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From Hollywood to sports and beyond, some stars can't help but stretch the truth... Join us as we count down the most shocking times celebrities were caught fibbing and faced the consequences! Our list includes A-listers who lied about everything from simple Instagram posts to serious criminal matters.
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00:00Your honor, I respect you and I respect the jury, but I did not do this.
00:03Welcome to WatchMojo, and today we're counting down our picks for the most shocking times famous people fibbed around and found out.
00:10I know the truth, but it's tough to stop once you start.
00:16Number 50. Khloe Kardashian
00:18Sometimes it's more embarrassing to get busted for a petty lie than a huge scandal.
00:23In 2015, for Thanksgiving, Coco posted a shot of delicious baked goods on her Instagram.
00:28She claimed they were homemade, and a result of, quote, testing herself.
00:32However, the internet soon figured out that some of the pies in the photo were apparently from a bakery called Sweet Lady Jane.
00:40Needless to say, the real baker was pretty ticked off.
00:43However, rather than apologizing or laughing it off, Khloe had a very public crash out.
00:48She shared an expletive written post on X to bring haters down.
00:52However, it only made her look more guilty.
00:55Number 49. Robert Pattinson
00:57Making up white lies for the sake of entertainment screams chaotic neutral.
01:02Robert Pattinson has a bit of a reputation for lying in interviews.
01:06One of the strangest stories he came up with was about a circus experience gone wrong.
01:11No, the first time I went to a circus, somebody died. One of the clowns died.
01:15Speaking with Matt Lauer on Today, he claimed that when he went to the circus for the first time,
01:20he witnessed a car explosion that killed a clown.
01:23How did the clown die?
01:25His little car exploded. The joke car exploded on him.
01:29Obviously, that was a lie, and he admitted it himself in a separate interview.
01:33The Twilight star also added that he developed this habit of fibbing because the redundant line of questioning in interviews sent him into a so-called fugue state.
01:40I sort of think it is true, but it probably isn't.
01:45Number 48. Post Malone
01:47When Rolling Stone profiled Postie back in 2017, the rapper couldn't stop gushing over his friend Justin Bieber.
01:54However, in the same breath, he also called him out for being, quote,
01:57real culty. The Sunflower singer claimed Bieber had contributed $10 million to the Hillsong megachurch.
02:04However, he didn't stop there. He threw some major shade Justin's way, saying that God didn't care about gold-roofed churches.
02:11Former Hillsong New York City pastor Carl Lentz strongly opposed Post Malone's claims, stating that JB had not made such a lavish donation.
02:18He also shot down the gold ceiling allegation, claiming the church didn't even own a physical building at the time, let alone boast gilded roofs.
02:26Number 47. Dove Cameron
02:29This one might be a tamer lie in comparison to some others on this list, but the emotion behind it will tug at your heartstrings.
02:36Dove Cameron was named Chloe Celeste Hosterman at birth. However, we've always known her as Dove.
02:42Early in her career, fans assumed it was her real first name, and she didn't exactly offer a correction.
02:47However, she later revealed that she had legally changed her name from Chloe to Dove in honor of her father, who lovingly called her by that name.
02:55Dove's dad, Philip Allen Hosterman, passed away when she was a young teen, so going by Dove was a meaningful choice rather than a lie.
03:03Number 46. Ben Affleck
03:05The goodwill hunting actor once lied to the press out of sheer spite after the paparazzi invaded his privacy.
03:11It all went down in 2015 when Affleck was photographed with a majestic phoenix tattoo on his back.
03:16This is Phoenix, rising from my ass, and I was about to say it represents something really important to me, but you know what, maybe just, we'll skip that.
03:24At the time, he told Mario Lopez in an interview that the ink was fake and for a movie.
03:29However, it was very much real, as he later revealed.
03:32Ben even admitted to the New York Times that he felt resentful about the piece being sneakily exposed by the paparazzi, hence the lie.
03:39More recently, his back tattoo seems to have changed.
03:43We wonder if it's real or fake this time.
03:45It has too many colors. His tattoos always had too many colors.
03:48Number 45. Alex Rodriguez
03:50When a 2009 Sports Illustrated story exposed A-Rod for using performance-enhancing substances in 2003, he went after the reporter who broke the story, Selena Roberts.
04:00The former MLB star claimed Roberts had been stalking him and alleged that she had attempted to break into his home.
04:06However, the police clarified that Selena had not been reported for any of those supposed crimes.
04:11Soon after, Alex apologized for his accusations.
04:15I did take a banned substance.
04:18And, you know, for that, I'm very sorry.
04:22Years later, he was caught up in another PES controversy, known as the Biogenesis Scandal.
04:27He denied involvement at first, but that too was apparently a lie.
04:31And he had to face suspension.
04:33One of the biggest names on that list, New York Yankee star Alex Rodriguez.
04:36Number 44. Kylie Jenner
04:39When this young icon first got her lips done, she had everyone talking about them.
04:43It was a cultural shift, and you just had to be there.
04:46However, the big change was intimidating for King Kylie.
04:49Your lips look amazing.
04:51Really?
04:51Yeah.
04:52I almost said they were too big yesterday.
04:53She told everyone she had achieved her signature pout with Lip Liner alone before admitting to temporary lip fillers.
04:59Later on, she confessed that she, quote,
05:02tiptoed around the truth out of fear of being judged.
05:04I have temporary lip fillers.
05:06It's just an insecurity of mine, and it's what I wanted to do.
05:10Nevertheless, the millionaire socialite took all the traction her new look got and turned it into a genius business idea,
05:16launching her famous Kylie lip kit.
05:18That is how her journey to becoming one of America's richest self-made women began.
05:23I never imagined that Kylie Cosmetics would grow to what it has.
05:27Number 43. Terrence Howard
05:29The Oscar-nominated actor once told Jimmy Kimmel that he had a PhD in chemical engineering.
05:35He even specified that he received the degree from South Carolina State University.
05:39It didn't take people long to figure out that the university doesn't even offer such a program.
05:44More importantly, Howard was never a student there.
05:48In fact, he didn't even complete his undergraduate studies in chemical engineering from Pratt Institute.
05:53The only connection he had to SCSU was an honorary doctorate of humane letters degree he had been awarded by it.
05:59The PhD hoax was probably meant to lend some credibility to his teriology claims.
06:04Remember when he tried to prove 1 times 1 equals 2?
06:07I don't have an issue with multiplication.
06:09Well, then 1 times 1 is what?
06:121 times 1 should equal 2.
06:14Neil deGrasse Tyson later called him out for misinformation.
06:17Terrence Howard attempting to reinvent mathematics and physics.
06:23Number 42. Tori Spelling
06:25Number 4. Now, they welcome son Finn Davey is his name.
06:29After giving birth to her son Finn in 2012, the Beverly Hills 90210 star told Us Weekly that she dropped her baby weight by exercising and eating healthy.
06:38In no way, shape or form did anything that was completely unhealthy for my body.
