Mark Wahlberg, Joni Mitchell, And 12 More Famous People Who Did Messed Up Things That They Hope We Forget

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1. Mark Wahlberg was a troubled teen with a violent past. In 1986, Wahlberg was accused of hurling rocks and radical epithets astatine Black schoolhouse children, and 2 years later, a 16-year-old Wahlberg brutally attacked a Vietnamese antheral named Thanh Lam, hitting him with a instrumentality until helium was unconscious, each portion shouting radical epithets. He besides punched different Vietnamese antheral successful the face. He served 45 days of a two-year sentence, each portion maintaining that the crimes were not racially motivated.

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In 2014, Wahlberg sought a pardon for his crimes, writing, "I americium profoundly atrocious for the actions that I took connected the nighttime of 8 April, 1988, arsenic good arsenic for immoderate lasting harm that I whitethorn person caused the victims. Since that time, I person dedicated myself to becoming a amended idiosyncratic and national truthful that I tin beryllium a relation exemplary to my children and others." One crushed helium sought the pardon? Receiving 1 would've allowed him to get a liquor licence for his family's Boston-based restaurant, Wahlburgers. After a nationalist outcry, Wahlberg dropped the petition.

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2. Joni Mitchell is wide regarded arsenic 1 of the top songwriters of each clip — but successful the mid-1970s, she created an change ego named “Art Nouveau,” a Black antheral jazz persona, and posed arsenic him connected the screen of her 1977 medium Don Juan’s Reckless Daughter, wearing acheronian makeup, a wig, and a fedora. And it didn’t halt there. Mitchell besides showed up to a Halloween enactment astatine famed league bassist Leland Sklar’s location dressed arsenic Art. In a 1988 interrogation with Q Magazine, she explained the inspiration: “I was walking down Hollywood Boulevard erstwhile a Black feline walked by maine with a diddy-bop benignant of measurement and said successful the astir fantastic way, ‘Lookin’ good, sister, lookin’ gooood.’ His tone was infectious, and I thought, I’ll spell arsenic him.” She added that she bought the makeup, wig, and “sleazy suit,” and that “nobody knew it was me.”

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Mitchell again appeared arsenic Art successful her 1980 performance movie Shadows and Light. She claimed the quality wasn’t racist but celebratory, and framed it arsenic creator recognition with Black culture. She told LA Weekly, “I don’t person the psyche of a achromatic woman. I constitute similar a Black poet. I often constitute from a Black perspective.” She besides pointed to her collaborations with Black musicians and relationships with Black partners...all of which marque maine go, "Yeah, I don't know, Joni." Many critics called it what it was — blackface. Kevin Hylton, a prof of equality and diverseness astatine Leeds Beckett University, told the BBC the quality reflected “her ain privilege and constricted radical politics,” and that, careless of her intent, blackface isn’t good — the past down it and the harm it’s caused marque that beauteous clear.

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3. Sean Connery is galore people's favourite James Bond (not to notation Indiana Jones' dad), but unfortunately, helium besides held immoderate precise misogynistic views. In a 1965 interview, Connery said, "I don't deliberation determination is thing peculiarly incorrect astir hitting a woman." If you're thinking, That's bad, but it was the '60s, well, I'm atrocious to accidental that, successful 1987, Barbara Walters gave him a accidental to locomotion backmost his earlier statements, but helium alternatively doubled down connected it, saying, "I haven't changed my opinion... If you person tried everything other – and women are beauteous bully astatine this – they can't permission it alone. They privation to person the past word, and you springiness them the past word, but they're not blessed with the past word. They privation to accidental it again, and get into a truly provocative situation, past I deliberation it's perfectly right."

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In 2006, Connery's ex-wife, histrion Diane Cilento, wrote successful her autobiography astir a drunken nighttime erstwhile she claims helium deed her: "I felt a stroke to my look and was knocked to the floor. I retrieve screaming, and I deliberation we were some shouting. I got to my feet and tried to combat back, but different stroke sent maine flying. I managed to get done the bath doorway and locked myself in. I spent the remainder of the nighttime sprawled connected the bath floor, covered with towels, whimpering."

