Not too long ago, we wrote about wild movie star information, and now we’re again for extra. Listed here are 33 extra stunning information about celebrities you will not imagine are true.
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Charlize Theron witnessed her mom kill her father. Born to Gerda Maritz and Charles Theron in South Africa in 1975, Charlize witnessed loads of household violence. When she was 15, Gerda shot Charles in self-defense in entrance of Charlize. “My father was so drunk that he should not have been in a position to stroll when he got here into the home with a gun. My mother and I had been in my bed room leaning in opposition to the door as a result of he was making an attempt to push via the door,” Theron recalled. “So each of us had been leaning in opposition to the door from the within to have him not be capable of push via. He took a step again and simply shot via the door thrice. None of these bullets ever hit us, which is only a miracle. However in self-defense, she [Charlize’s mother] ended the risk.”
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Tina Fey was stabbed in her entrance yard as a child and nonetheless has a scar on her face due to it. She was solely 5 years previous and was taking part in within the yard when a stranger approached with a knife, slicing her cheek. Fey was apparently confused, pondering she had been marked with a pen. “I proceeded, unaware of it. I used to be a really assured little child. It is actually virtually like I am type of in a position to neglect about it till I used to be on-camera,” Fey mentioned.
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In one other darker entry to this checklist, Matthew Broderick as soon as prompted the loss of life of somebody whereas driving. Broderick (with then-girlfriend Jennifer Gray as a passenger) drove on the mistaken facet of the highway in Eire in 1987 and prompted a crash that killed 63-year-old Margaret Doherty and her 28-year-old daughter, Anna Gallagher. He was solely charged with careless driving and paid a $175 superb. This occurred solely days earlier than Soiled Dancing was launched, catapulting Gray into stardom.
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Phill Lewis, who it’s possible you’ll bear in mind as Mr. Moseby in The Suite Lifetime of Zack and Cody, additionally killed somebody whereas driving. The actor drove drunk and fatally hit a 21-year-old girl in 1991. He served one yr in jail in the midst of his profession, then went proper again to a booming appearing profession, showing in quite a lot of sitcoms earlier than starting his tenure with Disney.
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David Bowie did not have heterochromia, as many imagine. His eyes seem completely different as a result of their pupils are very completely different sizes, which is known as anisocoria. He was not born with this situation; he really had gotten right into a battle together with his pal George Underwood as an adolescent. The 2 apparently had a crush on the identical woman, with Bowie “boasting” to Underwood about being a “casanova.” Underwood bought upset and punched Bowie within the eye, scratching it unintentionally together with his fingernail. Funnily sufficient, there have been no lasting laborious emotions, and Underwood would go on to turn into an enormous collaborator of Bowie’s.
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Dwayne “the Rock” Johnson reportedly had a breast discount as a result of having gynecomastia, the place a person’s breast tissue swells. Within the 2000s, he is mentioned to have undergone gynecomastia surgical procedure, which is a discount of breast tissue. In response to the World Leisure Information Community, he mentioned of the surgical procedure: “It was an aesthetic factor. I went in and confirmed the physician, and he mentioned, ‘Are you loopy?’ I used to be strolling round with my shirt off on a regular basis, so I had it executed.”
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Prolific singer Johnny Money was one of many very first Individuals to be taught of Stalin’s loss of life. Throughout the Chilly Warfare, Money was tasked with intercepting and decoding messages from the Soviets, and it is lengthy been rumored that he was the one to alert US officers — who alerted then–President Eisenhower — that Stalin had died. His daughter Roseanne confirmed the rumor: “He advised me and my siblings about it many occasions over our lives.”
