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57 Celebrities Whose Reputations Never Recovered From Their Ugly Fall From Grace
Many of us tend to put celebrities on a pedestal, seemingly forgetting that they’re human beings, too. They make mistakes and do things that may make them come off as abhorrent individuals.
Seeing a revered figure act like a fool or fall from grace can be unforgivable, as these responses from a recent Reddit thread prove. Here, people shared why they are no longer fans of these famous names, along with firsthand experiences that completely turned them off.
Scroll through and see if the personalities you had in mind made the list. Likewise, feel free to join the conversation through the comments.
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#1
Beyonce for not letting any parents into the NICU to see their sick and preemie babies just because it was on the same floor as her when Blue ivy was born. What a jerk.
Edit: I know this seems trivial compared to most of these but I was home with my baby son watching the TV with all these parents standing in a line the hospital just hoping to see their babies and I was LIVID.
Also remember that time she played HERSELF in Dreamgirls?
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#2
Serena Williams lost in the US Open final and ruined the trophy ceremony for her opponent (20 y/o Naomi Osaka) who had just won her first major title in her career. Serena’s tirade on the mic during her speech when she received her 2nd place trophy led to making Osaka cry and APOLOGIZE to the crowd for WINNING. Was supposed to be the biggest moment of her (Osaka) life and Serena selfishly ruined it.
Norfolk and good 11 hours ago
Remember when she also tried to play the "don't you know who I am?" card when she walked into a Michelin starred restaurant in Paris during the Olympics without a reservation, and then tried to call the restaurant out on social media for turning her away?
#3
Logan Paul. You can’t just film a dead person who passed by taking their life and post it on the internet and then apologize a few months later. He exploited some poor families tragedy to get clicks on a YouTube video. He’s so selfish it’s disgusting. All the while making sure he had his Gucci jacket on. It’s just a disgusting level of privilege and unawareness. He’s also done a bunch of horrible stuff since.
Norfolk and good 11 hours ago
Every now and again I like to rewatch the moment he had his jaw broke by Anthony Joshua.
#4
Woody Allen. You don’t just marry your adopted daughter and expect the world to just go with it.
#5
Tom Cruise after he felt he needed to comment on Brook Shields postpartum depression when he had no clue what he was talking about.
Mrs Irish Mom 11 hours ago
He never has a clue what he's talking about, total shìte comes out if his mouth
#6
Russell Brand.
Mrs Irish Mom 11 hours ago
He was always super creepy, dont know why or how he get famous, its who you know I guess
#7
Nikki Minaj.
Multa Nocte (she/her/8647) 12 hours ago (edited)
I understand the desire to gain citizenship, but it doesn't help if you sell your soul to do it. There is some irony in watching the orange baboon hanging around with her (which is funny because he hates black people) and getting all sweety-peety when her lyrics are 10 times more explicit than Bad Bunny's. They are both disgusting hypocrites.
#8
Marky “racist’ Mark Wahlberg
I will always call him Marky mark especially since he hates being referred to that.
Not only is he racist but he also tried to get his record expunged when he became more famous one of the reasons he used was that
he wanted to be a role model. Haha 😂.
Multa Nocte (she/her/8647) 12 hours ago (edited)
Yeah, it is the fact that he had MULTIPLE episodes of violent racism that I hate him, as well as the fact that children were involved and that he had a pattern of doing this - it was NOT a one-time thing. I don't care if he was 15 for the first episode, he and his friends chased CHILDREN, pelting them with rocks and calling them racial slurs. If you are 15 years old and chase and physically attack children, you are a fuck face. Then 2 years later he chased 2 Vietnamese men, called them racial slurs, and knocked one man unconscious with a 5 foot wooden stick and punched the other man in the eye. Then he only served 45 days of a 2-year sentence that was bargained down. You can excuse his youthfulness, but when I was 15 I sure as hell never chased anyone, called people racist names, nor physically attacked anyone. If you don't know this by 15 you are just a piece of shit, simple and clean. He becomes famous and wants to put that all behind him now. He has the resources to do that.
