Celebrities spend their lives in the public eye, the world watches on as they live their
lives, through the ups and downs, the good and bad.
So, you can imagine, sometimes the hollywood facade would slip, showing that celebrities
are just like us, they make mistakes, they get angry, and sadly, sometimes these slip
ups happen live on tv.
So today on Top 10 Beyond the Screen, we’re going to be counting down the Top 10 Celebrity
Meltdowns Live On TV.
Lets jump in.
10 Bjork Oh Bjork, she has had a rough life.
Not only did she have to go through the gruelly process of working with Lars Von Trier, who
she openly hated and admitted to spitting in his face everyday.
She also had a crazed stalker who ended up killing himself on camera which in turn was
uploaded to YouTube.
So, you can imagine, Bjork would be a little highly strung.
Well, back in 1996, Bjork arrived at the airport in Thailand, only to be greeted by paparazzi
and reporters wanting interviews.
The singer was with her children, and by the time one of the reporters stated, “Welcome
to Thailand” she had had enough and began to attack her, knocking her to the ground
and striking her repeatedly.
It was not a good look for the singer, violence is never the answer.
But you can also understand a mother wanting to protect her children.
9 Vanilla Ice Remember Vanilla Ice?
The one hit wonder who blessed us all with Ice, Ice Baby?
Well, he must’ve known his 15 minutes of fame was coming to an end back in 1999, because
he accelerate his demise when he appeared on MTV Lame 25.
Prior to the Daily Show, Jon Stewart used to host a show, along with Denis LEary, Chris
Kattan and Janeane Garofalo called MTV’s Lame 25, where the hosts would make fun of
music videos that aired on MTV’s network and then would proceed to destroy the tape.
However, on this particular occasion, the Vanilla Ice guilty pleasure found itself at
number nine on the list, so what went down?
Well, the rapper proceeded to show up at the studio, as planned, and took a baseball bat
to his tape for this song.
However, it didn’t stop there.
He ended up taking the bat to the entire set, absolutely terrifying everyone in the process,
something that definitely wasn’t planned.
8 David Hasselhoff It is common knowledge that former actor David
Hasselhoff used to battle with alcohol and drug addictions, but things hit rock bottom
for the actor back in 2007 when his daughter filmed him in his Las Vegas home on a bender
and eating a burger.
The Baywatch legend was seemingly as drunk as could be, so he ordered burgers and sloppily
ate them on the floor of his bathroom, wearing nothing but a pair of jeans.
This video is heartbreaking to watch and listen to, because in the background you can hear
his 16 year old daughter begging for him to grow up.
However, what makes this video interesting is that his daughter was filming him because
David had reportedly asked her to if he were to ever fall off the wagon, and that he did.
Thankfully Hasselhoff got sober, and is still a pop culture icon to this day, milking appearances
and making the odd cameo in bad movies, even the Baywatch remake.
7 Michael Jackson Back in 2002, Michael Jackson was still considered
to be one of the greatest pop stars in the world, which is bizarre to me because at that
point we all knew what went down at Neverland.
But anyway, I digress.
In 2002, Jackson was in his hotel room in Berlin, Germany, where there was a ton of
paparazzi present outside of his suit.
So, what did the King of Pop decide to do?
Well, he opened up his window and dangled his baby son, Prince Michael II, over the
balcony.
The crowd gasped in horror, before the singer pulled the baby back into his arms and went
inside.
This cemented everyone’s belief that Michael Jackson was losing it, both professionally
and personally -- with the singer spending years following defending his bizarre actions.
6 Robert Downey Jr Robert Downey Jr’s comeback to Hollywood
was major news when he was cast as Iron Man in Marvel’s first film in the MCU.
It was huge for the actor, who had openly struggled with addiction for years, even spending
some time in jail, and even being fired from his sitcom Ally McBeal after being arrested
for trespassing into a neighbor’s property.
He has an entire list of criminal things he has done in his past, so you can imagine he
wouldn’t be keen on talking about them, especially when he’s promoting a huge blockbuster
movie that is essentially salvaging his career.
Well, the folks over at Channel 4 clearly didn’t get that message, with them probing
the actor, asking him about his bad boy days and even about his relationship with his father
before the actor finally reaches his breaking point, and walking out, stating, “Sorry,
it was just getting a little Diane Sawyer”.
