Plenty of other forums attract their fair share of scandal—from politics to music to high society—but no one does scandal better than Hollywood. The mix of beautiful people, big egos, and obscene amounts of money is a winning combination that has kept gossip rags afloat from the very first days of silent Film. Whether it’s fiery feuds, steamy affairs, tragic deaths, or just plain bizarre behavior, Hollywood stars just seem prone to scandal. So air out your dirty laundry to these 101 outrageous facts about Hollywood’s most scandal-stricken celebrities.
1. Charlie Needs to Mediate this One
Movie sets are full of ego, but what happens when one Actor blatantly criticizes another in the middle of production? In Charlie’s Angels, Lucy Liu allegedly attacked Bill Murray, screaming and throwing punches at his face. Was she justified?
Moments before, Murray had stopped a scene in progress, apparently in order to compare Liu to her co-stars Drew Barrymore and Cameron Diaz. He praised the two other actresses, then pointed to Liu and asked, “What in the hell are you doing here? You can’t act”! Nice Bill, real nice.
He was replaced by Bernie Mac for the sequel.
2. Quit Joking Around
Suicide Squad was a critical flop of a film, but the cast seemed to be having a blast on and off set—except for the presence of Jared Leto. Leto insisted on staying in character as the Joker, which involved sending fellow cast members used condoms and anal beads.
“The Joker is somebody who doesn’t really respect things like personal space or boundaries,” Leto explained to the media. Oh, that excuses it then.
3. My Bloody Valentine
It seems like eons ago that Angelina Jolie and Billy Bob Thornton were still together.
And wearing necklaces of each other’s blood. According to Thornton, it was Jolie’s idea that “it would be interesting and romantic if we took a little razor blade and sliced our fingers, smeared a little blood on these lockets and you wear it around your neck just like you wear your son or daughter’s baby hair in one”. In terms of romantic gestures, we’d have gone with the hair thing; more Victorian, much less painful, and way more hygienic.
4. An American Purveyor of Ladies in Paris
Before James Lipton hosted Inside the Actor’s Studio, he spent a year in Paris working as—to put this sensitively—an agent for escorts. He is fairly open about his past, insisting that the French treat their women well, and referring to this job as one of those “rites of passage, no question about it. It was a great year of [his] life”.
5. Banned from China
Pitt has been barred from entering China.
His role in the movie, Seven Years in Tibet, was apparently controversial for the Chinese in terms of their beliefs. On October 13, 1997, Time Magazine spoke to Pitt who explained: “Reporters ask me what I feel China should do about Tibet.
Who cares what I think China should do? I’m an actor! They hand me a script. I act. I’m here for entertainment”.
6. Terrible Loss
Very tragically, Mark Ruffalo’s brother Scott was shot in the head on December 1, 2008. Despite attempts to save his life, Scott passed away a week later.
The case remains unsolved as of 2018.
7. Unshaven Efforts
In 2009, Joaquin Phoenix tried to convince everyone that he had “lost it”. Donning a full mangy beard, sunglasses, and long hair, Phoenix announced that he was quitting acting to pursue a more fulfilling career in rap music.
This erratic behavior was later revealed to be part of a long-term performance art piece for a mockumentary he was making with Casey Affleck titled I’m Still Here. That film made less than $570,000 in worldwide box office, so we’re not sure if all that off-putting acting-out was worth it.
8. You Get a Broken Heart! And You Get a Broken Heart!
Matt Damon dated his Good Will Hunting co-star Minnie Driver for a year, but the relationship ended when Damon denied having a girlfriend on the Oprah Winfrey Show. What happened to the chivalry of sending a text?
9. Just Don’t Do It
Even Stevens and Transformers star Shia LaBeouf provides no shortage of eccentric content for his fans. Just see his “JUST DO IT” and “Actual Cannibal Shia LaBeouf” memes, his “I AM NOT FAMOUS ANYMORE” paper bag performance art, and his live streaming of reactions to his entire filmography. Much less whimsical—and more scary—were stunts like when LaBeouf chased down a homeless man down Times Square over a McDonald’s bag, and then harassed people at a performance of Cabaret. This was all in the same day.