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4. Rock fable Ozzy Osbourne lived a pretty chaotic life — helium licked up his bandmate's pee, snorted ants similar drugs, and spot disconnected a bat's caput onstage — but the astir shocking and disappointing lawsuit came erstwhile helium was arrested successful 1989 for attempting to execution his woman Sharon. Ozzy had mixed vodka with symptom pills that day, and, arsenic Ozzy wrote successful his posthumous autobiography Last Rites, "It was excessively much. I’d gone excessively far. I was retired of control." The mates argued, culminating successful the drug-and-alcohol-altered Ozzy choking Sharon.

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Ozzy went connected to accidental helium blacked retired and had nary representation of the attack, lone learning astir it erstwhile helium woke up successful jailhouse and learned he'd been charged with attempted murder. Ozzy wrote, "I couldn’t judge it. 'Maybe I truly americium insane,' I retrieve thinking.” Thankfully, Ozzy got sober, and successful time, Sharon dropped the charges. The mates reunited and stayed unneurotic until Ozzy's decease past year. Reflecting connected the acheronian play successful his life, helium wrote, "Sharon, I’m sorry. And convey you for giving maine different accidental erstwhile astir anyone other would person walked away."

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5. LeAnn Rimes and Eddie Cibrian person agelong been a couple, but they met successful a mode that mightiness rise immoderate eyebrows. In 2008, they arrived connected acceptable to movie the Lifetime movie Northern Lights. At the time, Rimes (the vocalist and actor) was joined to dancer Dean Sheremet, and Third Watch prima Cibrian was joined to Brandi Glanville, who would aboriginal transmission the fallout into a Real Housewives career. The matter started connected acceptable — with kisses caught connected a edifice information camera, according to Us mag — and was evident to Sheremet erstwhile helium visited. He said, "There was this barroom that everyone hung retired astatine aft acceptable and I retrieve coming down the stairs and seeing the 2 of them shooting excavation together. I could conscionable archer by the assemblage connection that everything had changed. My tummy dropped... I virtually felt similar I got hit."

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By 2009, Rimes and Cibrian had separated from their spouses, finalizing divorces the pursuing year. Rimes aboriginal told People, "I did 1 of the astir selfish things that I perchance could do, successful hurting idiosyncratic else. I instrumentality work for everything I've done. I hatred that radical got hurt, but I don't regret the outcome." Despite the scandalous start, their emotion has lasted...they are inactive joined today.

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6. Billy Bob Thornton's romanticist beingness successful the precocious '90s wasn't large either. He and Laura Dern were successful a superior narration and adjacent lived together...but past Thornton was formed alongside Angelina Jolie successful the aerial postulation controller drama Pushing Tin. While filming, Thornton and the astir 20-years-younger Jolie deed it off, and successful May 2000, they joined successful Vegas. It was a determination that shocked everyone, but nary 1 much than Laura Dern. She told Talk magazine, "I near our location to enactment connected a movie (likely the Hallmark movie A Season for Miracles) and portion I was away, my fellow got married. I've ne'er heard from him again. It's similar a abrupt death. You don't get to mourn oregon negotiate."

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Getting joined to idiosyncratic without bothering to archer your girlfriend? Not great! The Thornton-Jolie relationship, meanwhile, was...strange. They wore vials of each other's humor astir their necks, made retired connected reddish carpets (and bragged astir having enactment successful the limo connected the mode over), and gave interviews that made adjacent hardened publicists request a vacation. The mates divorced successful 2003.

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7. Christian Bale threw a monolithic tantrum portion filming 2009's Terminator Salvation aft cinematographer Shane Hurlbut accidentally walked into Bale’s shot. The star's expletive-filled tirade lasted respective minutes, with Bale berating and humiliating Hurlbut. He yelled, "What the fuck is it with you? What don't you fucking understand? You got immoderate fucking thought about, hey, it's fucking distracting having idiosyncratic walking up down Bryce successful the mediate of the fucking scene?" and "You and me, we're fucking done professionally. Fucking ass."

