30 Celebs That Seem To Have Completely Lost It, According To People Online
Interview With Expert
Being a public figure isn’t easy. They’re stripped of their privacy, scrutinized for their appearance, their behavior is constantly judged, and they can no longer enjoy or do things that regular people do. Not to mention the “friends” who are only with them for the fame or the admirers who are out of control.
It’s really no surprise that this pressure can take a toll on a person’s mental wellbeing. People are noticing this more and more as celebrities begin to exhibit strange behavior.
When redditor Darvelic asked netizens who they thought had legitimately lost their mind, they received more than 8,000 comments within a week. Scroll down to find celebrities who couldn’t cope with their fame and unfortunately got out of hand.
While you're there make sure to check out a conversation with Darvelic who started this discussion in the first place and psychiatrist David Puder who kindly agreed to tell us more about the mental health challenges that public figures might face.
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Kanye. He’s def gone off the deep end.
Naptimehours:
Strange to think we’ve been saying that for nearly 20 years and he’s still out here demonstrating we haven’t seen nothing yet
Tom Cruise and all of Scientology.
Scientologists believe a lot of silly things, but they're not the ones firebombing Planned Parenthood and shooting up Mosques. They aren't banning books and picketing drag shows. I think you know who I'm talking about.
Elon.
I liked Elon for a while. He bought water filters for the people of Flint, Star Link is going to get high speed internet to the farthest reaches of Earth and Teslas were self-driving bad**s electric cars! All good ideas IMO. Then the stupid cyber truck. And ruining Twitter and blowing 44billion dollars. Nobody even calls it X. Now I hear he’s trying to get employees to sleep at work. What a dingleberry! People got families and pets and personal lives. Nobody wants to live at work!
It’s convenient to believe that being a celebrity is all glitter and glamor. Sure, wealth, status, and endless opportunities may create a picture of a perfect life, but it can also mask the psychological effects that come with being a public figure.
Producer Julie Crosby from Cromono International acknowledges that mental health issues in the entertainment industry are widespread and severe. Meanwhile, various studies show that rates of suicide, suicidal thinking, depression, anxiety, and substance abuse are significantly higher in show business professionals than in the general public.
Bored Panda reached out to redditor nicknamed Darvelic who started this discussion in the first place. Naturally, we were curious to know what inspired to take such a question online.
"My initial inspiration was Nicki Minaj’s multi-day online rants against Megan Thee Stallion. Although rap beef can get out of hand, I found it bizarrely one-sided and maniacal. And when I heard Nicki’s song, “Big Foot”, I thought, ‘She’s lost it now.’
In truth, while Nicki’s behavior was ugly, it wasn’t out of the realm of her character. The whole drama is trivial. I’m no psychologist but I think someone who’s lost their mind, they’re tangibly self-destructive, alienating, and make you feel as though you’re the one taking crazy pills."
Rudy Guiliani. He was smart enough at one point. Now, his brain is just pickled. He's a good lesson in what alcohol can do to you, long term.
teambob:
Rather than going down in history as a hero, he will go down as a very confused villain
Get Mitch Mcconnel out of there. dude is literally phasing out of consciouness.
We also reached out to a physician, psychiatrist, and host of the “Psychiatry & Psychotherapy Podcast" David Puder to find out why some celebrities may struggle with their mental health.
"There is incredible pressure on public figures, and a lot of financial vultures trying to pull away resources from them without giving much value. They often don't end up with a good therapist, but rather some shiny gimmick that will "seek to help them", but really just overcharge and take their money and also possibly catapult their brand forward.
I have treated famous people, and no one will ever know who or for what reasons-- namely because of the sacredness of confidentiality and also different laws. This might not be the case for celebrity "coaches" or even pseudo-religious movements which prey on famous people."
Darvelic has also wondered about the same thing many times. "I guess you could say it’s social media, or our divided political and social opinions — which all certainly play a role. And public figures are just people, after all, they’re not immune. I don’t really know, but it feels like a time of great change."
Jada Pinkett Smith
I cant stand her. Used to be a fan of Will Smith but he's lost it, too.
