From steamy limo hookups and bedroom spankings to being hot and bothered by Nic Cage's dreamy eyes
in "Face/Off," some celebs aren't shy at all about revealing their most intimate, dirtiest secrets.
For years, the press controlled the narrative of Prince Harry's romantic exploits,
as he adhered to the unofficial motto of the British royal family, "Never complain,
never explain." But when Harry stepped down as a working royal, he was finally able to speak
for himself. And one of the stories the prince decided to share was how he lost his virginity.
In his 2023 memoir "Spare," Harry recounted the awkward experience, writing,
"She liked horses, quite a lot, and treated me not unlike a young stallion. […] Among
the many things about it that were wrong: It happened in a grassy field behind a busy pub."
He also revealed that the woman was older than him. Soon,
a former horse groomer named Sasha Walpole stepped forward to out herself as the woman
in question. While commenting on her brief hookup with the prince, she told The Sun:
"I found it quite funny. It made no difference that it was Harry at all."
"We were two friends and for me I still see him as Harry. I still see
him as a friend that I used to hang out with down at the pub."
Kelly Ripa and her husband, Mark Consuelos, are one of those celebrity couples who share
a lot about their love lives. And when they talk about what goes on in their bedroom,
they often do it in front of a morning television audience.
"Our show is super irreverent. It is very much in the moment. We don't have script writers."
"It's improv."
So, when Ripa published a memoir, her longtime fans had to know that it would
include an intimate bedroom story or two. In her 2022 book "Live Wire:
Long-Winded Short Stories," Ripa recalled how she lost consciousness while having sex and woke up
in the E.R. She learned that two ovarian cysts had caused her to black out. Ripa then added that her
husband seemed more concerned about snacking than the fact that her cysts had ruptured. She wrote:
"There he is, happily munching on the saltines now
and ordering a second apple juice. Mark could be at a movie, or a spa."
Ripa was also horrified that her hubby had dressed her in high heels,
a pair of his workout pants, and a leotard. She wrote:
"It's still baffling to me to this day that this is the best
costume for the day that he could find for me."
In a March 2023 episode of her "Broad Ideas" podcast, actor Rachel Bilson revealed that she
didn't have an orgasm until she was 38-years-old. Jezebel consulted Bilson's well-documented
relationship history and determined that she was dating "Barry" actor Bill Hader around
that time. Her previous exes included Adam Brody and "Star Wars" alum Hayden Christensen.
But lest anyone think that she was elevating one ex and shading others,
Bilson soon clarified her comments on an episode of "The Viall Files." She told host Nick Viall,
"It has nothing to do with any partners, okay? It had to do with me knowing my body."
She then added:
"Nobody was involved other than myself."
However, when Bilson was asked what she missed most about Hader,
she said on her "Broad Ideas" podcast that it wasn't his sense of humor,
but instead a certain appendage. Though she said this with a laugh, Bilson added,
"We can keep that."
While Jennifer Coolidge was basking in all of the attention for her critically acclaimed role
in "The White Lotus," she regularly fielded questions about her past filmography. This
included her role as Stifler's mom in "American Pie," which helped popularize the term MILF.
"Milf! Milf! Milf!"
In a 2022 interview with Variety, Coolidge revealed that playing a
seductive housewife gave her love life a big boost. She joked to the outlet:
"I got a lot of sexual action from 'American Pie.'"
However, when Ariana Grande interviewed her for Entertainment Weekly a few months later,
Coolidge said that she'd jokingly exaggerated her
number of romantic partners by placing it at 200. She confessed to Grande:
"But it did sort of open up the world to a much broader group of handsome men — and younger men."
In the same interview, Coolidge recounted one
memorable encounter with a younger man. She recalled:
"The next morning, I told him I needed to get a blow dry. So he was so young,
we called his mother to see where I could get a blow dry. It was so weird
that happened on the phone, it was very clear that we were in the bed together."
But seeing as the guy's mom knew just the right place,
Coolidge's awkward morning resulted in a satisfying trip to the hair salon.
In his 2000 memoir "The Rock Says," Dwayne Johnson wrote,
"I've always been attracted to older women, and they've often reciprocated."
He shared some examples, including the 18-year-old high school senior named Maria whom he dated at
age 14. He was a virgin at the time but convinced Maria that he was sexually experienced. He wrote:
"She believed that I had lost my virginity at the age of ten
and that women (not just 'girls') had been lining up ever since."
According to Johnson, he and Maria decided to lose their
virginities to each other. He wrote in his book:
"We wound up in a public park, on a warm summer night, with a big
Hawaiian moon casting a spotlight on our desperate little dance."
But the moonlight was soon obscured by a spotlight from two police officers in a patrol vehicle. The
cops called Maria to the car and expressed concern for her safety. However, they left
when she explained that the guy hiding under the illuminated blanket nearby was her boyfriend.
When Meghan Trainor spoke about her love life on her "Workin' On It" podcast in April 2023,
she revealed that her husband, actor Daryl Sabara,
has BDE. Trainor was talking about how painful sex is for her,
but she explained that the issue is unrelated to her revelation about Sabara's anatomy.
