A while back, Reddit user brody0628 asked, “What is a celebrity everyone loves but you think is insufferable?” and people had some stronggggg opinions. Here are celebrities they think are actually bad people — along with some responses from the BuzzFeed Community and this Reddit thread.
1.”Nick Cannon. The fact that the internet makes jokes about how many kids he has or tries to paint him as a good father because he takes his kids to Disney World is disgusting! He couldn’t even remember the names of all his kids when asked. Most, if not all, of his kids are going to grow up having no relationship with him.”
“And his bigoted takes on Jewish people…” [Editor’s note: Cannon promoted conspiracy theories about Jewish people on his podcast and later apologized.]
2.”John Lennon. I know he’s been dead for 40 years, but man, he was such a shit person.”
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“While I love many of John Lennon’s songs, as a person and particularly as a father and a family man, he was not so good. He chose to basically abandon Julian Lennon and almost completely cut him out of his will. … He was physically abusive towards women. … We all forget about it because of his immense talent as a songwriter and as a musician.”
3.”John Stamos. He looks like a wax museum version of himself and it seems like his ego is as big as his Disney collection.”
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Stamos also once told a story about convincing a woman she was having sex with him when it was really his friend:
“[In the mid-eighties] I was in a band. I was playing somewhere in Finland, and there was a girl hanging around who was really drunk and interested in me. I wasn’t into her, but my friend was. So the girl came back to my hotel, and I turned the lights down, and we started making out. I said, ‘Hold on a second, I’ve gotta go brush my teeth.’ It was dark, I left the room, and I sent in my friend who looked like me. And she thought she was having sex with me, but she was really having sex with my friend.”
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4.”Whoopi. She’s the boomerest boomer to ever exist. Has no empathy for younger generations and is constantly telling struggling millennials/Gen Z people they don’t have it that bad.”
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“Whoopi Goldberg defended Roman Polanski’s statutory rape of a minor by saying ‘it wasn’t rape-rape.'”
5.”Jackie Chan: Hong Kong-born but pro-Beijing. That’s enough for me.”
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Chan also admitted to driving drunk “all the time” and throwing his two-year-old son across the room in anger. He also had an affair that resulted in a child he did not parent, who eventually ended up unhoused. Oh, and there’s the time Michelle Yeoh called him a “male chauvinistic pig.”
6.”Brad Pitt isn’t the stand-up guy he portrays! Maybe it was the story about him … [allegedly] being abusive to his wife in front of his children that turned me off. Definitely not something a nice guy would do!”
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[Editor’s note: You can read more about the plane assault allegations here, but Jolie did eventually drop the lawsuit. Pitt has denied there was any physical violence.]
Pitt also dated Juliette Lewis when she was 17, and he was a decade older.
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7.”I’ve disliked Jimmy Fallon since his SNL days when it felt like he’d break character in a sketch to get a bigger laugh. Ruffling Donald Trump’s hair during his interview pretty much turned me off of him for good.”
8.”Far worse is Jimmy Kimmel — he ‘pranks’ his family on his show, but they all seem to really hate it. I had to stop watching him during the Trump presidency because all he could do on his show was make ‘fat jokes.’ Trump does a million wild things; stop making the same cringey and offensive jokes from the early ’90s! And if you have any doubts, look up The Man Show — absolutely horrific.”
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9.”Owen Wilson, a seemingly good dad to his sons, [is allegedly a] deadbeat father to his daughter: he underwent a paternity test, still refuses to meet her, and just threw money at her (he dated the child’s mother on and off for five years).”
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Wilson has not responded to these claims beyond a rep saying, “This is a private matter, and it’s not appropriate to comment further.”
10.”Not to speak ill of the dead, but Kobe and the whole rape allegation. … Not sure why people are so wild about him.”
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Kobe ultimately settled in the sexual assault case and said, “After months of reviewing discovery, listening to her attorney, and even her testimony in person, I now understand how she feels that she did not consent to this encounter.”
11.”Matthew Broderick. Another example of rich people just not having to face consequences. For anyone that doesn’t know, In 1987, he was driving during a head-on collision with another car, which killed a mother and daughter. He paid the equivalent of $175 and served no time.”
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12.”Jerry Seinfeld. So many people seem to love him, and his show was wildly successful, but I can’t stand him at all.”
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“I used to look up to Jerry Seinfeld so much… but then I found out about him [allegedly] dating a high schooler, and his last comedy special was basically just ‘old man yells at cloud.’ So disappointed.”