06:43However, in her memoir, Spelling It Like It Is, she came clean and revealed that her initial comments were made at the suggestion of her publicist.
06:51Her weight loss was actually caused by extreme dieting.
06:54But the optics of such a revelation wouldn't be ideal.
06:57So, she said she was shedding pounds by swimming a lot.
07:00Years later, Tori admitted to using Ozempic and Monjaro to lose weight after having her youngest son, Beau.
07:06Number 41. Suki Waterhouse
07:09The Daisy Jones and the Six actress took a page out of her fiancé Robert Pattinson's Book of Lies for this one.
07:14She once told Us Weekly that she liked washing her hair with Coca-Cola because it gave her otherwise fine and lifeless hair some texture.
07:22Quote,
07:23Coca-Cola makes it tousled, like I've gone through the Amazon or something, she said.
07:27Needless to say, the model underestimated her influence because fans rushed to incorporate the soda into their hair care routines.
07:34It was only after years had passed that Suki owned up to fibbing and revealed on X that she made up the style tip out of boredom.
07:41Number 40. Brian Dennehy
07:42For years, the storied actor lied about his military record.
07:46He claimed to have served in Vietnam, but it turned out to be a case of stolen valor.
07:51While it was true that he was a part of the United States Marine Corps,
07:54he completely lied about fighting in the Vietnam War and getting injured in combat.
07:59When the truth eventually came out, Dennehy apologized for his fabrication,
08:03explaining that he didn't know how to clear things up after starting the rumor.
08:06Even after acknowledging this, the death of a salesman actor reportedly continued running with his Vietnam story,
08:11showing a lack of remorse.
08:14Number 39. Charlie Puth
08:16Remember when the Light Switch singer reportedly had a thing going on with Bella Thorne in 2016?
08:21Well, it didn't last long, and Charlie supposedly wrote the song Attention About Her.
08:26He explained to Genius that he was singing about someone who was manipulating him to be, quote,
08:30attached to her hip.
08:31Which was, for me, to be attached to her hip at all times.
08:34Years later, Little Mix's Jade said she wouldn't collaborate with Puth,
08:38presumably because of their past drama over him allegedly hitting on her while she was taken.
08:43It was then that Thorne chimed in with a revelation of her own.
08:46She claimed that Charlie, quote,
08:48started a hate train against her because she wouldn't get intimate with him.
08:51The jury is still out on whose account is true.
08:54Number 38. Kate Winslet
08:56The Titanic actress is a fierce feminist, but even she succumbed to societal pressure after the birth of her daughter Mia.
09:02The star had undergone an emergency C-section to bring Mia into the world,
09:06but initially told the press it was a, quote,
09:08uncomplicated natural birth.
09:10The Oscar winner was so traumatized by the fact that she hadn't delivered her baby naturally
09:14that she took extreme measures to hide the truth.
09:17After birthing her son Joe, naturally,
09:19she told Gotham Magazine that she lied about Mia's birth because she thought of herself as a, quote,
09:24complete failure and felt locked out of the, quote,
09:26powerful women's club.
09:28That tells you all you need to know about the stigma surrounding cesarean childbirth
09:32that continues to plague mothers even today.
09:35Number 37. Vin Diesel
09:37The Fast and Furious actor has bragging rights for a lot of things.
09:41Being a Beastie Boys dancer is not one of them.
09:44During an appearance on Jimmy Kimmel Live,
09:46the action star shared that he danced for the group when he was a teenager.
09:49He claimed that the rap collective lived in his neighborhood
09:52and took him in as their dancer after watching him perform on the street.
09:55This helped him enter Danceteria, a club he wanted to get into.
09:59However, Adam Horowitz told Seth Meyers that the story wasn't true.
10:03Claimed on Jimmy Kimmel's show last week
10:06that he was a break dancer for Beastie Boys, and he was not.
10:10He admitted that Adam Yauch may have acted like an underage Vin was with the band
10:14so he could enter Danceteria.
10:16However, the actor was never officially associated with the band.
10:20He said he was a break dancer for the Beastie Boys.
10:22That's weird, you guys.
10:24Well done.
10:24Number 36. Lindsay Lohan
10:27The loss of Whitney Houston was mourned by the world.
10:30So it was particularly upsetting when Lindsay Lohan falsely claimed
10:33she was assigned to work with her remains
10:36during her 2012 community service stint at the LA County morgue.
10:39The Mean Girls star said it was messed up and, quote,
10:42inappropriate that she had to roll the plastic for the late icon's body.
10:46However, in the actress's own words, she, quote,
10:49thought it would be a lot worse.
10:50Not long after Lohan made the shocking claim,
10:53the coroner's office set the record straight by denying
10:55that she was ever involved with handling Houston's body.
10:59Number 35. Tyrese Gibson
11:01In 2017, the Transformers actor was accused of assaulting his firstborn child,
11:06Shayla, which led to him having a very public meltdown.
11:09During this rough patch, he told fans that Will and Jada Pinkett Smith
11:13had given him $5 million to make ends meet.
11:16At the time, he referred to the couple as his brother and sister.
11:19However, insiders told TMZ that the Smiths had not offered
11:22any such monetary help to Gibson.
11:24Soon after, Tyrese clarified on Instagram that he had lied.
11:28Years passed and he brought it up again in an interview,
11:31admitting that he was struggling with his mental health at the time.
11:34Quote, I was out of my mind, he said,
11:36blaming his medication for the outrageous claim.
11:39Will Smith is gonna give me $5 million.
11:41I never even talked to Will Smith.
11:43I was out of my mind.
11:44Number 34. Sharon Stone
11:46The Basic Instinct star is not only one of the sexiest women in Hollywood,
11:51but also one of the smartest.
11:52In fact, she is intelligent enough to be in Mensa.
11:56However, that's not exactly the same as actually being a Mensa member.
12:00I'm not stupid.
12:01We know you're not stupid, Ms. Tramiel.
12:03For a long time, Sharon Stone seemingly said she was one
12:06until a Mensa representative, Jim Blackstone,
12:09reportedly debunked the claim.
12:11He also explained that the iconic star
12:13couldn't have attended a Mensa program in high school
12:15as she once dated.
12:16This was seemingly because no such programs were offered
12:19when Stone was a student.
12:21The Oscar-nominated performer took back her assertion in 2002.
12:25Number 33. Todd Lawson Ladourette
12:28When the Better Call Saul actor was starting out in the entertainment industry,
12:31he pretended to be a war veteran who lost an arm in combat.
12:35This helped him stand out and book roles.
12:37In reality, Todd Lawson Ladourette amputated his own limb
12:40during a mental health episode.
12:42The actor, who reportedly has bipolar disorder,
12:45had not been taking his medication,
12:46which led him to commit such a self-destructive act.
12:49After working as an actor for years,
12:51he fessed up about falsifying his military record out of guilt.
12:55Having done so, Ladourette took the opportunity
12:57to spread awareness about the importance of medication
12:59for mental health issues.