10. The Real Story
Long before she married John Travolta, Kelly Preston was engaged to Charlie Sheen—until one night, when he accidentally shot her in the arm. Well, as the story goes, she was accidentally shot somehow, and shortly after, they broke off their engagement.
For decades, there’s been wild speculation about that night, and Sheen has finally addressed the rumors and revealed what really happened that night.
He claims that while he was downstairs making coffee one morning, she picked up a pair of his pants and his revolver fell out of the pocket, going off. She was apparently clipped by shrapnel, and he helped her wrap her arm and called 911.
We hope at least he got a gun safety lecture from the first responders out of it. Of course, that’s all according to Sheen—we’d love to hear Preston’s side of the story.
11. Goblet of Fire
While filming Chinatown, it’s rumored that Faye Dunaway threw a cup of her own urine in Roman Polanski’s face. The director had forbidden her from taking any bathroom breaks.
Thus, to rectify multiple tensions at once, Dunaway relieved herself in a cup and then promptly flung the contents at Polanski’s mug. Can we blame her?
12. Ruthless
In 2002, paparrazi used a long-lens camera from an 8-story building to capture pictures of Jennifer Aniston sunbathing topless in her own backyard.
The photos ended up in multiple magazines, and Aniston again went to court over the issue with both the photographer and magazines; in 2003, the photographer paid Aniston $550,000 in damages.
13. Nic Has a Bone to Pick With Leo
Nicolas Cage once outbid Leonardo DiCaprio for a Mongolian dinosaur skull.
For the paltry price of $276,000, the Ghost Rider actor finally won the right to say he got “a-head” of the heartthrob from Titanic.
14. I Did What?!?
In 2013, a bizarre sequence of events led to Zoeey Deschanel being named a suspect in the Boston Marathon bombing.
She woke up to find her name mentioned across social media and the story began to come together: on a Fox newscast, the anchor has read the name “Dzhokhar Tsarnaev,” but the closed captioning had misunderstood it as “Zooey Deschanel,” leading to a caption that identified her as the main suspect in the bombing. Deschanel later received an apology from the network affiliate and the company that handled their captioning.
15. Method Man
Jim Carrey is known for completely becoming Andy Kaufman for Man on the Moon. He had people call him Andy and constantly took things a bit too far while filming. This got on the cast and crew’s nerves, and at one point he got so caught up in the role that he spit in Jerry Lawler’s face, who then went after Carrey and tried to choke him.
Carrey became so fixated on the role of Kaufman that he claims “Jim Carrey” didn’t exist during the filming of the movie and instead he was possessed by the spirit of Kaufman. It’s also worth noting that Carrey said he had a psychotic breakdown while filming Man on the Moon, which might contribute to the whole possession theory.
16. Betrayal
In 2017, Hart was accused of having an extramarital affair while his second wife Enniko was pregnant.
To make matters worse, someone was trying to extort money off Hart, claiming they had video evidence of the affair. And on top of that, it was discovered that the person trying to extort Hart was his friend, actor Jonathan Todd Jackson, AKA Action Jackson.
The LA district attorney’s office ended up charging Jackson with felony attempted extortion and extortion by threatening letter. In September 2018, Jackson pled not guilty. Hart would later publicly apologize for his moral transgression, and he and Enniko have seemed to put it in their past.
17. Bizarre Love Triangle
Drew Barrymore and Kristen Wiig are close friends—which made it all the more surprising when Wiig began dating Fabrizio Moretti in 2011. How come? Well, Barrymore and Moretti, drummer for indie rock band The Strokes, dated seriously from 2003 to 2007.
It could’ve easily turned into a classic Hollywood love triangle, with lots of tabloid drama and fans making “Team Drew” and “Team Kristen” shirts, but the two remained friends throughout. Barrymore called the situation “wacky and incestuous,” and expressed that she thought the union made sense. Either way, Wiig and Moretti only lasted a few years, and she’s been linked to actor Avi Rothman in the years since.
