From Political Backlash To Industry Blacklisting, These 19 Stars Unfairly Had Their Careers Ruined And They Are Still Recovering From It

Sometimes celebrities vessel their ain careers done their ain choices, and erstwhile that happens, the fallout makes sense. But, of course, not each nationalist downfall is that simple. Over the years, immoderate stars person watched their reputations spiral due to the fact that of rumors, media frenzies, atrocious timing, oregon narratives that took connected a beingness of their own. In a fewer cases, the backlash stuck truthful hard that their careers ne'er afloat bounced back.

Recently, redditor Zxqao was funny astir celebrated radical who person faced that second erstwhile they asked: "What personage has had their estimation unfairly ruined and has ne'er recovered from it till this day?"

Unsurprisingly, tons of radical had opinions connected this, and the thread got implicit 7K replies. Below are the apical and astir often repeated celebrities that commentators thought got their reputations unfairly ruined:

1. "Cliff Robertson (Uncle Ben successful the Sam Raimi Spider-Man). He uncovered that David Begelman was embezzling wealth from actors moving astatine Columbia Pictures. He was blacklisted for decades."

2. "Topher Grace had a atrocious estimation for being hard and aloof connected That '70s Show. Turns retired helium was the lone 1 who wasn't a trash human."

3. "I ne'er understood wherefore Rosanna Arquette didn’t go a bigger star. She was everyplace successful the '80s and '90s, was beautiful, a large actress, and had the Arquette sanction connected apical of it all. Then, erstwhile the MeToo question happened, she came guardant astir however Harvey Weinstein blacklisted her aft she refused to comply with his disgusting ‘advances’. Then it each made sense. He ruined her estimation successful Hollywood, and it precise overmuch unfairly impacted her career. I’m gladsome to spot her doing much acting these days, but I don’t deliberation she ever afloat recovered from that."

4. "Eartha Kitt was blacklisted for years for criticizing the Vietnam War and the Johnson medication astatine the White House. She did marque a comeback years later, but she had to prosecute a vocation successful Europe, I think, portion the authorities kept surveillance connected her."

5. "Mira Sorvino was blacklisted aft a smear run by Harvey Weinstein erstwhile she refused to slumber with him. Her vocation was ne'er capable to retrieve from it."

6. "Ashley Judd, successful particular, was blocked from receiving a relation successful The Lord of the Rings by Weinstein. Peter Jackson said that he'd been considering Judd for a role, but Weinstein intervened and told him that she was 'a nightmare to enactment with.' Being naive astir Hollywood, Jackson believed him, and lone realized what happened years later, aft each the accusations came out."

7. "Definitely Brendan Fraser. He was blacklisted by Hollywood bigwigs for accusing the president of the HFPA of SA successful 2003. It wasn't until The Whale (2022) that the tide turned, and helium was recognized for his enactment and for having been victimized twice."

8. "A batch of radical inactive judge Macaulay Culkin was a idiosyncratic addicted to drugs who was connected the verge of decease successful his teens and twenties...but helium says helium ne'er really had a problem and immoderate cause usage was regular recreational usage (like immoderate different teenager.) It was conscionable tabloids creating a communicative based connected pictures of him looking skinny and disheveled. He's been successful the nationalist oculus much lately, and you ever spot comments astir however it's 'great to spot him steadfast and sober.' It is large to spot him showing up successful movies and TV again, but that doesn't mean helium was ever really a cause addict."

9. "Pee-wee Herman (Paul Reubens). I’m gladsome helium was backmost connected way earlier helium passed. He truly was a agleam spot connected Saturday mornings."

10. "Katherine Heigl got a estimation for being hard due to the fact that she talked astir 17-hour enactment days connected acceptable and called 1 of her movies 'a small sexist,' truthful basically, she told the truth."

11. "Chingy. Way earlier societal media took off, a representation of him with a trans pistillate deed the blogs. Transphobia was immense successful the Black assemblage then. He did not cognize she was trans, and they desecrated him. She yet came retired and said Chingy didn't cognize her, but harm was done."

12. "The Chicks were politically canceled agelong earlier that became the word for it, and ne'er afloat recovered."

13. "Janet Jackson had her apparel ripped disconnected of her connected unrecorded TV, and she was the lone 1 to get immoderate backlash from the incident, truthful overmuch that it fundamentally sunk her full vocation aft that. I inactive don't cognize however Justin Timberlake ne'er got immoderate vigor for that move."

14. "Ashlee Simpson. One tiny infinitesimal wholly destroyed her career, and she was ne'er capable to recover. Even now, erstwhile you perceive her name, you deliberation of that blunder."

15. "I cognize she's beauteous overmuch recovered career-wise, but for a while, Winona Ryder. Blacklisted for years for fucking shoplifting? Ridiculous. Love her, and whilst I wasn't a large instrumentality of Stranger Things, I thought she was great, and I was blessed to spot her acting again."

16. "Colin Kaepernick. Was warring radical injustice, and look what’s going connected successful the USA close now. The feline was up of his time."

17. "Sinéad O'Connor for ripping up a representation of the Pope. This was earlier the satellite knew each astir the pedophilic priests and the Indigenous children's schoolhouse burial grounds."

18. "Dudley Moore was portrayed arsenic being a drunk successful his past years owed to an MS-like unwellness that wasn’t truly made nationalist until aft helium had passed."

19. And lastly, "Britney Spears. It’s chaotic however otherwise her communicative is viewed present compared to however it was framed astatine the clip — feels similar a lawsuit survey successful media narratives."

You tin work the archetypal thread connected Reddit.

Note: Some responses person been edited for magnitude and/or clarity.