"Let's Swap Wives": 11 Absolutely Wild — But Hand To God — Totally True Facts About Famous People

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1. If you're a shot fan, you apt cognize Fritz Peterson, the New York Yankees All-Star pitcher who holds the grounds for the lowest vocation E.R.A. (2.52) astatine the archetypal Yankee Stadium. But the REALLY memorable/shocking portion of Peterson's beingness happened disconnected the field. In 1969, the Yankees swung a commercialized for Dodgers' pitcher Mike Kevich, and helium and Peterson rapidly became accelerated friends. Their wives, Marilyn Peterson and Susan Kekich, besides became friends, and the couples (and their children) each began spending a batch of clip together. Eventually, things took a twist consecutive retired of a soap opera erstwhile Mike hinted astatine being attracted to Marilyn. The 2 men began discussing their wives, and discovered they were much attracted to the different man’s woman than their own. Soon the men were jokingly floating the thought of trading wives. And erstwhile their wives didn’t look wholly opposed, the thought went from “joking” to “Could we really bash this?”

Finally, successful the mediate of the 1972 season, the pitchers each packed a bag, near home, and moved successful with the different man's wife. "It was a hubby trade," Fritz aboriginal said. "Mike for me." This wasn't conscionable different shot trade, though. The men fundamentally swapped lives. Fritz, for example, not lone ended up surviving with a caller wife, but 2 caller kids (girls this time; helium and Marilyn had boys) and adjacent a caller canine (swapping a poodle for a Bedlington Terrier). The statement was that if immoderate of the 4 became unhappy, they would each instrumentality to their archetypal marriages. But erstwhile Mike and Marilyn's narration rapidly flamed out, Fritz and Susan had nary involvement successful returning to the mode things were. By Spring Training of the pursuing year, quality of the bizarre concern broke and the pitchers held a property conference. Now intelligibly resentful of each other, they tried to h2o down the ungraded by calling the concern a emotion communicative and thing dirty. It didn't work.

Perhaps due to the fact that of each the idiosyncratic play and media attention, some pitchers struggled mightily successful 1973. The Yankees, apt bushed of this weird-ass situation, traded Mike to Cleveland. They traded Fritz to Cleveland the pursuing twelvemonth too, but Mike was nary longer determination — helium was pitching successful Japan with his vocation connected its past legs. Fritz's vocation ended soon, too, aft the 1976 season. Fritz and Susan remained joined until Fritz's decease successful 2023. Mike aboriginal moved to New Mexico and joined again. In the 2010s, Matt Damon and Ben Affleck tried to marque a movie astir the saga, but it ne'er got retired of improvement hell.

2. Today you apt cognize Drew Barrymore arsenic the somewhat dorky mama carnivore who hosts The Drew Barrymore Show. She lived a VERY antithetic life, though, successful the '80s and '90s. After skyrocketing to fame arsenic the six-year-old co-star of the planetary blockbuster E.T., Barrymore was introduced to the Hollywood enactment country astatine a shockingly young age, including going to Studio 54 with her parent erstwhile she was inactive successful simple school. As she documented successful her autobiography astir that time, Little Girl Lost, she was already drinking intoxicant by property 9 and experimenting with drugs soon after. And by property 12? She was addicted to cocaine. By 13, her beingness had spiraled capable that she entered rehab. Thankfully, Barrymore was capable to get her beingness backmost connected track, and adjacent made a triumphant instrumentality to acting...but successful a relation that volition marque radical successful 2026 precise uneasy.

In 1992, a 16-year-old Barrymore was formed successful the erotic thriller Poison Ivy wherever she played a teen who seduces her champion friend's dada and tries to destruct his life. Not agelong aft the movie came out, Barrymore said the movie transformed however the manufacture saw her. “Once radical started seeing a small spot of footage, [my agent] J.J. got each these calls, like, ‘We’ve got this relation for Drew arsenic a Lolita-esque nymphet.’ And radical were coming up to maine connected the set, going, ‘How does it consciousness to beryllium a enactment symbol?’ I was like, ‘Me?!’” In a bittersweet lawsuit of past repeating itself, the amusement manufacture had again thrust her into a acold much big beingness than she should person had.

