They say to never meet your heroes because they'll never be as great as you imagine, but since the internet ruins everything for everyone, you probably already know every little mistake they've made in life. But just in case there were a few you still respected, a
Reddit thread revealed a series of alleged stories about some of the most loved names in Hollywood. Again, we cannot confirm these, but there are many, many more in that thread. Here are some of the best.
1. Sean Penn
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"In 1987, Sean Penn was dating Madonna and flipped out because he thought she was cheating on him. He tied her to a chair and beat her for hours with everything from his fists to a baseball bat. When he was out of the room
she freed herself and escaped or who knows what would've happened."
2. Eddie Murphy
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"Eddie Murphy got Scary Spice pregnant and refused to believe it was his. Then he took a blood test, which proved he WAS the father after all and he still wants nothing to do with the kid.
In total he has 8 kids with 4 different women."
3. Dr. Seuss
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"Dr. Seuss had an affair while his wife suffered from cancer and depression. She killed herself and he married his mistress a few months later."
4. Steve Jobs
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"Steve Jobs was a terrible person that disowned his daughter and frequently told his employees to kill themselves. He was actually fired from apple for his conduct but brought back for his ideas."
5. Matthew Broderick
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"On August 5, 1987, Matthew Broderick was driving on a country road in Northern Ireland with Jennifer Grey when his car veered into the wrong lane, colliding with an oncoming vehicle. The two passengers of the other car were killed instantly. Broderick spent a month in the hospital but because of memory loss, he was unable to explain what happened. It was determined that the actor wasn't drunk at the time of the accident, and he was charged with causing death by dangerous driving, although he was eventually convicted only of careless driving, escaping with a $175 fine."
6. Mark Wahlberg
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"Mark Wahlberg only served 45 days in jail for an unprovoked, racially motivated attack in 1988 that left one of two victims blind. He was initially charged with attempted murder."
7. Charles Dickens
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"Charles Dickens separated from his wife after 22 years of marriage after he fell in love with an 18-year-old actress, then went on to have a letter published in numerous newspapers in which he accused his wife of being responsible for the separation, and calling her stupid, morbidly depressed and a bad mother."
8. Chuck Berry
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"Rock-n-roll pioneer Chuck Berry
hid cameras in bathrooms in a restaurant he owned to film women going to the bathroom for his sexual fetish."
9. Shania Twain
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"Shania Twain came to my hometown for a concert and decided to stay for a couple days to ride a horse in one of our national parks. My dad was her bodyguard, to which he was told by her that he was not allowed to look at her or talk to her at all. Anyway, while she was riding around, this elderly woman came up to her and begged her for an autograph for her granddaughter and without looking at the woman or in her general direction at all, she told my dad to "get her away from me" and just kept riding."
10. Lyndon B. Johnson
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"Lyndon Johnson, former US president, nicknamed his penis "Jumbo" and was known to display it in public. One of the things he'd do was use the urinal, and if another guy walked into the bathroom,
he'd turn around and shake his dick at them, asking 'HAVE YOU EVER SEEN ANYTHING AS BIG AS THIS?'"
11. Thomas Edison
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"Thomas Edison invented very few of the things people think he did, he had a small team of people he would pay next to nothing to come up with ideas which he would then patent and take credit for."
12. Arthur Miller
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"Arthur Miller had a son with Down Syndrome. Miller immediately
institutionalized his son, did not visit him, and never mentioned him in his memoirs."
13. Tim Allen
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"Tim Allen was caught smuggling a good quantity of cocaine onto a commercial airplane in the 1970s."
14. O.J. Simpson
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"O.J. Simpson, famous actor, Heisman Trophy winner, America's sweetheart, and all around likable guy, does not floss regularly."
