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Hollywood's whispers often become tomorrow's headlines! Join us as we dive into the most shocking celebrity rumors that were eventually confirmed. From secret relationships and hidden children to public feuds and career-ending scandals, these stories prove that sometimes, where there's smoke, there's definitely fire. Which celebrity revelation surprised you the most?
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00:00It was a fantasy illusion that we could make each other happy.
00:07Welcome to WatchMojo, and today we're counting down our picks for the most shocking Hollywood whispers that later turned headlines.
00:14Being close to Dan could mean an extra level of success.
00:21Number 20. Sarah Jessica Parker and Kim Cattrall Feud
00:24Remember all the fuss about the drama behind the scenes of Sex and the City?
00:28Well, it wasn't just gossip. While the show had all the glamour and familiarity on screen, off-screen, it was sour between Sarah Jessica Parker and Kim Cattrall.
00:36What is your problem?
00:38I don't have a problem. You have a problem.
00:41During the 2004 Emmy Awards, Parker, Cynthia Nixon, and Kristen Davis all sat together, leaving Cattrall totally left out.
00:48Despite Parker always playing it cool in interviews, Cattrall finally spilled, confirming the tension.
00:52She talked about feeling straight-up disrespected, and since then had made it clear she's done with the SATC crew.
00:58I just wish that Sarah had been nicer.
01:01But the real mic drop?
01:02In 2018, after her brother passed, Cattrall called out Parker in a brutal Instagram post, calling her a hypocrite.
01:09So, yeah, Hollywood rumors? Sometimes they're true.
01:11Kim Cattrall telling Piers Morgan that you were never friends, just colleagues.
01:16Uh, just...heartbroken.
01:21Number 19, Judy Lewis was Clark Gable's daughter.
01:24Vintage Hollywood had drama, and this one's wild.
01:27Back then, the rumor mills buzzed that Clark Gable fathered Loretta Young's adopted daughter, Judy Lewis.
01:33For years, it remained a gossip, and Lewis grew up clueless.
01:36It wasn't until her 30s that Lewis confronted Loretta, who finally admitted that she was indeed her mother, and Gable, her father.
01:43Turns out, Loretta and Gable had an affair during the filming of Call of the Wild, during which she got pregnant.
01:52Why was you heading?
01:53To keep it quiet, Loretta disappeared, had the baby in secret, then adopted her later.
01:58Sneaky, right?
01:59But here's the kicker. Loretta never confirmed it publicly.
02:02Well, my mother couldn't show herself because, indeed, she was pregnant with me.
02:06The truth only came out after her death, when her biography spilled the beans.
02:10It appears not all secrets stay buried forever.
02:12It wasn't until I was 31 that I finally did ask my mother, and did hear the truth from her.
02:19Number 18, Will and Jada Pinkett Smith's unconventional marriage.
02:23Will and Jada, let's be real, Hollywood's been buzzing and side-eyeing their marriage for years.
02:28Was it open? Were they headed for a divorce?
02:30Then, in 2013, Jada fueled the rumors, saying in an interview that Will could do whatever he wanted.
02:35Yet, in public, they looked picture-perfect, holding hands, smiling on red carpets, and serving major power couple vibes.
02:42The charade went on until, boom!
02:44In 2023, Jada dropped the bomb.
02:46They've been secretly separated and living apart since 2016.
02:49And the beautiful part about it is, like, this whole journey, as difficult as it's been,
02:55has just brought Will and I closer in such an authentic way.
02:59Oh, that's interesting.
03:00You think that's wild?
03:01Let's not forget the Entanglement saga with August Alsina.
03:04Turns out, they were playing it cool in public while weathering a very private storm.
03:08Suddenly, those whispers didn't sound so crazy,
03:11and Hollywood once again proved that rumors aren't always just noise.
03:15It's friendship versus marital prison.
03:20Number 17, Bryan Singer's Hostile Parties.
03:23Bryan Singer's Hollywood Rise had all the glitz, but something darker was lurking.
03:27For years, there were whispers about his sketchy parties with underage boys,
03:31but no one dared speak up.
03:32All that changed his 2014 hit.
03:34A lawsuit dropped, accusing him of abuse at those wild parties.
03:38Though the charges were dismissed, the rumors gained traction.
03:41As if that wasn't enough heat, Atlantic lit the match in 2019, and four men came forward.
03:46Now, the Atlantic reports that four more men are coming forward for the first time.