Shots fired.
5 Charlie Sheen Back in 2011, Charlie Sheen gave a somewhat
questionable interview on The Today Show, about his firing from the CBS sitcom “Two
and a Half Men”.
He discussed his recovery from addiction, but appeared completely erratic and unhinged
while doing so.
Not only did he make the word “Winning” iconic, and somewhat of a meme, but he also
coined the phrase “Tiger Blood” which is apparently what’s running through his
veins.
Of course, as we know, Sheen was fired from his showing for bad mouthing the creator Chuck
Lore, which he discussed in this very strange interview.
Making the bold claim this his passion is often perceived as anger.
Dude, there was nothing passionate about your remarks.
Get a grip.
4 Kanye West What could he have possibly done.
Well, I think you know.
And if not, well you’re in for a treat.
Back in 2009, at the Video Music Awards, folks were happily in their seats watching on as
Taylor Swift was announced as the winner for Best Female Video for her work on “You Belong
to Me”.
She was happy, others were happy.
However, not everyone, and certainly not Kanye West, who had to express, openly, on the stage
how unhappy he was.
Kanye took to the stage, grabbed the award and mic from Taylor’s hand stating, “Taylor,
I’m really happy for you, I’ll let you finish, but Beyonce has one of the bets videos
of all time.
One of the best videos of all time!”
The room went silent, everyone was cringing in discomfort, and of course, the camera cuts
to Beyond perhaps cringing more than anyone.
Kanye then left the stage, forcing Taylor to have to deal with the cleanup.
Thankfully, Kanye was booted out of the awards show for his antics, which resulted in the
“Is Kanye ok” trend that circulated around the internet for a while.
Meanwhile, Taylor was crying backstage.
But, hey, at least you won.
3 Shia LaBeouf Everyone loves Jerry’s Deli, it’s one
of the greatest places to grab a sandwich in downtown LA.
However, back in 2017, it seems Shia LaBeouf went there for an entirely different reason.
He was having a few drinks, until those drinks became a few too many, and when Shia asked
the bartender for some french fries, he refused.
The actor proceeded to call the server the n-word, but it didn’t end there.
These racist tirades happened once again, but this time when he was pulled over in Georgia,
with Shia proceeding to tell the officer, “You’re going to hell, straight to hell,
bro.''
Both incidents negatively impacted Shia’s career, with it becoming public knowledge
that some casting directors are too scared to hire him because they don’t know what
they’re going to get.
2 Christian Bale Remember the film Terminator Salvation?
Yeah, me either.
But apparently it was a thing that happened, and we all seemingly missed it.
For the best probably.
Well, anyway, back in February 2009, while on set of this god awful movie, Christian
Bale had a little hissy fit.
During one particular scene, a director of photography entered Bale’s field of view
while he was filming.
So, what did he do?
He shut it down.
Stating, “What the f are you walking right through?
What the f is it with you?
What don’t you f-ing understand?
You got any f-ing idea about, hey, it’s f-ing distracting having somebody walking
up behind Bryce in the middle of the f-ing scene?
Give me a f-ing answer!
What don’t you get?”
Yeah, that happened.
Lesson number one, if you have find yourself working alongside Christian Bale, don’t
walk into his shot, don’t even look his way, better yet, just leave the building and
don’t return.
Although, I will give it to Bale, he had his entire meltdown while doing an American accent.
I applaud that.
1 Tom Cruise Of course, could anything possibly top Tom
Cruise’s infamous, and bat sh*t crazy interview back in 2005 on the Oprah Winfrey Show?
No, definitely not.
Back in 2005, Cruise was on top of the world, promoting his newest film, The War of the
Worlds, directed by Steven Spielberg.
However, things didn’t go quite according to plan during his interview with Oprah, who
proceeded to ask him about his relationship with actress Katie Holmes.
Cruise clearly couldn’t read the room, because he proceeded to stand up on the safe and jump
up and down, spouting out his love for Holmes.
Now, the audience cheered along, but most viewers were uncomfortable and a little scared.
Following the incident his public image took a hit, with Cruise coming off unstable, with
folks focusing more on his Scientology beliefs and his bizarre antics.
Well, there we have it!
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