18. Seven Years’ Bad Luck?
Jake Gyllenhaal may have taken things a little too far while filming Nightcrawler. At one point he sliced open his hand while punching a mirror and ended up requiring a bunch of stitches to fix it.
Ouch!
19. Run-in With the Law
A 2013 viral tape showed Reese Witherspoon screaming at a police officer while being arrested for disorderly conduct, but most don’t know that she also shamefully confessed to bold-faced lying to the officer during the incident: as she said, “I saw [the cop] arresting my husband and I literally panicked.
I said all kinds of crazy things. I told him I was pregnant. I’m not pregnant! I said crazy things”.
20. When You Gotta Go
In response to the question the public was begging to know the answer to (I guess), Robert Pattinson admitted to peeing in jars in his car “many times” over the course of his life.
21. This Looks Cool, Let’s Try It!
In 1999, David Fincher released the film Fight Club, which became a cult hit almost overnight. Driver was one of many teenagers who was inspired by the film, but he was inspired more than most—he actually began his own fight club among his friends after school. According to Driver, the first rule of his fight club, rather than not talking about said fight club, was “no hitting in the balls”. Still a good rule.
22. An Unlucky Resemblance
When Colin Farrell was backpacking around Australia in his late teens, he was accosted by the police as a suspect in a murder. The police artists’ drawing of the man in question bore an unfortunate resemblance to the actor, who had partied so much on the night in question that he had blacked out. He was allowed to go free when he provided the police with his friend’s journal detailing the night out, which was spent across town, doing MDMA together.
23. Take It Easy, Tom
In 2017, Tom Hiddleston won a Golden Globe for his work on The Night Manager, but while his acceptance speech started off traditionally, he had raised more than a few eyebrows by the time it was finished. He regaled the audience with a story of his time visiting South Sudan where he met several members of Doctors Without Borders who told him how much they liked his performance in the TV series.
This, coupled with the fact that he referred to South Sudan as one of the places where the world is “broken” led to widespread criticism of Hiddleston falling back on the problematic “white savior” myth that has dominated stories about the third world for centuries.
24. Have a Drink
Reportedly, Oscar Isaac isn’t a fan of alcohol, but he decided to have some drinks while playing the title character on the set of Inside Llewyn Davis. As you can imagine, it didn’t take many drinks before Isaac lost his memory. He could only remember drinking, then waking up in his bed later on.
Apparently, he still managed to film the scene in the middle of that blackout!
25. It’s the Smile
Two of Michael Fassbender’s frequent collaborators, directors Steven Soderbergh and Steve McQueen, attest to Fassbender’s charm and, er, social skills. Soderbergh ended up partying with Fassbender till 3:
30 am, and McQueen and Fassbender “got pissed together” following Fassbender’s second audition for one of McQueen’s films. Fox Searchlight president Nancy Utley also added that Fassbender brings a creative energy and a “personal energy” to his films that is infectious.
26. She Doesn’t Ship It
How did Kristen Stewart feel about her relationship to Robert Pattinson?
In retrospect, she said it made her feel “gross”. The public pressure to make it work for the sake of fans got to the actress. She admitted, “People wanted me and Rob to be together so badly that our relationship was made into a product. It wasn’t real life anymore. And that was gross to me.
It’s not that I want to hide who I am or hide anything I’m doing in my life. It’s that I don’t want to become a part of a story for entertainment value”.
27. Just a Little Nap Between Parents
Kristen Bell admitted that her daughters have walked in on her and husband Dax Shepard in, uh, the heat of the moment.
While promoting Bad Moms Christmas, she appeared on The Talk and confessed to the ladies about how it happened. “Well, we didn’t, like, continue…we sort of just went like, ‘Hey, what’s up? What do you need? What do you need’?… And then we just said, ‘Mommy and daddy are just going to take a nap for a couple of minutes’”. Don’t worry, Kristen. We’re sure they won’t remember that as they get older. Well, maybe.
