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“Talented People Are Capable Of Monstrous Things”: 30 “Nice” Celebs That Have Done Awful Things
Talent often blinds us. When someone captivates us on screen, stage, or court, we tend to focus on the range of their voice, the smoothness of their movements, or the precision of their jump shot. We cheer, admire, and even idolize—often forgetting that behind the performance is a human being, flawed just like us.
To remind ourselves of that, let’s dive into an online discussion where people are sharing names of celebrities who seem nice — at least as far as their public image goes — but have, nonetheless, done some pretty questionable things.
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#1
That's easy: John Lennon. He was a petulant demon who managed to convince the world he was a humble pacifist.
Just read up on him, you'll see what a violent, arrogant liar he was.
hurrypotta:
He was a horrible horrible father to his first son and wife Julia. He let his first wife walk in on him and Yoko naked in their living room as she came back from vacation. Thats how he decided to ask for a divorce. He ignored Julian, for years while using his son with Yoko as a prop for songs. He was a drunk angry a**hole.
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#2
A lot of people still love Mike Tyson and think because he talks kind of funny he must be a nice guy. People think he is a nice guy who had a rough life growing up.
He is a convicted r**ist, he has admitted to beating women, and has been accused of SA by multiple other women.
Dude's a piece of s**t.
Yingking:
He also basically admitted to r**e, he only denies the case that got him into jail. It’s pretty fascinating, he said that he should have been in jail for a lot of terrible s**t he did to women, but still denies the r**e case that got him convicted.
Content Wombat 1 month ago
I can't stand this man - many years ago I saw a clip of him berating a female reporter in an extremely misogynist manner over something really trivial so I can definitely believe he's capable of the crimes he's been accused/convicted of.
#3
Tom Cruise. Everybody likes him but he is estranged from his daughter due to Scientology.
#4
Although some parts of social media might not like her, Oprah would fit the bill. She promoted some awful people like 'Dr.' Phil and Dr Oz. Plus, her friendships with Diddy, Weinstein and Cosby surely doesn't look good. Granted nothing major hasn't come out regarding her like Ellen, but it's just a matter of time.
T'Mar of Vulcan 1 month ago
I dislike her because of how she always interrupts people in interviews. She'd ask a question, the person would get halfway through the answer, then she'd interrupt with a personal anecdote. She did this to NELSON MANDELA. To our nation's TATA (grandfather)!!!
#5
Dr. Dre beat his girlfriend so badly that she had to get plastic surgery.
gingerzombie2:
Damn, Beats by Dre has a whole new meaning
#6
Kobe r***d a woman but no one likes to talk about that, or the fact that he had cheated on Vanessa with a ridiculous amount of women and she stayed for the money.
April Pickett 1 month ago
Since he's never home because of his wandering dikk, why not stay for the money?
#7
Bill Cosby, is a monster. Though kept an image alive to hide the fact. I fell for the facade with his comedy albums from the 60’s.. Which I feel horrible about.
WyndWoman:
Bill Cosby. It was shocking when his r**es came out.
Littlemiss 1 month ago (edited)
His wife sticks by him. I don't understand it at all. I would be digging his grave if I was involved.
#9
I'm not sure if anyone viewed him as "nice", but Steven Seagal is a much, much worse human than you'd imagine.
He's not just your regular male actor with a few SA accusations, he's had credible cases against him for human trafficking and so many actresses accuses him of a*****t he was pushed out of Hollywood.
#10
Naomi Campbell, great model, terrible person, despite having millions of dollars of her own, stole from a charity she set up.
#11
Jerry Seinfeld did gross things in the 90s.
Cultural_Elephant_73:
Now this fits the prompt. Generally regarded as a nice guy (although more of an a*****e in recent years) and he dated a high schooler when he was almost 40.
Her parents were fine with it. Yow.
T'Mar of Vulcan 1 month ago
I feel like the only person in the world who never liked him or thought he was funny. Seinfeld, the sitcom, was boring to me. Never got its "humour".
