Celebrities who let fame go to their heads
Becoming a ridiculously rich, internationally famous, and beloved celebrity simply by acting in a few movies, appearing on a hit TV show, or recording a few songs that everyone likes is a goal for millions. Even more of a drug than the drugs that so many stars are hooked on is the drug that is fame itself. Sure, it must be great to be among the lucky few who can follow his art and enjoy a luxurious lifestyle, but there are some downsides to all that stuffy air.
Fame can also isolate celebrities from the real world and cause them to act in unfortunate ways, sometimes to the detriment of their own careers, relationships, or even the safety of others. Plus, fame doesn't care if you're a new reality star or a seasoned actor - notoriety is a time bomb for anyone who doesn't handle it carefully. Here are some celebrities who, at some point after going down the road to fame, seemed to have forgotten that they were just normal people. Here are some stars who let fame go to their heads.
Sweet Justin turned bad? You better believe it.
After one of his YouTube cover songs came to the attention of a talent manager in 2009, 13-year-old Justin Bieber found himself on a record deal and Usher as his mentor. Almost instantly, Bieber became a pop music sensation, and while he handled his early fame well, the situation started to go south as the young man approached his 18th birthday.
The warning signs began when Bieber's mother told Vanity Fair in 2011 that she believed her child was a literal gift from God. Bieber was compared to The Beatles, Tupac, and Michael Jackson in the same interview. Not well. And it only got worse from there, as Bieber slowly morphed from a sleek, clean pop star to an aspiring bad boy. Even his once adorable relationship with singer Selena Gomez suddenly turned into a sleazy, beefy tabloid, complete with cheating rumors and fatherhood outfits.
Bieber eventually came into conflict with the law after allegedly inciting a neighbor's house with his friends, and not even two weeks later, he was arrested for running while drunk. And that's just the tip of an iceberg that includes drugs, racist jokes, public urination and a lot of mugging, according to Buzzfeed. Not to mention, a habit of leaving the stage and leaving fans hanging if he's in a bad mood. If you want a case study on the traps of fame, you can't go wrong with the Biebs.
Mariah Carey lives in a 'fantasy' world of her own making.
Mariah Carey defines the diva, and she performs every part. From her rivalry with Whitney Houston to hers legendary Cribs of her MTV her episode of her epic Jennifer Lopez tone, this is clearly Mariah Mundo and we're all living in it. Mimi has a reputation for being late, and while that could fly with fans who know exactly what they're getting into when they buy tickets to her show, it can wreak havoc on others.
In June 2017, actor Will Ferrell, who is not known as a gossip, stopped Watch What Happens Live and revealed that Carey was supposed to have a cameo in his movie The House (2017), until it came four hours. Later, he began making demands and refused to make a scene that was approved in advance, according to the Los Angeles Times. While Ferrell was generous on his account, co-star Cedric Yarbrough called Carey "unprofessional and borderline abusive to our director" in a Facebook post since deleted.
Even though her diva antics cost a part of her in the movie, we're pretty sure she's not sweating. We are talking about Mariah Carey. The same woman who demanded a $ 50 million inconvenience fee from her ex-boyfriend James Packer because they had a bad separation. We doubt she's losing beauty sleep for a cameo
You got to be kidding
In a way, Kanye West is almost like the man Mariah Carey. His ego knows no bounds, and he came to compare himself to Steve Jobs and Walt Disney, according to Newsweek. Also, who can forget his epic rants on Twitter, like the ones where he's not afraid to ask Mark Zuckerberg for money? Basically, West does what West wants.
But that attitude may have cost Yeezy his best friend and supporter. In November 2016, West made headlines after a wild discussion about best friend Jay Z and Jay's wife, Beyoncé, during a concert, and then left the stage after just 15 minutes. Granted, Kanye would be hospitalized for a psychiatric evaluation a few days later, but experts allege that the stay was purely for insurance purposes.
Jay was silent until June 2017 when he released his new album, 4:44, which included a direct shot at Kanye. The lyrics not only reignited a fight between the two rappers, but also dragged their entire families away. While Kanye's ego is almost entirely to blame, according to Page Six, there is also another reason: "We are told that the dispute stems from the forcing of West [his wife] Kim Kardashian 'into the Carters. "Clumsy.