3. Ferris Bueller's Day Off prima Matthew Broderick was down the instrumentality of a car that crashed into an oncoming car, sidesplitting 2 people. It happened connected August 5, 1987, erstwhile Broderick and his woman Jennifer Grey (just weeks earlier the merchandise of her classical movie Dirty Dancing) were vacationing successful Ireland. Broderick was driving a rental car erstwhile helium drove into the incorrect lane and collided with a car driven by Margaret Doherty, 63, and her girl Anna Gallagher, 28. Both women were killed, portion Broderick was unconscious and severely injured, leaving Grey to initially judge she was the lone subsister of the accident. Upon coming to, Broderick had amnesia and didn't retrieve the full time of the accident, saying, "I don't retrieve adjacent getting up successful the morning. I don't retrieve making my bed. What I archetypal retrieve is waking up successful the hospital."

Broderick ended up spending a period successful the hospital, recovering. Years later, Grey would call Broderick a "great driver" and stress that "nobody was drinking. It was conscionable an accident. And it was tragic." Still, authorities initially considered charging Broderick with "Dangerous driving causing death." They alternatively charged him with "careless driving." He pleaded blameworthy and paid a $175 fine, which the victim's household called a "travesty of justice." In 2002, Broderick said, "It was highly hard coming to grips with what happened, but successful time, I felt amended astir that unspeakable experience. Therapy helped."

4. It was nary concealed that Tallulah Bankhead — a signifier and surface prima celebrated for her show successful Alfred Hitchcock’s Lifeboat — was, uh, sexually adventurous. She adjacent described herself arsenic being “as axenic arsenic the driven slush.” But portion performing connected London’s West End successful 1928, she became the halfway of rumors that were shocking adjacent for her: that the 26-year-old Bankhead was gathering Eton schoolboys astatine a adjacent edifice for clandestine trysts. She was adjacent said to person sneaked 1 lad retired of the schoolhouse successful her car, hidden nether a rug. Supposedly, erstwhile the headmaster got upwind of it, helium expelled six boys — including the lad of a Lord.

This ungraded successful the making ne'er roseate beyond the susurration stage, but successful 2000, the UK's nationalist grounds bureau released confidential files that confirmed it really happened. According to the MI5, the UK's home quality agency, Bankhead was "an highly immoral woman" and had "indecent and unnatural practices" with the Eton schoolboys.

5. Woody Harrelson's dada Charles had a agelong vocation arsenic a convulsive thief and hitman. He was linked to dozens of murders, and mostly utilized a sniper firearm alternatively of a handgun. At his past trial, the authoritative said, “Charles Harrelson damaged everyone helium came successful interaction with." At antithetic times successful his life, Harrelson adjacent claimed work for assassinating President John F. Kennedy, saying helium was 1 of "three tramps" connected the grassy knoll adjacent to the Kennedy cavalcade (men photographed the time of the assassination that conspiracy theorists person agelong believed whitethorn really beryllium liable for the killing). Harrelson besides said that the presumed assassin Lee Harvey Oswald was excessively acold distant to marque the changeable (something Harrelson, who knew his mode astir a sniper rifle, had antithetic penetration into).

Woody — who got his large interruption connected the deed '80s sitcom Cheers — didn't spot overmuch of his begetter increasing up arsenic helium was lone 7 erstwhile his begetter was convicted of his archetypal murder. But helium developed a narration with him aboriginal successful life, visiting him successful jail. Woody told People magazine, "This mightiness dependable unusual to accidental astir a convicted felon, but my begetter is 1 of the astir articulate, well-read, charming radical I've ever known. Still, I'm conscionable present gauging whether helium merits my loyalty oregon friendship. I look astatine him arsenic idiosyncratic who could beryllium a person much than idiosyncratic who was a father."

6. Julianne Moore is an Academy Award–winning histrion — but tin you judge she was fired from a movie conscionable six days earlier filming was scheduled to start? It's true. Can You Ever Forgive Me? was acceptable to prima Moore and beryllium directed by Nicole Holofcener, but the manager didn't similar what Moore was doing with the part. Moore told Andy Cohen, “I didn’t permission that movie, I was fired. Yeah, yeah, Nicole fired me. So yeah, that’s the truth. I deliberation she didn’t similar what I was doing. I deliberation that her thought of wherever the quality was was antithetic than my thought of wherever the quality was, and truthful she fired me.” She went connected to accidental she hasn't seen the movie "because it's inactive benignant of painful," past summed the concern up with: “It’s beauteous bad. The lone different clip I was fired was erstwhile I was moving astatine a yogurt basal erstwhile I was 15. So yeah, it felt bad."

Moore's relation yet went to Melissa McCarthy, who, adding insult to wounded for Moore, earned an Academy Award information for her work. In the end, Holofcener didn't extremity up directing the movie either. She was replaced by Marielle Heller.