28. The Showman
After a brief marriage to English actor Michael Wilding, Taylor married film and theater producer Mike Todd. Todd loved spectacles: for Elizabeth’s birthday, he rented Madison Square Garden, invited 18,000 party guests, and arranged to have the whole thing broadcast on CBS. Todd died in a plane crash in 1958; it was Taylor’s only marriage not to end in divorce.
29. Looky Lou
As an actor, James Franco dives deep into his roles and his characters, which means he sometimes goes to extreme lengths to get in the right headspace. This was never more apparent than when he was preparing for his role as a prostitute in the film Sonny. He shadowed an actual male prostitute around for a while, which ended up with him in a room, sitting in a chair with his shirt off, watching the prostitute in bed with another man.
30. Ominously on Point
This one might give you chills.
Alec Guinness, the actor best known for playing Obi-Wan Kenobi, met James Dean at a restaurant in Hollywood just after Dean had bought the Spyder he would end up dying in. Guinness had a premonition and warned Dean to stay away from the car.
“If you get in that car, you will be found dead in it by this time next week,” Guinness reportedly said to Dean. The young star just played it off, but it would sadly, and eerily, be a premonition that came true.
31. Smell You Later
The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air taught the world to love Will Smith… that is, everyone except for his fellow cast member, Janet Hubert-Whitten, who played Vivian Banks. Hubert-Whitten’s feud with Smith became so overbearing that she ended up leaving the show and was replaced by actress Daphne Maxwell Reid. In 2011, Hubert-Whitten was asked if she would ever reunite with her former castmates.
She maintained that the hatchet was never going to be buried, even calling Smith an “a-hole”, which might just be the worst thing anyone’s said about Smith before After Earth was released.
32. That’s A Misfire
In 1993, Brandon Lee, the son of martial arts legend Bruce Lee, was killed while shooting at scene for The Crow. For the scene in question, Lee’s character is supposed to be shot by while entering his apartment. Unfortunately, the prop gun still had dummy cartridges from a previous scene; a leftover load had entered the blank round, hitting lee with the same velocity as a real bullet.
33. Take a Swing!
Jamie Foxx and LL Cool J both co-starred in Oliver Stone’s NFL film Any Given Sunday, and they took their characters’ rivalry to a whole new level. While filming a scene inside Miami’s Pro Player Stadium, the two began throwing genuine punches at each other. Both were injured, yet they refused medical treatment and refused to press charges when the police became involved.
They eventually put the incident behind them and appeared on each other’s songs.
34. Going Out With a Bang
Johnny Depp was good friends with Hunter S. Thompson until his death. Depp helped to fulfill Thompson’s last wish after the writer died:
Thompson wanted his remains to be shot out of a 150 foot long cannon. Depp funded the ceremony and cannon firing, while celebrities such as Jack Nicholson and Sean Penn attended.
35. Roberts vs. Roberts
Eric and Julia Roberts, both movie stars, albeit with very different career trajectories, first became estranged when Eric, struggling with chemical dependencies, gained an unsavory reputation for domestic violence.
His sister Julia understandably sided with Eric’s partner in the custody battle for their daughter Emma (yes, the Emma Roberts who is also an actress), which Eric took serious issue with. Things got so bad between them that Julia allegedly refused to have her brother’s name even mentioned around her. They did eventually reconcile, though.
36. Choose Your Own Adventure
A tabloid was going to publish a story that she was having an affair with one of her co-stars, but her publicist got wind of it first. Lawrence called them and was allowed to choose which one of her co-stars she was involved with.
She went with Bradley Cooper. Solid choice.
37. So This is Why Bronn’s Never Around when Tyrion Needs Him Most!
With all the convincing hatred and bitterness between characters on Game of Thrones, you would think that at least some of it must be genuine. Well, it turns out that the real bitterness isn’t reflected in the show at all. This is because Lena Headey (Cersei Lannister) and Jerome Flynn (Bronn) have made an explicit condition in their contracts that they are never to be in the same room as each other at any point in time!
The specific reason remains unknown, but it’s been established that they were once a romantic couple of sorts.