Megan Fox, uh, transformed her career
Thanks to the box office success of Transformers (2007), Megan Fox quickly became one of Hollywood's most popular actresses, but fame allegedly went to her head because she fired the franchise after referring to director Michael Bay as Hitler, who did not do well for the executive producer. Steven Spielberg. It was a spectacular train wreck, and Fox's career languished for years thanks to her sour tongue and an open letter from Transformers: Rise of the Fallen crew members detailing her diva demeanor on set. .
Fox and Bay finally fixed things, and he graciously cast her as April O'Neil in the live action 2014 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles reboot. While filming that movie without a hitch, Fox found himself in hot water again after responding to negative reviews. Let me tell you something about those people. How much money did Transformers 4 make? » she asked at a press conference. These people can complain, they all go to the theater. They're going to love it, and if they don't love it, they can fuck around, and that's it.
Fox made one more movie in the next four years, a sequel to Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. She changed professional tactics a bit, taking a role in the sitcom New Girl and then becoming a co-owner / lingerie model for the famous Hollywood Frederick’s.
A man named Cage, incarcerated for debt.
After a string of hits in the 1990s, Nicolas Cage became one of Hollywood's biggest stars, earning a salary of $ 20 million per movie. At one point, the actor was worth $ 150 million, according to CNBC, which seems like more money than a person could ever spend. Not Nicolas Cage.
As CNBC reports, the actor owned 15 multi-million dollar households around the world. His real estate portfolio included a $ 3.4 million haunted mansion in New Orleans and not just one, but two castles in Europe. Oh, and just to be safe, he bought a desert island. Cage also bought a dinosaur skull and dropped money on cars, comics, and shrunken pygmy heads. To be fair, who doesn't get one of those in the house?
Unfortunately, while Cage was spending his huge fortune, he was learning that his real estate investment skills weren't the best, and he also forgot to pay the IRS for a couple of years, which never ends well. . Just ask Al Capone.
Run for The Hills, it's Heidi and Spencer!
In the late 2000s, MTV reality stars Heidi Montag and Spencer Pratt managed to spend their time on The Hills to Tabloid Fame through a series of attention-grabbing stunts and photo shoots. But by 2010, Montag and Pratt's antics were wearing thin, so they upped the ante by pretending to divorce, which they later admitted was a desperate ploy to land more television work. By 2016, they were living in Pratt's parents' vacation home.
The couple have kept things relatively low-key in recent years. In September 2017, they welcomed their first child, who put their names back in the headlines. It remains to be seen how they navigate this new chapter in their lives, but they certainly spared no expense on the birth. The Baby Gunner Stone was reportedly surrounded by crystals worth $ 27,000 at birth.
John Mayer is that guy at the party with the guitar, just fabulously rich
For 2010, singer / songwriter John Mayer dated Jessica Simpson, Jennifer Aniston, and Taylor Swift. Unfortunately, he also had the ego of a man who dated all three, and in an unfortunate interview with Playboy, Mayer revealed too much information about his famous relationships. He also found himself in extremely hot water after referring to a certain part of his body as "white supremacist" and dropping the N-word. He later apologized for the interview, but it was certainly a revealing look at the singer's psyche.
While Mayer seemed to have no trouble lighting his old flames, he was extremely furious in 2012 when Swift released "Dear John," a song that was supposedly about his relationship. “It really caught me off guard, and it really humiliated me at a time when I had already been poorly dressed. I mean, how would you feel if, unless you were, someone kicked you even more? He said Rolling Stone before getting nasty. "I will say as a composer that I think it is a kind of cheap composition."
For the record, Mayer told Playboy some very intimate details about how to make Swift eggs after spending the night together, but apparently he can't sing a PG song about him breaking up with her. Not surprisingly, Mayer describes himself as a "recovered ego addict." Although we are not so sure of that recovered part.
We include Shia LaBeouf even though he's not famous anymore
While co-star Megan Fox only managed to get past two Transformers before overestimating her star power and getting fired from her, Shia LaBeouf at least managed to finish the third movie before her ego got the best of him. Even though he bragged about hooking up with Fox in an interview promo Details Transformers: Dark of the Moon, then the signs were definitely there. Unlike Fox, LaBeouf did not reconcile with director Michael Bay. Instead, he proceeded to destroy the Transformers franchise that gave him the opportunity (and cash) to work on an independent film, according to The Hollywood Reporter.