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Money additionally prompted an enormous wildfire in 1965 that just about utterly destroyed a inhabitants of endangered birds. Money’s autobiography states he was leaving a fishing journey when he pulled over to take care of his camper’s squeaky wheel. He discovered oil dripping onto the new wheel, which began a grass hearth that rapidly grew and burned 500 acres of the Los Padres Nationwide Forest, which is a sanctuary for the endangered California Condors. Ultimately, 49 of the 53 Condors there have been killed. Money was sued by the federal government and within the deposition, mentioned, “I do not give a rattling about your yellow buzzards. Why ought to I care?” He settled with the federal government and paid a $82,001 superb.
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Bryan Cranston and his brother had been as soon as homicide suspects. The 2 had been working quickly at a restaurant in Florida to make some cash whereas on an extended journey across the US. The restaurant’s chef, Peter Wong, apparently “hated everybody” and was unpopular amongst the employees, who would joke about how they’d “do away” with him. Having earned sufficient cash, the brothers left to go north. Across the identical time, Peter Wong went lacking. When investigators questioned the restaurant employees, they pointed to the Cranstons. “Little did we all know they put out an APB [all-points bulletin] on us and to search out us, we had been someplace within the Carolinas, I believe, at that time,” Cranston recalled. Fortunately, investigators discovered the true murderers earlier than the Cranstons.
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That is not the one wild story from Cranston’s life. He additionally met prolific cult chief Charles Manson in 1968, only a yr earlier than Manson’s followers brutally murdered Sharon Tate and her mates. Cranston was horseback using together with his cousin at Spahn Ranch, the place Manson and his followers resided. Cranston tweeted that he “noticed the little man with loopy eyes whom the opposite hippies known as Charlie.” Cranston was solely 12 on the time.
“I did not really meet Charles Manson, however I used to be as shut as I’m to you,” Cranston claimed in an interview the place he additionally spoke concerning the encounter, sitting proper subsequent to the interviewer. “We had been renting the horses, and this younger man, bearded man, got here in screaming, ‘Charlie’s on the hill!’ And a couple of dozen folks galloped away,” Cranston recounted. “I could not take my eyes off him.” A yr later, after Manson’s arrest, Cranston acknowledged him instantly.
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Talking of Manson — he was pleasant with quite a lot of massive gamers in Hollywood, together with Dennis Wilson and Mike Love, the co-founders of the Seaside Boys. In actual fact, Manson and his mates really moved into Wilson’s home. Wilson later allegedly advised Love that he’d seen Manson homicide a Black man (although that is contested), inflicting Wilson to interrupt off the friendship.
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And talking of the Tate homicide…Sharon Tate and her mates weren’t the meant targets, based on prosecutors — Tate simply occurred to stay in the home as soon as owned by music producer Terry Melcher, who had rejected proposals to make a document with Manson. Melcher, the son of well-known actor and singer Doris Day, testified at Manson’s trial that he had met Manson via Dennis Wilson and gave him an audition however in the end determined to not work with him.
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Steve McQueen got here very near being killed by the Manson household that evening. He had been invited to Tate’s home, and the one motive he did not go, based on his then-wife Neile Adams, was that he “ran right into a chickie and determined to go off together with her as a substitute.”
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Rick James was additionally presupposed to be at Tate’s. His supervisor Jay Sebring — who was murdered that evening — invited James and his girlfriend, however James was excessive and drunk and didn’t go. He noticed the headlines concerning the murders when he wakened.
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Talking of killers, Debbie Harry — who turned well-known because the frontwoman of Blondie — was as soon as given a trip by Ted Bundy. Leaving a serving shift late at evening within the Nineteen Seventies, she was making an attempt to get residence however could not discover a cab and was uninterested in strolling in her heels. A automobile was circling, with a person providing her a trip, and he or she determined to get in, however rapidly noticed that was a mistake. “For one, it was extremely popular within the automobile, and the home windows rolled up practically to the highest,” she recounted in 2002. “The man had a white shirt, and he was very handsome. Then I spotted this man had the worst BO I’ve ever smelt. Then I seemed over on the door to crank down the window and noticed there was no door deal with, no crank. I forged my eyes round and noticed that the automobile had been gutted. There was nothing in there. The hairs on the again of my neck stood up.”
