They say the higher you fly, the harder you fall. For a celebrity, an illustrious career can go in shambles in one fell swoop, whether from a scandal or their own doing.
These big names are just some examples. Their stories can make you think a lot about the price of fame and how being in the limelight can feel lonely, despite the fortune and recognition.
The responses you’re about to read were from various Reddit threads, asking which celebrity figure has the worst and saddest fall from grace story of all time.
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Bill Cosby. It’s hard to overstate how much he was loved in the late 80s early 90s.
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Absolutely - the temptation is to answer this thread with Sean Combs, due to his continuing fame, his billions, and his business networks and empire, but he was already kind of an obnoxious and dividing pop culture figure before his outing and arrest, whereas Cosby was for decades unironically labelled 'America's Dad" by much of mainstream media.
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Lots of celebrities have fallen but none so far as him. He went from being America’s Dad to a pathetic old washed up unmasked predator. When Ennis was murdered the entire COUNTRY rallied around his family and felt awful for them. While I still have empathy for everyone else, knowing what he was doing to other people’s kids takes any empathy I have for him as a father who lost a child.
Evil man. He deserves to have done to him what he did to those poor women.
The problem with that Eye for an Eye attitude is that you would need to find someone willing to do that. That would also be a person who belongs in prison.
Load More Replies...As a millionaire celebrity, he could have had women willing to indulge him for money or fame, but he had to a*****t unwilling victims to get his kicks. A sick, sick mind.
My mother worked with him back in the ‘80s. I worked in a casino he would perform at in the ‘90s. People knew he was a bit pervy. My mother said they women she worked with knew not to hang out alone with him. Not that they suspected that they thought he’d dru g, as sault, or ra pe them, but that thought wasn’t out of the question. In the ‘80s some men with power wouldn’t take no at least the first few rejections, for an answer and a drunk yes was as good as a sober one and rap ist tried to say clothing equated to consent. (I’d like to think things are better but I don’t think so?) She said that Cosby had reputation as being a bit sleazy in public and worse in private.
FYI, it WAS PUBICALLY KNOWN IN THE MEDIA that he was doing that IN THE 80's, but no one cared back then. My parents threw away all his comedy records, and I was told I wasnt allowed to watch his shows or commercials, before the 90-s even hit.
I use to have my Bill Cosby comedy albums framed and hung in the TV room. I was sicken when I heard about him. The albums are gone now.
Oscar Pistorius took a bit of a tumble.
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I was going to mention him. He gave hope to people around the world, being the first double leg amputee to participate in the Olympics, but then.....well we all know now.
Oscar is a South African athlete who shamelessly used his "fear" of being home invaded to k!ll his girlfriend. If you believe his side, he didn't even check if she was in bed before he got out of bed, grabbed his gun and shot her (thought she was a burglar) in the toilet cubicle of the bathroom. I've watched the documentary on him (in "How It Really Happened" - very good series) and I'm not convinced he's innocent.
He participated in both the Paralympics and the Olympics. The Olympics has NOT "banned" people with prosthetics. Individuals with prosthetics have to prove before a governing body that the prosthetics do not give them an unfair advantage (which IS possible depending on the prosthetic material, length/height, etc.)
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The Dixie Chicks went from being an incredibly popular country music group to never heard from again and not played on the radio because they came out against invading Iraq, which is now almost considered universally to be a dumb move.
I guess that's what you get when your core demographic is made of up rednecks.
They criticized President Bush and all the Republican country music fans lost their mind. 🙄 I love the song they wrote in response though. Still a great band.
Not Ready To Make Nice is the song name and it was a great response to the hate.
Load More Replies...They spoke the truth and were vindicated. Their concert venues are frequently sold out. Their career is different but did rebound.
To be fair, selling out a 100-seat venue is a far cry from selling out a 30,000-seat venue.
Load More Replies...There are a lot of people who put patriotism ahead of common sense and Americans especially idolize their military. They won't accept any criticism of either.
Many right-wingers mix up patriotism and nationalism. They are not patriotic whatsoever. They are nationalistic.
Load More Replies...And the right keeps telling us how much they hate "cancel culture".
there was a big party in rural Virginia that year. Appalachian Americans cheered in unfettered delight as a local large equipment company ran over the crowd's combined Dixie Chicks collection. Squished under 230 pounds of bearded redneck plus 10 tons of steamroller were cds, tee-shirts, cups, posters, hats and the like. I remember thinking.... youns all already paid for that stuff? That'll show em boys.