#9
Ariana Grande for licking those donuts and putting them back on the shelf.
That’s disgusting.
Pretty sure it was a small mom and pop store too.
#10
Oprah, who introduced the world to Dr Phil and Dr Oz.
Steinem Sukker Rumpe 11 hours ago
Rubbed shoulders with Winstien and spoke often on her close relationship with Cosby. For a woman who's surrounded herself in utter filth, she sure does seem to come out smelling of roses.
#12
There’s obviously a lot of celebrities who have done way worse stuff, but I’ll say Wayne Gretzky. Grew up idolizing him like a lot of other Canadians, so when he refused to stand up for Canada and stuck with his pal Trump over his own country, he became dead to me. Haven’t been able to look at him the same since and never will.
#13
I served Rachel Ray at a restaurant once. I made the mistake of 1) speaking directly to her (I asked if she wanted a refill on her water) and 2) touching her water glass as I refilled it (it was now dirty and she demanded a new glass). She complained about me to my manager about my lack of respect and tipped me nothing. Such a gross human.
#15
Jim Carrey.
The anti-vax movement and subsequent sick or passed children, and inability to stop COVID, would have happened without him... But he gave it momentum. There are absolutely bodies on his name.
That, and his insufferable attempt to tell the world how brilliant his bad performance as Andy Kaufman was, were a perfect one-two punch that made me never want to see his face again.
Multa Nocte (she/her/8647) 12 hours ago
Yeah, there are children who died because of this man. You can think he is funny (I don't) but he should be ashamed of being associated with this very harmful anti-vax rubbish.
#16
Kevin Spacey for being a predator. I don’t care that he wasn’t convicted in the UK, I believe the people who say he did touch them, many of whom have never brought a case against him, so have no motivation to make false allegations.
Fat Harry (Oi / You) 9 hours ago
American Beauty is one of my favourite films, but it's tarnished now because of him.
#17
Chris Pratt talking about forcing conservative evangelicalism on his kids.
#19
Used to love red hot chilli peppers then I seen a video of them been really disgusting to a woman during an interview like all of them trying to pull and push this woman pretend they were having intercourse with her and I just can’t listen to them anymore. Also vile that her co-host did nothing to stop them just laughed.
Luke || Kira (he/she) 8 hours ago
I've heard fans claiming that Adam Levine (Maroon 5) is also Like That™
#20
That whole situation with Kutcher and Kunis made their anti-exploitation work feel like the most hollow, hypocritical performance imaginable.
#21
Noam Chomsky and His frienship with Epstein... went so far he defended Him and called hysteric the victims... betraying, virtu signalling sociopath...
#22
Not as heinous as others, but Hugh Jackman for talking up his marriage for decades then cheating on her with his costar. Tawdry.
#24
All those years we thought Vince McMahon played an evil sleazy narcissistic CEO on tv, turns out he's actually just an evil sleazy narcissistic CEO in real life.
#26
Will Smith after the Oscars incident. It wasn’t some huge boycott thing for me, but it shifted my perception and the old charm just doesn’t land the same anymore.
#27
R. Kelly. I don’t care where I am, if one of his songs comes on, I’m out. Can’t separate the art from the person anymore.
#29
Everyone implicated with Epstein.
Neil Gaiman. Can’t even look at his books. I loved his writing so much and it kills me what a monster he is.
#30
Michael Vick.
What he put his own dogs through was bad enough, but then learning about the thousands of dogs that he drove around to find and steal from their yards to then hurt and train his fighting dogs with, the families that lost their companions to that nightmare…. It’s outright evil. He is a vile person who deserves to rot in the deepest pits of hell. There is no redemption from that level of cruelness. Straight up sociopathic/serial killer traits…
And then seeing the NFL and ESPN try to help rehab his image… Frick them. He’s a coach now for Norfolk University in Virginia…. Solid values he holds to pass on to our youth.
#32
Allison Mack. Being part of that cult and everything they did… just no.
#34
For a real deep cut, Ian Watkins from lostprophets. what he did is so monstrous it completely destroyed any of the music for me. can't hear a single note without feeling sick. that's not something u can ever separate from the art or come back from.