Harry tried to open the door from the skin, sticking her arm via the opening within the window, however Bundy noticed what she was doing. “As quickly as he noticed that, he tried to show the nook actually quick, and I spun out of the automobile and landed in the midst of the road.” Having escaped Bundy, who would later confess to 30 murders (a lot of which had been of younger girls), Harry mentioned, “I used to be so fortunate.”
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Yet one more celeb/assassin connection…Sean Penn was as soon as in jail with the notorious Night time Stalker serial killer. In actual fact, the assassin, Richard Ramirez, primarily despatched Penn fan mail asking for an autograph. Penn, who was spending 60 days in jail on the time for reckless driving and punching an additional, mentioned Ramirez wrote, “Hey, Sean, keep robust and hit them once more — Richard Ramirez, 666.” Penn replied with a notice saying he felt “completely no kinship” with Ramirez, regardless of each being inmates and mentioned, “I hope fuel descends upon you earlier than sanity does, you realize? It might be a kinder manner out.”
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Oh, and talking of celebrities in jail, Jordan Belfort and Tommy Chong had been cellmates. In case you forgot, Belfort is a former stockbroker and legal who Leonardo DiCaprio famously portrayed in The Wolf of Wall Road, which was based mostly on Belfort’s memoir. Belfort started his memoir in jail for his monetary crimes — after he bought the thought from his cellmate, Tommy Chong, who was serving time for promoting drug paraphernalia. The 2 had turn into mates and regaled one another with humorous tales from their lives. After a couple of nights of this, Chong urged Belfort write a ebook.
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Steve Buscemi, a former firefighter, spent 5 12-hour days digging folks out of the rubble after 9/11, in search of survivors. Feeling depressed and anxious after the assaults, he headed for the positioning and located his previous engine firm, asking if he might be part of them. The Brotherhood of Hearth Fb web page later identified, “Only a few images and no interviews exist as a result of he declined them. He wasn’t there for the publicity.”
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Talking of 9/11, James Cameron missed the world-altering occasion solely as a result of he was filming the Titanic wreckage. He was filming the documentary Ghosts of the Abyss, which concerned underwater footage of the Titanic wreckage and Titanic star Invoice Paxton, on September 11, 2001. Twelve hours after the assaults, Cameron surfaced from an underwater dive and requested Paxton, “What is that this factor that is occurring?” and Paxton replied, “The worst terrorist assault in historical past, Jim.” Cameron hypothesized he “was presumably the final man within the Western Hemisphere to find out about what had occurred.”
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In response to his brother Jermaine, Michael Jackson was meant to have a gathering on the World Commerce Heart on 9/11. He missed the assembly by oversleeping as a result of he’d been up late the evening earlier than speaking together with his household.
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And Mark Wahlberg and Seth McFarlene had been each meant to be on flights that crashed that day. Wahlberg had determined last-minute to go to a movie competition in Canada as a substitute, and McFarlene was hungover and missed his flight by 10 minutes.
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In an excellent wilder 9/11 instance, actor and comic Steve Rannazzisi claimed to have been within the towers throughout 9/11. He mentioned he’d been working at Merrill Lynch on the 54th ground of the Twin Towers through the 9/11 assaults. “The primary tower bought hit, and we bought jostled in every single place,” he recounted. “Then the Port Authority got here on the loudspeaker, ‘Explosion in Tower 1, issues are being taken care of, everybody stay the place you might be, keep calm, we’re figuring issues out.’ And I used to be like, ‘I will examine this factor out. I went downstairs, went outdoors, noticed all of the pandemonium, after which about 5 – 6 minutes later, ‘bang’ [the second tower was struck]…” He admitted in 2022 that this story was a falsehood: “I do not know why I mentioned this. This was inexcusable. I’m really, really sorry.”