13:01Number 32. Meghan Markle
13:03Ever since the suit's actress became the Duchess of Sussex,
13:07she has been grilled by the media for allegedly making up stories
13:10that many consider to be outright lies.
13:12One such instance was when Meghan claimed
13:14that a South African actor had likened her and Prince Harry's marriage
13:17to Nelson Mandela's release from prison.
13:20According to The Mom of Two,
13:21it happened at the 2019 premiere of The Lion King,
13:24and the actor in question had been a cast member.
13:27Well, the person she was probably talking about,
13:30renowned actor John Connie,
13:31told The Telegraph that he neither attended the premiere
13:33nor remembered talking to Meghan.
13:35The Black Panther star further added
13:37that the comparison was, quote,
13:38baffling and possibly a, quote,
13:40faux pas on her part.
13:42Number 31. Robin Thicke
13:44When Blurred Lines first came out,
13:46it was as catchy as it was controversial.
13:49Critics condemned the song for its misogynistic themes
13:51and explicit music video.
13:54It was also said to be a rip-off of Marvin Gaye's Got to Give It Up,
14:04which resulted in a prolonged legal battle.
14:06Ahead of the plagiarism lawsuit,
14:08Thicke had been bragging about co-writing the track in interviews.
14:11However, he was quick to backtrack during his deposition,
14:14admitting that Pharrell Williams,
14:15who is featured in the song,
14:17wrote virtually all of it.
14:18Meanwhile, Thicke said he was too intoxicated in the studio
14:22to contribute in any significant way.
14:29Number 30. SZA
14:31If people already love you for your music,
14:33there's no need to lie just to impress them.
14:35R&B singer SZA told fans that she had never owned a TV,
14:39only for a picture to emerge of her supposedly with one she owned.
14:42Then, she said her freckles were natural.
14:44They weren't.
14:45And that she wasn't, quote,
14:46a cake or pie person,
14:48but had been photographed enjoying a birthday cake.
14:51That all paled in comparison to her claim
14:53of earning a degree in marine biology from an Ivy League school.
14:59In reality,
15:00she had enrolled in Delaware State University for that program,
15:03but dropped out to pursue music.
15:05Considering how well that worked out,
15:06it's a mystery why she felt the need to tweak the story.
15:18Number 29. Elon Musk
15:20In 2022,
15:23the Tesla CEO took a stand
15:24against conspiracy theorist Alex Jones,
15:26who had allegedly been spreading false information
15:29about the Sandy Hook tragedy.
15:31His account on Twitter had been banned
15:32before Musk became chairman,
15:34and he refused to reinstate it.
15:35Elon explained that he had zero tolerance
15:38for people who capitalized on the deaths of children
15:40because he knew the pain of losing a child.
15:43The billionaire's firstborn son
15:44passed away from sudden infant death syndrome,
15:46and he claimed he was holding the little one
15:48when he left the world.
15:50However,
15:50his ex-wife and the mother of the child,
15:52Justine Wilson,
15:53alleged that her son died in her arms.
15:55While we may never know the truth,
15:57Musk did not contest her claim.
16:00Number 28.
16:01Victoria Beckham
16:02Victoria Beckham reveals
16:03she had her breast implants removed
16:05in the upcoming issue of Allure magazine.
16:08After giving birth to her first son in 1999,
16:11fans noticed something had changed
16:12about Victoria Beckham.
16:14Her bust size had gotten dramatically bigger.
16:16Sure, motherhood comes with a myriad of physical changes,
16:19but this one seemed a little too enhanced.
16:21Back then,
16:22Beckham shut down rumors of cosmetic surgery,
16:25insisting that she was, quote,
16:26According to the former Spice Girl,
16:29her increased bust size was a result of support tape
16:32and push-up bras.
16:33The denials continued until 2005,
16:35when her lawyers let it slip
16:37that she had actually undergone breast augmentation.
16:40But it would take until 2014
16:41for Beckham to finally confess herself,
16:43revealing that she had removed the implants
16:45and regretted ever having them in the first place.
16:48And she does say she regretted it
16:49and she was very insecure about the way she looked.
16:52Number 27.
16:53Olivia Jade
16:54Getting into a prestigious university can be tough.
16:57Unless, of course,
16:58your wealthy, well-connected parents
16:59are willing to grease a few palms.
17:01The daughter of fashion designer Massimo Giannulli
17:03and actress Lori Loughlin,
17:05Olivia Jade was at the center of a scandal in 2019
17:08due to her parents paying to get her admitted
17:10into the University of Southern California.
17:12This morning, Olivia Jade Giannulli
17:14is at the center of a new twist
17:16in the college admissions scandal.
17:18Lauren, do you want to say anything
17:18to the other young students out there?
17:20A scandal that has already engulfed her parents,
17:23actress Lori Loughlin
17:24and fashion designer Massimo Giannulli,
17:26who were fighting charges
17:27they paid $500,000 in bribes
17:30to get their daughters into USC.
17:32Prosecutors charged them with fraud and bribery
17:34and uncovered a fake athletic profile
17:37that painted Jade as a champion rower,
17:39despite never having played the sport.
17:41The deception also included staged pictures
17:43of Jade and her sister Isabella
17:45posing on rowing machines.
17:47Although both girls initially secured spots at USC,
17:50their enrollment didn't last long
17:51once the truth emerged.
17:52Olivia Jade not to,
17:54and to try to take one of those legitimate spots
17:57for of another athlete,
18:00I just think is deplorable.
18:02And she didn't address that.
18:03Number 26, Hasan Minhaj.
18:05This former Daily Show correspondent
18:07was a shoo-in to take over as host
18:09until The New Yorker published an article
18:11accusing him of embellishing the stories
18:13in his stand-up routines.
18:14In Minhaj's special, The King's Jester,
18:17he recounted receiving an envelope of white powder
18:19he initially believed was anthrax.
18:21The powder then spilled on his daughter,
18:23and he rushed her to the hospital
18:24only to learn it was harmless.
18:26He detailed another story about an FBI informant
18:28infiltrating his mosque and physically assaulting him.
18:31It was kind of storytelling,
18:33and it turns out that he made a lot of it up
18:36and said, he kept on using the phrase with me,
18:38there was an emotional truth to it.
18:40So, you know, and I think what he means by that is,
18:42he's right, people after 9-11 who are Muslim
18:45did feel a sense of danger,
18:47but again, like, things didn't happen to him.
18:49And the New Yorker claimed
18:50that both stories were exaggerated,
18:53which Minhaj more or less acknowledged.
18:55However, in a YouTube video,
18:57he called the article, quote,
18:58needlessly misleading,
19:00insisting that his embellishments weren't deception,
19:02but only a storytelling technique.
19:04But this New Yorker article
19:05definitely makes me look like one.
19:07It was so needlessly misleading,
19:09not just about my stand-up,
19:11but also me as a person.
