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Proving that any publicity isn’t always good publicity

32 Trivia Tidbits About Celebrities Behaving Badly

August 04, 2024

We gauge the outrage, and we can handle the scandal. Can you?

Sweet rhymes, huh?

Seriously, we found some pretty spicy goings on in the celeb world, and you just have to check these out. Not only for entertainment purposes, but as a warning in case you encounter any of these rowdy famous folks in real life. You’ll thank us later.

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DaBaby's homophobic rant effectively ended his career. CRACKED.COM After the rant at the Rolling Loud Festival, music festivals like Lollapalooza and iHeartRadio Music Fest dropped him. His credit on the remix of Dua Lipa's hit song Levitating was removed. — Source

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Anti-Semitism keeps Ye off the billionaire list. CRACKED.COM Because of his numerous anti-Semetic comments, Adidas dropped his Yeezy shoeline. Forbes estimates the deal was to be worth $1.5 billion. — Source

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YouTube ended their partnership with Steven Crowder. CRACKED.COM After having his YouTube account suspended several times, a damning video surfaced of him verbally assaulting his pregnant wife. Claims that he exposed himself at work didn't help, and YouTube has removed him as a partner. — Source

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Cyberbullying got Chrissy Teigen dropped from Target. CRACKED COM In 2011, she tweeted My Friday fantasy: you. dirt nap. mmm baby, to then-16 year old Courtney Stodden. That, and offensive direct messages to Stodden, lost Teigen lucrative deals with Target, Bloomingdale's and Macy's. — Source

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MADONNA PRAISED COVID FOR MAKING US ALL EQUAL. CRACKED On March 23, 2020, from a milky bath with rose petals, Madonna gave an out-of-touch we're in this together speech, saying what's wonderful about it is that it's made us all equal in many ways. Less financially secure people ripped into her online. — Source

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Wesley Snipes choked out the director of Blade: Trinity. P4 Не said David Goyer should be fired, Goyer replied that Snipes should be fired, and Snipes tried to strangle him. Не spent most of the shoot in his trailer. The film relied on a stand-in for most scenes, then cut to unrelated Snipes closeups for reaction shots. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Sean Young got sued by James Woods for stalking. Which included her leaving a decapitated doll at his doorstep and mailing him gory images. Later, when she was passed up for the role of Catwoman in Batman Returns, she showed up unannounced at the studio lot in a makeshift Catwoman outfit. Tim Burton CRACKED.COM hid from her in the bathroom. — Source

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Being James Bond went to George Lazenby's head. On the set of On Her Majesty's Secret Service, Lazenby would frequently make crew members nervous by drunkenly tossing liquor bottles into the air and shooting them to pieces. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Werner Herzog held Klaus Kinski at gunpoint. AGUIRRE, THE WRATH OF GOD CRACKED.COM The two were close friends and frequent collaborators, but still had regular and brutal on-set clashes -- the most volatile of which came when Kinski tried to walk out, and Herzog revealed he had a gun. — Source

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Faye Dunaway threw her pee at Roman Polanski. CHINATOWN CRACKED.COM Among other awful behavior, Polanski wouldn't allow Dunaway bathroom breaks, forcing her to pee in cups. In protest, she hucked one of her pee cups in his face. — Source

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David О. Russell threw a violent temper tantrum. I HEART HUCKABEES CRACKED.COM After Lily Tomlin expressed frustration with his notes and revisions, he freaked out and started throwing and kicking props all over the set. The whole thing was caught on camera! It's wild! — Source

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Alfred Hitchcock installed a sexual harassment door. THE BIRDS CRACKED COM Hitchcock was a horrible creep to Tippi Hedren, stalking her and making shameless, aggressive sexual advances. The worst thing he did was threaten to ruin her if she wouldn't boink him; the dumbest was installing a door between her dressing room and his office so he could casually walk in on her changing. — Source

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Marlon Brando walked around pantsless. THE SCORE CRACKED.COM Brando had it out for director Frank Oz. Не would only take direction from him via a third party, called him Miss Piggy, and showed up to set Donald Duck-style, so Oz couldn't film his whole body. — Source

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David О. Russell headbutted George Clooney. THREE KINGS CRACKED.COM Russell, a notorious turd, was known to overreact and scream at crew members. Clooney stepped up to him during one tirade, prompting Russell to headbutt him. Clooney neutralized the weapon by putting him in a headlock. — Source

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Brigitte Bardot had to get her stomach pumped. LA VERITE CRACKED.COM Horrible monster and occasional director Henri-Georges Clouzot thought Bardot couldn't act asleep, SO he dosed her with sleeping pills (telling her they were painkillers). — Source

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Tony Kaye shattered his own hand. AMERICAN HISTORY X CRACKED.COM Norton was an incredible pest during production and post-production. While editing, Kaye got so fed up that he offered to replace his name with Humpty Dumpty in the credits, then punched a wall so hard he broke his hand. — Source