They don't belong on this list which is primarily comprised of people who did bad things. They did the good thing...
They are still performing and still on the radio, but you need to admit to yourself it's the oldies station now.
But those rednecks had money and bought her stuff/music/concerts.
Having money doesnt mean you arent sometimes wrong
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Even though I was never into his music, I would have to say Kanye. In less than 20 years he went from "Hip-Hop's class act" to a parable about the importance of taking your mental health seriously.
I remember WAY back when, long before all the insanity, in the early 2000s, I liked his song "Roses" (which talks about visiting his grandma in the hospital.) I thought he was a genuine person, and I felt sad when his mom díed due to terrible plastic surgery (2007.) And then it turned out that he is absolutely insane and he deceived us all, so to speak, into thinking he was an actual human being when in fact he's a collection of issues, narcissism, and a-holeishness all mixed into a bag.
Hid Dinner with Trump and Nick Fuentes was it for me. You know the old saying about Naz!s at a table? Well he sat down with two of them.
Every Tim anyone criticises the elite, Kanye talks about his mother being sacrificed, how Disney traffics kids, the power of the Jewish in Hollywood, they are labelled crazy!
Ellen DeGeneres.
She was well known as one of the most likable and generous celebrities ever and then it all came crashing down when everyone found out she was actually a bully and actually treated people very poorly and that was kind of it for her.
Tbh I called it the moment I first laid eyes on her... Something about her face screams she's a shíte
I really liked her standup but the few times that I watched her show and saw her interviewing tactics, I realized that she was a real twitch. And I wasn’t surprised that she treated her employees even worse.
Never did like her, watched the show like once, but found her too fake. She was trying too hard to be likable, and it reminded me that every person I know who generously give mass gifts for no apparent reason were hiding horrible personal reasons. I think of big bags of plush for low-income kids, so the person can find kids to m0lest, or because they just scammed a partner and wanted to look "nice" before the cops were called. Ive got several more, from personal experience, but all of them were just like her.
I tried watching her sitcom but got bored after about 10 episodes (long before the coming out episode) because she has no magnetism as an actress at all. You didn't care about anything her character did. I honestly don't understand why she's famous.
I would say Roman Polanski, but there are plenty of people willing to forget.
This one disgusts me. Anyone that still supports him automatically loses my respect.
so most of Hollywood that gave him an award and the thousands there that signed the petition for him to get a pardon, despite him pleading guilty
Load More Replies...The White House used to be a dignified institution, a synbol of our pride. Now it's a fuckin frat house.
Load More Replies...Meryl Streep standing and applauding him decades later always knocks me sick!
OJ Simpson went from winning professional football games to getting arrested for stealing his own memorabilia from Vegas hotel room...
Whether he did it or not or whether he was involved or not, that is what he is most known for for. That and the glove. Oh yeah and the white Ford Bronco, which is funny because Ford after declining sales took the Bronco off the market and later came out with another SUV, the Ford ‘Escape’.
Load More Replies...OJ really disappointed me. He had it all and was really a hero in the Black community. Why can’t someone men just move on?
Ian Watkins from Lostprophets. Gross don't search for him but he is the worst.
He was recently k!lled in prison. Even criminals have standards, and they have no tolerance for anyone who tries to r@pe a baby. (So they took him out) No great loss. 🤷♀️
I’d never heard of him before and I wish i hadn’t. He, and the complicit mother’s of his victims, can rot in hell for all time and that wouldn’t be long enough
This dude deserved more than d*e*a*t*h: he needed to be tied up, covered in honey and tossed into a pit filled with fire ants.
Story says the two inmates one 43 and 25 the 43 yr old was in prison for abduction and rappe and the 25 year old of murdering a person they are scum as well.
Yes they were, but even among scum there are levels and he was at the lowest. A baby!
Load More Replies... Jimmy Savile
I don't believe in hell, but I wish they'd custom-make one for him.
True, JS was an entitled predator, but the BBC covered for him for years (allegedly)
They always do look at Huw Edwards he was suspended for over a year on full pay. They still can't get it right.
Load More Replies...Sick, evil, depraved man. And most thought he was a hero for raising all that money for charity.
