"Honestly, That's The Most Pathetic Thing I've Ever Heard": 13 Times Celebs' Cheating Partners Publicly Apologized
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Most radical would astir apt hold that cheating is 1 of the biggest mistakes idiosyncratic tin marque successful a relationship. Cutting the idiosyncratic who betrayed you truthful severely retired of your beingness is achy enough, but sometimes, they garbage to marque a cleanable break, begging for forgiveness oregon for you to instrumentality them back.
Here are 13 times cheating celebs publically begged for forgiveness:
1.THE CHEATING: Before heading to the 2026 Olympics, Norwegian biathlete Sturla Holm Lægreid's six-month narration ended erstwhile helium informed his ex-girlfriend he'd been unfaithful.
THE CONFESSION: After winning the bronze medal astatine the men's 20km biathlon, helium told NRK (translated by the Guardian), "There is thing I privation to stock with idiosyncratic who whitethorn not beryllium watching today. Half a twelvemonth ago, I met the emotion of my life. The world's astir beauteous and nicest person. Three months ago, I made the biggest mistake of my beingness and cheated connected her, and I told her astir that a week ago. This has been the worst week of my life. I had the golden medal successful life, and I americium definite determination are galore radical who volition spot things differently, but I lone person eyes for her. Sport has travel 2nd these past fewer days. Yes, I privation I could stock this with her."
THE OUTCOME: However, his ex was having nary of it. In an anonymous interview, she told Norway's VG, "It's hard to forgive. Even aft a declaration of emotion successful beforehand of the full world. I did not take to beryllium enactment successful this position, and it hurts to person to beryllium successful it. We person had contact, and helium is alert of my opinions connected this." She besides gave her acknowledgment "to my household and friends who person embraced maine and supported maine during this time. Also to everyone other who has thought of maine and sympathized, without knowing who I am."
2.THE CHEATING: Cardi B and Offsetstarted dating successful aboriginal 2017 and said "I do" that September. They concisely broke up successful October erstwhile she mistakenly thought he'd taken her purple blanket, but astatine the extremity of the year, their narration took an adjacent bigger stroke — allegations that helium cheated connected her (which they some denied). Cardi addressed rumors of Offset's infidelity respective times passim 2018, and she besides gave commencement to their archetypal child. However, that December, Cardi officially announced their separation connected Instagram.
THE CONFESSION: On his day (Dec. 14), Offset attended the Rolling Loud Festival, wherever 21 Savage got the assemblage to chant, "Cardi, instrumentality Offset back!" Offset besides posted an apology video connected his societal media. He said, "I lone person 1 day wish, and that's to get my woman back. ... We're going done a batch of things close now, a batch of things successful the media. I privation to apologize to you, Cardi. I embarrassed you. I made you spell crazy. I was partaking successful enactment that I shouldn't person been partaking in, and I apologize. You cognize what I'm saying? For breaking your heart, for breaking our promise, for breaking God's promise, and being a selfish, messed-up husband. I'm trying to beryllium a amended person."
He besides crashed Cardi's headlining Rolling Loud set. He brought a floral statement that said, "TAKE ME BACK, CARDI," but some Offset and his flowers were taken disconnected the stage.
THE OUTCOME: In an Instagram video, Cardi addressed disapproval of Offset's expansive gesture. She said, "Violating my babe begetter is not going to marque maine consciousness immoderate better, due to the fact that astatine the extremity of the day, that's inactive family. I'm not saying that I'm gonna get backmost unneurotic with him. I conscionable don't similar that bashing online thing."
At the opening of 2019, they reconciled their relationship. She told Vogue, "When maine and my hubby got into our issues — you know, helium cheated and everything — and I decided to enactment with him and enactment unneurotic with him, a batch of radical were truthful huffy astatine me; a batch of women felt disappointed successful me. But it's real-life shit. If you emotion idiosyncratic and you halt being with them, and you're depressed and societal media is telling you not to speech to that idiosyncratic due to the fact that helium cheated, you're not truly blessed connected the wrong until you person the conversation. Then, if you get backmost with them, it's like, however could you? You fto each of america down. People that beryllium successful marriages for years, erstwhile they accidental till decease bash america part, they not talking astir small arguments, similar if you permission the fridge open. That's including everything."
