got to the streets before the second plane hit. Не told a long, elaborate story of his experience, but The New York Times broke the news of his lie. CRACKED — Kathy Hutchins/Shutterstock
ABC News

8

But mom, I have a math test coming up!

COURTNEY LOVE claimed that crack made her better at calculus. She said, The strange thing is, while the crack screwed me up in a lot of ways, it improved me in certain others. I've never been good with numbers, but when I was on crack could do math really, really well. I became a f-ing whiz at calculus. s-j f(x)dx CRACKED — Tinseltown/Shutterstock,
Undrey/Shutterstock
Highway 98.9

7

Liam Gallagher

CRACKED LIAM GALLAGHER claimed he's the reincarnation of John Lennon. Since Liam was born in 1972, he would have been eight years old when Lennon was killed. His brother Noel claims that Liam tried to mimic Lennon's accent, and even asked to be called John. — Milan Risky/Shutterstock,
Joost Evers/Wiki Commons
Ultimate Classic Rock

6

Deal with my fame, beauty, and wealth, world!

No more humility for CATHERINE ZETA-JONES. She said, I'm sick of being humble. I really am. So sorry I'm rich, so sorry I'm married to a movie star, so sorry I'm not so bad looking. CRACKED — Joe Seer/Shutterstock
The Mirror

5

Did he fall asleep watching Ray Stantz’ B.J. scene in ‘Ghostbusters’?!

BOBBY BROWN claimed he had sex with a ghost in a haunted mansion. In his memoir Every Little Step, he wrote, One memorable night, one of the ghosts descended from the ceiling and had sex with me. After you stop laughing, I need you to hear what I'm saying because I'm not making this up. Не made sure to specify that he wasn't on drugs. CRACKED — Source

4

What are your beliefs?

MrBEAST claimed that he was invited KI on the ill-fated Titan submarine. Не tweeted a screenshot of the supposed invite with the caption, Kinda scary that I could have been on it. Many people are debating its validity. OceanCate TITA H CRACKED — Kathy Hutchins/Shutterstock,
OceanGate
TheGamer

3

To be fair, no one knows more about unfair advantages than Lance Armstrong.

LANCE ARMSTRONG's views on trans athletes. On Fox's reality series Stars on Mars he said, You want to transition, let's do it. You have your own category. We're gonna have a whole new division. Figure skater Adam Rippon said, I don't need to hear what the greatest cheater in American history has to say about what he thinks is an unfair advantage. .. GIRO Z LIFESTRONG.ORG NIVES CRACKED — Randy Miramontez/Shutterstock
Yahoo News

2

CRACKED CHRISTINA AGUiLERA /Bi-on-ic/ CHRISTINA AGUILERA's flop was just ahead of its time. About her low-selling album Bionic, she said, I can proudly say it was ahead of its time, to be honest. You had to be a real music lover, a true fan of music and the love of being open to really appreciate that record. — Kathy Hutchins/Shutterstock,
RCA Records
Gawker

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As crazy as it is, this honestly sounds true.

JAMES BLUNT claimed that he personally prevented World War III. Не said that when he was in the British Army, an airfield had been taken by Russian forces, and he was ordered to destroy the Russians, and take the runway. Не refused, prevented a World War, and was later thanked by his superiors. CRACKED — Frederic Legrand - COMEO/Shutterstock
BBC

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