Let’s begin with Sean “Diddy” Combs. This 12 months, Combs was accused of a complete slew of expenses associated to sexual assault, harassment, and intercourse trafficking and is presently in jail awaiting trial. When police raided his mansion, they discovered provides they claimed had been for enormous orgies and over 1,000 child oil bottles. Diddy had been well-known for throwing raucous events all through his decades-long profession, and among the accusations are tied to those occasions.
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In mild of those allegations, a lottttt of his previous interviews and feedback have popped up…together with this 1999 interview the place he even joked that he’d sooner or later be arrested for them.
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He additionally spoke to Conan in 2002 and joked that he had “locks on the doorways” at his events.
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Even creepier, particularly in mild of the allegations of grooming and sexual assault from minors, is when Diddy appeared in an All That sketch and urged sticking an merchandise down a boy’s pants.
In contrast to Diddy, Ansel Elgort was by no means arrested on expenses, however he was accused in 2020 of a sexual assault of a 17-year-old that had allegedly occurred in 2014 when Elgort was 20. Extra girls quickly got here ahead to share their tales of troubling habits from Elgort, together with a girl who went on two dates with him at 16 and a girl who mentioned he despatched her a dick image when she was in eighth grade. Elgort responded with claims that “I’ve by no means and would by no means assault anybody” and mentioned his relationship with the primary alleged sufferer was consensual. Nonetheless, he has not been cleared within the courtroom of public opinion, and a number of other of his previous feedback really feel eerie now.
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One instance got here when he was requested about #metoo in 2018. Elgort mentioned, “I am glad that I am younger. I have never actually needed to take care of these items. People who find themselves older, their entire careers they’ve handled harassment. That sucks. I am proud to be a part of a youthful technology that is not placing up with that and is altering the whole lot. Males proper now, we do not look too good. I am proud to be a younger dude who can set an excellent instance for males.” Elgort’s feedback fall flat now for individuals who suspect him of misconduct.
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He additionally had a few creepy and douchey feedback earlier in his profession, like telling GQ in 2014 that “Ladies find it irresistible when you could have some bizarre nerdy factor in your room. It makes you look much less threatening, despite the fact that I am, like, very threatening. I am essentially the most threatening man ever.”
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Late final 12 months, Vin Diesel was accused of sexual battery by a former assistant, who claims Vin Diesel compelled himself on her in a resort room in 2010. (Diesel has since denied all allegations and requested the courtroom to dismiss the lawsuit.) In mild of the accusation, many former followers introduced up an interview that was already creepy however appeared way more so after studying he could have assaulted a girl.
The interview is from 2017 when he was selling his movie XXX: Return of Xander Cage. Within the interview, Diesel struggles to reply Brazilian YouTuber Carol Moreira’s questions, constantly repeating she’s too stunning and attractive for him to focus. At one level, he begins crawling towards her and will get proper up in her private house whereas Moreira anxiously laughs. Whereas that is so far as it goes, Diesel’s habits was known as out for being “so fucking creepy,” with one other writing, “Whereas disappointing, I am unable to say that the information surrounding him rn is all that stunning” based mostly on the interview.
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That ’70s Present star Danny Masterson was lately convicted of rape and despatched to jail for a 30-year-to-life sentence. In mild of this, a number of of his interviews and jokes tackle a extra ominous nature. Particularly, an interview Masterson did in 2012 on Kevin Pollak’s Chat Present.
Within the interview, Masterson joked about “kiddie porn” and his former DJ title DJ Donkey Punch. In case you are not conscious, a donkey punch is slang for a harmful intercourse act that entails hitting somebody at the back of the pinnacle to trigger their muscle mass to contract and tighten across the penis mid-penetration — although Masterson mentioned he initially thought it was a punch to the ribs (for a similar goal). Casually joking a few violent intercourse act — and in addition claiming he does not condone violence in intercourse — is eerie to see in mild of his conviction.