3.THE CHEATING: Kristen Stewart and her Twilight costar Robert Pattinsonreportedly started dating successful 2009, 2 years aft they archetypal met successful the audition room. In 2012, photos emerged of Kristen kissing Snow White and the Huntsman manager Rupert Sanders, who was joined to Liberty Ross (who played Kristen's ma successful the movie!).
THE CONFESSION: Kristen confirmed they'd had a "fling," telling People, "I'm profoundly atrocious for the wounded and embarrassment I've caused to those adjacent to maine and everyone this has affected. This momentary indiscretion has jeopardized the astir important happening successful my life, the idiosyncratic I emotion and respect the most, Rob. I emotion him, I emotion him, I'm truthful sorry."
THE OUTCOME: Robert moved out of their shared location soon after, but the mates reconnected successful the fall. They rekindled their narration and stayed unneurotic until mid-2013.
4.THE CONFESSION PT. 2: Rupert Sanders besides issued a nationalist apology for cheating connected Liberty Ross. He told People, "I americium utterly distraught astir the symptom I person caused my family. My beauteous woman and heavenly children are each I person successful this world. I emotion them with each my heart. I americium praying that we tin get done this together."
THE OUTCOME: In the aftermath of the scandals, Liberty and the kids moved into a location belonging to her brother's person to support their privacy. In 2013, she told Vanity Fair, "I was capable to beryllium determination wholly secluded. I conscionable visualized [being] this benignant of Masai warrior. I was conscionable going to basal precise inactive and precise strong, and conscionable fto it each rotation past me. I tried to support arsenic acold distant from it arsenic I could and to recognize that this is my family, and it's the astir precious happening to me.... It was horrible. It was truly the worst, truly the worst... I conscionable didn't person immoderate much to give, you know?" In 2014, they divorced.
5.THE CHEATING: In 2023, Vanderpump Rules costars Tom Sandoval and Ariana Madix's nine-year narration came crashing down aft she allegedly recovered a intersexual video of Tom and their chap costar, Raquel Leviss, connected his telephone during his concert. She besides work their texts. At the time, a root told People, "This [affair] has been going connected for upwards of 6 months — each the while, Tom was sleeping adjacent to Ariana successful bed. She was wholly blindsided by this; devastated doesn't adjacent scratch the aboveground of however she feels." The ungraded blew up into a monolithic popular civilization infinitesimal dubbed "Scandoval."
THE CONFESSION: Initially, Tom responded to the backlash by asking fans not to boycott the edifice helium co-owns, arsenic his 3 partners and employees "did thing wrong." Then, a fewer days later, helium released a afloat apology connected Instagram, writing, "I privation to archetypal and foremost apologize to everyone I've wounded done this process. Most of all, I privation to apologize to Ariana. I made mistakes, I was selfish, and made reckless decisions that wounded idiosyncratic I love. No 1 deserves to consciousness that symptom truthful traumatically and publicly."
Raquel besides publically apologized. In a connection to Entertainment Tonight, she said, "I privation to apologize for my actions and my choices foremost to Ariana, and to my friends and the fans truthful invested successful our relationships. There is nary excuse, I americium not a victim, and I indispensable ain my actions, and I profoundly regret hurting Ariana."
THE OUTCOME: It seems reasonably harmless to accidental these 2 are never, ever getting backmost together. At the Season 10 reunion, Tom admitted that helium was "still successful love" with Raquel. Ariana told him, "Honestly, that's the astir pathetic happening I've ever heard. This is simply a joke."
6.THE CHEATING: Tristan Thompson and Khloé Kardashian's semipermanent on-and-off narration began successful 2016. They welcomed their archetypal kid successful 2018. Throughout their relationship, Tristan was astatine the halfway of aggregate cheating rumors, but 1 of the biggest allegations came successful 2021. He and Khloé reportedly divided successful June, but past successful December, his erstwhile idiosyncratic trainer, Maralee Nichols, alleged that helium was the begetter of her babe and sued him for kid support. It was aboriginal confirmed that, connected Tristan's day successful March — the precise time helium and Khloé debuted their rekindled romance successful nationalist — helium near the lavish enactment she threw him, flew to Texas, and had enactment with Maralee, resulting successful her pregnancy.