03:51They claimed Singer abused them as teens, but he denied everything.
03:55Yet, the buzz didn't die down,
03:56especially after he quietly settled another assault case for $150,000 that same year.
04:02His one soaring Hollywood career took a drastic turn,
04:05and just like that, another longtime rumor proved true.
04:08This story rehashes claims from bogus lawsuits filed by a disreputable cast of individuals.
04:14Number 16, Misha Barton's 2009 Hospitalization.
04:18Back in 2009, Misha Barton was hospitalized, and Hollywood got curious.
04:22The British-American TV star blamed non-stop work, travels, and a failed wisdom tooth surgery.
04:28That was just a cover.
04:29It turned out there was so much more.
04:31Years later, Misha set the record straight.
04:32She was burnt out, depressed, and in full mental overload, so much that she threatened to end her life.
04:38Behind the scenes, she'd reached her breaking point, then taken to the hospital,
04:42and was placed on a 5150 involuntary psychiatric hold.
04:46I didn't want to be there, and I didn't think it was fair.
04:48What the public thought was a mere dental mishap was really a mental health crisis in disguise.
04:53Misha's later interviews revealed just how isolated she'd felt,
04:56proving that some rumors are just glimpses of a much deeper truth.
04:59But an entire team of people felt that they knew best, for me, at that time.
05:04Number 15, Dan Schneider's misconduct allegations.
05:07Once, Dan Schneider was the genius behind all our favorite Nickelodeon shows,
05:11including iCarly, Zoey 101, and more.
05:14By the late 2000s, Dan had more control than pretty much any showrunner at Nickelodeon.
05:20While he made magic on screen, it turned out his world wasn't squeaky clean.
05:24The whispers got louder, his bizarre behavior, toxic work culture, and super-suss scenes involving teen actors.
05:30For one thing, I am always trying to outdo the last thing that I did.
05:35For years, it was just industry talk, until Quiet On Set flipped the script in 2024, making headlines.
05:41Former cast and crew came forward with heavy accusations, emotional abuse, creepy vibes, and full-blown chaos.
05:48Dan apologized for his past behavior, then clapped back with a defamation lawsuit against the filmmakers.
05:52But the internet wasn't buying it. Fans were shook. Timelines flooded, and childhood memories shattered.
05:58Turns out, when rumors keep echoing in Hollywood, there's something real behind it.
06:02I could be cocky, and definitely over-ambitious, and sometimes just straight-up rude and obnoxious, and I am so sorry that I ever was.
06:11Number 14, Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes' marriage.
06:15Famously called Tomcat by the media, Cruise and Holmes were Hollywood's golden couple, until they weren't.
06:20When they first linked up, it was like a dream. The PDA, their baby Suri on the way, and a fairytale wedding in Italy.
06:26Everything seemed perfect, but behind all the glam, the rumors swirled.
06:30Word was, Holmes had been handpicked through Scientology auditions, to be Cruise's next wife.
06:35It didn't end there. Allegedly, Holmes feared losing her daughter Suri to the church's Sea Orge, so she hit Cruise with divorce papers in 2012.
06:43Through it all, Cruise stayed silent. But that perfect love story? It seemed like a well-calculated plot twist.
06:48It now feels like whenever Hollywood love looks too perfect, there's always a deeper script waiting to unfold.
06:54Number 13, Lindsay Lohan's substance use.
06:56In the early 2000s, Mean Girls idol Lindsay Lohan was everywhere, from paparazzi queen by day, to tabloid headlines at night.
07:04Soon, rumors started flying about the booze, and her party-filled lifestyle.
07:08By 2007, the talks got real. Multiple DUI arrests, drugs found in her system, and mugshots circulating.
07:15Lohan was charged with third-degree assault.
07:17In a later interview with Oprah, Lindsay finally admitted alcohol was her gateway to other substances.
07:23She described herself as a mess, but she committed to rehab.
07:26Her career hit a rough patch, as Hollywood iced her out, branding her a liability.
07:30But she didn't fold, she owned it, got help, and started turning things around.
07:34Her raw honesty earned back respect and empathy, because beneath the headlines was real pain, and even realer resilience.
07:40It's nice to kind of, like, have that experience of playing guitar, and singing in the movie, and acting in it.
07:46Number 12, Woody Allen's controversial relationship.
07:49Get this.
07:50Woody Allen, once seen as just an eccentric film genius, got cut up in one of Hollywood's most jaw-dropping scandals.