Every time someone mentions one of these kiddy lovers, I think of Cheech & Chong’s song, “Uncle P*e*r*v*y” (yes, I’m trying to get around the blasted censors!). They released it on their Sleeping Beauty album in 1976. The uncle loves little boys & girls…hehehe.
Surprised no one’s mentioned Tiger Woods yet. The blow up with his then wife followed by his decline on the course.
And after it started to unravel, all the players on the tour, the ones he’d been so [trashy] to, started piling on and let the rest of the world know that he was pretty much a [jerk] to compete against.
Nah, this is kinda minor compared to most of the other guys on this list.
I'd have to say Joe Paterno, the old Penn State football coach. One of the winningest coaches of all time is found to have covered up a molestation scandal. Terribly sad, but he deserved it...
Lance Armstrong had a pretty big fall. He was everyone’s inspirational hero after his cancer battle and the Livestrong bracelets were everywhere. After the doping scandal he’s completely off the map.
Cycling and cross country skiing is such grueling sports that doping is just necessary to be competitive these days. The ones that win and are cleared are just using so advanced stuff that they are not detectable yet. I stopped watching years ago.
I disagree that it's "necessary". If you have to take drúgs to be "competitive", then the athlete and the entire sport is corrupt. It's NEVER "necessary" to take drúgs/steróids/performance-enhancing substances.
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Jerry Lee Lewis went from rock god to outcast when people found out he married his 13 year old cousin.
I'm not excusing it but the was his 1st cousin once removed and they married in Mississippi (USA) when she was 13 and he was 22 which was legal then. In Mississippi today you must be 21 without parental consent. With parental consent males can marry at 17+ and females can marry at 15+ can marry. Some sources suggest, today in Mississippi, minors under these ages might can marry with parental consent and court order if "special circumstances" such as if a pregnancy exist. It's not totally clear cut. 34 U.S. states still allow individuals under the age of 18 to marry under certain circumstances, usually with parental or judicial consent; the other 16 states and Washington, D.C., have banned child marriage entirely, setting the minimum marriage age at 18 without exception. Many state legislature members (mostly old white men, argue that minor children should be able to marry is there is a pregnancy.
Load More Replies... Charlie Sheen.
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He got pretty out of hand with that whole 'tiger blood' thing, quieted down for a while, then whoops HIV.
I think he was allways a bit nuts and was just lucky to get good roles every time he messed up. Never really got why he was so famous at all, i never thought him a good actor. His father is so much better
His father and brother are much better actors but Charlie's the handsome one. I watched the documentary and I must say, I know many an idiot just like him. He's charming.
Load More Replies...I can't hate Charlie Sheen. As with lots of Hollywood stars he was taken advantage of
Being fired from his own show was the downfall of Sheen's acting career and resulted in a falling out with Jon Cryer, his co-star.
My only exposure to him came from this godawful movie called ‘Foodfight’
This is second-hand but Corey Feldman maintains that Charlie rap3d Corey Haim at some point while they were filming a movie.
Without a doubt, Michael Jackson.
**The King of Pop**
People may look back on him favorably now, but many don't remember exactly how big he was.
This guy had a *life long* career in music, from a child to his [funeral]. He appeared in movies, he had his own movie, he had his own video games. His music spanned multiple genres, and shattered records.
This man, was the biggest thing since the Beatles. He met world leaders like they were his posse, shook the hands of multiple presidents. Michael Jackson stepping off a plane in your country was as big a deal as the Pope, and he handled it with the same humility of a single sequined glove wave.
And the man *loved* charity. Where humanitarian causes went, he followed, and the world followed with him. Celebrities lined up to be a part of the Michael Jackson freight train. Diana Ross, Stevie Wonder, Paul McCartney, Slash, and more.
They were going to build a giant, mechanized statue of Michael Jackson in the Nevada desert. Not ironically, not for a festival, just because he was the singular most amazing performer of the generation.
And what did he do in his spare time? He visited sick kids in hospitals. He lent his voice, his time, and his money to numerous charities and was unafraid to take a stance on racial tension; he was a champion of equality.