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You used to be cool ELLEN DeGENERES' shattered reputation. After BuzzFeed detailed allegations of racial insensitivity, sexual harassment and bullying, Ellen's 30 years of likability were shattered. A Twitter thread asked people to share stories of Ellen being mean, and it quickly received over 2,600 replies. CRACKED — Source

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You used to be cool A drunk REESE WITHERSPOON pulls the I'm famous card. She was seemingly America's good girl, but her arrest was caught on film in 2013, and she drunkenly yelled, Do you know my name? You better not arrest me to officers. They did arrest her... for disorderly conduct. CRACKED — Source

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You used to be cool CEELO GREEN took a page out of Bill Cosby's playbook. Green had a cool, likable persona, but he pleaded no contest to drugging and raping a woman. Then tweeted, If someone is passed out they're not even WITH you consciously! So WITH implies consent. CRACKED — Source

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Fallen Celebrities Then vs. Now RYAN ADAMS has musical talent and indie cred. НЕ ALSO HAS ALLEGATIONS AGAINST HIM OF ASSISTING FEMALE MUSICIANS TO THEN PURSUE THEM, as well as retaliating and even underage pestering. Nothing has been proven, but even his ex-wife Mandy Moore called his behavior psychologically abusive. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Fallen Celebrities Then vs. Now MATT LAUER was the face of NBC's Today for 20 years. НЕ ALSO REPORTEDLY HARASSED A LOT OF WOMEN, abused his power, and had a button to close the door of his office automatically, as normal people do. Не was fired from NBC, and nobody has seen him since. CRACKED.COM — Source

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You used to be cool MEL GIBSON was once a Hollywood darling. It's near-impossible to imagine now, but Gibson was once the go-to movie star for the blockbusters, the rom coms, and the funny, lovable Lethal Weapon movies. Now, he's primarily known for drunken, explosive, anti-Semitic rants and general awfulness. CRACKED — Source

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You used to be cool JAMES CORDEN's lovability is all an act. Known for his cutesy teddy bear-like demeanor, he was once so rude to staff at a New York restaurant that he was banned. Dozens of stories of his rude, terrible behavior (on and off set) began surfacing, forever tarnishing his reputation. CRACKED — Source

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You used to be cool SEAN CONNERY promoted hitting women. In 1987, he told Barbara Walters that slapping women isn't that bad, if the situation merits it. On what situation would merit hitting a woman, he said it should only come after a man has tried everything else. Not cool, James Bond. Not cool. CRACKED — Source

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You used to be cool ALEC BALDWIN verbally assaults his 11-year-old daughter. Basically the '90s John Hamm, he was a hot movie star who was legitimately funny. At that point, he had hosted SNL 13 times. In 2007, we heard a leaked voicemail of him screaming you're a rude, thoughtless little pig to his 11-year-old daughter, Ireland. CRACKED — Source

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Fallen Celebrities Then vs. Now a GIRO GRO ESTRONG.ORG LANCE ARMSTRONG won the Tour de France seven friggin' times, which is amazing. LIVESTRONG EXCEPT WHEN YOU FACTOR IN THAT НЕ RAN A HIGHLY SOPHISTICATED DOPING RING, and took performance-enhancing drugs for most of his career. Не was stripped of his wins and banned from the sport, but hey, what would Dodgeball trivia be without him? CRACKED.COM — Source

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Fallen Celebrities Then vs. Now JEFFREY JONES acted in a bunch of awesome movies НЕ WAS ALSO ARRESTED FOR POSSESSION OF, ERM, CHEESE PIZZA, and had to register as a sex offender. Не has since resumed acting, mainly on the stage and stuff like 2019's Deadwood: The Movie. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Fallen Celebrities Then vs. Now FELICITY HUFFMAN can boast an Emmy and a Golden Globe. SHE CAN ALSO BOAST 14 DAYS IN PRISON for a college admission bribery scandal. Lori Loughlin was also involved, but Huffman is, you know, a much better actress- so her downfall actually darkens the movie industry, and not just Full House reboots. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Fallen Celebrities Then vs. Now Stand-up comedian CHRIS D'ELIA portrayed characters such as a child molester and a sexual predator. PLOT TWIST: НЕ WAS ACCUSED OF BEING EXACTLY THAT. His agency dropped him and he lost a bunch of gigs, including a role in Zack Snyder's Army of the Dead (which actually sounds like a win for him, but whatever). CRACKED.COM — Source

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Fallen Celebrities Then vs. Now CHARLIE ROSE hosted his eponymous talk show from 1991 to 2017. НЕ WAS FIRED FROM PBS AND CBS due to allegations of sexual harassment dating from 1991 to 2011. Не tried a comeback in 2022 by interviewing a billionaire. Sheesh, holding water to climate-collapsing obscene wealth sure is a great look, Charlie. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Fallen Celebrities Then vs. Now ARMIE HAMMER rocks in Call Me by Your Name. THINGS FELL APART WHEN ALLEGATIONS OF HARASSMENT (AND LATER ABUSE) emerged around 2021. What makes them different, however, was the explicit, insisting, and systematic fantasies of sexual torture and even cannibalism. CRACKED.COM — Source

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