Within the interview, he additionally suggests the very best transfer to make after you have obtained a girl to go dwelling with you is to convey them within the bathe with you. Two completely different girls who accused Masterson of rape informed of him bringing them into his bathe.
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Again in 2020, comic and actor Chris D’Elia confronted sexual misconduct and grooming allegations from minors (D’Elia has denied the claims, saying all his relationships “have been consensual and authorized”). In mild of the allegations, a bunch of his previous feedback felt much more problematic. On his podcast Congratulations with Chris D’Elia, he as soon as mentioned, “You ever see a f***ing 14-year-old? She appears 30. There is not any such factor as a 14-year-old lady anymore. They go from, like, 6 to 25.”
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The allegations towards D’Elia additionally embrace that he solicited nude images from minors through Snapchat. Again in 2014, this is what D’Elia had to say on Ten Minute Podcast about Snapchat: “By the way in which, for those who ever ship me a Snapchat of something however your face or your physique, take a hike.” He additionally joked, “Individuals ship photos on Snapchats, driving in a automotive, ‘oh it is raining, this is my Starbucks’… Present me your bod… Simply present me your f***ing determine,” and claimed, “Snapchat is for exhibiting your bits.” He even saved going with, “A v-neck? Take it off! Present me what you bought beneath that,” regardless of the hosts calling him out for his feedback.
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However maybe essentially the most notorious interview within the wake of the allegations is from 2019. On the podcast The Fighter and the Child, whereas discussing a trainer who had despatched nude images to a scholar through Snapchat, D’Elia found that Snapchats could be recorded and saved to later maintain the sender accountable. The clip has since been edited by folks on-line, zooming in on D’Elia’s face as he mainly realizes he might be in hassle.
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Russell Model’s habits in interviews additionally appears even creepier in mild of a number of accusations of sexual assault and inappropriate office habits (which Model denies). One such instance is from 2012, when Model appeared on 60 Minutes and forcibly kissed host Liz Hayes, together with joking about unclipping her bra.
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Rick and Morty co-creator Justin Roiland, who was let go from any involvement with Rick and Morty final 12 months following accusations of home abuse, additionally has had some previous interviews and podcast appearances come beneath scrutiny, significantly in regard to minors. (Roiland has since been accused of sexual assault and sexual conversations with underage followers. He has denied all claims.)
For instance, on The Grandma’s Virginity Podcast in 2011, Roiland joked brazenly about how he’d have a number of intercourse if he might return to being in fourth grade realizing what he is aware of now. He then went on to say, “I am not a pedophile, although, alright? I am not interested in fucking little child our bodies. I like fucking girls our bodies. Look, I am going to say, look, a fucking 14-year-old that appears like she’s 18 and, like, massive titties and a pleasant…in fact, I am interested in that.”
“That is why this entire Chris Hansen factor, I am like, fuck you, man. These ladies are like…they give the impression of being…they’re totally developed,” he continues, referring to the pretend images despatched to the lads on the present. “100 years in the past, it was little 13-year-old ladies in the event that they had been constructed like a girls, they had been getting married and having youngsters. And now we’re gonna be all treasured about it.” He then repeats he isn’t a pedophile and waits till girls are 18…earlier than his cohost factors out that his 22-year-old girlfriend appears like she’s in junior excessive.
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In 2017, Louis CK admitted to exposing himself to girls that he held unequal energy over after a number of girls accused him of sexual harassment and intimidation. He wrote, “On the time, I mentioned to myself that what I did was okay as a result of I by no means confirmed a girl my dick with out asking first, which can also be true. However what I discovered later in life, too late, is that when you could have energy over one other individual, asking them to take a look at your dick is not a query. It is a predicament for them. The ability I had over these girls is that they admired me. And I wielded that energy irresponsibly.”