38. Strange Days for the Lohan Clan
Lohan’s father Michael secretly fathered another child, Ashley Horn, only revealing her existence in 2012. This is where it gets weird—allegedly, Ashley underwent a number of surgeries to look more like her famous half-sister. She told In Touch Weekly that she got her jaw and chin reshaped, as well as her nose, and fat injections, and that her goal was to look like Lohan back in her “good days”. She later stated that the media manipulated her, and that those were not her reasons for getting any surgery.
39. Dark Day
In 2007, Luke Wilson found his brother Owen covered in blood and disoriented. He called 911 and was able to get Owen help in time to save his life. It was later confirmed that this was a suicide attempt; Owen had taken a bunch of pills and slit his wrist.
He didn’t say much on the subject, only releasing this statement: “I respectfully ask that the media allow me to receive care and heal in private during this difficult time”. To this day Wilson likes to keep silent about his private life, often refusing to answer personal questions.
40. Nixing a Photoshoot
McAdams once stormed out of a photoshoot and fired her publicist after she was told that she was expected to pose nude. In 2006, McAdams was slated to appear on the cover of Vanity Fair’s annual Hollywood issue, but she was not informed that the shoot would involve nudity. When she found out she immediately left.
Clearly, her publicist had overlooked a rather crucial detail when explaining the details.
41. Setting the Story Straight
Though she’s known for her good girl image, in 2006 her ex-boyfriend Wilmer Valderrama made some pretty scandalous comments to Howard Stern about Moore’s intimate life.
The actor claimed that he had taken Moore’s virginity and also commented cruelly that, “The sex with Mandy was good, but it wasn’t like warm apple pie”.
At the time, Moore called him out for lying about taking her virginity, and even more recently she herself went onto Stern’s show and revealed more details about Valderrama’s icky rumor.
“‘Where did this come from’”? she remembered asking him at the time when she called him up. “And I remember in the moment he tried to explain it away, that sort of he did get caught up, and like he maybe insinuated more than outright said it.
And I was like, ‘No, you outright said it’”.
She then continued, “I met him at a photo shoot for like, some teen magazine, literally, when I was 15? 15! I was [pretty innocent!] … Again, never French kissed a boy.
He was like my first real true boyfriend. [But] he did not [take my virginity]”.
42. Food Fight
Although Demi Lovato has been through so much, and has battled against her drug addiction, there’s still one demon she has yet to conquer:
her eating disorder. Lovato says she has suffered from compulsive overeating and bulimia since she was 8 or 9. As she says, “I had started working at that time and was under a lot of stress so I would bake cookies for my family and I would eat all of them and nobody would have any to eat. That was my first memory of food being that medicine for me”. She admits that “food is still the biggest challenge in my life”.
43. Girl Crush
Natalie Portman has outwardly expressed interest in wanting to grab Scarlett Johansson’s breasts—she thinks they’re really pretty.
44. Once is Too Much
In 1973, River and Joaquin Phoenix’s family moved to Venezuela to join the Christian cult known as Children of God. As with many cults, emphasis was increasingly placed on sex by the cult’s leader, David Berg. Their parents eventually saw the writing on the wall and abandoned the Children of God to return to the US.
Sadly, before this happened, River was allegedly sexually assaulted when he was just four years old.
45. A Darker Side
Johnny Depp’s most recent relationship was with actress Amber Heard, who he proposed to on Christmas Eve 2013. The couple met on the set of The Rum Diary (2012). Amber Heard filed for divorce from Johnny Depp on 25th May, 2016.
The following day, Heard was granted a domestic violence restraining order against Depp in relation to a physical altercation between the couple, which resulted in Heard filing for divorce in the first place. Heard was granted $7 million as part of the former couple’s divorce, all of which she donated to charity.
46. You’re Toxic
Ryan Gosling confessed he feels responsible for corrupting Britney Spears on The Mickey Mouse Club. He says, “They would come and ask me questions about sex, and I just told them what I heard – like positions and stuff. All the other mothers went to Disney and told them I was corrupting their kids.