Need more proof that this man was easily as big as Elvis? Here's an excerpt from his Wiki page:
> Jackson's 1982 album Thriller is the best selling album of all time. His other albums, including Off the Wall (1979), Bad (1987), Dangerous (1991), and HIStory (1995), also rank among the world's best selling albums. Jackson is one of the few artists to have been inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame twice. He was also inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame and the Dance Hall of Fame as the first and only dancer from pop and rock music. His other achievements include multiple Guinness World Records; 13 Grammy Awards as well as the Grammy Legend Award and the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award; 26 American Music Awards, more than any other artist, including the "Artist of the Century" and "Artist of the 1980s"; 13 number-one singles in the United States in his solo career, more than any other male artist in the Hot 100 era; and the estimated sale of over 400 million records worldwide.[Note 1] Jackson has won hundreds of awards, making him the most awarded recording artist in the history of popular music.[6] Jackson became the first artist in history to have a top ten single in the Billboard Hot 100 in five different decades when "Love Never Felt So Good" reached number nine on May 21, 2014.[7] Jackson traveled the world attending events honoring his humanitarianism and in 2000, the Guinness World Records recognized him for supporting 39 charities, more than any other entertainer.[8]
... but in the 90s, accusations soured the public on Jackson. His visibility plummeted, and as his apparent medical issues regarding his appearance spiraled out of control, questionable relationship choices and further accusations seemed to make everyone take a big step away from associating with Michael.
He [passed] effectively alone, as a result of a heart attack caused by the mishandling of medications by his personal doctor.
It's incredible. I can't think of anyone else who was as famous, *internationally*, and then faded into obscurity and hazy memories of better times.
He fell so hard, ~~people in this thread~~ *some people* barely remember him. But I always will.
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Michael Jackson. King of pop to the ultimate crash and burn.
I'm not convinced he was a p3dophile the way we think of it. I full believe the theory that he was chemically castrated so he wouldn't lose his high voice. I think this made him a perpetual child mentally or emotionally despite his physical age. And children gravitate to other children. So when/if he did inappropriate things with kids, it's because they were the only people he could relate to. He had a horrible childhood (his brothers would have s3x with groupies right in front of him before he'd even hit puberty) and I don't think he grew up to be in any way "normal".
"So when/if he did inappropriate things with kids, it's because they were the only people he could relate to". WTAF T'Mar of Vulcan?!?! What kind of person justifies treating children that way? Sadly, you sound exactly how most Michael Jackson fans
Load More Replies...I knew he was losing it when his music videos showed him unable to keep his hands off his c****h. Over and over again. (that censored word is C rot ch.)
Starting years ago, he seemed to be struggling with his mental health.
Robin Williams made a comment on the Graham Norton show once, about this certain d**g Jackson was using as a pain killer. He said it was the equivalent of using chemotherapy together a haircut.
As a health professional, his doctor was most definitely to blame. You do not just attach up propofol to someone and leave it going. Thats insane.
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Milli Vanilli. They won a Grammy and were super popular and several hit songs. A lip syncing incident happens and it comes out that they didn't actually sing on the record. They become laughingstocks, lose their Grammy, and never regain any popularity. Just as they decide to do stuff on their own, one of their singers goes to jail.
One of them took his own life. They were basically coerced in to doing it - they wanted to sing for themselves. Very sad.
They are on this list with disgusting humans, because they lipsynced? One went to jail but I have no idea why though.
Load More Replies...Just think: most of the ”artists” in the current Billboard Top 100 are nothing more than auto tuned garbage.
What I don't get is why they were blamed when it was the producer (Frank Farian) who was responsible. Farian was also the producer of Boney M's music, and of the four members, only two (Liz Mitchell and Marcia Barrett) actually sang. Farian sang the male part that was lip-synched by Bobby Farrell (although Farrell did sing during live performances). And yet Boney M is still a beloved group in Europe and South Africa (you can't go one Christmas without hearing them being played in malls and supermarkets). I think the hate for the two men in Milli Vanilli was ridiculous.
For a English Lord Jeffrey Archer takes some beating.
Deputy chairman of the Conservative Party, resigned due to his lust for call girls. Sues the newspaper for liable, wins £500,000 (1987 pounds)
Set up a charity for The Kurds, claimed it raised £57,000,000. Only raised £3.000.000 ( rest came from goverment and other sources)
Shoplifted some very nice shirts and a suit while in Canada
Insider trading - In January 1994, Mary Archer, then a director of Anglia Television, attended a directors' meeting at which an impending takeover of Anglia Television by MAI, which owned Meridian Broadcasting, was discussed.[36] The following day, Jeffrey Archer bought 50,000 shares in Anglia Television
Ran for Lord Mayor of London, his friends turned him in about lying to a Liable jury, got 4 years in the pokey, had to pay a fortune in compensation
The African coup attempt ( with Mark Thatcher ) Simon Mann, jailed in Equatorial Guinea but released on humanitarian grounds later, for his role in leading the failed 2004 coup d'état told The Daily Telegraph that his forthcoming book, Cry Havoc, would reveal "the financial involvement of a controversial and internationally famous member of the British House of Lords in the plot, backed up by banking records." He claimed documents from the bank accounts in Guernsey of two companies Mann used as vehicles for organising the coup, showed a 'J H Archer' paying $135,000 into one of the firms.
