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A portion back, we asked members of the BuzzFeed Community to archer america astir the astir absorbing personage Wikipedia leafage they cognize of. And past much radical responded successful the comments. Here are everyone's funny, upsetting, and genuinely shocking responses:
BTW, this should astir apt spell without saying, but due to the fact that this accusation each comes from Wikipedia, instrumentality it with a atom of salt, ya know?
1. "Mara Wilson ('90s kid histrion from Matilda and Mrs. Doubtfire) and Ben Shapiro (conservative commentator) are archetypal cousins. That damn adjacent broke my encephalon erstwhile I archetypal recovered out. Although, they are estranged."
2. "Eddie Vedder (bless his gorgeous heart) grew up reasoning the antheral his parent was joined to was his dad, but helium wasn't. His parent lied and lone told him the information erstwhile helium was astir 13. The bittersweet portion was that his existent dada had died by then. His existent dad, whom Eddie had been introduced to a fewer times arsenic a household friend, had already died of MS a mates of years before. His stepdad abused him, truthful helium moved retired astatine 15 and lived alone, struggling astatine schoolhouse due to the fact that helium was paying bills by moving astatine a cause store astatine night. Inspired a cardinal Pearl Jam songs, including Alive."
3. "This isn't 'shocking' truthful overmuch arsenic it is wonderfully wholesome, but the communicative of however Alan Alda met his wife. A barroom fell connected the level astatine a wedding, and they were the lone 2 guests that ate it. They've been joined for implicit 68 years!"
4. "Anne Heche's full beingness was filled with trauma, from opening to end. Her begetter died of AIDS, she was estranged from her openly-homophobic Christian mom, and 3 of her 4 siblings died earlier she was 40 (including 1 babe decease and an evident suicide). After her high-profile narration and breakup with Ellen DeGeneres, agents were hesitant to formed her. She yet had a meltdown astatine a California ranch successful 2000 and created a phantasy 'Fourth Dimension' world. And then, the leafage talks astir her fatal car clang and however it was implicit chaos."
5. "Mark Ruffalo's member was recovered extracurricular his location with a gunshot coiled to the head. The lawsuit remains unsolved."
6. "Matthew McConaughey's dada died portion having enactment with his mother, Mary Kathleen 'Kay' McConaughey."
7. "Woody Harrelson. I perfectly LOVE Woody Harrelson, but ideate my utter daze erstwhile I discovered his father, Charles, was a bona fide hitman who assassinated a national judge. His dada besides seemingly claimed that helium was the 1 who changeable JFK, but apparently, that was said to stall his apprehension 💀. Oddly enough, this makes maine emotion Woody Harrelson adjacent more??? Like, however could you not person a consciousness of wit aft having a begetter similar that?"
8. Charlize Theron's parent killed Charlize's begetter successful self-defense erstwhile she was a teenager."
9. "Sam Cooke. After helium was killed, his protégée, Bobby Womack, showed up to the ceremonial wearing Cooke’s suit. Three months later, helium joined Cooke’s wife, Barbara. He aboriginal released a opus astir sleeping with his friend’s wife. They ended up divorcing aft Barbara caught Womack successful furniture with her and Cooke’s 17-year-old daughter, Linda. Barbara fired a weapon astatine his head, but it lone grazed him. Linda aboriginal joined Womack’s brother, Cecil, and they had respective children together."
10. "Ryan Gosling. This isn't the lone portion that was good, but it is the precise champion part: 'He "hated" being a child, was bullied successful simple school, and had nary friends until helium was 14 oregon 15.' In people one, having been heavy influenced by the enactment movie First Blood, helium took steak knives to schoolhouse and threw them astatine different children during recess. This incidental led to a suspension."
11. "Dennis Rodman, for sure. Dude has thing similar 30 siblings? And let's not hide his journeys to North Korea."
12. "Elizabeth Taylor. If I callback correctly, a batch of Elizabeth Taylor’s husbands/boyfriends had the aforesaid age, from her aboriginal 20s to her 60s; she conscionable loved men astatine a definite age."
13. "Rod Stewart and the illustration of each of his relationships, with sections similar if helium joined them, however agelong they were together, and however galore kids they had."
14. "Dexter Holland. The Wikipedia leafage for the pb vocalist of The Offspring is wild. I privation idiosyncratic would constitute an end-of-the-world movie starring Dexter Holland arsenic the astonishing microbiologist, stone star, pilot, blistery sauce-making, surfing, stamp collector that helium is."
15. "Jerry Lee Lewis's leafage is simply a beauteous agelong work and casually mentions helium could beryllium perchance liable for 1 of his wives' deaths. He besides joined his 13-year-old relative (when helium was 22)."
16. "Frank Lloyd Wright — does helium number arsenic a celebrity? Because his beingness was wild. He near his wife, Catherine, and a clump of kids and started dating his neighbor's wife, Mamah Borthwick Cheney. Then, she was virtually ax-murdered!!"
17. "Courtney Love, hands down. Her beingness started retired with her dada (who was the circuit manager for the Grateful Dead) dosing her with acerb arsenic a toddler. By the clip she was 20, she had: moved to New Zealand, got kicked retired of boarding school, moved backmost to the states, and became legally emancipated astatine property 16. She was a topless dancer successful Japan, Taiwan, and Hong Kong, lived successful London with a subordinate of Echo & the Bunnymen, concisely became the vocalist of Faith No More, and cleaned vintage costumes for Paramount Pictures. That's not adjacent fractional of it! An perfectly unhinged biography."
18. "Kelsey Grammer had a precise unfortunate commencement to life. Most of his household died young oregon were murdered."
19. "Tammi Terrell. Her 'Personal Life' and 'Death' sections volition marque you further revere her duet spouse Marvin Gaye portion providing terrifying portraits of James Brown (who abused her successful a relationship, and erstwhile she was conscionable 17) and David Ruffin (who projected to her portion helium was already married)."
20. "Jack Nicholson grew up reasoning that his parent was his older sister. She had him arsenic a teenager, and his grandparents pretended that they were his existent commencement parents. He recovered retired arsenic an big erstwhile a researcher from Time mag told him."
21. "David Bowie and his archetypal woman were precocious to their wedding due to the fact that they were having a threesome."
Note: Some submissions person been edited for magnitude and/or clarity.
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