But LaBeouf was just getting started. After trying to prove his bona fides as an artist, he was caught plagiarizing a Daniel Clowes graphic novel for a short film. LaBeouf initially apologized and admitted his mistake, but soon changed his tone and claimed that the entire incident was actually a work of performance art. That took a lot of ego, but LaBeouf kept going, embarking on a series of elaborate pieces of art that focused primarily on "examining" his celebrity status. One of those hot shots: he attended the 2014 Berlin Film Festival with a paper bag over his head, which was adorned with the words, "I'm not famous anymore." Most of his projects just seemed like excuses for everyone to pay attention to LaBeouf, which even bored him to sleep. Maybe it's time to call Bay again.
Jon and Kate Plus 8 minus each other
It's not just Hollywood actors and pop musicians who are caught up in the glitz and glamor of celebrity fame. Reality TV stars often struggle with being pulled out of nowhere and in the spotlight. Perhaps no one caught fire more surprisingly than Jon and Kate Gosselin. After finding success on TLC with Jon and Kate Plus 8, the Pennsylvania parents of a set of twins and a set of sextuplets buckled up under the stress of the spotlight (and the daily stress of trying to raise eight children! little ones!)
The cracks began to appear shortly after the success of the show when Jon was accused of having an affair, and the accusations began to pile up. As for Kate, it was rumored that she was cheating on her bodyguard, Radar reported. The couple got messy divorced in 2009, and Jon began descending from him dating Michael Lohan and taking the women on his ATV. Kate continued her career on reality TV with Kate Plus 8, but not before being accused of diva-like behavior in Dancing With The Stars.
As for the custody of children? That is still all kinds of mess.
Heigl's anatomy of a career implosion
Thanks to her Emmy-winning role in Grey's Anatomy (2005-), the smash hit Preñada, (2007), and a $ 6 million role in 27 Dresses (2008), Katherine Heigl was poised for a star success. cinema. Unfortunately, she overestimated her influence in Hollywood after she had trashed a few key people who had helped her get ahead.
It all started when Heigl revealed her true feelings about Pregnant during an interview on Vanity Fair. “She exaggerated the characters, and I had some difficult moments with that, some days. I'm playing like a bitch; Why is she being so cheerful? " she said. "It was difficult for me to love the movie." Needless to say, writer / director Judd Apatow and his co-star Seth Rogen weren't happy and, according to Rogen, Heigl has been unapologetic.
Heigl hit his co-workers again in 2008 when he withdrew his name for Emmy to consider Grey's Anatomy and issued a statement saying, "I didn't feel like I was given the material this season to guarantee an Emmy nomination," according to Los New York Times. Television powerhouse Shonda Rhimes was "pissed off," and Heigl was off the show for the next season. As for her career? Her latest CBS drama of hers was canceled after just two episodes. Oh.
Who would be Freaky Friday with Lindsay Lohan right now?
While fame slowly took hold of other celebrities, Lindsay Lohan ran straight up to her and immediately found herself hooked on exactly the wrong guy. In Mean Girls (2004), the star aggressively attracted the attention of the paparazzi, according to Vanity Fair, which only furthered her reputation as a runaway party girl. It didn't help that Lohan chose a time when gossip sites like TMZ were starting to grow in popularity. The studios could no longer explain her troubles on set as a case of "burnout" when there were clear photos of her party on the internet.
Despite two DUI arrests and being called by Jane Fonda, Lohan was unable to change her shape, and her career went down the drain. While offered opportunities for a comeback, Lohan continued to be an unpredictable nightmare to work with, according to a damning account in The New York Times about her behavior while filming The Canyons (2013) .The message was loud and clear to Hollywood: Lohan is not worth it. worth the risk. The insurance companies wouldn't touch her, and the directors were guaranteed days of screaming and mysterious disappearances.
However, in June 2017, Lohan surprised the entertainment world by landing a role on the British television series. Note of illness. Could this finally be the career turning point she's been talking about for a decade?