19:15The truth is, racism, FBI surveillance,
19:19and threats to my family happened.
19:22Number 25, Ilaria Baldwin.
19:24How's married life?
19:25Married life is really nice.
19:27Born Hilary Lynn Hayward Thomas
19:29in Boston, Massachusetts,
19:30this yoga instructor and entrepreneur
19:32eventually reinvented herself as Ilaria.
19:35In 2020, after noticing that Ilaria Baldwin
19:38had been misrepresenting herself as Spanish,
19:40one Twitter user compiled a thread exposing her.
19:43This included a clip from the Today Show
19:45where Baldwin appeared to forget
19:46the English word for cucumber
19:47and various interviews of her speaking
19:49in a Spanish accent.
19:51We have, um, what is it saying?
19:53Cucumber?
19:54Cucumber.
19:54This thread unleashed a wave of more inconsistencies,
19:58like her agency's website falsely listing
20:00her birthplace as Mallorca
20:01and her willingness to let people believe
20:03she was half Spanish.
20:04Baldwin eventually apologized for the falsehoods,
20:07explaining that though she was raised
20:09with both American and Spanish cultures,
20:11she should have been clearer about her actual roots.
20:14There's been some questions about where I'm born.
20:18I'm born in Boston.
20:19And then I spent some of my childhood in Boston,
20:22some of my childhood in Spain.
20:24But her biography on her agency's website states,
20:27Baldwin was born in Mallorca, Spain.
20:29Number 24.
20:30Hulk Hogan.
20:31The late Hulk Hogan was a wrestling legend,
20:34but he was also a master at rewriting history
20:36to make himself look cooler.
20:38Perhaps his most outrageous tale involved
20:40the king of rock and roll, Elvis Presley.
20:43According to Hogan's WWE-produced autobiography,
20:46Presley was a diehard fan of his
20:48who would swing by to watch him wrestle live in Memphis.
20:50But when I started wrestling in Memphis,
20:53he used to ride a Harley and put a helmet on at night.
20:57He'd go out at night and ride his Harley around.
20:59And then he'd come to the Mid-South Coliseum
21:00and sit way up in the top of the building
21:02and watch wrestling.
21:03Sounds impressive.
21:05Until you realize that Presley passed away in 1977,
21:09two full years before Hogan even set foot
21:11in a Memphis ring.
21:12That was far from his only lie.
21:14Hogan also claimed that both the Rolling Stones
21:17and Metallica wanted him as their bassist
21:19and that he was Darren Aronofsky's first pick
21:21for the lead role in The Wrestler.
21:23Both claims have since been debunked.
21:25Well, I quit playing music when I started wrestling in 77,
21:30you know, and this was, I don't know.
21:34He's Hulk Hogan and he still wants to be a rock star.
21:36Everyone wants to be a goddamn rock star.
21:38Brother, can you imagine being in Metallica
21:40in The Rolling Stones?
21:41Are you kidding me?
21:42Number 23, Tonya Harding.
21:45In arguably the most notorious scandal in figure skating,
21:48Olympian Nancy Kerrigan was ambushed in January 1994,
21:52leaving her with a bruised leg
21:53and her career in jeopardy.
21:55The attack was meant to sideline her from competing
21:57and was eventually traced to Jeff Galluli,
22:00the then husband of Kerrigan's rival, Tonya Harding.
22:03Naturally, suspicion fell on Harding.
22:06Although she denied prior knowledge of the attack,
22:08Harding later pleaded guilty to covering it up
22:10and earned a lifetime ban
22:12from the U.S. Figure Skating Association.
22:14Tonya Harding always denied any involvement in the attack,
22:17but she was fined $100,000
22:19and banned for life from competitive skating.
22:22For decades, she stuck to the story,
22:25until 2018 when she finally admitted in an ABC special
22:28that she knew about the plot beforehand.
22:31But of course, she maintained that she had nothing to do
22:34with actually carrying it out.
22:35We talked, we were at an event four years after I was attacked,
22:41but we didn't really speak to each other,
22:42so it was very awkward and strange.
22:44So you don't feel like you ever got an apology?
22:48Not a direct.
22:49It doesn't matter at this point.
22:52Number 22, Prince Andrew.
22:54Prince Andrew shared a close friendship
22:56with disgraced financier and sex trafficker
22:58Jeffrey Epstein for years.
22:59During this period,
23:00he was accused of engaging in unlawful activities
23:03with Virginia Giuffre,
23:05allegedly with Epstein's help.
23:06Following Epstein's death in 2019,
23:09Andrew sat for a disastrous interview
23:11with BBC's Newsnight,
23:12where he denied having sex with Giuffre
23:14and claimed to have only met Epstein once
23:17after his 2008 conviction to sever ties.
23:20That, however, turned out to be a lie.
23:22Court documents have revealed
23:23that may not be the case.
23:26One email sent to Jeffrey Epstein
23:28from a member of the British royal family
23:30in February 2011,
23:33said keep in close touch
23:34and will play some more soon.
23:37Court papers from a separate civil case
23:39revealed emails showing
23:40that Andrew arranged a meeting with Epstein
23:42in February 2011,
23:44despite his claims that their last encounter
23:46was in December 2010.
23:48Although he denied Giuffre's allegations,
23:50he later settled with her
23:52for a reported 5 million pounds.
23:54The problem was the fact
23:55that once he had been convicted...
23:59You stayed with him?
24:00I stayed with him.
24:01And that's the bit that,
24:04as it were,
24:06I kick myself for on a daily basis.
24:09Number 21, James Fry.
24:11In this corner, there's Oprah.
24:12In this corner,
24:13we've got James Fry to defend himself.
24:15I don't know why he's there,
24:16but he's there trying to defend himself.
24:18Back when the Oprah Winfrey show
24:20ruled daytime TV,
24:21every author dreamed of making it
24:23onto Oprah's book club.
24:24In September 2005,
24:26James Fry hit the jackpot
24:28when his memoir,
24:29A Million Little Pieces,
24:30got the coveted nod,
24:31turning it into a cultural phenomenon.
24:33The book detailed Fry's experience
24:35with substance use disorder
24:36and journey to sobriety.
24:38However, a few months later,
24:40an investigative website accused Fry
24:41of fabricating multiple details in the book.
24:44Winfrey initially stood by Fry,
24:46but as the evidence mounted,
24:48she brought him onto her show
24:49and grilled him about the memoir's authenticity.
24:51I was defending my turf
24:53and defending every single viewer
24:57who had bought that book.
25:00I am standing here on behalf of the reader
25:02who's pissed off.
25:04Fry ultimately admitted
25:05to embellishing parts of the story,
25:07leaving Winfrey and her audience disappointed.
25:09As a result,
25:10subsequent editions of the book
25:11included a disclaimer.
25:13If this came as clear as,
25:15you know,
25:15as if it were being spoken to me,
25:17is that what people saw
25:20was my lack of compassion.
25:23Number 20,
25:24Tiger Woods.