07:56At first, the rumors were just whisper-level, something about his weird vibe, but nothing prepared us for what was coming.
08:02In 1992, Mia Farrow, his longtime partner, found nude photos of her adopted daughter, Soon-Yi Previn, in Woody's apartment.
08:10Yep, you guessed right.
08:11They were having an affair.
08:12The media went ballistic.
08:14The 57-year-old filmmaker and his longtime lover, Mia Farrow, broke up.
08:18And now, Allen confirms, he is having an affair with Farrow's adopted daughter, who's 21 years old.
08:25Soon-Yi was just 21, and Woody 56.
08:28People were in disbelief, until Woody confirmed it.
08:31Though the relationship broke the internet.
08:32In 1997, he married Soon-Yi.
08:35It may have been a love story, but it still remains Hollywood's dirtiest rumor-turned-headline reality.
08:39I think eventually, as that situation got more and more serious, I would have told her about it.
08:48Number 11, accusations against Bill Cosby.
08:51We'll be real, this one shook everyone.
08:53Bill Cosby, aka America's dad, went from beloved TV personality to front-page scandal.
08:59I don't understand what you're talking about.
09:01Throughout the 80s and 90s, rumors about Cosby's inappropriate behavior shattered his fame.
09:05Nobody paid attention, until 2014, when comedian Hannibal Buress called him out on stage.
09:11The clip went viral, and the internet exploded.
09:13In light of this, various women stepped forward, claiming Cosby drugged and assaulted them.
09:18Some cases dating back decades.
09:20I've never seen anything like this.
09:22In 2018, he was found guilty and sentenced.
09:25But when it felt like justice landed, his conviction was overturned in 2021 on illegal technicality.
09:30Social media lost it.
09:31Was this justice served, or a failed system exposed?
09:34Either way, one thing's for sure.
09:36Hollywood skeletons always creep out of their closets.
09:39Mr. Cosby, how does it feel to be home?
09:41Cosby did not say a word.
09:43Number 10, Anthony Ramos and Jasmine Cephas Jones is split.
09:47A lot of movie stars try to keep the limelight away from their personal and romantic lives,
09:51which we totally understand.
09:53But that unfortunately leads to a lot of onlookers to jump to conclusions.
09:56You abandoned me.
09:58Oh, what are you talking about?
10:00You snobby all night.
10:01You barely even danced with me.
10:03You don't make me laugh.
10:04I've been trying all night.
10:05You've been shaking your ass for like half of the heights.
10:08Real nice.
10:08In 2021, In the Heights actor Anthony Ramos was reportedly spotted getting chummy with
10:13an unidentified woman at a club, despite ostensibly being engaged at the time to his
10:18Hamilton co-star, Jasmine Cephas Jones.
10:20Me.
10:21I died for him.
10:22Me.
10:23I trusted him.
10:24Me.
10:24I loved him.
10:25This story was broken by a TikTok user, leading to speculation that Ramos was cheating on Jones
10:30or that the pair was no longer together.
10:32Just a day later, however, a follow-up story broke that the two had indeed called it off
10:37sometime prior.
10:38It's like a healer.
10:40Mind over matter.
10:41Number 9, Dean McDermott's infidelity.
10:44I cheated on my wife.
10:46I'm really mad.
10:47I was out of control.
10:48In 2006, actors Dean McDermott and Tori Spelling married after meeting on the Lifetime movie
10:53Mind Over Murder.
10:55They since had five children, but began to undergo public personal struggles starting in
10:592013.
11:00In December of that year, Us Weekly broke a story that McDermott had been unfaithful to
11:04Spelling.
11:05McDermott entered rehab the following month, followed by numerous other rumors regarding
11:09their troubled marriage.
11:10In April 2014, Lifetime debuted a docu-series titled True Tori, which addressed McDermott's
11:15cheating in the first episode.
11:17I got a call from my publicist, and she said, I just want to tell you something.
11:21It's a girl, and she's claiming that she had an affair with Dean in Toronto when he
11:28was there.
11:29The couple stayed together in the coming years, though we're said to be undergoing a trial
11:32separation as of June 2022.
11:34Quote, Dean has been caught in so many lies and infidelities over the years, and Tori
11:39is just over it.
11:41Number 8.
11:42Charlie Sheen and the Black Book.