He has been begged to resign from the House of Lords, he has refused and stuck to his guns, he was suspended from Marylebone Cricket Club for seven years, but the House of Lords cant kick him out.
Honestly watch this guy. I bet there is another chapter in this mans life.
An incredible liar and deceptionist. It turned out that almost everything in his claimed CV was a lie. I don't think he even has any remorse at all. Named after him is "An Archer" which is a 'suitable amount of money to bribe someone'. This is in reference to the prostitute he bribed to leave the country so she couldn't be a witness at one of his trials (yes, there were many!). An absolute rogue, but still respected in some circles! He has resigned from the House of Lords, but never actually attended anyway.
I agree with everything everyone has said - Lord Archer however is still laughing all the way to the bank.
Most people I now think he has zero credibility. Once he was discredited by the boys on 'Have I Got news for You', he was done
Ted Haggard - head of a super mega church then forced out after it was revealed he was having a gay affair.
If one wants to see the definition of projection, go to an evangelical church.
Wasn't he openly homophobic as well? What could his life has been if he was honest to himself?
I don't get these super churches (or any, really). If God is everywhere, why do religious people need to go to places of worship - and, in some countries, being compelled to give tons of money to the preachers, who spend it on themselves?
How else do you think the streets get paved with gold in heaven. He needs money for the road crew. Which begs the question, what is the currency based on, do you even need currency? Because I ain't suckin nothin unless it's a 4 foot Mr. Graphics.
Load More Replies...talk about underselling lol, nah, he was busted using M**H and seeing rentboys.
If he had carried off a humble come-back after he was caught first, he might have been OK. The fact that he got caught multiple times made people lose sympathy for him
Megachurch leaders are also grifters, conmen/women, and liars. He bilked people out of their money in the name of "God".
Load More Replies...Katy Perry. Witness just wasn’t a good album and her downfall just happened so quickly. Every time she’s tried to have a comeback since then, it’s flopped. Her new music doesn’t hit like it used to and the going to space, working with Dr Luke and admitting to voting republican didn’t help her image at all.
How far down the list is Nicky Minaj after that TPUSA speech?
She also got a bunch of SA allegations a few years ago, then last year was the space trip...girl just can't stay out of trouble
Axl Rose.
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You know you're a douche when Slash, one of the chillest dudes ever, can't put up with [you].
If he would just not have been an a*****e, he could have had a career for a long time. Dude sported a five and a half octave range, which is about where Mariah is. Instead he was a violent, terrible a*****e.
I think his is wider than hers - i think his is 6 or 7 octaves tbh. Remember looking it up after someone told me that, and being surprised that it was true.
Load More Replies...Gary Glitter--from rock n' roll to exposure as a child predator.
Friend of Jimmy Savile as well. Horrible to think what they might have shared between each other.
Probably children. Ok, that was a bit dark even for me, I think that's enough internet for today.
Load More Replies...It did nothing to his career, but Alec Baldwin calling his daughter a "rude, thoughtless little pig" forever stamped him as an [jerk] in my book. Given his general attitude, I don't see him changing labels going forward.
I would class his 'miss fire' on the set of 'Rust' and ramming his car into a tree as equally disreputable
Jeffrey Jones, the veteran character actor best known for playing Ferris Bueller's principal. Never a household name, but it seems like he was in every other classic movie from the '80s and '90s.
And then he was busted for trying to get a 14-year-old boy to pose for pictures.
Kevin Spacey. Oscar winner to pariah in the blink of an eye.
If everyone in Hollywood like him and Weinstein were exposed, I wonder how much of a film industry would survive.
Me neither. I think he is the sort of person who is quite agressive when approaching someone but as far as i am aware he was allways understanding the word "no" and never actually assaulted someone. What a 14 year olds business on a party like that is, eludes me though. The whole thing is still somewhat i do not quite buy and as far as i know, he won in court.