25:25Needless to say,
25:26a successful marriage hinges on openness
25:28and honesty among all parties involved.
25:31Tiger Woods and Elin Nordegren
25:33were once the picture-perfect couple,
25:35the golf great,
25:37and his model wife.
25:38Hence,
25:39it's understandable
25:40why professional golfer Tiger Woods
25:42and Elin Nordegren's marriage fell apart
25:44when it was revealed
25:45that he engaged in extramarital affairs
25:47and lied about them.
25:48This shocking revelation came in 2009
25:50after Woods crashed his car
25:52just outside his Florida home,
25:54triggering media scrutiny
25:55into his personal life.
25:57Subsequently,
25:58several women came forward
25:59alleging that they had had affairs
26:00with the golfer.
26:01Woods eventually owned up to the claims,
26:04admitting that he had lied
26:05to a lot of people,
26:06including himself.
26:07I am deeply sorry
26:09for my irresponsible
26:11and selfish behavior
26:13I engaged in.
26:14The fallout from the scandal
26:16not only cost him his marriage,
26:18it also had significant consequences
26:20for his career.
26:21Number 19,
26:22Star Jones.
26:23The long-running daytime talk show
26:25The View
26:25was designed as a platform
26:27for women to engage
26:28in candid discussions
26:29about various topical issues.
26:31But it turns out
26:32one of its original panelists,
26:33Star Jones,
26:34wasn't so candid
26:35about her personal life.
26:36I was struggling with my weight
26:38since I was 18 years old.
26:41Fitness wasn't important to me.
26:43Nutrition wasn't important to me.
26:46Food was my vice
26:47and my comfort.
26:49In 2003,
26:50Jones,
26:50who was once diagnosed
26:52as morbidly obese,
26:53began to lose weight
26:54in a rather dramatic fashion.
26:56According to her,
26:57this was the result
26:58of a strict dieting
26:59and exercise regimen.
27:00She also vaguely alluded
27:02to receiving a, quote,
27:03medical intervention.
27:04However,
27:05rumors persisted
27:06that seemed
27:07to suggest otherwise.
27:09Finally,
27:09in 2007,
27:11Jones confirmed
27:11the speculations,
27:13disclosing that she had
27:14indeed undergone
27:15gastric bypass surgery
27:16to help with her weight loss.
27:17In 2003,
27:19I took control
27:19and underwent
27:20gastric bypass surgery.
27:22I went from 307 pounds
27:24to, at the lowest,
27:26142 pounds.
27:28Number 18,
27:29Rick Ross.
27:30In 2008,
27:32a photograph emerged
27:33in the media
27:33showing Rick Ross
27:34dressed as a correctional officer.
27:36The rapper took offense
27:37to its publication,
27:39insisting that his face
27:40had been digitally manipulated
27:41onto someone else's body
27:42by, quote,
27:43online hackers.
27:44It's a lot of people
27:45that don't understand it.
27:46I don't blame them.
27:47In fact,
27:48he took things
27:49a step further
27:49by challenging anyone
27:51to provide solid proof
27:52that he ever worked
27:53in the prison system.
27:54Well,
27:55investigative website
27:56The Smoking Gun
27:57decided to take him up
27:58on the challenge.
27:59They unearthed
28:00his personal record
28:01with the Department
28:01of Corrections,
28:02complete with his
28:03social security number
28:04and copies
28:05of his birth certificate.
28:07Faced with
28:07the overwhelming evidence,
28:09Ross confessed
28:09to his past job
28:10as a corrections officer
28:11in Florida
28:12between 1995
28:13and 1997.
28:15What made you
28:16want to do that?
28:16One of my big homies.
28:18One of my big homies
28:19that just got in trouble
28:20and a lot of people,
28:22a lot of things
28:22were going on
28:23and he just suggested it.
28:25Number 17.
28:26Rebel Wilson
28:26The film industry
28:28is often seen
28:29as a realm
28:29of smoke and mirrors,
28:30a reputation
28:31that was certainly
28:32not helped
28:32by Australian actress
28:34Rebel Wilson.
28:35Back in 2015,
28:36an Australian magazine
28:37alleged that Wilson
28:38had fabricated
28:39several aspects
28:40of her personal history.
28:41People were calling me
28:42a liar and a fake
28:44and for someone like me
28:46who prides herself
28:47on being very candid
28:48and authentic.
28:49It was just probably
28:51the most devastating
28:52thing they could have
28:53said to me.
28:54The actress had claimed
28:55to be 29 years old
28:56that year
28:57and asserted that
28:58Rebel was her birth name.
28:59However,
29:00a former classmate
29:01countered this,
29:02stating that she was
29:03actually 36 at the time
29:05and official records
29:06revealed her birth name
29:07as Melanie Elizabeth Bounds.
29:09I pity her
29:10and I feel
29:10really sad for her
29:12that she would do that
29:13because now
29:14she would have that
29:15on her conscience
29:16and I feel like
29:17that's kind of
29:18probably calmer enough
29:21for her.
29:22In addition,
29:23Wilson's claim
29:24of a rough upbringing
29:25in the quote-unquote
29:26ghetto of Sydney
29:27was debunked,
29:28as evidence pointed
29:29to a quote,
29:30very normal
29:31upper-middle-class
29:32background.
29:33Number 16.
29:34Bow Wow
29:35Sometimes celebrities
29:36tell lies
29:37that seem understandable.
29:38Other times,
29:39such as in the case
29:40of Bow Wow,
29:41their fabrications
29:42are so ridiculous
29:43and unnecessary
29:44they leave you wondering
29:45why.
29:46In 2017,
29:48Bow Wow shared a picture
29:49of a private jet
29:49on his Instagram,
29:51claiming he was flying
29:51to New York
29:52with the aircraft.
29:53Yet shortly after,
29:55a fan spotted him
29:56seated in economy class
29:57on a New York-bound
29:58commercial flight.
29:59Oh, you just posted
30:00a picture you like?
30:00Yeah.
30:01What the hell?
30:02What the hell's the problem?
30:03Because the way it looked,
30:04it looked as if
30:05I was taking
30:06the big boy jet
30:06going to New York
30:07and really I was on Delta.
30:09A quick reverse image search
30:10revealed that the original
30:11picture Bow Wow posted
30:12was actually a stock photo
30:14from the website
30:14of a private transport service.
30:16This led to social media
30:18users ridiculing the rapper,
30:20sparking the hashtag
30:21Bow Wow challenge,
30:22in which they shared
30:23side-by-side pictures
30:24depicting a glamorous
30:25falsehood alongside
30:26their mundane reality.
30:28If I fly commercial,
30:29no lie,
30:29this is real shit.
30:29But you know a private jet
30:30means it's just for you,
30:32not for other people
30:32who can buy tickets.
30:33No.
30:34Well they got this thing
30:35called Jet Smarter.
30:36Are you up on that?
30:36Yeah, Jet Smarter.
30:36No.
30:3715.
