9 Things Celebrities Said That We Didn’t Realize Were So Creepy Until Now

But arguably, no star got worse treatment in the 2000s than Britney Spears. Today, ever since the #FreeBritney movement, most of the public recognizes how much the young pop star was mistreated 20 years ago.

This is perfectly captured in an interview with Diane Sawyer from 2003, right after the singer's breakup with Justin Timberlake, that's frankly hard to watch. For some reason, the journalist takes an aggressive and unbalanced approach. "You did something that caused him so much pain, so much suffering. What did you do?"

This makes Spears's 2007 breakdown a bit more understandable.

Justin Roiland, the co-creator of Rick and Morty, who was let go from the show after domestic abuse allegations, creeped everyone out when he got on The Grandma's Virginity podcast in 2011 and went on a rant about being attracted to teenage girls.

"Look, I'll say, look, a [darn] 14-year-old that looks like she's 18 and, like, big [private part]** and a nice...of course, I'm attracted to that," he said. 

"That's why this whole Chris Hansen thing, I'm like, f*** you, man. These girls are like...they look...they're fully developed. 100 years ago, it was little 13-year-old girls, if they were built like a woman, they were getting married and having kids. And now we're gonna be all precious about it."

It might seem strange enough to suddenly go off on a tangent like that, but it makes a lot of sense considering Roiland has since been accused of texting inappropriately with girls under 16.

Another example of star treatment that seems callous today is Lindsay Lohan's 2013 interview with David Letterman on The Late Show. 

Letterman relentlessly makes fun of Lohan for her problems with substance abuse and addiction to the point that the actress starts to cry and says, "We didn't discuss this in the pre-interview."

It's strange to think a producer or comedian would have ever thought this an entertaining angle.

Another interview that aged poorly took place in 1981. At the time, a 15-year-old Brooke Shields was being interviewed by Barbara Walters after she'd risen to stardom for her role in The Blue Lagoon. 

It's clear that Walters was interested in little else other than the [intimacy] appeal of the teenage girl, regularly referencing her figure and asking for her measurements.

In her documentary Pretty Baby: Brooke Shields, the actress mentions the interview as part of a larger problem of Hollywood wanting to cash in on her "sexual awakening."

Stand-up comedian and actor Chris D'Elia has had a lot of scandals, many revolving around soliciting explicit pictures from minors over Snapchat.

Apparently, he thought Snaps couldn't be saved or stored, so he'd never be caught. However, thanks to the Internet, the exact moment he realizes that his victims could have been saving his Snaps this whole time is recorded forever. 

After a clip emerged from his appearance on the podcast The Fighter and the Kid, some video editors even did us the favor of freeze-framing his face.

Now serving 39 years in Mohawk Correctional Facility in New York, Harvey Weinstein is infamous for committing the sexual assaults that prompted the #MeToo movement. But for a long time, he was known as the guy with "the biggest heart," as complimented by Renée Zellweger at the 2003 Golden Globes.

In fact, there's a myriad of examples of the rich and famous praising the [intimacy] offender, and few things have aged worse.

A 2017 New York Times report detailed the accusations of five women who claimed that Louis C.K. sexually harassed and intimidated them. 

He later admitted to the claims, writing, "At the time, I said to myself that what I did was okay because I never showed a woman my d*** without asking first, which is also true.”

“But what I learned later in life, too late, is that when you have power over another person, asking them to look at your d*** isn’t a question. It’s a predicament for them.”

“The power I had over these women is that they admired me. And I wielded that power irresponsibly."

Even in the context of other allegations that surfaced during the #MeToo era, people couldn't help but see the comedian's behavior as weird. Though, apparently, Louis C.K. hinted at this side of his personality years prior in an interview with Vanity Fair.

When asked about what trait he most deplores about himself, he said, "I have an absolutely beautiful [private part]. It's stunning in every way. God, I hate my perfect [private part]."

The following interview is painful to watch when we consider the 2020 stories about Jada Pinkett Smith's alleged romantic “entanglement” with August Alsina while still married to Will Smith.

At the 2016 Oscars roundtable, Smith confided that his first girlfriend cheated on him when he was 15 years old, and this was his motivation for becoming famous.

"And I remember making the decision that no one would ever cheat on me again," Smith said. "And the way I was gonna do that was by being the biggest actor on Earth."

You could make the argument that the Men in Black star achieved his acting goals, but it's a cautionary tale for all that it didn't protect him from heartbreak as he'd hoped.

In 2017, The Try Guys member Ned Fulmer had strong words about infidelity. In an interview with Cosmopolitan, he stated that his number-one deal breaker in a relationship was cheating. 

When asked what he'd do if he found out his wife had cheated, he said, "Oh no, that hurts to even think about. We couldn't stay together. I'd move to Canada."

Apparently, his relationship philosophy only went one way, though, because, in 2022, it was revealed that Fulmer had cheated on his wife with one of his employees. 

Lucky for him, though, his wife Ariel appears to be more forgiving, as the couple remain married.