#35
Noam Chomsky.
I have a bunch of his books and followed him pretty thoroughly since 1995 for his critiques of political power and his work in linguistics.
Imagine my surprise when he's been in several fairly personal and detailed e-mail exchanges with Jeffrey Epstein, in addition to some photos of him yukking it up with Epstein and Steve Bannon.
Bonnie Blue Bird 7 hours ago
Every last one of these people in these files need to be investigated and held accountable
#37
My cousin used to work security at concerts. One of her jobs was basically to just go tell the singer when they were supposed to be going up to the stage. Kid Rock was rude as hell to her. So our family has been hating him before it was cool.
#38
Ariana Grande home wrecking a marriage with a newborn baby involved.
She has a track record of home wrecking, yeah the guys are the ones that are married/in relationships but at this point she deliberately goes after taken men and obviously loves seeing the other woman suffer.
Shark Lady 11 hours ago
I've always seen her as a person who sees what she wants and grabs it with both hands, regardless of who she hurts in the process.
#41
Finding out that both Owen Wilson AND Jackie Chan have children (very specifically daughters) that they do not/have not seen. Owen Wilson's daughter is still under 10 so this crosses me out to the extreme. Jackie Chan basically had an affair and abandoned the offspring of that affair and she had to live in the streets for a while. Both of them are disgusting deadbeats.
Smeghead Tribble Down Under 8 hours ago
Absolutey disagree with the Owen Wilson part. Look at both sides. He made it crystal clear to the woman he was with at the time (some model, I can't be bothered looking it up) that he did not want any more kids, and that he made certain to use protection on his end. SHE tampered with it without his knowledge, and went off HER birth control without telling him. I believe that is known as baby-trapping someone? Owen Wilson is not the ''deadbeat'' everyone seems to like to believe he is. Oh and don't forget to downvote me. /s
#42
Diddy. What a devil!
And also Tom Cruise jumping on Rosie O’Donnells couch back in the day!
#44
Neil Patrick Harris with the Amy Winehouse cake that looked like her passed body. Who the hell does that?
Ali 11 hours ago
I remember watching some pannal comedy where Amy was clearly drinking alcohol from her mug. The other guests, all men old enough to be her father, thought her increasingly drunk antics were incredibly funny and encouraged it massively. I had to turn off and it put me off the show for good. I hadn't been aware of her problems at the time, there was just no context where it was funny.
#45
Neil Gaiman. He’s trying to come back, too! Sorry, Neil, I’m a Sanderson fan now.
Luke || Kira (he/she) 8 hours ago
I SO hope Sanderson isn't secretly a creep, too, since I've already invested a LOT of time in Stormlight Archive 😅
#46
Early 90s, I was a kid I was trying to get a soda at a car dealership when my dad was trying to get his car fixed. I didn’t know they had raised the prices and I was a nickel short…in walks Scotty Pippen and I asked him for a nickel, he just looked at me, took a bunch of change out, bought a soda and looked right at me as he walked away with his soda and pocket full of change. Frick Scotty Pippen.
#47
Brad Pitt's six children don't speak to him after what he did to their mother and some of them. He got away with it, dragged his divorce out over years suing his wife over and over yet is still a beloved movie star getting great parts and loving the good life. He made sure to basically ruin his wife's career too. I can't watch some of my favorite movie because that monster is in them.
Shark Lady 11 hours ago
I stopped being a fan of both of them after their affair started during the filming of Mr and Mrs Smith, while he was married to Jennifer Aniston. Even worse was when Anjela said in an interview that her children were able to watch the film and see their parents falling in love for real.
#48
That guy Josh Homme from Queens of the Stone Age when he kicked a female photographer's camera and caused injuries to her face and neck. Never understood why it was just brushed aside.
#49
Claire Balding for belittling that Jockey about his teeth live on air. Absolute jerk.
