Even though celebrities live their lives in the public eye, these famous faces were able
to keep their controversial dealings off the radar.
That is, until now.
Let's take a look at the jaw-dropping moments that exposed these dark celeb secrets in 2019.
Ever since Lamar Odom and Khloe Kardashian's marriage went belly-up in 2016, bits and pieces
of information regarding their failed union have trickled into the media.
"Do you know the interviews he's doing?
He's now wearing his ring full time.
F--- your ring, you were wearing it when you were f---ing someone, too.”
But Odom exposed all the secret details in his 2019 memoir, Darkness to Light, including
one scandalous incident at the Roosevelt Hotel in 2012.
He wrote,
"I had arranged for two strippers to meet me there for an indefinite stay.
I had reached out to my drug contact and had a nice little stash."
"When you're an addict and you find those demons, you can't even really, you're not
loving yourself.”
Kardashian allegedly saw the room charge pop up on his credit card, and she showed up later
that night at the hotel with her mom, Kris Jenner, and their security team.
Odom said,
"There were […] girls everywhere, Khloe opened the door and pounced on the first girl
she saw."
With Jenner supposedly screaming for security to help corral her daughter, Odom claimed
Khloe instructed him to pack up his belongings and told security to quote, "remove all traces
of the drugs" from the room before they all snuck out the back.
"I appreciate that it's so honest.
Yeah.
It's not all great, but it's, I appreciate the honesty in it."
The Jersey Shore cast sure knows how to party - and Ronnie could hang with the best of them.
But fans had no idea he was struggling until he revealed to Us Weekly in February 2019
that he had entered rehab for quote "depression and alcohol abuse."
"I'm proud of stuff, but I'm not proud of a lot of stuff.”
He told the outlet,
"I decided to go to treatment because I wanted to be a better person, a better father for
my daughter."
Ronnie claims he has struggled with substance abuse for a while, adding,
"You stop and you start up again, and it's worse than when you stopped.
You're just like, 'Wow, I thought I had this under control,' but at the end of the day,
it has full control over you."
Hopefully, he's now acquired the tools he needs to stay on the straight and narrow.
Wendy Williams had a rough 2019.
Allegations emerged that her then-husband, Kevin Hunter, was cheating on her with a mistress,
and had allegedly fathered a child with the other woman.
But there were even more secrets surrounding The Wendy Williams Show.
"Either you're calling me crazy, or the bravest woman you know.
I don't care.”
Beginning in late 2018, Williams took a break from her hit TV show, claiming she was experiencing
complications from Graves disease, according to her Instagram.
But upon her return in March 2019, Williams revealed she had been secretly living in a
sober facility.
"You know I've had a struggle with cocaine in my past.
I never went to a place to get the treatment."
Williams said that at the end of her busy days shooting the show and attending meetings,
her 24-hour sober coach would drive her to a group home where she would watch TV with
her housemates, whom she described as quote, "a bunch of smelly boys who have become my
family."
"They don't know I'm Wendy, they don't care I'm Wendy.
There's no autographs, there's no nothing.
It's the brothers and sisters caught up in the struggle.”
One of the most shocking stories of 2019 was the arrest of former Full House star Lori
Loughlin.
Loughlin and her husband, fashion guru Mossimo Giannulli, were accused of paying $500,000
to get their daughters, Olivia Jade and Bella, admitted into the University of Southern California
as recruits for the school's crew team.
Neither of the girls even participated in the sport.
"I always thought I don't want to do anything that one day might rear its ugly head and
my children have to pay the price for that.”
After getting nabbed, Loughlin and her husband opted against taking a plea deal and pleaded
not guilty to all the charges, according to Entertainment Tonight.
In the aftermath, the Hallmark Channel gave Loughlin the old heave-ho, and HP ditched
an ad that featured Loughlin and Olivia Jade, according to CNN.
Olivia Jade lost some deals of her own, too, including lucrative partnerships with Sephora
and Tresemmé.
Loughlin wasn't the only celebrity who got caught up in the college admissions scandal.
“Boo!”
In March 2019, The New York Times reported actress Felicity Huffman was arrested, and
later pleaded guilty to:
"Conspiracy to commit mail fraud and honest services mail fraud, acknowledging that she
paid $15,000 to arrange for cheating on her daughter's SAT test."
According to the Times, after Huffman's daughter left the SAT testing facility, a quote "proctor
corrected her answers."
According to USA Today, ahead of her Sept. 13, 2019 sentencing date, Huffman entered
a plea agreement in which quote, "federal prosecutors recommended…a four-month prison
sentence," which is much lower than the "maximum 20 years the charges carry."
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