Every rose has its Thorne
Bella Thorne rose to fame on the Disney Channel sitcom Move it, but these days, she's best known for her outrageous outfits, questionable taste in men, and her social media antics. With over 17 million followers on Instagram, Thorne is a master at causing a frenzy with her fans (and her enemies) by sparking pregnancy rumors or naming her new puppy after a certain hygiene product. female. However, in January 2018, she got too caught up in the fame game when she lashed out on Twitter that she couldn't attend her boyfriend's concert because the 101 freeway to Santa Barbara was closed. She quickly learned, thanks to some embarrassment from actor Rob Lowe, that the road was closed due to a devastating landslide in Montecito.
“This attitude is why people hate celebrities / Hollywood,” Lowe tweeted (via TMZ) “Bella, I'm sorry you were bothered. We will try to get our dead out faster. Thorne deleted her tweet and apologized, but I hope she makes an effort to think twice before complaining about the harsh conditions of celebrity life.
Johnny Depp has done much worse things than Mortdecai
Like many guys who can play guitar, Billy Corgan started a rock band. Unlike most of those guys, Corgan took his group to the highest levels of fame, commercial success, and cultural relevance because his band was the Smashing Pumpkins, known for the dark and dirty '90s anthems like "Today" and " Bullet with Butterfly Wings ». Since the band broke up big in 1993, Corgan has acted like a real jerk, abandoning any kind of democratic decision-making in favor of tyranny. When recording the Pumpkins 'main label debut, Siamese Dream, Corgan had such a unique sound in mind that he "notoriously re-recorded the guitar and bass parts of James Iha and D' Arcy Wretzky," reported Girar. His heavy-handed power moves have allegedly prevented a reunion of the classic Pumpkins lineup from taking place.
In 2014, Corgan even went after America's Sweetheart Anderson Cooper when the CNN personality gently joked with the rocker for appearing on the cover of a pet rescue magazine called Chicago Paws holding his cats. “Sorry to disappoint you,” Corgan replied (via Gallows), “but when I'm not raising Cain for a big organization like PAWS Chicago, I keep making REAL music. I realize that you are too busy being a globalist to know the difference.
Eddie Murphy, comedian, can't take a joke
Nineteen-year-old Eddie Murphy joined the cast of Saturday Night Live in 1980 and quickly became one of its brightest stars thanks to bits like his strange impression of Buckwheat from Little Rascals, his Mr. Rogers Neighborhood parody " Mr. Robinson's Neighborhood "and, of course, that" James Brown Celebrity Hot Tub Party. " Before leaving the show, he had already starred in hit movies like 48 Hours, Places of Commerce, and Beverly Hills Cop - the highest-grossing movie of 1984. Then came the first sign of a swollen head: a vanity music project.
In 1985, a year in which Murphy did not release any movies, he reached number 2 on the chart with the single (intentionally) single "Party All the Time." He remained a box office force well into the 1990s, thanks to hits like Arriving in America, Boomerang, The Nutty Professor, and Beverly Hills Cop II. Things changed in 1994, when Beverly Hills Cop III and Vampire in Brooklyn bombed back to back. In a segment of "Hollywood Minute" on SNL's "Weekend Update" that year, a picture of Murphy in Vampire in Brooklyn appeared on screen, and David Spade joked, "Look, kids, he's a shooting star. Make a wish! " It hurt Murphy's feelings so much that he vowed never to appear on SNL again ... although he did make an exception to receive effusive praise during the SNL 40 special in 2015.
Do you know who Reese Witherspoon is?
When most people think of runaway celebrities, Reese Witherspoon probably doesn't come to mind. But in 2013, the actress let her fame take over when her husband / her agent Jim Toth was pulled over for drunk driving in Atlanta. Rather than cooperate with police, the allegedly drunk Witherspoon allegedly began arguing with an officer and found herself charged with disorderly conduct, according to TMZ. Worse still, everything was captured on the dashcam video. Witherspoon is seen and heard blurt out the "Do you know who I am?" card before breaking the now infamous line, 'I am an American citizen. I am allowed to be on American soil! "
What she should have done is let the police arrest her husband for committing a dangerous and illegal act, which is exactly what Toth told him, after they told the policemen, that they had just received a handful of A-list. actress, «I'm sorry. I had nothing to do with it. To her credit, the Legally Blonde actress has apologized for her actions and has not avoided addressing the embarrassing incident. "I think we all like to define people by the way the media presents them, and I think I showed that I have a complexity that people did not know about," he said at a press conference (via HuffPost). part of human nature. I made a mistake. We all make mistakes. The best thing you can do is ask for forgiveness and learn from it and move on.