Fat Harry (Oi / You) 9 hours ago
She did explain this later on. She said that lots of jockeys have damaged teeth from incidents with horses, and it was only after she'd commented about him getting his teeth fixed that she realised his weren't damaged, just, for want of a better word, ugly. She did own the mistake when asked about it and said she felt horrible.
#50
Will Smith. Why the f is National Geographic funding a show about him traveling the world? People in general are annoyed at shows where wealthy celebrities get paid to travel the world and “discover themselves” now add the fact that the star of that show is an unhinged tool. This show has to be DOA.
TotallyNOTAFox 49 minutes ago
Seems like the Smiths want to be seen as cultural knowledgeable, remember the Netflix show about "Cleopatra"? - Jada wanted to bring african queens into the focus of the mainstream....
#51
Demi Lovato for dragging a small business froyo shop that caters to specific dietary needs (I.e. zero sugar, low fat, etc)
I know she apologized and even visited the shop sometime in 2025, but it doesn't take away from how much she overreacted over, again, a small business. To the point of bullying them. Any remainder of respect I had for her was lost with that. Demi has a mountain of privileged in the financial department so of course the power dynamic here is overwhelmingly apparent.
Edit: Mental health issues aside, what she did was horrific. Even if she were neurotypical (she's not but that's okay) my opinion on how she handled this (or any other) situation wouldn't change. Encouraging the stigma of mental health does not make us, the people reacting to that (or any other controversy she's been in) better in any way. In other words, being a jerk in regards to people's mental health is always uncalled for.
#52
Jack Black.
The incident was that he and Kyle checked into the hotel I was working at in 1999, at about 3am, and needed help with their luggage. With a limited staff, I helped Jack Black, and the security guard helped Kyle.
Jack Black was rude, surly, and demanding. He was a complete jerk to me. Barely spoke (I get that, it was 3am) no tip, and when he did speak, he wanted me to leave the luggage cart in his room with all his stuff on it. We only had 6 carts for 250+ rooms, so we can't allow that. When I tried to explain that to him, he got mad at me, like it was my personal policy and not the hotel's.
Until that day, I had been a fan. Now every time I see him in something, I just remember what a jerk he was to me.
0/10 - Don't meet your heroes.
On the other side of things, I also met Martin Short while working in a different hotel, a decade later, and he was an absolute delight. Charming, funny, and kind. Ten stars!
xolitaire 7 hours ago (edited)
I am not a fan of Jack Black, but I am sorry for not "hating" him now for one incident that happened a whooping 27 years ago, at 3 in the morning. Stories like this bask in anecdotal evidence and totally disregard what could possibly have happened before to lead to this situation / behavior.
#53
Metallica, after the Napster incident. Those cry babies lived on bootlegs starting off, and then when sharing platforms came around. Wah wah. We still bought those expensive LP, CDs, hundred s of dollars tickets flight to see their corporate asses. I want to see Lars Burn.
#55
Chris Benoit.
Slapdash1 11 hours ago
O no, no no. Chris Benoit was un-personed and deleted from history but he was as much of a victim here. Body relentlessly used by the corporate machines of WCW and WWE. Multiple concussions turned his brain to mush, basically. No proper care given. Inpossible to excuse what he did, but had he not offed himself a lawyer might well plead insanity
#56
Jamie Oliver and my curly chip buttered batch with gravy being took off the school menu. I’m now 35 and I still feel the hate in my heart towards him.
#57
Jason Momoa. My husband met him at a comic convention when Aquaman first came out, and he was such a jerk. Acted very much like he’d rather be anywhere else.
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Multa Nocte (she/her/8647) 12 hours ago
With one or two exceptions this is a pretty vile crew.
Ace 9 hours ago
There's quite a few I know nothing about, but the only one I noticed that really doesn't belong here is Jamie Oliver. Other than that, mostly it's a case of "what took you so long?".
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Multa Nocte (she/her/8647) 12 hours ago
With one or two exceptions this is a pretty vile crew.
Ace 9 hours ago
There's quite a few I know nothing about, but the only one I noticed that really doesn't belong here is Jamie Oliver. Other than that, mostly it's a case of "what took you so long?".
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