7. Barbara Newhall Follett roseate to fame successful the 1920s arsenic a penning prodigy. She wrote poesy astatine property 4 and successful 1927, astatine conscionable 12, she published her archetypal book, The House Without Windows, to captious acclaim (The Saturday Review of Literature called the publication “almost unbearably beautiful”). Her adjacent caller came retired 2 years aboriginal to much captious acclaim. But fame faded, her begetter (and champion) near the family, and her beingness dilatory unraveled.

Then — successful 1939 — a 25-year-old Barbara, aft a combat with her hubby (whom she suspected of an affair), walked retired of their flat with the equivalent of conscionable nether $700 successful today's dollars. She near nary note. No trace. Her hubby didn’t study her missing for 2 weeks. She was ne'er seen again.

8. LL Cool J and Jamie Foxx had specified a monolithic combat connected the acceptable of Oliver Stone's 1999 shot play Any Given Sunday that the constabulary were called. LL and Foxx were filming a country wherever their shot subordinate characters were arguing connected the sidelines adjacent to their coach, played by Al Pacino. The scripted statement turned existent erstwhile Foxx slapped LL, and the legendary Pacino tried successful vain to interruption up the fight.

Cinematographer Sal Totino recounted that LL threw a "fucking monolithic punch that hits Jamie successful the face. Jamie goes backmost and hits the propulsion barroom connected the techno-crane. I thought helium snapped his neck. Jamie pops up, full-blown combat going on. Punches are flying everywhere." Things got truthful atrocious that Foxx called the police, though nary charges were pressed. LL and Foxx get on amended contiguous — that's them successful the photograph supra singing unneurotic astatine a 2015 tribute performance to Stevie Wonder.

9. Unless you are of a definite age, you volition beryllium shocked to larn astir the chaotic rumor that dispersed astir the 1987 blockbuster drama Three Men and a Baby starring Ted Danson, Tom Selleck, and Steve Guttenberg. The rumor — which was repeated beside h2o coolers, connected schoolhouse playgrounds, and everyplace successful betwixt — was that that the movie had been filmed astatine a location that was haunted by a lad who died determination years before. And erstwhile you look astatine the frost framework beneath of the film, it's hard to not hold thing is up.

"How?" you ask, did a fluffy small movie astir dudes taking attraction of a babe go the halfway of a chilling rumor? Well, the reply is not rather arsenic exciting. As RogerEbert.com pointed out, nary lad died successful the location due to the fact that the country wasn't filmed successful a home...it was filmed astatine a Toronto soundstage. But what astir the lad successful the window? If helium wasn't a ghost, what was he? Well, it turns retired it was a cardboard cutout of Ted Danson's histrion character, Jack. In fact, the cutout tin beryllium seen aboriginal successful the film. Most likely, the cutout was placed successful the window, and nary 1 thought to determination it earlier they filmed this scene. Nowadays, it would person been removed with CGI, but they didn't person that enactment backmost successful 1987!

10. It's 2026, truthful I'm not going to unreal you cognize this celeb, but everything astir her communicative is shocking. In the 1920s, daredevil Gladys Roy played a full-on tennis lucifer against stuntman Ivan Unger connected apical of a flying level 3,000 feet successful the air. And no, they weren't wearing parachutes. “Why?” you’re astir apt asking. Or adjacent “WTF?!” Fair questions. But backmost past daredevils were celebrities, astir apt due to the fact that planes were inactive new, terrifying, and glamorous, truthful doing anything connected apical of 1 — fto unsocial thing arsenic goofy arsenic tennis — captured the public’s imagination. As crowds got harder to impress, though, Roy was forced to up the ante: She danced the Charleston mid-flight, walked blindfolded crossed the wings, and adjacent posed connected the process portion the level nosedived.

It won't astonishment you that she died astatine conscionable 31 successful a level accident. What volition astonishment you is however it happened — she was taking portion successful a photograph sprout connected the crushed erstwhile she accidentally walked into a spinning craft propeller and was killed instantly. Playing tennis/walking blindfolded connected a level 3,000 feet up? No problem. Avoiding a spinning propeller connected the ground? Hard, I guess. Still, contempt the tragic end, Roy remains 1 of the astir badass radical of each time.

11. And lastly: Beethoven continued to constitute euphony adjacent aft becoming completely deaf astatine property 40 (16 years earlier his death). Despite being deaf, helium inactive managed to constitute 1 of his astir celebrated symphonies — "Symphony No. 9," aka The Ninth. It goes without saying that it is beauteous damn impressive!

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