Some more info: Seinfeld claims the “high school student” mentioned, Shoshanna, was 18 when they began the romantic aspect of their relationship. After she turned 18, he told Howard Stern, “I didn’t realize she was so young. This is the only girl I ever went out with who was that young. I wasn’t dating her. We just went to a restaurant, and that was it.” He confirmed their relationship a few years later.
13.”Steven Tyler, for [allegedly] convincing parents to sign a 14-year-old over to him. Then … dumping her back on their doorstep at 17.”
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Some more info: Tyler actually admitted to having sex with a minor in his memoir. “She was 16, she knew how to nasty, and there wasn’t a hair on it,” Tyler wrote. He was 26 at the time. He also wrote, “Her parents fell in love with me, signed a paper over for me to have custody, so I wouldn’t get arrested if I took her out of state. I took her on tour.” It’s likely that Tyler is referring to Julia Holcomb, who sued him in 2022 for sexual assault, sexual battery, and intentional infliction of emotional distress back in the ’70s. She says that Tyler persuaded her mother to sign over guardianship to him. Holcomb also says in court documents that she became pregnant and Tyler made her have an abortion.
Tyler, though not directly named in the suit, denied these claims, said their relationship was consensual, and claimed immunity because he was her legal guardian then, calling for the suit to be dismissed.
14.Similarly…”I always find it weird that Anthony Kiedis from The Red Hot Chili Peppers admitted to having sex with a child in his autobiography, and barely a word is said about it.”
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Some more info: Anthony Kiedis of the Red Hot Chili Peppers wrote about having sex with a 14-year-old in his autobiography Scar Tissue. The girl — who reportedly inspired the song “Catholic School Girls Rule” — came backstage at his concert, and the two had sex. According to Keidis, she then continued on with the band to Baton Rouge. After their show, the girl revealed that she was 14 and her father was the chief of police in her town, adding that “the entire state of Louisiana” was looking for her because she’d been reported missing.
Keidis said he wasn’t scared “because, in my somewhat deluded mind, I knew that if she told the chief of police she was in love with me, he wasn’t going to have me taken out to a field and shot, but I did want to get her the hell back home right away. So we had sex one more time.” He was in his mid-20s at the time.
15.”Prince. He met his ex-wife when she was sixteen (and later declared he knew he was going to marry her right then) and then put her on birth control at nineteen after they had ‘a really deep friendship’ (yeah right) for three years.”
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“[According to her,] he later made her do an interview soon after their son died, threw that son’s ashes away, … and dumped her by the time she was 26. I love the man’s music, but I wish people would talk more about the hell he put Mayte Garcia through.”
16.”John Mulaney. He was so funny and really killing it. But what he did to his ex-wife is so terrible.”
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Some more info: Mulaney filed for divorce from Anna Marie Tendler in July 2021, after which point she released a statement reading that she was “heartbroken that John has decided to end [their] marriage.” It was reported they’d broken up in February 2021, though Mulaney later claimed he’d asked for a divorce in October 2020. In September 2021, Mulaney revealed that he had been dating Olivia Munn since the spring (right off the heels of his time in rehab), and that Munn was pregnant with their child, despite the fact that Mulaney had been open about not wanting children. Mulaney has since credited Munn and their child in his recovery journey.
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17.”Doja Cat has been problematic. Even before she blew up commercially, she was being accused of racism — against Black people. Ngl, I like some of her songs, but there’s a lot of mental dissociation involved for me. Sometimes I don’t like being aware of this shit because this is why we can’t have nice things.”
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Doja denied participating in racist conversations and apologized for her behavior in chat rooms when she was younger.
18.”Oprah was basically the O.G. Jerry Springer and pioneered that genre of shock-garbage-emotional-manipulation TV. Now she’s interviewing Prince Harry like she’s Barbara fucking Walters or something. I don’t get it.”
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“She’s also a major factor in the current anti-vax movement. She brought some guests on that said vaccines cause autism in the ’90s…and it spread from there.”
19.”Nicki Minaj, and thankfully everyone’s finally starting to get it. All this information came out back in, like, 2021, and it somehow got swept under the rug. I never got good feelings from her.”
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“Her husband was sentenced to four years for an attempted rape back in ’96. He and his would-be victim were both 16. He was later sentenced to three years probation and one year’s house arrest in 2021 for failing to register as a sex offender when he moved to LA.”
“Don’t forget her PSA about COVID vaccinations. ‘My cousin’s friend got giant balls from the vaccination and had to call off his marriage.'”
“Megan has her freaking out, and I’m all for it.”
20.”Drake is creepy, the way he befriends young teen girls! That’s a weird thing for a grown ass man to do.”