"I was told I have something called vigimisal or something? Vigisimal?"
"What's that?"
"Vaginismus!"
Trainor then added that she, quote,
"thought that every woman walking around was always in pain during and after sex."
Trainor was surprised when her doctor informed her that this is not the case. Her condition
causes the muscles of the vagina to tightly clench when intercourse is initiated, which
is why she was in so much agony. However, she was apparently so determined to get pregnant with her
second child that she tried to power through the pain. The singer recalled on her podcast,
"I f---ing had to ice myself after."
Trainor learned that her issue wasn't just physical but psychological, as well.
In an appearance on the "High Low with EmRata" podcast, she explained to host Emily Ratajkowski,
"I think [sex is] really gonna hurt, apparently."
She then added that the anticipation of pain will usually cause her to tense up.
Some actors don't enjoy watching their significant other in a steamy sex scene
with another star. But according to Joshua Jackson, his wife, actor Jodie Turner-Smith,
doesn't mind watching him pretend to get it on with other women. Jackson told Variety in 2023,
"The sex scenes themselves, Jodie kind of enjoys them, actually. It's a weird
thing where she's like a voyeur. So that works! If that's your thing — excellent."
Turner-Smith previously admitted this herself in an interview with Vanity Fair,
revealing that she was a fan of Jackson's racier moments in "The Affair." She told the outlet,
"I can't wait to see my husband f---ing on screen again. [...] I love to see him do stuff where he
can continue to lean into the idea of him as the sex symbol that he is, because he's a sex symbol."
In his 2022 memoir "Friends, Lovers, and the Big Terrible Thing," Matthew Perry shared some bleak
revelations about his life. He revealed that he began drinking at a young age, and once downed
half a dozen beers to calm his nerves after a girl expressed an interest in hooking up.
Because his attempt at making this happen ended in failure, Perry assumed he was impotent. He wrote:
"I failed to make the correlation between the booze and my private parts not working."
Perry's belief about his body became an even more painful burden to bear when he
met Tricia Leigh Fisher, the half-sister of "Star Wars" actor Carrie Fisher. They
began dating when Perry was 18. When Perry told Tricia about his issue,
he felt like he was sharing a secret that would spell doom for their relationship. However,
Tricia questioned the accuracy of her boyfriend's self-diagnosis and ultimately
ended up becoming his first sexual partner. Perry jokingly wrote of the experience:
"Sheer glory for two whole minutes."
Unfortunately, Perry continued to struggle with feelings of insecurity,
telling GQ that he ended many relationships because he was
afraid that getting dumped would send him on a downward spiral. He confessed in his book:
"There's 10 women on the face of the planet that I would kill to
be married to. Who I've gone out with and broken up with."
Fans of the Kardashian-Jenner family are used to hearing Kim and her sisters talk about their love
lives. In a Season 2 episode of their Hulu series "The Kardashians," Kim shared the story of how she
ended up dating comedian Pete Davidson after they appeared together on "Saturday Night Live." She
used some erotic acronyms to explain why she wanted to hook up with Davidson, confessing,
"I heard about this BDE. I was just basically DTF."
Kim and Davidson ended up hitting it off, and although their relationship was short-lived,
it was more than just a casual fling. After they started dating,
Kim shared another anecdote about Davidson on "The Kardashians." This time,
she regaled her family with the touching tale of how Kim's grandmother inspired the
couple to partake in some hanky-panky at the Beverly Hills Hotel. Since Kim's grandmother
was conveniently present to hear the story, the reality star confesses to her on the show:
"We were sitting in front of the fireplace just talking for hours and I was like,
'My grandma told me that you really live life when you have sex in front
of the fireplace.' And so we had sex in front of the fireplace in honor of you."
Kim then confessed that the tribute was a bit weird, but her grandmother just
wanted her assurance that it didn't happen in the building's lobby.
In the song "S&M," Rihanna sings about enjoying some of the same activities that Anastasia Steele
gets introduced to in the "Fifty Shades of Grey" movies. But for the multi-Grammy winner,
the song's lyrics aren't just lip service. In a 2011 interview with Rolling Stone,
Rihanna revealed that she has actually tried some of
the methods to spice things up in the bedroom. The singer told the outlet,
"Being submissive in the bedroom is really fun. [...] I like to be
spanked. Being tied up is fun. I like to keep it spontaneous."
But while Rihanna might have an adventurous side when it comes to her love life,
casual hookups don't really excite her. She told Vanity Fair in 2015:
"I don't want to wake up the next day feeling guilty. [...] I'm a woman,
I want to have sex. But what am I going to do — just find the first
random cute dude... and then tomorrow I wake up feeling empty and hollow?"
Early on in their careers, the Jonas Brothers had to field a lot
of questions about their sex lives. In a 2019 interview with Harper's Bazaar,
Nick Jonas recalled what it was like to be constantly quizzed about his purity ring.
He told the outlet:
"The question should have been: Is it appropriate for people to talk about
a 16-year-old's sex life? It's absolutely not."
