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Some celebrity scandals didn’t just end careers — they kept getting worse.
In this video, we count down 10 shocking celebrity scandals that destroyed reputations, changed lives, and spiraled into even bigger controversies over time.
From shocking revelations to public meltdowns, these scandals prove how fast fame can turn into disaster.
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In this video, we count down 10 shocking celebrity scandals that destroyed reputations, changed lives, and spiraled into even bigger controversies over time.
From shocking revelations to public meltdowns, these scandals prove how fast fame can turn into disaster.
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00:00You're not operating well, but you know you have to do something."
00:04Welcome to WatchMojo, and today we're looking at celebrity scandals with twists that had
00:08our jaws on the floor.
00:09They said a car came, a limousine came, and took her away.
00:14Tiger Woods
00:15There aren't too many pro golfers who have become household names, but if there's been
00:18one name synonymous with the sport, it's Tiger Woods.
00:20But his reputation changed forever in 2009.
00:22Once, one woman was discovered, many more followed.
00:26The Lynxman crashed his SUV outside of his Florida home, and reports began to emerge
00:30that he was involved in numerous affairs.
00:32I mean, to move from dominating a golf tournament to being married and having children, and
00:41then moving from woman to woman to woman to woman.
00:46In many ways, Tiger was living four, five, six, seven different lives at a time.
00:52Jamie Grubbs, one of the women with whom Woods was having an affair, shared explicit
00:56texts he had sent her with the press, and more came forward with allegations of their affairs
01:00after.
01:01Wait a minute, you felt it was your fault that the crash was?
01:03Yeah.
01:04You felt that it was because perhaps Elin had found out about you?
01:06Yes.
01:07Yeah.
01:08So, I mean, that was a very hard thing to bear.
01:10Woods apologized and took a hiatus from his sport, but this scandal forever changed his
01:14previously wholesome image.
01:15I've had a lot of time to think about what I've done.
01:19My failures have made me look at myself in a way I never wanted to before.
01:28Khloe Kardashian and Tristan Thompson.
01:30After two years together, Tristan Thompson was caught cheating on his girlfriend Khloe
01:34Kardashian just days before their first child together was born.
01:36Hello.
01:37Hey, are you okay?
01:38Yeah.
01:39Do you want me to come down there?
01:42No.
01:43Yeah.
01:46Just a year later, Thompson was exposed yet again for kissing Jordyn Woods, the then-bestie
01:51of Kardashian's half-sister Kylie Jenner, at a party.
01:54I was just hoping for a better outcome for my daughter and for myself.
02:00And the infidelity didn't stop there.
02:01In December 2021, Thompson became the father of another woman's child.
02:05This was all while he and Kardashian, who were secretly engaged, were preparing to have
02:09their second child together.
02:10If me and Tristan are fighting, if we're not getting along, any of them, we're not getting
02:13along.
02:14Any of that?
02:15My kids don't know about it.
02:16They don't need to know about it.
02:17Jussie Smollett
02:18Jussie Smollett's empire came crumbling down in 2019 after it was revealed that he essentially
02:22masterminded a hoax of a hate crime staged against himself.
02:25He did this all in the name of self-promotion.
02:28As it turned out, Smollett had recruited a pair of brothers, Abimbola and Olabinjo Osundaro,
02:33who had been extras on his series to orchestrate the drama.
02:36While in disguise, the brothers shouted racist and homophobic slurs, with one pouring bleach
02:40on the actor, while the other put a noose around his neck.
02:42I've been truthful and consistent on every single level since day one.
02:46These same brothers would testify at a later date that the attack was staged near a surveillance
02:49camera so that video of these events could be publicized.
02:52You do such a disservice when you lie about things like this.
02:55Kim Kardashian and Kanye West's recording of Taylor Swift.
02:58The constantly controversial Kanye West and his then-wife influencer Kim Kardashian alleged
03:03Taylor Swift had given her blessing to an inflammatory lyric about her on the rapper's
03:07song, Famous, something Swift herself denied.
03:09I feel like me and Taylor might still have sex.
03:12Kardashian nevertheless persisted, even going so far as to release supposed video footage
03:16of Swift approving the lyric.
03:17Um, yeah.
03:18I mean, go with whatever line you can do better.
03:21There, however, the call leaked in full, and as it turns out, while Swift did approve one
03:25line, she did not explicitly approve another, more derogatory line about her that ended up
03:29on the record.
03:30I made that bitch famous!
03:32And thus continued the never-ending saga of the Kanye-Taylor feud.
03:362019 college admissions scandal
03:38Several wealthy celebrity parents were exposed during the 2019 college admissions scandal,
03:42aka Operation Varsity Blues, for paying to secure their children's admission to elite
03:46universities.
03:47Federal prosecutors call this the biggest case of college admissions fraud that they've ever
03:52handled.
03:53Among those exposed by the scandal were Full House actress Lori Loughlin, along with her
03:56husband, who submitted photos they staged of their daughters on rowing machines.
04:00This attempt to portray their children as athletes they were not was damning.
04:03Well, the college admissions scandal took another turn this week, with federal prosecutors
04:07releasing the photographs that Lori Loughlin and Massimo Giannulli allegedly took of their
04:11daughters on a rowing machine as part of a scam to get them into USC.