11:44At this point, the life and times of Charlie Sheen have been well documented, but back in
11:48the 1990s, much of it was the subject of speculation.
11:51Hey, look, I'm not saying I don't trust you, and I'm not saying I do, but I don't.
11:57In 1993, a woman named Heidi Fleiss was arrested for acting as a madam, operating a ring of sex
12:03workers in Los Angeles.
12:04Though Fleiss has been historically tight-lipped about her clientele, one name that leaked
12:08early was that of Hot Shots actor Charlie Sheen.
12:11This was due to a traveler's check with Sheen's name on it being found on Fleiss' person at
12:15the time of her arrest.
12:16Heidi arranged women for Charlie back in the 1990s, and he testified against Fleiss after
12:22his name came up in her Black Book of Clients.
12:24In 1995, Sheen testified at Fleiss' trial, confirming he'd used her service over two dozen
12:29times.
12:30I have never spoken to Charlie since then.
12:33At the time when he did testify against me, of course I had some harsh feelings, but I
12:37was young, and I didn't understand why he was doing it.
12:40Number 7.
12:41Jamie Foxx and Katie Holmes' Relationship
12:44Whereas some actors try to hide a breakup, others try to hide an entire six-year relationship.
12:49Such was the case with Jamie Foxx and Katie Holmes, who reportedly dated from 2013 to 2019.
12:54In fact, rumors arose about them from the jump, but consistent repudiations kept news stories
13:00from presenting it as fact.
13:01I saw pictures.
13:02Did you and Katie Holmes play basketball for Valentine's Day?
13:05Like some real loving basketball game?
13:10Uh-oh.
13:13Are we losing?
13:14Foxx and Holmes were even photographed holding hands on multiple occasions, but they continued
13:19to deny the claims.
13:19So I guess some knucklehead who was here with the fam cam, you know what I'm saying, and
13:25I guess they tried to get money from it or whatever.
13:27I said, but you know, I mean, like I said, it's amazing what people will do to sell you
13:32out.
13:32It wasn't until the pair split that the public got any confirmation they were ever together.
13:36They are just both caught up in their own families, careers, and obligations that their
13:42relationship had to take a back seat.
13:44It must take a lot to hide a relationship for half a dozen years, but good for them for keeping
13:48their private lives private as possible.
13:51Number six, Ben Affleck and the Nanny.
13:54Ben Affleck has had a much publicized romantic life over the years, from Jennifer Lopez to
13:58Jennifer Gardner and back to Lopez, but it was a lesser known woman who got the rumor mill
14:03going.
14:04It's a bombshell report.
14:05Has Ben Affleck been dating the family nanny?
14:09And here she is, surrounded by paparazzi.
14:12In 2015, Affleck and Gardner announced their separation.
14:15That same year, reports began to circulate that Affleck had also entered a relationship
14:20with her children's nanny.
14:21Affleck threatened to file a lawsuit over the allegations at the time, but didn't.
14:25All allegations of a romantic relationship are baseless and untrue.
14:30In 2016, a year before the actors officially filed for divorce, Garner confirmed the tryst.
14:36However, Garner also claimed the two were already separated before she learned of the development.
14:40We had been separated for months, before I ever heard about the nanny.
14:44She had nothing to do with our decision to divorce.
14:47Number five, Ellen DeGeneres' sexuality.
14:50We'd like to think we're past speculating on someone's sexuality, but we definitely
14:54were in back in the 1990s.
14:55Has there ever been anyone you felt you clicked with?
15:00And what was his name?
15:03Susan.
15:04Best known at the time for her self-titled sitcom, Ellen DeGeneres came out as a lesbian
15:11in 1997.
15:12It was even punctuated by her character coming out herself on her show.
15:16However, reports of the episode were leaked well in advance, leading many publications
15:20to question whether DeGeneres herself was planning on coming out.
15:23Why would you think I was gay?
15:25Oh, wow, I'm sorry.
15:28I just kind of got that vibe.
15:30Vibe?
15:30Like a gay vibe?
15:32You know, like...
15:32What, like I'm giving off some kind of gay vibration?
15:37Others, meanwhile, wondered if the whole thing was merely a ratings ploy.
15:40Just a couple weeks prior to the episode's airing, however, DeGeneres put the story to
15:44bed by indeed confirming her sexuality.
15:46Why do I have to be so ashamed?
15:48I mean, why can't I just say the truth?
15:50I mean, be who I am.
15:51I'm 35 years old.