I feel somewhat responsible for how sexual she is right now. When I see her with a snake around her neck, I think, ‘Did I do that’?
47. Hey, a Job’s a Job
Many of Hollywood’s biggest stars got their start in the adult film industry. Sylvester Stallone, Marilyn Monroe, and Kevin Costner dared to be bare before their “legitimate” film career took off. Even Jackie Chan starred in a 1970s XXX film called All In The Family. True to form, he did all his own stunts.
48. Bueller…Bueller…Bueller
Actor Matthew Broderick killed a mother and daughter while on vacation in Ireland with Ferris Bueller’s Day Off co-star Jennifer Grey. Their rented BMW crossed the center line, colliding head-on with an on-coming vehicle.
He was convicted of “careless driving” and had to pay $175 fine. Doesn’t sound like such a righteous dude now, does he?
49. Say it Ain’t So, Marky Mark
Actor Mark Wahlberg had a bit of rough youth. He was a small-time drug dealer and spent time in jail for an unprovoked attack of two Vietnamese men.
He hit one with a stick and punched the other, causing the victim to go blind in one eye. He was originally charged with attempted murder, but was able to plead to a lesser charge of criminal contempt.
He was sentenced to two years in prison but served only 45 days.
50. I’ll Be Back…to Finish Cleaning the Bathroom
Celebrities often have rocky marriages, but few last for over three decades. That’s why so many people were surprised when Maria Shriver filed for divorce from the Governator himself, Arnold Schwarzenegger. The most shocking news that came out during the proceedings was the fact that Schwarzenegger had fathered a child with the couples’ housekeeper.
51. Red Foreman Would Not Be Impressed
Ashton Kutcher found an unusual way to celebrate his anniversary with his then-wife Demi Moore.
Instead of flowers or chocolate, Kutcher chose instead to consummate his relationship with Sara Leal, a young administrative assistant. I can never remember—which year’s anniversary is infidelity?
52. How Do You Really Feel?
In 2006, Malibu police pulled Mel Gibson over on suspicion of DUI.
He proceeded to go on an anti-Semitic rant against one of the officers. At the station he called a female booking officer “Sugar Tits”. But he made a movie about Jesus, so apparently everything is cool.
53. The Cat’s Out of the Bag
When the 2014 Sony Hack revealed a deluge of private Hollywood emails, juicy details came out about Adams’ work in American Hustle. While most of the media focused on how the women were being paid less than their male counterparts, another email gained less attention, but nonetheless revealed some scandalous information.
The email indicates that apparently Adams and director David O. Russell, who is notorious for his temperamental nature, didn’t see eye to eye, and it caused immense tension on set. In fact, Adams cried on set to the point where co-star Christian Bale felt like Russell was abusing the actress, and he needed to step in.
As a result, Bale got in the director’s face and told him he needed to “stop acting like an a**hole”.
54. The Diary
One of the ways heath Ledger got into character for The Dark Knight was by putting together a scrapbook filled with inspiration for The Joker, which he made in part during his time isolated in the hotel room. The contents of this journal have been much discussed in the media—but they truly are disturbing. In its pages, Ledger wrote from the perspective of The Joker, who finds humor in geniuses who become mentally handicapped, among other horrific things.
The journal also contained stills from Stanley Kubrick’s eerie thriller A Clockwork Orange, photos of clown makeup, and pictures of hyenas. On the last page of the chilling “Joker diary,” he scrawled the words “BYE BYE”.
55. Small Detail
Until he was 13 years old, Bloom was under the impression that his stepdad, anti-apartheid lawyer and activist Harry Bloom, was his biological father.
Bloom entered puberty by finding out that the person he thought was a family friend, Colin Stone, was his real dad.
56. Anger Management
Christian Bale was involved in an infamous incident where he was recorded while he was verbally assaulting cinematographer Shane Hurlbut on the Terminator: Salvation set for interrupting him during an intense scene. Bale since apologized, but the incident was widely distributed all over the Internet and it was the most times Bale was referred to as a psycho since American Psycho.