30:38Ryan Lochte
30:38All eyes were on
30:40decorated swimmer
30:41Ryan Lochte
30:41at the 2016 Summer Olympics
30:43in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
30:45However,
30:46Lochte misused
30:47that attention
30:47and effectively
30:48derailed his career
30:49after falsely claiming
30:51to have been robbed
30:51at gunpoint
30:52by individuals
30:53impersonating
30:54police officers.
30:54These guys came out
30:56with a badge,
30:58a police badge.
30:59No lights,
31:00no nothing,
31:00just a police badge.
31:02They pulled us over,
31:03they pulled out their guns,
31:05they told the other
31:07swimmers
31:08to get down on the ground.
31:09The incident generated
31:10international attention,
31:12but as more details emerged,
31:13it became apparent
31:14that Lochte
31:15and three other swimmers
31:16allegedly vandalized
31:17a gas station bathroom
31:18and were made
31:19to pay for the damages.
31:21Lochte eventually apologized
31:22for over-exaggerating
31:24his story
31:24and was charged
31:25in Brazil
31:26with falsely
31:27reporting a crime.
31:28I did lie about
31:29that one part
31:29and I take full responsibility.
31:32I'm human.
31:33I made a mistake,
31:34a very big mistake
31:35and it's something
31:36that I learned from
31:38and I know
31:39that that will
31:40never happen again.
31:41Although the charges
31:42were later dropped,
31:43the repercussions
31:44to his career
31:45were severe.
31:46He lost multiple endorsements
31:47and received
31:48a 10-month suspension
31:49from competitive swimming.
31:51Number 14,
31:52Brandy.
31:53In 2002,
31:54then 23-year-old singer
31:56Brandy appeared
31:56on The Oprah Winfrey Show
31:58where she announced
31:59that she was expecting
32:00her first child
32:00with music producer
32:01Robert Smith.
32:02We recently learned
32:03that she got married
32:04and is...
32:06She's married now
32:09and is expecting
32:11a baby girl
32:12this summer.
32:14But that wasn't
32:15her only big announcement.
32:16She also revealed
32:17that she and Smith
32:18had gotten married
32:19in a secret ceremony
32:20months earlier.
32:21However,
32:22it turns out
32:22only one of those
32:23statements was true.
32:24After their relationship
32:25ended,
32:26Smith admitted
32:27that they had
32:27actually never
32:28gotten married.
32:29This claim
32:29was later confirmed
32:30by Brandy
32:31to none other
32:32than Oprah herself.
32:33I felt the pressure
32:34of, again,
32:37having to be perfect.
32:39And I was scared.
32:42According to the singer,
32:44they had fabricated
32:44the marriage story
32:45to protect her innocent image
32:47as she desired
32:48to maintain the perception
32:49of not having a child
32:50out of wedlock.
32:52Number 13,
32:53The White Stripes
32:54When Jack and Meg White
32:55first started gaining traction
32:56in the Detroit music scene
32:58as the indie rock duo
32:59The White Stripes,
33:00they made everyone
33:01believe they were siblings.
33:02Hello,
33:02my sister and I
33:03would like to thank
33:04Mass Music
33:05and everyone who voted for us
33:06for Best International Video.
33:08This image persisted,
33:10even as the two
33:11rose to international fame.
33:13However,
33:13in 2002,
33:15a local Detroit paper
33:16did some digging
33:16and uncovered the truth.
33:18Jack and Meg
33:19were once married.
33:20They tied the knot
33:21in 1996,
33:22shortly before forming
33:23the band,
33:24and divorced in 2000,
33:26just as they began
33:27gaining widespread attention.
33:28Despite this revelation,
33:30they maintained
33:31that they were siblings.
33:32It wasn't until 2005
33:33that Jack publicly
33:35acknowledged the deception,
33:36stating that they had
33:37propagated the lie
33:38so as to be taken
33:39more seriously as musicians.
33:41And that ain't
33:42what you want to hear,
33:43but that's what I'll do.
33:46Number 12,
33:47Bill O'Reilly
33:47Conservative journalist
33:49Bill O'Reilly
33:50has faced scrutiny
33:50over some of his
33:51exaggerated claims.
33:53In 2013,
33:54O'Reilly asserted
33:55in a book
33:56that he was present
33:57outside the home
33:58where George
33:58DeMorenschild
33:59fatally shot himself
34:00and had heard
34:01the shotgun blast.
34:02That's what O'Reilly
34:03wrote in the book,
34:04plain and simple,
34:04right there.
34:05O'Reilly says
34:05he was outside
34:06the guy's house
34:06in Florida
34:07when he heard
34:08the fatal gunshot.
34:09And he said
34:10basically the same thing
34:11on Fox News
34:11while promoting his book.
34:13DeMorenschild
34:13had gained notoriety
34:14for his association
34:15with Lee Harvey Oswald
34:17before the assassination
34:18of President John F. Kennedy.
34:19However,
34:20this was later
34:21debunked as false.
34:23Then,
34:23in 2015,
34:24Mother Jones Magazine
34:25published an article
34:26which disputed
34:27O'Reilly's claims
34:28that he was on
34:28the Falkland Islands
34:29during the 1982 war.
34:31Because I was in a situation
34:32one time in a war zone
34:34in Argentina
34:35in the Falklands
34:36where my photographer
34:37got run down.
34:39The controversy
34:40that ensued
34:41led O'Reilly
34:41to retract
34:42previous assertions
34:43that he had witnessed
34:44extreme violence
34:45during conflicts
34:45in El Salvador
34:46and Northern Ireland.
34:48Number 11.
34:49Steven Seagal
34:49In addition to his roles
34:51in action films,
34:52Steven Seagal
34:53has also dabbled
34:54in reality TV,
34:55most notably
34:56the A&E series
34:57Steven Seagal Lawman.
34:58That's him
34:59in the white t-shirt,
35:00Joaquin.
35:01That's him.
35:02The show trailed him
35:03as a reserve deputy sheriff
35:04in Arizona and Louisiana.
35:06During his work
35:07on the series,
35:08Seagal claimed
35:08to be a licensed
35:09law enforcement officer
35:10in California.
35:11But when the LA Times
35:12did a little research,
35:13they found no evidence
35:15of such certification
35:16in either California
35:17or Louisiana.
35:18In fact,
35:19his role as a sheriff's deputy
35:21in Louisiana
35:21was purely ceremonial,
35:23handed to him
35:23by longtime sheriff
35:24Harry Lee.
35:26Seagal has also claimed
35:27that he once helped
35:28train CIA agents,
35:29but shockingly,
35:30there's no proof
35:31of that either.
35:32What do you think
35:33about this case?
35:34Well, I mean,
35:34unfortunately,
35:35I don't have all the details.
35:37I've been a police officer.
35:38Number 10.