15:53I'm so afraid to tell people.
15:54I mean, I just...
15:56Susan, I'm gay.
15:59Number four, Kevin Spacey's accusations.
16:01What started as a playful cartoon gag became eerily shrewd in hindsight.
16:07One of Hollywood's best-known actors, Kevin Spacey, the latest high-profile star, caught
16:11up in allegations.
16:12In the mid-2000s, vague rumors about actor Kevin Spacey's sexuality and dealings within
16:18made their way to the Family Guy writer's room.
16:20In response, the show featured a bit in a 2009 episode whereby Baby Stewie fabricates having
16:26escaped from Spacey's basement.
16:28Ten bucks.
16:28Five bucks.
16:29Eight bucks and I'll do it.
16:30Fine.
16:30The clip began resurfacing in 2017 when Spacey was accused of having sexually harassed fellow
16:35actor Anthony Rapp when the latter was underage.
16:38I'm beyond horrified to hear his story.
16:41I honestly do not remember the encounter.
16:43It would have been over 30 years ago.
16:45But if I did behave then, as he describes, I owe him the sincerest apology for what would
16:50have been deeply inappropriate drunken behavior.
16:54Several others have since come out with similar accusations, effectively halting Spacey's career
16:58and tarnishing his public image.
17:01Number 3.
17:02Arnold Schwarzenegger's Illegitimate Child
17:04Actor Arnold Schwarzenegger's tenor as the governor of California came to an end in 2011.
17:09What also came to an end that year was his relationship with Maria Shriver.
17:13This was without any doubt the biggest setback and the biggest failure.
17:18Though their divorce wouldn't be finalized for another 10 years, what prompted the split
17:22was the discovery that Schwarzenegger had fathered a child in 1997 with their housemaid
17:27Mildred Baina.
17:28You wrote that if you told her, then she would tell her family and you'd be afraid
17:33that it would spin out from there.
17:35Which exactly is what happened.
17:37Schwarzenegger wasn't even aware of this until the boy started taking on his distinctive features,
17:41at which point he started providing financial support.
17:44Rumors regarding the child were finally put to bed in May of 2011, when Schwarzenegger confirmed
17:49the story.
17:50Have you been able to be a father to Joseph, your son with Mildred?
17:53Uh, yes.
17:54And, uh, you know, I will look at him as a son and I will, uh, you know, take care of
18:01him financially and also have Mildred.
18:03So that's my obligation that I'm doing it.
18:05Number two, Brangelina.
18:07Hollywood power couples are nothing new, but few have marked the 21st century quite like
18:12Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie.
18:13Dance with me.
18:17You don't dance.
18:19You're just part of my cover, sweetheart.
18:21From 2000 to 2005, Pitt was married to Jennifer Aniston of Friends fame, but their split sparked
18:26gossip about he and Jolie, his Mr. and Mrs. Smith co-star.
18:30Rumors had already circulated that Pitt and Jolie had gotten more than friendly on set,
18:34leading many to question if the timelines overlapped.
18:37Parties involved denied the claims, but in 2008, after Brangelina was well-established,
18:42they confirmed they indeed fell in love on set, despite reaffirming there was no actual
18:47infidelity.
18:48And do you feel that your relationship styles are more conducive to the sleep flow?
18:52That's a sex question.
18:55Jolie.
18:58Uh, what about that?
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19:17Number one, the Harvey Weinstein scandal.
19:20The worst kept secret in Hollywood was also one of the most egregious.
19:24Congratulations, you five ladies no longer have to pretend to be attracted to Harvey Weinstein.
19:28In 2017, the New York Times and the New Yorker published exposés on Harvey Weinstein and his
19:35so-called casting couches.
19:36With dozens of women accusing the movie producer of various forms of assault, going back decades.
19:42These young women walked into what they all had reason to believe were business meetings
19:45with a producer, an employer.
19:48They were hopeful.
19:49They were expecting a serious conversation about their work or a possible project.
19:53Instead, they say he met them with threats and sexual demands.
19:56Weinstein's shitty practices were something of a dark joke in Hollywood beforehand, with numerous
20:01celebrities alluding to his skeezy ways.
20:03As of today, more than 100 women have come forward against Weinstein, leading to his arrest
20:08in 2018 and his sentencing in 2020 to 23 years in prison.
20:13Judge telling the court today that this may be his first conviction, but it is not Harvey
20:20Weinstein's first offense.
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