Madonna. Have you seen her Instagram? Do yourself a favor and DON’T go look at it. It’s sad and pathetic.
I think her Instagram looks like the collection of images when you google "worst plastic surgery results"...
Anyone who thinks Taylor Swift is a CIA asset or whatever. That's just hilariously dumb.
It's pretty hilarious how mad they get when musicians, athletes, actors, etc voice their opinion. "StICk tO [x]" but only when it's not their guy. It's crazy how they love to point out the left's "hypocrisy" but are completely blind to their own.
And it's the same people that are posting a ton of political stuff on Facebook. So it's ok for you to give your opinion, Frank, but a celebrity can't?
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Hi Nichole! It's 2024. People believe the world is flat and that there's microchips in vaccines. You must be new to Earth I see 😉
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Well, she's an independently wealthy and influential white woman, where should they start?
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Trump absolutely hates her; she is everything he isn't - well liked, talented, rich, sought after, generous, beautiful, and competent. He can't stand it.
The CIA had well known artists and musicians on their payroll all throughout the cold war. Some conspiracy nuts may be grasping at straws with their arguments, but there is precedent for it. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CIA_and_the_Cultural_Cold_War
When I Heard this conspiracy theory I laughed so hard I mean really. Lizard people I can maybe see like maybe in a Twilight episode but still, flat earth I don't see but why not but this really people are crazy 🤣😧
People seem happier consistently from going to her concerts and participating in her fandom. Not so much my thing, but I think it's good to bring that kind of joy. Press needs to leave her alone though.
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i do not know but i have a inkling that she is fairly intelligent
Load More Replies...If the redditor were asked this question themselves, they would choose Elon Musk.
"His obsession with Twitter, his engagement with often disprovable right-wing rhetoric, renaming Twitter to X and thinking it’s going to be the Everything App, his erratic use of drugs, his toxic relationships with his exes and many of his children — some born through IVF or surrogacy. I can go on and on, but this is a guy who was once equated with some of the greatest minds of the modern age. Now he’s mirroring Donald Trump. It’s disturbing."
Nick Cannon? I think this is the guy. Trying to populate the world having children with as many women as he can. Just stop. Massive insecurities or ego issues.
Super shocked to see no mention of Joe Rogan.
Wavemanns:
He has no mind to lose.
I don't know how anyone listens to his podcast. Aside from the stupidity, anti-science, conspiracies, etc. he just makes sounds and acts like an idiot who thinks he's smart. He and his MAGA chud guest making fun of something Biden said, saying they should get him out of there and whatnot and he's losing his marbles, only to find out Biden was quoting Trump? They completely changed their and mumbled about how you should double check sources. No "Trump is losing his marbles, get him out of there". Nope. When they found out it was Trump who said it, they just mumbled and moved on. F*****g hypocrites.
The my pillow guy needs a conservatorship.
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Mike Lindell is the name you’re looking for, though a lot of people just call him the MyPillow guy. But yes, he’s insane.
Puder tells us that some warning signs of this happening to public figures can be internal as well as external.
"I think there are the internal aspects, which only the celebrity would know, decreased sleep, inability to focus, anxiety, anger, depression, suicidal thoughts, things like that. Public things that might be observed are issues with addiction, leaking out irritability, isolation, or odd statements that seem to hide something underneath."
Greg Abbott. Seriously, dude?
Barfignugen:
I don’t think he’s lost his mind, I think he knows full well exactly what he’s doing. He’s just an evil monster.
Still Ezra Miller.
I think any celebrity who has an outstanding warrant has basically lost their mind.
As an older guy wanting to sound hip on current events, I'll go with Nicki Minaj.
aggibridges:
Megan Thee Stallion indirectly dissed Nicki Minaj on her latest song by saying 'These h**s don't be mad at Megan, these h**s mad at Megan's Law'. Nicki Minaj felt alluded to because her husband is a convicted sex offender.
Nicki Minaj is now acting extremely erratically. She's having IG lives where she's sputtering literal nonsense for an extended amount of time, hurling abuse at her own fans on social media, tweeting NONSTOP, making fun of Megan for being tall, for having big feet, for being shot on the foot, making fun of her mom's death...