This revelation makes a quote from a prior interview with Self-importance Honest extraordinarily disturbing. When requested for the trait he most deplores in himself, Louis CK replied, “I’ve a completely stunning penis. It is gorgeous in each means. God I hate my excellent penis.”
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It additionally casts this quote, in Judd Apatow’s ebook Sick within the Head: Conversations About Life and Comedy, in a brand new mild. In Louis’s interview for the ebook, he says Invoice Cosby was his first comedy idol. Cosby has since been convicted of sexual assault, although the conviction was overturned.
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Talking of Cosby, he has a historical past of mentioning Spanish Fly (an alleged aphrodisiac). Cosby — who was notably accused of drugging and molesting girls (which he denied) — mentioned how one might put it in a girl’s drink in a 1991 interview with Larry King. That is wildly creepy, given what he would later be arrested and tried for.
In 2017, Matt Lauer was fired from NBC after a sexual misconduct evaluation facilitated after an accusation of inappropriate habits. After firing, Lauer was accused of extra misconduct and launched an announcement apologizing for his actions. Although he denied among the claims, he wrote, “There may be sufficient fact in these tales to make me really feel embarrassed and ashamed.”
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In mild of Lauer’s ousting, followers started to convey up moments the place he made feminine company uncomfortable on The As we speak Present. One instance? When Matt Lauer would NOT cease speaking about Sandra Bullock’s nude scene in The Proposal.
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His 2006 interview with Britney Spears was additionally introduced up. Within the interview, he appears to be pushing for Spears to get emotional and continues asking her questions in regards to the paparazzi and folks questioning her capability as a mom. Kevin Federline, her kids’s father, is introduced up within the interview, however he isn’t interviewed, neither is his parenting capability criticized in the identical means. Wanting again, many felt the interview was misogynistic and wealthy, given Lauer’s personal points.
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Many different Britney Spears moments have been checked out in a brand new mild after Framing Britney Spears and the #FreeBritney motion took a vital have a look at the misogynistic and problematic methods she was handled all through her profession. In all probability essentially the most brutal on reflection is her interview with Diane Sawyer. Within the interview, Sawyer pushes Spears to discuss her breakup with Justin Timberlake, framing Timberlake because the sufferer.
Spears later blasted this interview, saying in 2021, “Can we dare neglect the Diane Sawyer interview in my condo nearly 20 years in the past? What was with the ‘you’re within the improper’ strategy?? Geeze…and making me cry???”
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Yet another Britney interview has resurfaced as a result of it supplies an instance of the way in which Britney Spears was sexualized early on in her profession, at the same time as a minor. In this interview with Dutch TV journalist Ivo Niehe, he asks a 17-year-old Spears about her breasts. Whereas Spears laughed off the query on the time, it is heartbreaking now to look again on the way in which she was handled.
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One other celeb who needed to giggle off being sexualized as a minor is Megan Fox. In 2009, Fox informed Jimmy Kimmel a narrative about Michael Bay having her carry out a sultry scene at age 15. Kimmel basically replied that every one males would suppose the identical means.
The second is unhappy to look again on contemplating how objectifying the story feels now. Fox herself has spoken in regards to the interview within the years since, saying in 2021 that the interview “was a microcosm of my entire life and entire interplay with Hollywood. It was simply very darkish.” She was “so misplaced” and struggled to search out worth or goal within the “misogynistic hell that was Hollywood on the time.”
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Brooke Shields has additionally lately spoken out about the way in which she was sexualized within the trade in her youth, and significantly known as out an interview with Barbara Walters when she was 15. Within the interview, Shields was requested questions on “secrets and techniques from her mom” and her measurements, in addition to the lack of her childhood. She later known as the questions “virtually prison” and “not journalism.”
Shields later informed Drew Barrymore she “felt so taken benefit of in so some ways” within the 1981 interview, recounting, “She requested me what my measurements had been and requested me to face up. And I arise, and she or he was, like, evaluating herself to this little lady. And I assumed, ‘This is not proper. I do not perceive what that is.’ However I simply behaved and simply smiled.”