Load More Replies...When he was named a paedo, and used it to come out as gay and act as a victim of society... yeah... that's a no from me Kevin. If you touch kids, you touch kids. Doesn't matter his s****l orientation. A shame, because he was actually a talented actor in my opinion. Now I can't watch anything he's in with out being uncomfortable.
He looks terrible(for a 66yo man) in that picture- didn't recognise him at first.
He is a good actor but I can't defend what he's done.As years go by, things that used to be tolerated are now put on blast, as they should be. Just as an example look up NAMBLA. It was as bad then as it is now but nobody talked about it. I'm glad it's getting the attention it deserves.
He always, always gave me the absolute heebie jeebies. People would always try to make me watch stuff with him in and I would feel like I needed a bath afterwards. There is something gross and sleazy about him. I don't care what some court in England said. I believe Anthony Rapp.
Will Smith for sure. Dude was on top of the world.
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I’m a 90s kid. Will Smith was everywhere. Fresh Prince and his blockbuster movies were part of so many people’s childhood. Thought he was a chill guy.
That punch and outburst ruined him forever. There’s no going back.
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He was already wrecked way before that in my eyes due to being a scientologist.
I really think he did a good job of being accountable for his action. He said he was sorry, said he messed up, and was prepared for any and all consequences. And that's exactly what he has done. I don't see a lot of people, especially men (especially white men), having the integrity to admit they were wrong. He messed up. He at least provided a decent example of taking responsibility.
Just because he apologized and made amends does not mean that people have to forgive him or pretend it didn't happen, though. I agree that apologizing and making amends to those you hurt and those you do wrong against is necessary, but the person/people you wronged are under no obligation to forgive you and forget just because you said you're sorry. His apology didn't fix what happened to his reputation and peoples' perception of him.
Load More Replies...He committed a key strategic mistake - he turned the villain into the victim.
Honestly, I never cared about the award show theater, I expect people to do crazy things since thats the ONLY reason to watch. But his acting became stale, with every character the exact same no matter if it was an apocalypse, love story, sci-fi, or romance. I got bored.
Jian Ghomeshi.
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The bill cosby of Canada.
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After he hired that PR company and released a statement, several media outlets referred to his statement as a ''master stroke'' of PR.
But to me, it was exactly the opposite.
I can't really point to specific sentences, but I didn't know anything about him or the accusations until his statement, and it set off alarm bells. The tone of it, the weak "evil ex and scandalmongers" thing, the attempt to soften the blow of coming allegations and promote the "she's lying" narrative by admissions of rough bdsm... Just, everything together made him look guilty as fuck.
His firing from his CBC radio show in 2014 is a precursor to the MeToo movement that would soon follow. He tried to sue the CBC for wrongful termination but was unsuccessful.
I'm pretty sure the only people that discuss Mel Gibson are Matt Stone, Trey Parker, and RDJ. Otherwise he's near shunned. He was in Machete Kills, Get the Gringo, and the Expendables 3. I've seen all three. Get the Gringo and Machete are fun. The roles aren't all that big outside of Gringo. He doesn't have much room to get back into mainstream Hollywood and he didn't get any reprieve for the [things]he said. Even Gary Oldman who defended Gibson was just a kook. Lindsay Lohan has Oprah. RDJ had the willpower to overcome his [things]. Gibson is a ghost in entertainment now and he used to be a great actor and director.
He came out as a blatant Anti-Semite. He did it to himself. He also never directed a decent movie ever. Braveheart? Passion of the Christ? Both complete garbage.
I loved Braveheart... when it was released. I was 13 at the time XD Later on when I took a "History of the British Isles" class in college, I did my finals paper on Braveheart and its complete lack of accuracy. I remember my teacher (who was a Scottish expat) was especially amused by me pointing out that William Wallace wouldn't have such shiny clean perfect white teeth XD But yeah, I loved Braveheart........ when I was a child XD I also thought Gibson was great in all of the Lethal Weapon movies and Mad Max... again, when I was a child XD I think The Patriot was the last movie with him in it where I thought he was a great actor. After that I realized wait... wait... no, this man is just bizarre.
Load More Replies...Next you'll be suggesting they should get their own schools.
Load More Replies...Calling him a great actor is overstating things a bit. He was good at what he did.