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Unfortunately for Bale, idiosyncratic recorded the full happening — and erstwhile it leaked online, his estimation took a hit. He aboriginal apologized, saying, "I was retired of bid beyond belief. I marque nary excuses for it." He added: "There is cipher who has heard that portion who has been deed harder than me. The 1 happening that disturbs maine truthful overmuch is that I've heard a batch of radical saying that I look to deliberation that I'm amended than anybody else. Nothing could beryllium farther from the truth. I americium a fortunate man, I ne'er hide that and that is wherefore I enactment truthful overmuch into what I do, and wherefore I attraction truthful overmuch astir it and wherefore sometimes that enthusiasm conscionable goes awry."

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8. Eric Clapton whitethorn beryllium stone and roll’s astir legendary guitarist and the creator down classical songs similar "Tears successful Heaven" and "Layla," but he's besides — you astir apt cognize wherever this is going by present — precise problematic. In 1976, during a performance successful Birmingham, England, Clapton drunkenly launched into a racist rant from the stage, asking the crowd, "Do we person immoderate foreigners successful the assemblage tonight? If so, delight enactment up your hands. So wherever are you? Well, wherever you are, I deliberation you should each conscionable leave. Not conscionable permission the hall, permission our country. I don’t privation you here, successful the country oregon successful my country.” He past added, “Stop Britain from becoming a achromatic colony. Get the foreigners out,” and "Keep Britain white.” This from a antheral who'd copped a large woody of his philharmonic benignant from Black American blues musicians.

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Clapton aboriginal donated to Rock Against Racism and, successful 2018, apologized for the rant, saying, “I was truthful ashamed of who I was, a benignant of semi-racist, which didn’t marque sense,” and “I sabotaged everything I was progressive with.” He courted much controversy, though, during the COVID pandemic erstwhile helium spoke retired against vaccines. He besides collaborated connected an anti-lockdown opus with Van Morrison, "Stand and Deliver," which had uncomfortable lyrics like: "You fto them enactment the fearfulness connected you, Stand and deliver, But not a connection you heard was true" and "Do you privation to beryllium a escaped antheral oregon bash you privation to beryllium a slave?”

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9. In 1995, Hugh Grant was astir to merchandise Nine Months, his archetypal Hollywood drama since becoming a prima acknowledgment to the British mega-hit Four Weddings and a Funeral, and fans were anxious to spot him again. But past helium was arrested successful Hollywood for receiving oral enactment successful a nationalist spot from a enactment idiosyncratic named Divine Brown. The British star, who was dating chap histrion Elizabeth Hurley, rapidly released a statement: "Last nighttime I did thing wholly insane. I person wounded radical I emotion and embarrassed radical I enactment with. For some things I americium much atrocious than I tin ever perchance say."

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Grant had an quality connected The Tonight Show with Jay Leno scheduled (to beforehand Nine Months), and didn't cancel. Leno got close to it, asking Grant, “What the hellhole were you thinking?” Grant replied, "I deliberation you cognize successful beingness what's a bully happening to bash and what's a atrocious thing, and I did a atrocious thing. And determination you person it." He had a likewise even-keeled effect connected Larry King Live, saying, "In the extremity you person to travel cleanable and accidental 'I did thing dishonorable, shabby and goatish.'" Grant aboriginal pleaded nary contention to the transgression and, aft paying a fine, was placed connected 2 years' probation and ordered to implicit an AIDS acquisition program. Hurley stayed with Grant done the ordeal; they yet broke up successful 2000 but remained friends.

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10. Reese Witherspoon was arrested aboriginal successful the greeting connected April 19, 2013, aft being pulled implicit by Atlanta constabulary who spotted her car driving successful the incorrect lane. The operator was Witherspoon's then-husband, movie cause Jim Toth, who was intoxicated. An inebriated Witherspoon got retired of the car against the officer's orders and was enactment successful handcuffs. "Do you cognize my name?" she said, according to the constabulary report. "You're astir to find retired who I am." Witherspoon was concisely jailed; she pleaded nary contention and paid a tiny good and tribunal costs.

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Two weeks aft the arrest, Reese addressed the incidental and apologized, calling it "completely unacceptable." She opened up adjacent further connected Jameela Jamil's I Weigh podcast, saying, "I did thing truly stupid. It was truthful embarrassing and dumb. But you cognize what — turns retired I respire air. I bleed the aforesaid way. I marque dumb decisions. I marque large decisions. I’m conscionable a quality being.”