#12
Coco Chanel. Most famous for her perfume, Chanel No. 5. Although a majority of people don't know about her collaboration with the Nazis during World War II. It's speculated that she used the outbreak of WWII to punish employees who had gone on strike in 1936 (thousands of women lost their jobs), while living it up with her N**i boyfriend. She tried to use the fact that she was an A***n and the owners of *Parfums Chanel* were Jewish to get the Nazis to hand over control of the business to her. It didn't work, because they had already given the company to someone else, who returned it to them after the war. She still managed to receive all the profit from Chanel No. 5 during wartime, as well as having the Wertheimers (the owners) pay for all of her expenses for the rest of her life.
As for actually working for the Nazis, she worked for Walter Schnellenberg, who head the German's Security Service in Berlin. He was later tried at Nuremberg and sentenced to six years, but released early due to health problems. Chanel paid for his treatments and living expenses, financially supported his wife, and even paid for his funeral. She had fled to Switzerland to avoid retribution for collaboration, and wasn't punished at all. Documents released in the 2010s revealed that she directly worked with the Abwehr, including plans to take control of Madrid, and other operations to try and acquire favorable terms for surrender after it became obvious Germany would lose.
But what most people remember her for is her perfume and revolutionizing fashion.
#13
It was said in another one of these on reddit.... Jimmy Saville. Scum of the earth when it all got uncovered.
#14
Mark Whalberg. He's committed 3 rather violent racially motivated assaults. That's just the ones that are public knowledge.
OkTelephone496:
A surprising number of people think Mark Wahlberg is a good guy, and he very much is not.
egyptiantouristt:
He would also marry himself if he could.
liam newton-harding 1 month ago
He is also THE most wooden “actor” ever. He simply cannot emote in any role he has been in. I know Keanu gets stick for being a grey rock…but Keanu is Shakespearean compared to Mark.
#15
Bill Murray.
Ambitious_Hold_5435:
His ex-wife says he beat her and then said, "You're lucky I didn't k**l you!"
Ootguitarist2:
He was so sh**ty to Lucy Liu when making Charlie’s Angels that she punched him and they didn’t bring him back for the sequel
#16
Marlon Brando forced Rita Moreno to have an abortion in the 1960s. The procedure was botched, she went home with the fetus DYING INSIDE OF HER BODY, and she had to return to the hospital for a surgical removal. she almost died.
And then there’s the brutal sodomy scene in Last Tango in Paris. Maria Schneider was not informed of the scene until it was being shot. It was an incredibly traumatic experience for her. She was only nineteen years old.
Brando was a talented actor and he deserves to be credited as such, but I believe that it’s necessary that we cast light on his horrific treatment of women. talented people are capable of monstrous things. We need to condemn those actions, not enable them.
Sarah Kathrin Matsoukis 1 month ago
They did this because the producer wanted her reaction as a woman, not an actress, I hated them ever since
#17
John Stamos is generally perceived as a nice guy who elicits a sense of nostalgia in millennials. He once joked about orchestrating the sexual a*****t of a women. She had agreed to sexual activity with him. They began with the lights off and he says he left and sent a friend in to the room to take his place. That's a story he told on a podcast, not sure if he thought it was funny or something?
#18
Jack Nicholson, pretty sure he beat a woman so badly she got brain damage.
FoodForTh0ts:
He also forced women he'd slept with to have abortions and sign NDAs saying they'd never met him
#19
Anthony Kiedis.
I learned about what he did in his book, basically getting away with "having relations" with a 14 year-old girl.
BrunoVI 1 month ago
So, he basically sang a song about how you gotta let him stick his d**k in you and you can't be so selfish as not to give it to him. And your Mama. And your Papa. He did this while having a camera shoved up his c****h, barely covered by a speedo, and wearing devil horns. And you thought he was a sweetie?
#20
Eric Clapton. He is a self admitted r**ist and total racist.
Becky Samuel 1 month ago
Another one who passed around underage groupies as though it was totally normal.
#21
Julia Roberts wearing that 'a low Vera' shirt in an interview, while having an affair with Vera’s husband.
Phoeoeoe:
Julia Roberts literally denied access from her sister to her dying mother, even though the sister was the one who took care of her for long years while she was sick. She committed s*****e afterwards.
#22
Paul Walker was dating a 15 yr old.
But the entire world talked of another of the Jenner dating a rapper at 16.