57. He’s a DC Man After All!
In 2000, Downey was working on Ally McBeal and decided to celebrate Thanksgiving properly. By the time the cops arrived at Downey’s hotel room in Palm Springs to shut down the party, Downey was discovered carrying drugs and was in the company of several strippers, one of whom was dressed as Wonder Woman.
58. Acting Badly
For the movie Boogie Nights, director Paul Thomas Anderson explained to the cast that acting poorly for the porn scenes (which is what he wanted them to do) would be really difficult for them to do. He challenged the cast to see who could act the worst, and not surprisingly, Julianne Moore won the contest.
She’s so talented that she’s even good at being bad!
59. Early Start
Jeff Goldblum once stole five dollars from his dad’s wallet. What for? To try to get the services of an, ahem, “lady of the night”. 13-year-old Goldblum took a trip down to Pittsburgh’s Red Light District and walked around for a bit before selecting a partner. As the two were walking to the bedroom he asked her what time it was, then checked his watch and said:
“I’ve got to go but I will come back”. Goldblum didn’t go back.
60. Whatever Floats Your Boat
Ariana believes that one of her exes cheated on her with a guy. Speaking of one of her songs, she’s said:
It’s about a boy who cheats on a girl with another boy… It’s one of my favorites on the album, and it’s really funny because I believe it has happened to me.
I’m not 100 percent positive, but I’m 99.9 percent positive”.
61. In Solemn Memory
In 2015, Jim Carrey’s former girlfriend, Cathriona White, was found dead of a prescription drug overdose in what was ruled a suicide. Carrey was devastated and performed pallbearer duties at the funeral.
In 2016, White’s husband and mother both filed wrongful death lawsuits against Carrey that he has characterized as a “cash grab”.
The lawsuits claim that Carrey gave White both illegal prescription drugs and STDs. White’s lawyer actual statement: “Instead of giving Ms.
White flowers and chocolates, Carrey should have given her his STD test results… THAT is what she deserved on Valentine’s Day”.
62. Wolverine on the Inside
Though known in Hollywood as a nice guy, Hugh Jackman has admitted that his “Wolverine rage” comes from experiences when he was a child, especially after his mother left his family. The absence of a mother figure left a profound impression on him, who says that he became a fearful kid who felt powerless and angry the moment she left. This feeling followed him, and worsened as he got older and started to play rugby.
He would get hit in the face, and spin off into a white rage—an anger he identifies as the “Wolverine rage” he would later tap into for his performances as the character.
63. A Near Death Experience
In 2014, while on the beach in Oahu, Hawaii, Anne Hathaway got swept up in a riptide.
She started to scream and wave her arms, but her boyfriend wasn’t close enough to hear her. Thankfully, some local surfers saw her in distress and were able to save her with a boogie board, but she cut her toe on some coral on the way in and when she finally made it to shore, was bleeding profusely.
64. People Can Be Cruel
After returning to the limelight following a hiatus from acting, people were quick to point out that Renee Zellweger looked a lot different, particularly her face, and immediately began speculating that she had plastic surgery.
She ended up dismissing the rumors in an essay she wrote for the Huffington Post and chalked it up to the fact that she has simply aged, like every human being does.
65. When Fans Go Too Far
Kate Winslet says she is still disturbed and “haunted” by her nude scene in Titanic with Leonardo DiCaprio, only recently revealing that fans still go after her with images of the drawing of her body and ask her to sign it. She always refuses.
66. Fling or Real Thing?
Tom Hanks and wife Rita Wilson first met on the set of the sitcom Bosom Buddies in 1981, when Hanks was still married to first wife Samantha Lewes. Considering that Hanks and Lewes divorced in 1987, and Hanks remarried just a year later, it’s often been rumored that Hanks and Wilson had an ongoing affair in the ’80s.
Hanks and Lewes’ divorce papers don’t do much to dispel the rumors: they tell the tale of a messy divorce, where each party was ordered not to “molest, attack, strike, threaten, sexually assault, batter or otherwise disturb the peace,” with regards to each other.