THE CONFESSION: After a paternity trial proved Tristan was the begetter of Maralee's child, helium released this connection connected his Instagram story: "I instrumentality afloat work for my actions. Now that a paternity trial has been established I look guardant to amicably raising our son. I sincerely apologize to everyone I’ve wounded oregon disappointed passim this ordeal some publically and privately. Khloé, you don't merit this. You don't merit the heartache and humiliation I person caused you. You don't merit the mode I person treated you implicit the years. My actions surely person not lined up with the mode I presumption you. I person the utmost respect and emotion for you. Regardless of what you whitethorn think. Again, I americium truthful incredibly sorry."
THE OUTCOME: Khloé and Tristan were secretly engaged the period earlier helium cheated, and they were reportedly inactive engaged until December 2021, erstwhile his paternity ungraded came to light. Khloé found out astir his matter done the tabloids. At the time, she and Tristan were already readying to person different kid unneurotic done surrogacy, and their surrogate's embryo transportation was done a fewer days earlier Khloé learned helium had different kid connected the way. Their lad was born successful 2022.
7.THE CHEATING: Adam Levine and Behati Prinsloo got joined successful 2014. In 2022, she announced that she was large with their 3rd child, but lone 4 days later, Instagram exemplary Sumner Stroh claimed that she and Adam had been "seeing each different for astir a year." In a since-deleted TikTok, she said, "I was having an matter with a antheral who's joined to a Victoria's Secret model. At the time, I was young, I was naive, and, I mean, rather frankly, I consciousness exploited. I wasn't successful 'the scene' similar I americium now, truthful I was decidedly precise easy manipulated." Sumner adjacent leaked respective of her and Adam's alleged DMs, which rapidly became a meme.
And successful the astir egregious message, helium allegedly asked if helium and Behati could sanction their caller babe aft her.
THE CONFESSION: On his Instagram story, Adam said, "A batch is being said astir maine close present and I privation to wide the air. I utilized mediocre judgement successful speaking with anyone different than my woman successful ANY benignant of flirtatious manner. I did not person an affair; nevertheless, I crossed the enactment during a regrettable play of my life. In definite instances it became inappropriate. I person addressed that and taken proactive steps to remedy this with my family. My woman and my household is each I attraction astir successful this world. To beryllium this naïve and anserine capable to hazard the lone happening that genuinely matters to maine was the top mistake I could ever make. I volition ne'er marque it again. I instrumentality afloat responsibility. We volition get done it. And we volition get done it together."
THE OUTCOME: At the time, a root told People, "Their absorption close present is conscionable connected being the champion parents possible. [Behati] is wounded and upset, but she is holding backmost due to the fact that of the kids. ... She isn't blessed with Adam, but she is precise overmuch astir being positive. She conscionable doesn't judge successful drama. Adam keeps being precise apologetic. He puts nary blasted connected her and admits that helium enjoyed the attention. He'll beryllium the archetypal 1 to accidental that helium acted similar a moron. They are moving connected their matrimony and program connected staying together."
8.THE CHEATING: Kevin Hart and Eniko Parrish got together successful 2009, past they got joined successful 2016. In 2017, erstwhile Eniko was expecting their archetypal kid together, Kevin was the people of an alleged extortion implicit a "sexually suggestive" video of him with different pistillate (though it was not a enactment tape). At the time, his reps told People, "Someone tried to acceptable Kevin up successful a failed extortion attempt. As instrumentality enforcement is involved, we cannot remark further arsenic it could impact the investigation."
THE CONFESSION: Kevin addressed the concern and released a nationalist apology to his family. In an Instagram video, helium said, "I'm astatine a spot successful my beingness wherever I consciousness similar I person a people connected my back. And due to the fact that of that, I should marque astute decisions. And recently, I didn't. You know, I'm not perfect. I'm not going to beryllium up present and accidental that I americium oregon assertion to beryllium successful immoderate way, shape, oregon form. And I made a atrocious mistake successful judgment, and I enactment myself successful a atrocious situation wherever lone atrocious things tin happen, and they did. And successful doing that, I cognize that I'm going to wounded the radical closest to me, who I've talked to and apologized to, being my woman and my kids."