Megan's diss was a throaway line on a song, Nicki devoted the entire track to Megan, and she said a lot of vile and childish things. It's just not a good look for someone with the career trajectory she has. Public sentiment is very much against her and has been for years, and her ramblings now feel like she has lost every shred of sanity she had.
Celebrities might feel hesitant to reach out for help due to worries about their career or public image. In this case, Puder recommends finding a reliable and professional therapist who can address their concerns.
"I would say that a good therapist will remain 100% confidential, and that can be discussed in the first appointment. They want to find a psychiatrist or some licensed professional who has a private office or does Zoom calls. I would find a psychiatrist/therapist who is ok with being the only person interacting with them (for example, there is not a large front office, but rather just a sole provider who can be the point person).
I would also look for someone who will keep what we call in psychotherapy, "the frame"- meaning someone who will keep therapy in session, and charge their normal rate for time (I charge the professional athletes/famous people I treat the same as anyone else), and has a private office. My office for example has a waiting room only for me, and therefore they will not bounce into anyone else."
Kevin Sorbo
jumpupugly:
For what it's worth, Sorbo had three distinct strokes caused by an aneurysm in the shoulder. This caused some issues with his ability to physically perform as an actor, and likely also caused some brain damage.
This isn't to say that brain damage causes people to be stupid or evil, but the trauma of that event - plus the limited career he had afterwards - would provide an opportunity for him to begin seeing the world through the lens of bitterness and persecution that is modern conservatism.
His wife also sent him to one of those whacked out christian cult rehab places after his 3rd stroke. That said, he was a d*ckhead before the strokes - he'd regularly hit on young women and minors during filming or on set.
Jaden Smith. When I saw him in 2010's The Karate Kid I was convinced he was going to be a huge star. Now he's just a huge......I honestly don't know what to call him!
He has just tried too damn hard to act quirky and unique with his style of clothing and his "deep" tweets. He honestly sounds like he's certifiably crazy.
Again....damaged by his mother. I genuinely believe jada has alot to answer for
Terrance Howard. Dude thinks he’s unlocked some new math.
“Twenty years from now, they'll know that one times one equals two. We're about to show a new truth. The true universal math. And the proof is in these pieces (of plastic that he builds with his wife). I have created the pieces that make up the motion of the universe. We work on them about 17 hours a day. She cuts and puts on the crystals."
What may help is a good support system, as it’s important to have people around them to whom they can talk and escape from the noise that eventually comes with success. Those who recover the best are the ones who pick up their lives right where they left off. Meanwhile, offering them therapy and a safe space where they can talk everything out can also be very beneficial.
Transvestigators. There are people online on twitter who legitimately think that every famous person is trans and have had sex changes to swap their genders for some reason and they spend all day posting like skeleton and skull comparisons for various actors or other famous people, using skeletal diagrams that have obviously been photoshopped.
Inquisitors of any witch hunt are generally quite unhinged. You kind of have to be to not only think that an arbitrary trait is somehow "evil", but to also decide that you want to hunt down any and all traces of said arbitrary trait and expose them.
Britney Spears. I think she had untreated post partum psychosis, and has just continued to spiral. Obviously, the conservatorship (sp?) was completely wrong of her family to do to her, but I truly think she has gone round the bend. Very sad.
From the moment she was installed as a child into the Disney Matrix, she's been transferred from one machine to another and surrounded by all sorts of users and sycophants and "interested parties" who have a vested interest in her every smallest move. Where was her chance at a normal life?
Ariana Grande. There’s no way she didn’t know how bad poaching that man was, if she didn’t. She’s truly lost.
So, it's all her and not the guy leaving? This is asinine to assign another person's actions on her. They both chose their own course of actions so f**k off with this "women be stealing men hurrrrr" b******t.
Vince McMahon
quool_dwookie:
Vince was always Vince. There just used to be enough hush money and a lack of digital footprint or accountability for evil powerful men. The recent stuff, I imagine, is only a teensy peek at an iceberg of things he's done.