The only question I have is how in the fuck he and Kevin Costner keep getting work?
Load More Replies...I watched Mel Gribson in Hamlet - for a course I was doing. I was amazed at how good he was. As part of the course I watched Kenneth Brannagh and Laurence Olivier as Hamlet too - and Mel Gibson, who I dislike intensly was the best of the 3.
Anthony Weiner. From Congressman down to jokes and back up to almost NYC Mayor and all the way down to "Carlos Danger".
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You'd think with his last name, he would be extra careful to avoid becoming a punchline.
That was STUPID! Why do men think that's attractive? Has that worked EVER?!? Raise your hand if you're a man and that worked for you! I would love to have just one example to prove me wrong. Simply because it would make sense if there was one time it worked. You could make a GD rom-com about it and call it D!ckpic. But AFAIK, if you do that, your a desperate creepy dude who should be in therapy and not the dating scene.
Everytime my daughter received a pic she would tell the bloke that I know their mother. In reality I know hardly anyone but the threat was enough to stop them sending pics to her and her friends.
Load More Replies...Not to mention his role in getting Donald Trump elected in 2016 😪 "Anthony Weiner's sexting scandals, particularly the discovery of emails on his laptop related to Hillary Clinton's private email server, played a significant role in the 2016 presidential election. The FBI's decision to reopen the investigation into Clinton just days before the election is believed to have negatively impacted her campaign, contributing to her loss to Donald Trump."
Really? No Nixon? Dude was President of the united states and had to bow out in shame.
I can think of a President that should bow out. Problem is he has no shame.
Nixon only resigned because members of his own party who were serving on the Judiciary Committee told him they would impeach him as well as try him to be removed from office. DJT could do nothing that would get the current elected "R's" to grow that spine. They are too afraid DJT would sic his crazy cult members on them and they would loose their seats.
Load More Replies...I never loved Elon, but he genuinely seemed like a half decent guy for a billionaire 10 years ago.
I loved SpaceX because I'm an 80s/90s child and never fully recovered, emotionally, from NASA/the US kílling off the Space Shuttle program. I thought we'd never go back to space/progress in space travel in my lifetime. I remember being so excited watching videos of the Falcon rockets landing. I actually wept when they did the dual/simultaneous landing of the two Falcon Heavy boosters (2019 IIRC?) It was just so beautiful and I was so personally happy that humans were returning to space within my lifetime and my inner child-who-wants-to-be-an-astronaut was so pleased. And THEN it really started coming out publicly that Elon is the biggest dóuchebag to ever dóuche across the earth... and worse. I had been ignorant about it before, but when I started looking into him and his past.. yeah, he's always been awful.
Load More Replies...Saying someone seemed like a half decent guy for a billionaire is like saying Jack the Ripper had pretty good handwriting for a serial killer.
I really went off him after he basically called one of the cave divers who rescued the football team, a pdf file. He also claimed to have invented a machine that would rescue all the kids when he had no idea what he was doing and hadn't even looked at the measurements of the cave system.
His behavior in the Thailand cave rescue did it for me too.
Load More Replies...He was admired for advancing space exploration and electric vehicles, but other than that, what has he contributed? He lucked into his money by being an early adopter for E-commerce.
Didn't he luck into money even before that, what with his daddy's emerald mines?
Load More Replies... Bill Cosby wins, but Neil Gaiman is a recent nominee as well.
HappyRepealDay:
I have a back tattoo of The Sandman. It was my favorite comic, and Gaiman was one of my favorite authors. Absolutely devastating for me, and I'm heartbroken for those he victimized.
Can we, should we separate the art from the artist? I have read a few of his books and liked them, but now I do not even want to read them. What also bothers me is that he is linked to Sir Terry Pratchett. I hate that he led the tributes to Terry when he died.
I ask myself the same thing sometimes. I love his books. I have quite a few Sandman comics. I ask myself the same thing whenever something like this happens. Usually the same thing happens to me - my brain simply cannot divorce the artist from their works, and I cannot help but think of the author when I read the book (in this case.) I haven't re-read any of his books since and I kind of get "the ick" (as the kids say) when I think about doing so. (Similar but sideways thing for Elon Muskmelon - I used to have a gorgeous poster of one of the SpaceX rockets on my wall in my hallway - took it down because I could not help but think about what a shíte person Elon is every time I saw that rocket.)
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Lindsay Lohan.