The pistillate successful the video, Montia Sabbag, denied being the idiosyncratic down the extortion and claimed that they were recorded illegally. At a press conference, she said, "I was progressive with Kevin Hart a period ago. Since then, my pictures and my sanction person been released with lies written astir me. I americium not an extortionist. I americium not a stripper. I americium a signaling creator and an actress, and I person not breached immoderate laws."
THE OUTCOME: In Kevin's 2019 Netflix docuseries Don't F**k This Up, Eniko said, "How I recovered retired was a DM. I don't cognize who it was. They sent maine an edited video of Kevin, and you know, different woman. I was astir 7 oregon 8 months pregnant. I was having breakfast. I opened my phone, and immediately, I conscionable mislaid it. I called him. I'm crying. I'm, like, pissed. Right past and there, I kept saying, 'How the fuck did you fto that happen? Your full everything's connected Instagram. Everything's connected societal media.' It was an ongoing combat each the time. Every azygous day. I kept questioning him, like, 'If this is what you're gonna do, I don't privation to beryllium portion of that.'"
However, they stayed unneurotic and welcomed different kid successful 2020. She said, "I wasn't acceptable astatine the clip to conscionable springiness up connected my family. I wanted Kenzo to beryllium capable to cognize his dada and turn up. It was a batch for me, but we've gone done it, we passed it, and he's a amended antheral present due to the fact that of it."
9.THE CHEATING: Alfie costars Jude Law and Sienna Miller started dating successful 2003 and got engaged a twelvemonth later. However, successful 2005, his matter with Daisy Wright — his kids' nanny — became public. Daisy published her diary pages astir the affair. She claimed that, aft attending a performance with Jude and 1 of his kids, she and the histrion drank vino and talked for a agelong time. After she said goodnight, helium kissed her, which stretched into 10 minutes of kissing. She wrote, "The adjacent happening I know, we are dragging each different upstairs to his bedroom, kissing and then, successful the bedroom, ripping disconnected each other's clothes. We threw ourselves onto the elephantine furniture and ripped disconnected our remaining clothes. ... It was mind-blowing rampant sex."
THE CONFESSION: In a statement to the British Press Association, Jude said, "Following the reports successful today's papers, I conscionable privation to accidental I americium profoundly ashamed and upset that I've wounded Sienna and the radical astir adjacent to us. I privation to publically apologize to Sienna and our respective families for the symptom that I person caused. There is nary defence for my actions which I sincerely regret and I inquire that you respect our privateness astatine this precise hard time."
THE OUTCOME: Jude and Sienna broke up astatine the time, but they aboriginal reconciled. However, they called it quits for bully successful 2011. In 2014, she told Esquire UK, "I had to [reconcile with him due to the fact that the narration was] a immense portion of my beingness and his life, and it ended successful a mode that was awful. When thing ends successful a mode similar that, it's important if you can, successful a way, spell backmost and revisit it and either unopen that doorway oregon make a caller room. So it was a precise healthy, cathartic experience."
10.THE CHEATING: Trippie Redd and Skye Morales were unneurotic from 2021 to 2023. Their narration ended erstwhile helium cheated connected her.
THE CONFESSION: Posting a representation of Skye to his Instagram, Trippie Red said, "Just wanted to publically apologize to Skye bash not beryllium huffy astatine her I cheated she not person had the champion cognition with maine but she was the astir loyal spouse I ever had and I mislaid her. I conscionable privation u guys to beryllium amended than maine 💯 truthful if u find idiosyncratic that makes u consciousness peculiar deliberation earlier u bash wen ur huffy I volition ne'er forgive myself for this crap ever 💔 I'm atrocious Skye I don't adjacent privation u to forgive maine I conscionable privation u to cognize I recognize I consciousness it I'm a fucking idiot I committedness u nun of it was worthy wat I had wats done successful the acheronian ever comes to airy and yea I hatred myself fuck each the radical that person been waiting for this to hap I hatred u 💯not arsenic overmuch arsenic I hatred myself tho."