From Smashing Pumpkins to alienating everyone
Like many guys who can play guitar, Billy Corgan started a rock band. Unlike most of those guys, Corgan took his group to the highest levels of fame, commercial success, and cultural relevance because his band was the Smashing Pumpkins, known for the dark and dirty '90s anthems like "Today" and " Bullet with Butterfly Wings ». Since the band broke up big in 1993, Corgan has acted like a real jerk, abandoning any kind of democratic decision-making in favor of tyranny. When recording the Pumpkins 'main label debut, Siamese Dream, Corgan had such a unique sound in mind that he "notoriously re-recorded the guitar and bass parts of James Iha and D' Arcy Wretzky," reported Girar. His heavy-handed power moves have allegedly prevented a reunion of the classic Pumpkins lineup from taking place.
In 2014, Corgan even went after America's Sweetheart Anderson Cooper when the CNN personality gently joked with the rocker for appearing on the cover of a pet rescue magazine called Chicago Paws holding his cats. “Sorry to disappoint you,” Corgan replied (via Gallows), “but when I'm not raising Cain for a big organization like PAWS Chicago, I keep making REAL music. I realize that you are too busy being a globalist to know the difference.
Eddie Murphy, comedian, can't take a joke
Nineteen-year-old Eddie Murphy joined the cast of Saturday Night Live in 1980 and quickly became one of its brightest stars thanks to bits like his strange impression of Buckwheat from Little Rascals, his Mr. Rogers Neighborhood parody " Mr. Robinson's Neighborhood "and, of course, that" James Brown Celebrity Hot Tub Party. " Before leaving the show, he had already starred in hit movies like 48 Hours, Places of Commerce, and Beverly Hills Cop - the highest-grossing movie of 1984. Then came the first sign of a swollen head: a vanity music project.
In 1985, a year in which Murphy did not release any movies, he reached number 2 on the chart with the single (intentionally) single "Party All the Time." He remained a box office force well into the 1990s, thanks to hits like Arriving in America, Boomerang, The Nutty Professor, and Beverly Hills Cop II. Things changed in 1994, when Beverly Hills Cop III and Vampire in Brooklyn bombed back to back. In a segment of "Hollywood Minute" on SNL's "Weekend Update" that year, a picture of Murphy in Vampire in Brooklyn appeared on screen, and David Spade joked, "Look, kids, he's a shooting star. Make a wish! " It hurt Murphy's feelings so much that he vowed never to appear on SNL again ... although he did make an exception to receive effusive praise during the SNL 40 special in 2015.
Taylor Swift has bad blood
As she rose through the ranks of country music and made the difficult transition to pop stardom, Taylor Swift's early fame was refreshingly free of controversy. If anything, she was criticized primarily for being "calculating," which isn't exactly a bad thing. However, Swift's ego began to reveal itself when she sparked a Twitter feud with Nicki Minaj by unnecessarily injecting herself into Minaj's criticism of the 2015 VMAs. The two eventually became likable, but The Guardian Named Swift "at best. condescending and ignorant cases; at worst, empty and self-absorbed. The whole thing was not looking good.
Despite the Minaj incident tarnishing Swift's rep, she garnered more attention than ever in 2016 thanks to her now infamous summer fling with Tom Hiddleston and # Taymerica, her star-studded Fourth of July party that dominated the headlines. with his professionally shot Instagram photos. But just two weeks later, Kim Kardashian took down the Swift star by launching a series of Snapchats showing recordings of Swift (mostly) approving of the lyrics to Kanye West's "Famous," despite acting with her eyes closed and injured by them in the press. Swift suddenly seemed like a liar and more manipulative than ever.
To her credit, she seems to have realized that she exceeded the limits of her fame and stayed low for most of 2017 ... until the November release of Reputation. That album sold nearly two million copies in just six weeks, so it seems any backlash from Taytay has subsided.