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Frank Sinatra’s mother, Dolly, was a fierce advocate of girls’s rights and carried out unlawful abortions within the ’30s and ’40s, which reportedly led to not less than six arrests. She was additionally arrested for demonstrating in favor of girls’s suffrage. Oh, and he or she additionally apparently ran a bootleg bar throughout Prohibition. Mainly, Dolly is my idol.
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One other star with a prolific relative is Olivia Newton-John. Her grandfather, Max Born, was a Nobel Prize-winning physicist who was mates with Einstein and labored as Oppenheimer’s supervisor. The 2 got here up with the well-known Born-Oppenheimer approximation in quantum physics.
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Joaquin Phoenix was raised within the Youngsters of God cult, alongside together with his late brother, River Phoenix. His dad and mom had been “archbishops” of the non secular group, preaching concerning the group in Venezuela and Trinidad. The group has been accused of utilizing intercourse as a recruitment tactic, and Phoenix mentioned his dad and mom left after they found this, as their involvement had been “idealistic” and “harmless.” Phoenix was three once they left. The cult was accused of kid abuse, which it denied, however River Phoenix claimed he had his first sexual expertise within the cult when he was simply 4.
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Rose McGowan additionally grew up in the identical cult, residing in a Youngsters of God commune in Italy till she was 9. Her dad and mom fled after the cult started pushing child-adult sexual relationships, main her father to concern that Rose would turn into a sufferer.
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David and Patricia Arquette grew up in a commune began by their dad and mom. Together with different advocates of the Subud non secular motion, they purchased an previous Christian summer season camp and settled there with their households. The Arquette household slept in a single room with no operating water or electrical energy for 4 years.
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Jackie Chan starred in a porn movie very early in his profession. In 1975, he starred in All within the Household, together with a widely known porn star of the time. It was apparently additionally a comedy. Talking concerning the function years later, Chan mentioned, “I needed to do something I might to make a residing 31 years in the past, however I do not assume it is a massive deal; even Marlon Brando was once uncovered in his films. The porn film at the moment was extra conservative than the present movies.”
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And considered one of Sylvester Stallone’s first roles was in a softcore porn movie known as The Occasion at Kitty and Stud’s. He solely auditioned for the movie as a result of he’d been evicted and was sleeping on the Port Authority Bus Terminal. He mentioned he’d had to decide on between doing the film or robbing somebody, saying he was at “the very finish” of his rope. Starring within the movie gave him $200 and bought him out of being unhoused.
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One other wild celeb story entails Sylvester’s costar, Dolph Lundgren, who memorably performed the ruthless boxer Ivan Drago reverse Stallone in Rocky IV. In 2009, masked burglars broke into Lundgren’s home, not realizing who it belonged to, and tied up his spouse, Anette Qviberg, forcing her handy over cash and jewellery. The thieves then noticed household images that includes Lundgren…and rapidly fled, frightened of the famously robust and tall movie star.
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You in all probability already know Jane Fonda comes from a well-known household, however you possible did not know she additionally comes from royalty. Fonda is expounded to Jane Seymour, considered one of Henry VIII’s six wives (which embrace Anne Boleyn — notably, the wives are the topic of the musical Six.) In actual fact, she was named after Jane — and says she glided by Girl till the fourth grade in reference to Seymour.
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Metallica is likely one of the few musical acts to have carried out in Antarctica. After this present, which occurred in 2013, they turned the first-ever band to have carried out on each continent. In actual fact, they carried out in each single continent over the course of 1 calendar yr.
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And eventually, Michael Keaton’s actual identify is Michael Douglas. Actors usually need to register a unique identify with SAG-AFTRA, the actor’s union, if their start identify is taken (Emma Stone’s actual identify is Emily Stone for that reason, for instance). But it surely’s uncommon that the opposite identify belongs to a star of the identical degree, and it is humorous to me that two prolific actors have the very same identify.