Gary Busey
EurekaBoyd1979:
Oh he's been off his rocker for years. I remember seeing him on Celebrity Rehab where he convinced himself that he was there to help the staff, not as a patient.
He suffered major brain damage after crashing his motorbike. Not quite the same thing as others on this list.
Laurence Fox, apparently he did the haka while under cross examination in his recent court case (that he lost)
Have no idea how it isn't mentioned but Antonio Brown. Dude seemed much more calm and collected off the field while still being an excellent athlete. He could handle a post game interview like he was just a normal and fairly charismatic dude for years, but now I'd go as far as saying he's legitimately insane
Happy-Measurement-57:
His info when you google him right now says that his occupations is “failing to pay child support” lmao
Covid-19 made a lot of people's minds melt. Either the actual disease, or the isolation. The list hit musicians especially hard.
Ozzy Ozborn is basically incoherent now. More so than normal.
Eric Clapton told a giant crowd to "Keep Britain white" awhile back.
And Roger Waters somehow became more of an a*****e than he was before.
Ozzy has Parkinson's disease. Edit: and decades of drug use doesn't help.
Dilbert guy.
Dragonfront:
He was always kooky but he had a rare disease that made it so he couldn't speak and during that time he basically drove away everybody in his life and became a recluse. There is also a theory that he may have gotten brain damage while getting surgery to address it
Scott Adams lost me when he came out as a climate change denier. Same with Michael Crichton.
Graham Linehan. Once a well-loved comedy writer whose work (Father Ted, Black Books, The IT Crowd) was popular in the UK/Ireland and beyond…
…then someone pointed out a fairly transphobic joke he’d made in an episode of The IT Crowd.
Instead of doing what most comedy writers would do (“it was of it’s time, it hasn’t aged well, I wouldn’t make that joke now,” and move on) he turned overnight into a seething little anti-trans demon, spending his every waking hour on Twitter arguing with anyone who even slightly disagreed with him (right down to spending all of Christmas Day one year tweeting anti-trans s**t).
His work dried up as people understandably didn’t want to commission anything he had a hand in, lest they see their name associated with his in an way. Which meant his rage-tweeting then doubled to include anti-trans rhetoric AND moaning about being “cancelled.”
His wife left him and he lost his home. He’s now essentially your classic basement-dwelling neckbeard keyboard warrior.
This is a bit too cut-and-dried. I’m pretty sure it didn’t kick off with him refusing to apologise for an outdated joke, first off - he attempted to initiate a mature discussion about gender issues on Twitter, which we all know just isn’t possible. Of course there are two sides to every story, but having read his somewhere, as far as I can tell his arguments run alongside JK Rowling’s - no issue with transgender people whatsoever, but more focused on the rights many women are losing. And to be fair, imho the hardcore trans lobby does go waaaaaaaaay overboard with a lot of things and people.
Past Disney star Orlando Brown. Nobody talks about this enough but I legit worry for him and think something strange is happening. Look at his "interviews." They are just him rambling drug-riddled nonsense and I think they added in questions later to make it seem like a conversation. His interviews look like they take place in a sketchy basement. He even acted this way on Dr. Phil and everyone just pretends it's normal and that he isn't high as a kite. I do not wish to shame this man, but I think something is going on and I know I sound insane but I legit think he needs help
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How is Trump not at the top of this list? He isn't even on it. What guy commits a pile of crimes, including business and tax fraud and then jumps into politics? You'd think he would be am trying to stay out of the public eye, not out yourself squarely in it. His narcissism is on a whole other scale. Now we are witnessing this clown literally break down. The economy is doing good- Trump "that was me". I'm waiting for him to declare that the sun rises because he wills it so. About the only thing worse is the whackos that follow him. I literally saw a video of a dude getting pulled over and PRAYING to him!?! I feel like I just entered a dark and insane alternate reality l.
Trump is dangerous. Any person in a position of leadership and power who also inspires violence, hatred and blind devotion cannot be good for a society. We've seen this before throughout history, and it never ends well. At this point, the only thing I can do is vote against him and hope that sense and reason prevails during this election year.
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To have lost it he would have originally have to have had it.