35:39Angelina Jolie
35:40and Brad Pitt
35:41Though Angelina Jolie
35:42and Brad Pitt
35:43would initially deny
35:44allegations of an affair,
35:46many did think
35:47it was a very big coincidence
35:48that the scandal
35:49broke out the same year
35:50that Pitt and then-wife
35:51Jennifer Aniston
35:52ultimately divorced.
35:53At least I read this
35:54in the Vanity Fair article
35:55where you were saying
35:56that maybe it's not,
35:58maybe two people,
35:59the nature of two people
36:00is not meant to be
36:01with each other forever.
36:03Well, I don't know.
36:04I'm not sure
36:05what I was talking about.
36:06Okay.
36:07Yes, but there's just
36:08so much pressure on that
36:09from day one.
36:11During the proceedings,
36:12Jolie would claim
36:13no infidelity took place
36:15and cited her father's
36:16cheating on her mother
36:17as ample deterrent.
36:19And yet,
36:19just a few months
36:20after the divorce
36:20was finalized,
36:21Jolie announced
36:22her pregnancy
36:23with Pitt's child.
36:25So, did they
36:25or didn't they?
36:27Well, in 2008,
36:28both Jolie and Pitt
36:29would refer to
36:30Mr. and Mrs. Smith
36:30as the movie
36:31where they, quote,
36:33fell in love
36:33in two separate articles.
36:35So, we guess
36:36that answers that.
36:38Hey, honey,
36:38I should probably tell you.
36:41I was married once before.
36:42Number 9.
36:43Lil' Kim
36:44Some lies
36:45can get you jail time.
36:46That's what Lil' Kim
36:47found out
36:47during a court proceeding
36:48in 2005.
36:50She told a federal
36:50grand jury
36:51that her co-manager
36:52Damian Butler
36:53and bodyguard
36:54Swift Jackson
36:55were not involved
36:56in a 2001 shootout
36:57in front of radio station
36:58Hot 97
36:59in New York.
37:00Two camps, I guess,
37:02saw each other here
37:02and there was
37:04a war of words
37:04that were on records
37:05already between
37:06Foxy and Lil' Kim.
37:07It got out of hand,
37:08words were exchanged
37:09and shots were fired.
37:10She also claimed
37:11to have not been
37:12on the scene
37:13or to know
37:13one of the suspects.
37:15But Lil' Kim
37:15ran into big problems
37:16when security footage
37:17was released
37:18showing that
37:19not only was Kim there
37:20but so were
37:21Butler and Jackson.
37:23This misrecollection
37:24earned the rapper
37:24366 days in prison,
37:2730 days house arrest
37:28and 3 years probation.
37:29I'm turning myself
37:31in to the U.S. Marshals.
37:33It still feels surreal
37:35but I gotta do
37:36what I gotta do.
37:37I thank all my fans
37:39and friends
37:40for all of their support.
37:42Number 8
37:42Paris Hilton
37:43After serving jail time,
37:45Paris Hilton
37:46appeared on Larry King Live
37:47to talk about the experience.
37:48During the interview,
37:49King asked the heiress
37:50if she'd ever taken drugs
37:51and twice she denied it,
37:54claiming all she's taken
37:55were meds for ADHD.
37:57I've been on medication
37:58since I was a child.
37:59I have ADD
38:00so I take medication
38:01for that.
38:03Just that's the only thing
38:04you do with
38:05attention deficit disorder?
38:06Yes.
38:07Photos began to pop up
38:08showing Hilton
38:09smoking the green stuff though
38:10and perpetrators
38:11of a 2008 robbery
38:12claimed to have found
38:13other narcotics
38:14in her Hollywood mansion.
38:15However,
38:16what cast the most out
38:17on Paris' drug-free claims
38:18was when she was arrested
38:19on suspicion
38:20of drug possession
38:21in 2010.
38:22A suspicion cast
38:23due to 0.8 grams
38:25of the stuff
38:25being found
38:26found in a handbag
38:26that also contained
38:27her credit cards,
38:28phone,
38:29and driver's license.
38:30Today,
38:31she admitted she lied.
38:32I was in possession
38:33as well as
38:35telling the officer
38:36that the bag was mine.
38:37Number 7.
38:38Beyoncé
38:39In a 2008 interview
38:40with Marie Claire UK,
38:42Beyoncé appeared
38:43to imply
38:43that some of the lyrics
38:44to her 2006 single
38:45Irreplaceable
38:46weren't actually aimed
38:47at Jay-Z.
38:57Prompted by an onstage claim
38:59that B wrote the song
39:00for her ladies,
39:02Neo came forward
39:02saying he had written
39:03the lyrics himself
39:04for himself.
39:06Neo went so far
39:07as to express regret
39:08for giving the song up,
39:09although he acknowledged
39:10it was better suited
39:11to a female artist.
39:12The singer also confirmed
39:13that Beyoncé rewrote
39:15the song's harmony
39:15and melody lines
39:16and thus did,
39:18in fact,
39:18earn her songwriting credit,
39:20just not for the lyrics.
39:21For her to take the song
39:22and make it hers,
39:23I didn't mind her saying
39:24I wrote this for my girls
39:25at a concert
39:26or whatever the case may be
39:27because in a way,
39:28technically,
39:29in a way,
39:29she did.
39:30You know,
39:30she put her spin on it.
39:31If you're gonna do it
39:32the exact same way I did it,
39:33you might as well
39:33let me keep it.
39:34Number 6.
39:35Steven Ranazzisi
39:36Given the profound tragedy
39:38of the September 11th attacks,
39:39it's certainly not a good idea
39:41to falsely claim
39:42to be a survivor.
39:43If only someone had told that
39:44to Steven Ranazzisi beforehand.
39:46Did you out yourself
39:48or did somebody bust you?
39:49The Times.
39:50The New York Times, yeah.
39:51The New York Times figured this out.
39:52Did you figure out
39:53how they figured out
39:54that you were lying
39:55about your experience
39:56during 9-11?
39:57Did you ever figure out
39:57how they busted you?
39:58No, no, I don't.
39:59The comedian and actor
40:00had previously described
40:01working as an account manager
40:02at Merrill Lynch
40:03in the South Tower
40:04on that fateful day.
40:05He claimed to have
40:06narrowly escaped the building
40:08shortly before
40:09the second plane hit,
40:10citing the experience
40:11as his motivation
40:12to move to Los Angeles
40:13to pursue an entertainment career.
40:15However,
40:16a New York Times investigation
40:17proved that it was all
40:18a bold-faced lie.
40:20Not only did Ranazzisi
40:21never work for Merrill Lynch,
40:23the company didn't even have
40:25offices in either tower
40:26at the time.
40:27but I truly,
40:28in all of my heart,
40:29wished that I had
40:31that voice
40:31that I feel like I have now
40:33that said,
40:33hey man,
40:34take a breath,
40:35relax.
40:36People are going to like you.
40:37People are going to understand
40:38who you are
40:39when they get to know you.
40:40You don't need to lie about that.
40:41Take that back.
40:42Number five,
40:43Milli Vanilli.