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Lots of Ellen DeGeneres’s interviews have been seen in a brand new mild following poisonous office allegations — with a give attention to her invasive private questions, particularly having to do with relationships. For instance, she confirmed Justin Bieber’s (censored) nudes on her present, then pushed him a number of instances a few lady within the background whereas Justin was clearly uncomfortable. And that is not the one time she’s proven his nudes.
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However maybe most memorably, again in 2008, DeGeneres pressured Mariah Carey to drink champagne to show she wasn’t pregnant. “I used to be extraordinarily uncomfortable with that second is all I can say,” Carey informed Vulture in 2020. She had been pregnant on the time, however “I wasn’t prepared to inform anybody as a result of I had had a miscarriage,” she revealed. She ended up miscarrying once more.
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Transferring away from interviews for a bit, within the wake of Harvey Weinstein’s arrest for rape, a ton of award present speeches started to make the rounds. Seems, fairly just a few celebrities have profusely thanked Harvey Weinstein at awards exhibits — together with Renée Zellweger, who claimed in the course of the 2003 Golden Globes that he had “the largest coronary heart.”
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Others appeared to allude to some sort of problematic habits. For instance, Madonna known as him the “Punisher”…
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…As did Meryl Streep.
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Subsequent now we have a quote from Weinstein himself that has aged poorly, not solely in relation to himself, however to Invoice Murray, who has since been accused of inappropriate and abusive habits and sexual misconduct.
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One among Murray’s accusers is Geena Davis, who made headlines final 12 months when she spoke about how Murray berated her on the set of Fast Change and used a therapeutic massage system on her after she repeatedly mentioned no throughout a gathering. However this wasn’t the primary time Davis had introduced up the claims — in actual fact, a resurfaced 1990 interview exhibits simply how creepy he was towards her whereas selling Fast Change, although it was laughed off on the time.
All through the interview, Murray caresses Davis, who leans away from him and at one level elbows him when he touches her gown and jokes that her husband (Jeff Goldblum) is okay with it. At one level, Davis particularly references the therapeutic massage system incident, whereas the viewers laughs. It doesn’t seem Murray has publicly addressed Davis’s accusations.
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Let’s transfer on to some celeb moments and quotes that are not truly regarding or problematic however nonetheless are tremendous bizarre to see now. Does anybody bear in mind when Will Smith talked about how his first girlfriend cheated on him and mentioned he’d vowed nobody would ever cheat on him once more again in 2016?
In fact, in 2020, Smith’s spouse, Jada Pinkett Smith, made headlines when she admitted to having had an “entanglement” with singer August Alsina whereas she was separated from Smith however nonetheless married to him. She claimed Smith was conscious they usually had been separated since 2016, and that she didn’t cheat on him.
Nonetheless, the fairly notorious interview the place Will and Jada talk about the “entanglement” in addition to the frequent headlines Jada and Will make with reference to their marriage — AND the Oscars slap that stalled Smith’s profession — all make watching the 2016 clip unusual.
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Talking of dishonest — in 2017, former Attempt Man Ned Fulmer mentioned his #1 relationship dealbreaker was “dishonest” and that if his associate cheated, he’d transfer in another country: “Oh no, that hurts to even take into consideration. We could not keep collectively. I would transfer to Canada.” In 2022, the scandal broke that Fulmer had cheated on his spouse with an worker, after which he was ousted from the group.
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This tweet from Hailey Bieber is verrrrrry bizarre to see now, contemplating she married Justin, and there ended up being a complete slew of hate towards each Hailey and Selena regarding the whole scenario, typically from followers who felt exactly like Hailey did within the beneath tweet.
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This Taylor Swift quote additionally feels actually wild now, contemplating what would occur between each her and Mayer and her and Ye.
What different celeb interviews or quotes are bizarre to see now? Tell us within the feedback!