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Wow, just freaking wow, BoredPanda. This goes to show that you don't bother to edit let alone read anything that you post on this site. You victim blame Amanda Bynes and Britney Spears for extreme mental health struggles and include them in a listicle of people who have committed crimes, spewed hate speech,and were emotionally abusive. Also, how freaking dare you spread false facts about Biden- you don't have to like him, but it's vile that you included that comment when you know the US is struggling with nationalism. So you think that racist hate-filled racist, transpohobic, homophobic, science-denying, misoynistic Trump is better, BoredPanda. Wow, this site is absolutely wretched anymore.
A lot sounds like people who the poster just doesn't like. Fair enough but if you are going to have posting such as list require that people give actual example
I really don't like the ones making fun/shaming of people who are legitimately mentally ill. This is the stigma we need to break. People don't choose to be mentally ill.
Not a republican but a hater of trump. I don’t understand the MAGA crowd. Admire a man who is a sex offender, a liar, etc.what the hell is the attraction?
Wow.... a long list of ppl I don't know. Well, I know about 7 of those people.... at first I wanted to google who people were but realizing how many I would have to look up made me not google anybody. Lol. Am I living under a rock or is it simply because I do not live in the USA nor have had interest in most pop culture the past decade or so? 🙃
I'm nobody, but when I waste 45 minutes of my life reading this stuff I'm off my rails too.
Jordan Peterson seems to be going through some stuff. He's not looking that healthy and if you listen to him long enough, you either just give up and join him in his strange resentments or you realize that he's just a word salad who tries to leave escape routes for himself in all of his arguments.
I can think of a few Nobel prizewinners who qualify for this list.
How is Trump not at the top of this list? He isn't even on it. What guy commits a pile of crimes, including business and tax fraud and then jumps into politics? You'd think he would be am trying to stay out of the public eye, not out yourself squarely in it. His narcissism is on a whole other scale. Now we are witnessing this clown literally break down. The economy is doing good- Trump "that was me". I'm waiting for him to declare that the sun rises because he wills it so. About the only thing worse is the whackos that follow him. I literally saw a video of a dude getting pulled over and PRAYING to him!?! I feel like I just entered a dark and insane alternate reality l.
Trump is dangerous. Any person in a position of leadership and power who also inspires violence, hatred and blind devotion cannot be good for a society. We've seen this before throughout history, and it never ends well. At this point, the only thing I can do is vote against him and hope that sense and reason prevails during this election year.
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Load More Replies... Wow, just freaking wow, BoredPanda. This goes to show that you don't bother to edit let alone read anything that you post on this site. You victim blame Amanda Bynes and Britney Spears for extreme mental health struggles and include them in a listicle of people who have committed crimes, spewed hate speech,and were emotionally abusive. Also, how freaking dare you spread false facts about Biden- you don't have to like him, but it's vile that you included that comment when you know the US is struggling with nationalism. So you think that racist hate-filled racist, transpohobic, homophobic, science-denying, misoynistic Trump is better, BoredPanda. Wow, this site is absolutely wretched anymore.
A lot sounds like people who the poster just doesn't like. Fair enough but if you are going to have posting such as list require that people give actual example
I really don't like the ones making fun/shaming of people who are legitimately mentally ill. This is the stigma we need to break. People don't choose to be mentally ill.
Not a republican but a hater of trump. I don’t understand the MAGA crowd. Admire a man who is a sex offender, a liar, etc.what the hell is the attraction?
Wow.... a long list of ppl I don't know. Well, I know about 7 of those people.... at first I wanted to google who people were but realizing how many I would have to look up made me not google anybody. Lol. Am I living under a rock or is it simply because I do not live in the USA nor have had interest in most pop culture the past decade or so? 🙃
I'm nobody, but when I waste 45 minutes of my life reading this stuff I'm off my rails too.
Jordan Peterson seems to be going through some stuff. He's not looking that healthy and if you listen to him long enough, you either just give up and join him in his strange resentments or you realize that he's just a word salad who tries to leave escape routes for himself in all of his arguments.
I can think of a few Nobel prizewinners who qualify for this list.