40:44They certainly can't blame
40:45this one on the rain.
40:46Blame it on the rain.
40:49Yeah, yeah.
40:51Milli Vanilli was hot
40:53in the late 80s,
40:53but soon after,
40:55their lip-syncing facade
40:56began to crack.
40:57Charles Shaw,
40:58one of the actual singers,
41:00came forward in 1989
41:01and revealed he was
41:03one of three vocalists
41:04who recorded the tracks.
41:05As the vocals were attributed
41:07to Fab Morvan and Rob Pilatus,
41:09things got messy fast.
41:11Morvan and Pilatus
41:12had to ultimately
41:13relinquish their Grammy
41:14and lawsuits were sprung on them
41:16and Arista Records,
41:18citing consumer fraud
41:19protection laws.
41:20While Morvan recovered
41:21from the humiliation,
41:22Pilatus did not,
41:24as he grappled
41:25with substance use disorder
41:26until his death in 1998.
41:28But with us,
41:29it went from one day
41:31to the next.
41:32We lost the fame.
41:34We were pushed aside,
41:35suddenly.
41:36And you had to live with that.
41:37Number four,
41:38Kim Kardashian.
41:40In 2007,
41:41when Kim Kardashian
41:41was only semi-famous,
41:43rumors emerged
41:44about a sex tape
41:45made by her
41:46and her ex,
41:47Ray J.
41:47Whatever we did
41:48in our private time
41:49was our private time.
41:51and never once
41:52did we think
41:52that it would get out.
41:53In an interview
41:54with Complex Magazine,
41:55she publicly denied
41:56that any sex tape
41:58was made.
41:59Even worse,
42:00she denied it
42:00to her then-boyfriend,
42:01Nick Cannon.
42:02When the tape
42:03finally did get leaked,
42:04Nick called it quits,
42:06saying it was mostly
42:07the deception
42:07that pushed him away.
42:08Despite claiming
42:09she wouldn't release
42:10a sex tape
42:11for any amount of money,
42:12Kim is reported
42:13to have settled
42:13for a $5 million payout
42:15from Vivid Entertainment
42:16and has long-battled
42:18armchair speculation
42:19that she herself
42:20was directly involved
42:22in the leak.
42:22You know there are people
42:23who say that
42:23you put it out yourself.
42:24You know that.
42:25Yeah.
42:26And, you know,
42:27I think why would anyone
42:28put that humiliation
42:30on their family
42:31like that?
42:33Number 3.
42:34Jussie Smollett.
42:35One of the most
42:36confounding celebrity lies
42:37ever told
42:38remains that
42:39involving actor
42:39Jussie Smollett.
42:41In January 2019,
42:43Smollett made headlines
42:44after claiming
42:44to have been
42:45the victim
42:45of a hate crime
42:46in Chicago.
42:47I was just jumped
42:47and then I looked down
42:49and I see that
42:50there's a rope
42:50around my neck,
42:51which I hadn't
42:52obviously noticed it
42:53before.
42:54No, because it was so fast.
42:55You know what I'm saying?
42:55It was so fast.
42:56How long did this all
42:57take?
42:58It felt like minutes
42:59but it probably
42:59was like 30 seconds.
43:01Smollett alleged
43:02that he was attacked
43:03by two individuals
43:04who hurled homophobic
43:05and racial slurs,
43:06doused him
43:07with an unknown
43:08chemical substance
43:08and placed a noose
43:10around his neck.
43:11The news sent shockwaves
43:12throughout the country
43:13with many high-profile figures
43:15expressing their support.
43:16But as the Chicago PD
43:17investigated the incident,
43:19several inconsistencies
43:20in Smollett's story emerged.
43:22That was because
43:23it was all staged.
43:24Smollett was subsequently
43:26convicted of felony
43:27disorderly conduct
43:28for lying to the police,
43:29effectively derailing
43:30his career.
43:31This was planned.
43:33This was premeditated.
43:34Premeditated the extreme.
43:36They idolized you
43:37and they would have done
43:37anything for you
43:38and you chose them
43:39because you knew
43:40that you could trust them,
43:42that they were loyal to you.
43:43Number two,
43:43Brian Williams.
43:45In 2003,
43:46while on assignment
43:47in Iraq,
43:48Brian Williams
43:48was traveling
43:49on a military Chinook
43:50helicopter
43:50when the chopper ahead
43:52was hit by RPG fire.
43:53On the ground,
43:54we learned the Chinook
43:55ahead of us
43:56was almost blown
43:57out of the sky.
43:58That hole was made
44:00by a rocket-propelled grenade
44:02or RPG.
44:03Williams reported a story
44:05to this effect at the time,
44:06but as the years passed,
44:08the story morphed
44:09until he was no longer
44:10a mere witness,
44:11but a victim of the attack.
44:13Williams chalked up
44:14the mistelling
44:14as a bungled attempt
44:16to thank a vet
44:17involved in the incident,
44:18an explanation
44:19that seemingly overlooked
44:20his past reimaginings
44:21of the event.
44:22I want to apologize.
44:23I said I was traveling
44:25in an aircraft
44:26that was hit by RPG fire.
44:27I was instead
44:29in a following aircraft.
44:31The fallout
44:32was a six-month suspension
44:33from NBC Nightly News
44:35and a serious blow
44:36to his professional reputation.
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44:55Number 1.
44:56Lance Armstrong.
44:57Cancer survivor
44:58and Tour de France champion
44:59Lance Armstrong
45:00always maintained
45:01that his legacy
45:02was drug-free.
45:03For seven straight years,
45:04he dominated arguably
45:06the hardest sporting event
45:07in the world.
45:08History in the making,
45:09seven times a winner
45:10of the Tour de France.
45:11Around him grew an empire
45:12that included
45:13a powerful foundation
45:14dedicated to fighting cancer.
45:16But in 2012,
45:17after years of denying
45:18charges to the contrary,
45:20the U.S. anti-doping agency
45:21determined that was a lie.
45:23By October of that year,
45:25Armstrong had forfeited prizes
45:27and awards dating back
45:28to 1998.
45:30He was stripped
45:30of all seven Tour de France titles
45:32and he was banned for life
45:34from Olympic sports.
45:36The IOC would later delete
45:37Armstrong's Olympic results
45:38and take back his bronze medal.
45:40I'd love to,
45:41we'd all love to go back in life
45:42and have a few do-overs.
45:44Yep.
45:46Never should have taken it on,
45:47especially knowing that,
45:49that most of what they said
45:51was true.
45:52Additionally,
45:53he was forced out of the foundation
45:54that once carried his name,
45:56lost multiple sponsorships,
45:57and even saw the episodes
45:59of Arthur he appeared in
46:00be banned.
46:01All due to this one
46:02massive,
46:03long-running lie.
46:05Did you ever see
46:06these lies coming?
46:07Tell us in the comments section.
46:08Your very name
46:09has become an adverb
46:10for lying.
46:12And thank you
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