Dont_tell_my_friends:
This is the first answer I've seen that actually meets the question. Everyone has had a strangely high view of Paul Walker since his death. I hadn't heard of this and I doubt I'm alone in that. Makes me think of The Chaser's Eulogy song. "Even groomers turn into top blokes after death".
#23
Jim Carrey was a HUGE anti-vaxxer.
georgialucy:
He is a massive a**hole on set, but hides it behind "method" acting. A makeup artist from the Grinch said Carrey but him through so much s**t that he had to take a break from work to get therapy. The murky waters around his girlfriend's s*****e note also didn't paint a great picture of him.
#24
Boy George falsely imprisoning a male escort by handcuffing him to a wall and beating him with a metal chain.
Might be more for UK redditors this one. He seems to be forgiven mind you.
Chewie Baron 1 month ago
It was a radiator. I read an interview with the guy from The Times. He really went through a horrible ordeal and he still suffers from the ordeal today.
#25
Ozzy Osbourne. He got high and k**led all of Sharon's cats. If he k**led a bunch of dogs he'd be a pariah, and rightfully so. It's no different. I cringed seeing him turn up in one of the Trolls movies.
#26
Ariana Grande maybe? I remember when she licked a random donut.
sanantoniogirl71:
Or the fact that she started a relationship with her current boyfriend knowing he was married and had a baby at home. Then went on a campaign making herself the victim.
#27
Stephen Collins. He played a family man preacher on 7th Heaven and then it came out in 2014 he had molested pre-pubescent girls. Hollywood Demons on HBO Max did their first episode on him.
Weirdly enough, he wrote an erotic thriller that incorporated a similar story to what he did and he starred in that made for TV movie ‘The Babysitter’s Seduction’. Maybe acting out a fantasy?
#28
John Hamm did horrific things in college during fraternity hazing including dragging around a pledge by his testicles in the claw end of a hammer. That is not normal under any circumstances.
#29
Actor Anthony Anderson from Black-ish.
From his Wikipedia page:
“Anderson was accused of r**ing a 25-year-old extra in a trailer on the film set of Hustle & Flow on July 27, 2004. The alleged victim accused Anderson and assistant director Wayne Witherspoon of forcibly removing her clothing, photographing her naked body, and sexually assaulting her. A witness claimed to have heard the alleged victim's screams and to have seen her run naked from the trailer, and she was treated at St. Francis Hospital.[48] The charges were dropped on October 6, 2004, because the judge ruled that there was no probable cause to try the case.
Anderson was sued for sexual a*****t in September 2004 by another woman who claimed that Anderson made sexually suggestive remarks and then assaulted her in his dressing room on the set of All About the Andersons.
On July 20, 2018, it was revealed that he was being investigated by the Los Angeles Police Department for another sexual a*****t allegation.[49] Due to lack of evidence on September 4, the Los Angeles District Attorney's Office decided not to press charges against Anderson.”.
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Marie Adamson 1 month ago
Notice how the women are blamed for the affairs? Not the married men? WTF
Emilu 1 month ago (edited)
Can we talk about the lead singer of Lostprophets, Ian Watkins? Groomed a fan who let him use her baby for sexual acts. He was found guilty of several acts including attempted r@pe of the one-year old baby and imprisoned. Band consequently broke up because they rightfully didn't want to be associated with that trashbag. Used to love the band but have refused to listen to them since I found out.
Nate B 1 month ago (edited)
I never had any idea until reading your comment! I remember yelling along with the chorus of “Last Train Home” in my car as an 18 year old. Boooooo.
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Marie Adamson 1 month ago
Notice how the women are blamed for the affairs? Not the married men? WTF
Emilu 1 month ago (edited)
Can we talk about the lead singer of Lostprophets, Ian Watkins? Groomed a fan who let him use her baby for sexual acts. He was found guilty of several acts including attempted r@pe of the one-year old baby and imprisoned. Band consequently broke up because they rightfully didn't want to be associated with that trashbag. Used to love the band but have refused to listen to them since I found out.
Nate B 1 month ago (edited)
I never had any idea until reading your comment! I remember yelling along with the chorus of “Last Train Home” in my car as an 18 year old. Boooooo.
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