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“Drake…has [a] head that no longer fit through a door. … Drake literally thinks he helped the Raptors win a championship. Sit the fuck down in front, bro.”
21.”I can’t stand Kevin Hart. He’s not funny, and his stand-up shows are forced laughter in a nutshell.”
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“I made the mistake of buying his autobiography. Hearing him describe how he would beat up his ex and then try to make it funny made me feel sick.”
22.”Tom Cruise. Scientology.”
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“He’s also [allegedly] a deadbeat dad [to Suri], and everyone just ignores that.”
“I cannot understand why people think he’s a good actor — he just plays Tom Cruise in every role he has ever been in. He has zero range. He’s literally just action man. And the Scientology shit should be enough for people to hate him regardless.”
23.”Gwyneth Paltrow. She can Goop right outta here.”
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“I never understood the Goop hate for the longest time. I just shrugged off the cringey things she says…but then I discovered she is selling snake oil. What a terrible person.”
24.”Julia Roberts.”
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“The ‘A low Vera’ shirt [Editor’s note: This was a homemade shirt Roberts wore in reference to her partner’s then-wife, who had not yet agreed to a divorce] was really cruel. Imagine having an [alleged] affair and pressing the other partner for a divorce without any respect toward the time they would need to let go and accept the divorce. Not a girl’s girl.”
25.”Fred Armisen. Of that SNL era I like pretty much everyone else; he just deeply skeeves me out for some reason.”
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“Apparently he is a creep. I find his humor pretty good, but once I heard about some stuff he had done, I got put off by him. He [allegedly] does not treat women well.”
“Elisabeth Moss (his ex-wife) said about Armisen, “One of the greatest things I heard someone say about him is, ‘He’s so great at doing impersonations. But the greatest impersonation he does is that of a normal person.’ If there’s something more damning and ambiguously chilling you can say about a person, I’ve yet to hear it.”
26.”Bill Murray. I don’t hate him, but for some reason the internet thinks he is God’s gift to comedy. He’s alright, but he’s nowhere close to the idol that the internet makes him out to be.”
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“He’s also kind of an asshole. He’s the hometown hero where I live, and people all have these ‘funny’ Bill Murray stories, and they’re basically all him being an asshole.”
“Plus he [allegedly] acts awful against women on set.”
27.”I know I’ll get hate for this but Jim Carrey. I find the guy totally obnoxious! He seems like he’s got one schtick and that’s all he knows.”
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“Yeah I used to LOVE Jim. He was great in the ’90s, but the last few years he’s an insufferable dickhead. He was unfairly rude as fuck toward Margot Robbie on The Graham Norton Show and made several implications that she only got famous for her looks. You can see how uncomfortable she is throughout the interview from there on in. It was very mean girl stuff. I felt bloody uncomfortable watching from home. Plus, he was [allegedly] not good to his ex who died.”
“The anti-vax stuff was unmitigated garbage. … It really ruins a comedian’s ability to be funny when he’s arguing a position that, if people take him seriously, will literally lead to people dying. On the plus side, it seems Carrey eventually realized how full of it he was.”
28.”Leonardo DiCaprio. He seems like such a creep.”
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“He talks about climate change, but rents mega yachts…and travels by private jets. He’s turning into an old creep, who only dates young women (he usually dumps them before they turn 25).”
29.”Paul Walker. He…[reportedly] dated a 16-year-old in his 30s.”
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30.”Johnny Depp. I think he’s overhyped. Used to be a fan, but the last decade he lost his shine for me.”
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“The Amber Heard trial was such a disgusting moment in our culture. And to see people line up outside the courthouse to show their love for Depp was cringey as hell. As a matter of fact, the widespread reception of Depp being the hero and Heard being the villain was just totally off. I’m not saying it should have been oppositely received, but the idea that either of them should exit that courthouse with a positive public image is wild to me. I just saw Depp in a perfume ad on Hulu, and it made my skin crawl. Absolutely disgusting.”
“People really tried to ignore allegations his other exes have made about him. Ellen Barkin with him throwing a wine bottle. Jennifer Grey called him ‘crazy jealous and paranoid’ and has talked about him going out to seek out fights. … And he did $10k damage to that hotel room with Kate Moss in the room.”
31.And finally, “Drew Barrymore.”
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“She was chill in my books for a while, but the minute she crossed the picket line during the WGA and SAG-AFTRA strike, it was game over for me. Also, stop being so weirdly touchy with people, it comes off as fake.”
What “beloved” celebrity do you think is actually a bad person? Let us know in the comments.
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