Sometimes it's easy to forget that behind the fame, fortune, talent, and photoshopped
magazine covers, Hollywood celebs are just people — and just like everyone else, they
regularly embarrass themselves.
Here are a few stars who don't take themselves too seriously, and decided to share their
cringeworthy stories with the world.
Get ready for some uncomfortable confessions you won't be able to unhear.
Robert Pattinson
For the majority of his adult career, Robert Pattinson has been trying to distance himself
from the sparkly emo vampire role that made him a household name.
In a 2009 interview with UK's New!
Magazine, the former Twilight actor apparently wanted everyone to know that he was anything
but clean and sparkly.
Pattinson claimed he rarely changed his clothes, saying,
"These jeans are a few days old.
But the top is probably fresh because it gets to the point where even I can't stand the
air around me.
I don't know, my personal hygiene — it's so disgusting!"
We assume Pattison can afford dry cleaning and a pretty decent washing machine by now,
so hopefully, his clothes and personal hygiene habits are in a much better place.
Kristen Bell
If you ever happen to catch a Kristen Bell interview, you'll quickly realize that she's
a habitual oversharer.
That was the case once again when she appeared on The Joel McHale Show with Joel McHale.
"I did have anal worms two weeks ago…"
"You had anal worms?
You're kidding!"
"Yeah, I swear to God."
"What did you do?"
"They're called pinworms."
Bell's road to an itchy butt started with a pinworms breakout at her daughter's preschool.
Her daughter caught them, and after a quick Google search, Bell learned how contagious
they are.
"And then I, later that day was like…
f-----------."
Luckily, the anal worm invasion was defeated by some, quote, "chalky nonsense from the
drugstore."
"Was it painful?"
"No, but it was very itchy."
Hugh Grant
Back in 1995 when he was dating actress Elizabeth Hurley, Hugh Grant was arrested for lewd conduct
after being caught in the act with a prostitute.
"What the hell were you thinking?"
Grant, who pleaded no contest to the charges, claimed that his friends and coworkers suggested
he give a number of different excuses for his behavior, but he felt it would be ridiculous
to lie.
"I think you know in life, pretty much, what's a good thing to do and what's a bad thing.
And I did a bad thing, and there you have it."
Although he was tabloid fodder for a while, Grant's career didn't suffer due to a tactic
we rarely see in celebrity scandals these days — he didn't make any excuses.
Katy Perry
Fans at Katy Perry's iHeartRadio listening party for Prism in 2013 got a bit more information
than expected when the "Firework" singer was asked to describe the contents of her purse.
She explained,
"One of the first times I went to the Grammys, I got to share a dressing room with Miley
Cyrus and Taylor Swift.
And I asked them for a lock of their hair from each one of them, which is totally creepy,
but awesome."
It's up in the air whether she later used the hair for some kind of evil witchcraft
against her alleged rival, Swift, but at the time, Perry added,
"I put little bows on them individually and put them in my purse.
And that was my little secret and I'm a freak!"
Lucy Hale
You might know Lucy Hale as a Pretty Little Liar, but apparently she'll tell the truth
about her driving skills.
The actress told People magazine about a particular night when her boyfriend-at-the-time happened
to be telling his family what a bad driver she was.
She shared,
"I was sticking up for myself, saying I was a great driver.
And then I backed up into his aunt's new car.
I was humiliated.
It was terrible.
[...] My boyfriend at the time was like, 'See?
I told you.'"
This wasn't the first time Hale described her lack of prowess behind the wheel.
Back in 2014, she told FOX News she was, quote, "one of the worst drivers," and added,
"I don't hit moving objects, I hit stationary objects.
And I have a talent for getting parking tickets."
Louis Tomlinson
While there aren't too many reasons to feel sorry for the superstar members of ex-boyband
One Direction, you can feel a little bad for Louis Tomlinson, who at the height of the
band's fame received an embarrassing lesson in humility.
The singer told Seventeen that while on a ski trip with Harry Styles, the boys were
approached by two people holding a camera.
He explained,
"We assumed they were going to ask us for a photo, so we stood there with our arms around
each other, posing.
They said, 'No, we want you to take a photo of us!'
It was so embarrassing!"
Hugh Jackman
In an appearance on The Graham Norton Show, Hugh Jackman reminisced about a particularly
embarrassing moment on stage as Gaston in the 1996 Australian production of Beauty and
the Beast.
After drinking too much water before a show, he found himself desperately needing to go
to the bathroom… in the middle of a musical number.
"That's when I realized the muscles you need to release to sing are the very ones you need
to tense to hold on."
"I'm thinking, 'If I sing this note, I'm p--ing my pants.
If I don't sing this note, I'm humiliated in front of 2000 people."
Being the selfless man that he is, Jackman decided not to let down his audience.
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