04:14It's no wonder both parents would end up pleading guilty to conspiracy charges that resulted
04:18in heavy fines and prison sentences.
04:20Also caught up in the scandal was fellow actress Felicity Huffman.
04:23I know hindsight is 20-20, but it felt like I would be a bad mother if I didn't do it.
04:29Amber Heard, Johnny Depp Trial
04:30Johnny Depp sued his ex-wife Amber Heard after a 2018 opinion piece was published in the Washington
04:35Post in which Heard alleged she had been subjected to domestic violence.
04:38I was wanting to lend my name at that specific time to potentially advance the causes within
04:47the op-ed.
04:48Depp insisted that it was he who had been a victim of violence at her hands.
04:51A turning point came during the trial when audio was played of an argument between the
04:54couple during which Heard appears to recognize having hit Depp and berates him for objecting
04:58to it.
04:59This evidence likely played a key part in the jury's ultimate decision to hold Heard liable
05:08for defaming her former husband.
05:10What was the hardest part of this case, do you think, for Depp's team?
05:13Without question, you have to demonstrate that this was done with a malicious intent.
05:18Very difficult to do in a case.
05:19Justin Timberlake and Janet Jackson
05:21At the end of their joint performance at the 2004 Super Bowl halftime show, Justin Timberlake
05:25ripped away part of fellow performer Janet Jackson's costume, exposing her breast.
05:36This caused an immediate uproar and added wardrobe malfunction to our collective vocabulary.
05:40To have sexualized the Super Bowl in the manner that they did it is just unforgivable.
05:47In the wake of the incident, Timberlake only saw his stardom rise further and further.
05:51Unfortunately, while his career continued to thrive, Jackson's began to flounder, and
05:56Timberlake would later be criticized for not supporting the singer.
05:58He did apologize for this in 2021, but a near 20-year late apology doesn't quite cut
06:03it for us.
06:04When you have everyone whispering about you, and the majority of it is not favorable,
06:12that could pull you to a different place.
06:14Woody Allen and Soon-Yi Previn
06:15Writer-director Woody Allen is known for his award-winning films and the neurotic, self-deprecating
06:20characters he often plays in them.
06:22Alva, you're incapable of enjoying life, you know that?
06:24I mean, you're like New York City, you're just this person, you're like this island
06:28unto yourself.
06:29I can't enjoy anything unless everybody is.
06:32You know, if one guy is starving someplace, that's, you know, I put a crimp in my evening.
06:37He courted Scandal in the early 90s, however, when it was discovered that he had been having
06:40a secret affair while in a long-term relationship with Mia Farrow.
06:44Just an affair would be one thing, but it was who it was with that's still shocking to this day.
06:48Soon-Yi, Farrow's adopted daughter from her previous marriage.
06:50Taking her to the Knicks games by herself, telling her she could be a model.
06:55If that wasn't messed up enough, she was 35 years his junior.
06:58Mia had gotten Soon-Yi a job at a camp for the summer, but then she was almost immediately
07:04let go from the camp because she couldn't participate in any camp activities because
07:09she spent all of her time talking to a man on the phone, a man named Mr. Simon.
07:14And we all knew that must have had to be Woody.
07:16Despite the controversy, the two got married in 1997 and are still together decades later.
07:21Mel Gibson's DUI in Drunken Rant
07:23In Hollywood, it's an unfortunate reality that a DUI is a pretty bog-standard scandal,
07:27the sort of thing that will typically be forgotten in a matter of months if not weeks.
07:30So how drunk were you?
07:32It's not a question of how drunk you are or you're impaired.
07:39Your judgment is impaired enough to do insane things like try and drive.
07:44However, sometimes celebrities simply can't seem to keep their mouths shut after being arrested,
07:48and that's where things get interesting.
07:50In 2006, Mel Gibson was pulled over in Malibu with an open bottle of tequila in his car.
07:54After being handcuffed and placed in a squad car, Gibson began spewing anti-semitic remarks
07:58towards the Jewish police officer arresting him.
08:01He became uncooperative, profane.
08:04The obligatory apologies followed, but that damage to the star's image was done.
08:08Are those anti-semitic words?
08:10Oh yeah, yeah, absolutely.
08:13Sounds horrible, and I'm ashamed of that.
08:16That came out of my mouth, and I'm not that.
08:18That's not who I am, you know?
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08:35Judy Garland's Afflictions
08:37Judy Garland was one of the brightest young stars of her era,
08:39jumping off the screen in classics like The Wizard of Oz and Meet Me in St. Louis.
08:43Clang, clang, clang went the trolley, ding, ding, ding went the bell.
08:49Unfortunately, her early stardom came with a cost,
08:52one being mandated by the very studios profiting off of her.
08:55While she was still just a teenager,
08:56the starlet was given amphetamines in order to keep her energy up and maintain her weight
09:00and sleeping pills at night.
09:02After shooting all day long, she'd come home, she'd want to have her dinner,
09:05she had to learn her script, she had to take a bath.
09:07We all went through that, but with Judy, because she was so high-strung and sensitive,
09:12she couldn't sleep at night.
09:13This would have devastating consequences in her later years,
09:16with Garland's life cut short by the addictions she'd developed during this time.
09:19When you have someone with that much talent, the exploitation of it becomes part of the adulation.
09:28Is there an even more shocking scandal we missed? Let us know in the comments.
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