THE OUTCOME: Skye did not publically respond, but she shared this punctuation connected her Instagram story: "Never regret the emotion you gave anyone, adjacent if it wasn't reciprocated, emotion ever comes backmost afloat circle, that emotion volition travel backmost successful immoderate signifier oregon form. Keep putting emotion retired into the universe, origin it's coming backmost with interest." They are nary longer together.
11.THE CHEATING: Arnold Schwarzenegger and Maria Shriver tied the knot successful 1986. However, successful 2011, Maria filed for divorcement aft Arnold yet admitted that her suspicions were close — he'd had an matter with Mildred Baena, their longtime housekeeper, who gave commencement to his lad a fewer days aft Maria gave commencement to her and Arnold's 4th child. He didn't recognize the lad was his for astir 7 oregon 8 years, past helium hid the information from his household for different 5 oregon six years. Maria confronted her hubby astir her suspicions during matrimony counseling, and a fewer months later, their narration was over.
THE CONFESSION: In 2012, Arnold told 60 Minutes, "[It was] the stupidest happening I've done successful the full relationship... I inflicted tremendous symptom connected Maria and unbelievable symptom connected the kids."
THE OUTCOME: For chartless reasons, the divorcement took 10 years. In her 2025 memoir I Am Maria, Maria recalled the symptom of losing her matrimony soon aft some her parents died. She wrote, "Then came different devastating, life-altering blow: my twenty-five-year-long matrimony blew up. It broke my heart, it broke my spirit, it broke what was near of me. Without my marriage, my parents, a occupation — the dam of my lifelong capital-D Denial conscionable blew apart. Now, overmuch has been written astir the extremity of my marriage, and frankly I don't consciousness similar I request oregon privation to sermon it here, oregon anywhere."
12.THE CHEATING: Justin Timberlake and Jessica Biel got together astir 2007, concisely divided successful 2011, past got joined successful 2012. Then, successful 2019, footage of Justin holding hands with his Palmer costar Alisha Wainwright astatine a barroom went viral. He was reportedly not wearing his wedding ring. However, successful a connection to People, Alisha's reps said, "There is nary validity to this speculation. They are presently moving connected a task together. Members of the formed and unit were each together."
THE CONFESSION: A fewer days later, Justin addressed the concern connected Instagram, writing, "A fewer weeks ago, I displayed a beardown lapse successful judgement — but fto maine beryllium wide — thing happened betwixt maine and my costar. I drank mode excessively overmuch that nighttime and I regret my behavior. I should person known better. This is not the illustration I privation to acceptable for my son. I apologize to my astonishing woman and household for putting them done specified an embarrassing situation, and I americium focused connected being the champion hubby and begetter I tin be. This was not that. I americium incredibly arrogant to beryllium moving connected Palmer. Looking guardant to continuing to marque this movie and excited for radical to spot it."
THE OUTCOME: A root told People, "[Justin and Jessica will] enactment done this. It was bully that helium apologized publicly, but obviously, the existent enactment helium is doing is successful private, and hopefully, this was conscionable a atrocious drunken nighttime of this benignant of behavior." The mates remained together, welcoming their 2nd kid successful 2020.
13.And finally, THE CHEATING: Jay-Z and Beyoncé started dating successful 2001 past got joined successful 2008. He's faced cheating rumors implicit the years, and aft Beyoncé released Lemonade successful 2016, fans speculated that 1 lyric successful peculiar pointed to his alleged cheating. In "Sorry," she sings, "He lone privation maine erstwhile I'm not determination / He amended telephone Becky with the bully hair."
THE CONFESSION: Jay-Z seemingly addressed his alleged cheating connected his 2017 medium 4:44. For example, successful "Family Feud" — which Beyoncé co-wrote — helium raps, "I'll fuck up a bully happening if you fto maine / Let maine alone, Becky! / A antheral who don't instrumentality attraction of his household can't beryllium rich."
THE OUTCOME: Beyoncé and Jay-Z are inactive going strong! In 2018, they released a associated medium titled Everything Is Love. On the closing way "LOVEHAPPY," telling lyrics include, "He went to Jared, I went to Chaumet retired successful Paris / Yeah, you fucked up the archetypal stone, we had to get remarried" and "But emotion is deeper than your pain, and I judge you tin alteration / Baby, the ups and downs are worthy it / Long mode to go, but we're workin'."
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