67. Cooties
Dunst’s breakout role was as forever young vampire Claudia in the film Interview with the Vampire, based on the book by Anne Rice. In the film, Dunst and Brad Pitt’s characters share a tender moment together. The scene called for Dunst and Pitt to kiss each other.
It made Dunst uncomfortable to say the least, having her first kiss with a man many years her senior. “I thought it was gross, that Brad had cooties. I mean, I was 12,” she said.
68. Thanks, Mom?
Drew Barrymore’s early problems with alcoholism and drugs led to a suicide attempt when she was only 13, but the actress was found and taken to the hospital. Afterward, her mother sent her to a mental institution, where she stayed for a year and a half.
Drew says there was no warning of the institutionalization, but she realizes that she likely would have run away if her mother warned her it was coming.
Once Drew was released at age 14, she emancipated herself from her mom, legally becoming an adult.
Despite this, Barrymore thinks fondly of her mom, even though the two don’t speak that often.
69. Too Much Butterbeer
One problem that arose for Radcliffe during the filming of Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince was a dependency on alcohol. He has admitted to coming in to shoot while still drunk.
Thankfully, before his addiction could completely destroy his life, and he was able to gain control of his addiction; he has been sober since 2013. Drinking while broom flying is too dangerous to risk.
70. Monogamy No Go
Johansson has been married and divorced twice:
once to Reynolds (they split in 2011), and once to Romain Dauriac (they split early 2017). She has said in the past that she finds monogamy difficult, particularly when she’s working very hard and is away from her partner. In her words, “I think the idea of marriage is very romantic; it’s a beautiful idea, and the practice of it can be a beautiful thing, I don’t think it’s natural to be a monogamous person. I might be skewered for that, but I think it’s work. It’s a lot of work”.
71. Unlucky Number Nine
A mere four days after Cher’s divorce from Sonny Bono was final, on June 30, 1975, she jumped into another marriage with rock star Gregg Allman, frontman for the Allman Brothers Band. However intense their feelings were for each other at the time, they couldn’t withstand Allman’s alcoholism and substance abuse. He would allegedly drink a quart of vodka every day while doing heroin, leading Cher to reach her limit with the guitarist after only nine days of matrimony.
She told Entertainment Weekly that Allman was “so high, he didn’t even understand me”.
72. No Improv
Woody Allen and Meryl Streep have worked together precisely once: on the movie Manhattan. Streep, as in Kramer vs. Kramer, often likes to tweak or add her ideas to scripts, and Allen was very strict about sticking to the existing writing. Word is that Streep wasn’t too happy about this.
73. Dangerous Liaisons
One of Pfeiffer’s earliest roles was playing the innocent and ill-treated Madame Marie de Tourvel in Dangerous Liaisons. She played opposite John Malkovich, who had the infamous role of the unprincipled Valmont.
As might be expected on the set of a film about scandal, it was soon reported that the married Malkovich had begun an affair with Pfeiffer. The affair did not last, but neither did Malkovich’s marriage.
74. Not So Family Friendly
Although it was a family show, John Stamos, Bog Saget and Dave Coulier still had a raunchy sense of humor while on the Full House set. Saget has revealed some of their outrageous antics behind the scenes, such as drawing penises all over scripts, making dirty jokes, or loudly passing gas during takes.
On numerous occasions, the producers and the parents of the child actors had to take the three men into a conference room and tell them to grow up.
75. Bad Boy
Star Trek‘s Chris Pine has a pretty squeaky clean Hollywood story but did fall victim to one Hollywood cliché. Following the 2014 wrap party for Z for Zachariah, Pine was arrested for drunk driving in New Zealand. Pine was fined $93 and had his New Zealand driving license suspended for six months.
76. Homewrecker
In 2014, a stalker named Joshua James Corbett broke into Bullock’s Los Angeles home. When she realized that a stranger was in her house, she was forced to hide in a closet while calling 911. Corbett was arrested, entered a no contest plea and is now prohibited from seeing Bullock for 10 years.