Dart06:
This depresses me a lot because I actually watched Mean Girls for the first time ever a few weeks ago and she was seriously smoking hot in that movie.
Its a damn shame that the people around her didn't have a better influence over her. She could have turned into a very beautiful woman.
Good for her. I hope she pulls it off. D***s can really mess you up.
Load More Replies..."oh wat a shame she coud have been beautiful" ????? what's a shame is all the c**p she had to go through.
Starting a celebrity career at such a young age almost always messes up a person’s mental health. I don’t blame her for much, because the adults around her clearly didn’t care for her properly while she was growing up.
Paula Deen.
TenBeers:
I don't even understand why. She said something 20 years ago that we consider to be bad today.
There's a lot of reasons to dislike her, but this one is the stupidest.
For example, you can hate her for getting rich by promoting unhealthy recipes, then becoming the spokesperson for a new diabetes drug, allowing her to profit from both sides of the disease.
Casually using the N-word at parties you host with black people dressed as the help. I think that what Paula Deen did, but yeah…totally cool.
I'll be 50 years old in March - the N-Word was NOT okay to say 20 years ago, it wasn't just "considered bad", but incredibly racist and offensive.
Swap out Paula Deen for Mario Batali, another famous chef. He used to have a talk show on ABC, who was then fired in 2017 for s****l misconduct.
Robin Thicke! Look up what happened to him after blurred lines.
He looks like the love child between Justin Timberlake and Michael Bublé.
Not a fan by any definition, but I do think he kinda got scr**ed on this one. The Marvin Gaye lawsuit was based on the "style". IOW, he used a bouncy bass line and cowbell together. IIRC, the same "style" was used by other musicians well before Gaye's song.
Gene Simmons.
I mean, who hasn't he pissed off?
John Edwards had a pretty big fall.
Once the future of the Democratic Party...seemed like a wholesome family man found to have had an affair while his wife [had] cancer. Definitely came as a shock to me.
Honestly, this is tame compared to some of the literal actual crimes/criminals on this list. Having an affair is reprehensible, but it's a moral and ethical issue, not a "breaking the law" thing. It's sad that I have to actually say something like "well, having an affair isn't AS bad as some of the others on this list...." I'm not saying he's a good person or that this is acceptable, but that it's (sadly) hilarious that it's one of the least offensive things on the list.
As a North Carolinean (USA), I never liked him and it wasn't his political leanings; I always felt he was fake.
He and his mistress had a daughter, too. Now he's out of politics and back to practicing law, basically an ambulance chaser.
Paul Reubens. Some people say Bill Cosby, but Bill Cosby is still doing shows. Pee Wee disappeared for 20 years after what happened to him.
My mom - who was nearly 70 at the time Paul Reubens was arrested - was completely bewildered by the whole thing. Her first reaction was, "Isn't that what [x-rated theaters] are *for*??"
Right? Most of the public thought what happened was maybe amusing, but in no way dangerous - he wasn't in character, or causing a scene anywhere near children...the media made such a big deal out of it.
Load More Replies...Vanilla Ice. Won a Grammy, told people to kiss his white [behind], became D list novelty on reality TV.
Ched Evans was a professional footballer playing at a high level earning tons of money, now he is a convicted [criminal] and no club wants him in their team..
Good work Ched.
Conviction overturned in 2016, awarded 800k from original legal firm.
I'd say Amanda Bynes crashed pretty hard.
tinklesbear:
I felt so bad for the crazy girl, but it was fascinating to read about..
Recent pics are hard to believe - she looks like a completely different person. With face tattoos.
Massive difference between, eg: murdering someone and suffering from mental illness. Do better, whoever thought that it was a good idea to add this to the list. Also, the comment by tinklesbear is tacky and gross. "I felt so bad for the crazy girl"... she has mental health issues. She doesn't deserve to be branded 'crazy' for trying to deal with them. Obviously tinklesbear has lived a #blessed life in which they fart rainbows and unicorns and nothing ever goes wrong. (Not sarcasm, but I feel I need to apologise for the #blessed hashtag. Obnoxious AF. Sorry 😅)
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A mix of an 11 year old post and a 6 month old one, from the links I checked hoping for further context because BP hates providing us with context on these types of lists.
Load More Replies...A mix of an 11 year old post and a 6 month old one, from the links I checked hoping for further context because BP hates providing us with context on these types of lists.
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