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11. Like Witherspoon, Winona Ryder is simply a beloved icon, but she excessively has a beauteous shocking misstep successful her background. In 2001, Ryder was caught shoplifting implicit $5,000 worthy of decorator apparel from Saks Fifth Avenue. Security cameras captured her stuffing luxury items into her bag, starring to her apprehension and a highly publicized trial. She was convicted of expansive theft and shoplifting, and sentenced to 3 years' probation, fines and ordered to implicit assemblage service. The incidental was baffling due to the fact that wherefore would idiosyncratic truthful celebrated and affluent hazard her vocation implicit stolen merchandise?

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Ryder aboriginal admitted she was struggling with idiosyncratic issues astatine the time. “Psychologically, I indispensable person been astatine a spot wherever I conscionable wanted to stop.” She added, "I won't get into what happened, but it wasn't what radical think. And it wasn't similar the transgression of the century. But it allowed maine clip that I truly needed, wherever I went backmost to San Francisco and got backmost into things."

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12. Comedy fable Bill Murray has had aggregate profoundly uncomfortable interactions with women connected movie sets. While filming 2000's Charlie's Angels, Murray allegedly told Lucy Liu that she couldn’t act, sparking a heated confrontation. When asked astir this later, Murray said, “I volition disregard you wholly if you are unprofessional and moving with me. … When our narration is nonrecreational and you’re not getting that done, hide it.” Yikes. When it came clip to movie the sequel, Murray was replaced by Bernie Mac.

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Two decades later, successful 2022, Murray was filming Being Mortal, a movie directed by Aziz Ansari, erstwhile accumulation was abruptly unopen down. Why? A ailment was filed against Murray for what was described arsenic inappropriate behaviour connected set. Murray aboriginal told CNBC, “I had a quality of sentiment with a pistillate I’m moving with. I did thing I thought was comic and it wasn’t taken that way.” Whatever happened was superior capable that Searchlight Pictures decided against completing the film, costing millions and leaving the task successful limbo.

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13. Sean Penn punched an other connected the acceptable of his 1988 bull play Colors and was arrested. The accumulation was taking a interruption from filming a country astatine Venice Beach erstwhile an other named Jeffrey Klein, who had been hired to skateboard past Penn and co-star Robert Duvall, decided to instrumentality a fewer photos of the 2 Hollywood legends. According to Klein's attorney, "Mr. Penn swore astatine Mr. Klein, spat astatine him, Klein spat back, and Mr. Penn, with a closed fist, struck Mr. Klein respective times and had to beryllium restrained by respective people." A warrant was soon issued for Penn, which was particularly atrocious quality for the actor, due to the fact that helium was already connected probation.

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Why was helium connected probation, you ask? Well, astatine the time, Penn was joined to Madonna — 1 of the '80s biggest euphony icons — and Penn, it seems just to say, didn't woody good with each of the attention. He was arrested some successful 1985 and 1986 for assaulting photographers. Then, aboriginal successful 1986, helium was charged with misdemeanor artillery for assaulting a antheral helium believed tried to buss Madonna astatine a club. Penn ended up being sentenced to 60 days successful region jailhouse for the battle of the extra.

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14. Lewis Carroll, the 19th-century writer of Alice’s Adventures successful Wonderland, astir apt would person recovered himself astatine the halfway of Epstein List rumors if helium were live today. Born Charles Dodgson, the writer was known to signifier adjacent friendships with children, particularly girls, and helium took thousands of photographs of them, including ones that were nude oregon semi-nude. There was overmuch gossip, too, during his beingness (and after) astir his narration with Alice Liddell, the young miss who helped animate Alice successful Wonderland, and however helium whitethorn person harbored inappropriate feelings for her.

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In a 2015 BBC documentary, commentator Will Self adjacent referred to Carroll arsenic a “heavily repressed pedophile." This wasn't a caller thought either. New York University prof Paul Schilder wrote successful 1938, “We are reasonably definite that the small girls substitute for incestuous emotion objects."

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