"We don't necessarily like to talk about the purity rings."
But the brothers became more comfortable broaching the topic
of intimacy after they'd been adults for a bit. During a 2016 Reddit AMA,
Joe Jonas even shared the story of how he lost his virginity to "Twilight" star Ashley Greene.
His anecdote also served as a PSA about using protection. Joe wrote on Reddit:
"I went to our drummer, Jack's room, who was my roommate at the time and I demolished his room
looking for [condoms]. Found them underneath his underwear drawer. When he came home,
he thought somebody broke into his room because his whole room was demolished."
When ET asked the singer about his decision to
share something so intimate and personal, Joe was unapologetic.
"I'm not out to hurt anybody, but I think, ultimately,
I'm just telling my stories and what I can say from my heart."
After Tiffany Haddish got cast alongside Nicolas Cage in
2022's "The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent," the comedian realized that her first experience
rehearsing scenes with her co-star wasn't going so well. To break the ice, Haddish told Cage that he
had played a larger-than-life role in a memorable moment in her life. She'd felt conflicted about
sharing her strange story with the actor, fearing that it might freak him out, but desperate times
called for desperate measures. She recalled to Sam Sanders on NPR's "It's Been a Minute" podcast:
"You could tell he was getting irritated."
But she assured Cage that his mood would improve if he just listened to her story.
When Haddish was 17, she and a date found themselves in an empty theater watching the
1997 action flick "Face/Off," in which the faces of Cage and John Travolta are surgically swapped.
"It's like looking in a mirror, only not."
Haddish and her date took advantage of the lack of
fellow theatergoers and started to get frisky. She recalled on the podcast:
"As I was achieving a momentous moment that I had never experienced in my life,
I opened my eyes — and the eyes of Nicolas Cage are looking into my eyes,
super big. [...] So, that was my first big O."
Luckily, Haddish's decision to share this information with Cage
paid off. She told Sanders that the Oscar winner "laughed super hard."
In her 2015 memoir "There Was a Little Girl," Brooke Shields delved deep into
her toxic relationship with her mother, her romantic relationships,
and the media's obsession with her virginity. Shields was still a virgin at age 22 and was
in a serious relationship with actor Dean Cain. They had met while attending college
in Princeton and were head-over-heels in love. Shields wrote in her memoir:
"He was incredibly and painfully patient with me
regarding sex. But it felt as if Mom was always lording over us."
When Shields decided that she was ready to lose her virginity to Cain,
her mother was drinking downstairs. Shields felt her parent's presence
acutely and found herself guilt-ridden and in tears afterward. She also recalled
how she jumped out of bed naked and took off running. The actor wrote:
"I have no idea where I was going but it was probably to go sleep
in another bed so my mother wouldn't find out."
Cain chased her down and did his best to comfort her,
but their relationship never recovered and ended soon after. In March 2023,
Shields told People that she regretted the way she treated Cain. She also noted that she
reached out to him many years later to offer an apology. Shields admitted to the outlet:
"He just was so loyal and loving and just so in love. And I did not make it easy."
Kourtney Kardashian and her husband, Travis Barker, have readily shared TMI
about their relationship. In one episode of "The Kardashians," Kourtney told her mother,
Kris Jenner, that she and Barker skip their jammies whenever their children
are away for the night. Kourtney said on the show:
"Dude, this morning I did all the dishes completely butt naked."
Naturally, when Kourtney took the Vanity Fair lie detector test in 2022,
her sister Khloé asked her a number of risqué questions about her personal life.
One of them was whether Kourtney and Barker had ever gotten caught hooking up somewhere
outside of their home. Kourtney said she had, which caused her sister to respond:
"Do you regret doing that?"
"Nope."
"Good for you."
Furthermore, Kourtney confessed to having another adventurous sexual encounter with Barker while
they were wearing their 2021 Halloween costumes. Their looks were inspired by Christian Slater and
Patricia Arquette's "True Romance" characters, Clarence and Alabama. Another big revelation
Kourtney made about her and Barker's love life? Her hubby apparently has a foot fetish.
Before 2022's "slap heard around the world," Will Smith and Jada Pinkett
Smith's Oscars claim to fame was more spicy than sordid. In an interview with Shape,
Jada explained why her makeup didn't look as flawless as it could have at
the 2009 Academy Awards, revealing that her husband was to blame. She told the outlet:
"In a limo, on the way to the Academy Awards this year, Will started looking at me in this
way that drives me wild. We started kissing passionately, and the next thing I knew, well,
let's just say we missed the red carpet and I ended up with almost no makeup on."
The Smiths are apparently fond of getting it on inside a vehicle. While sharing her
advice for spouses looking to liven up their marriages, Jada suggested to Redbook
that same year that keeping that spark alive can start with a drive. She told the outlet:
"Pull over on the side of the road!"
And her suggestions for spicing up a marriage didn't stop there. The actor then added:
"Does he have access to his office? Have a fantasy date. Be his secretary! Be
sneaky. Your girlfriend's house at a party. The bathroom! A guest bedroom! Just switch it up."