Celebrities and scandals always come hand in hand — we all make mistakes, but when you're in the public eye, your mess ups are magnified tenfold. These days, when celeb news is available 24/7, everyone wants to become a journalist and everyone’s fighting for their 15 clicks of fame. But there will always be the ones who’d rather the world forgot their dirty deeds. And sometimes the world does forget. Or does it?

Zayn Malik

Billboard

Twitter Scandals

As if leaving One Direction at the peak of their success wasn’t scandalous enough, Zayn continued to outrage fans and media as a solo artist. He tweeted producer Naughty Boy “You fat joke stop pretending we’re friends no one knows you” after Boy apparently leaked Zayn’s music video. Even without Naught Boy's production the album proved be a success.

 

Ariana Grande

TMZ

Swearing and Donut Leaking

Ariana Grande may have been a perfectly clean popstar for years, but in 2014 she showed us her darker side when she was heard saying, “I hope they all fucking die,” after a meet-and-greet with fans. Grande quickly took it to Twitter to proclaim these allegations false. It didn’t stop there: In 2015 she was caught on-camera licking donuts and saying she “hates America." None of that seemed to bother her fanbase as she keeps on setting the charts on fire. 

 

Diplo

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Dick Pic

A lot of celebrities become victims of their own naughty ways and end up having their naked photos leaked online. Diplo went even further when he posted a photo of his manhood on both twitter and Instagram mentioning that he had “a small dic but I make up for it with girth and my great music… and my camaro.” He also tweeted that Taylor Swift needs a Kickstart-sponsored booty. Why can’t they leave Tay-Tay alone?!

 

Jude Law

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Cheating

Jude Law and Sienna Miller’s union seemed like a match made in heaven and the stuff every tabloid’s dreaming of putting on the cover. But the seemingly perfect romance collapsed when Law released a public statement that confirmed he was having an affair with his kids’ nanny. Apparently the bond between actors was too strong as they stayed together for one more year and then had an on-again, off-again thing years later.

 

Vanessa Hudgens

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Naked Selfies

These Disney kids just can’t stay decent, can they? Vanessa Hudgens was riding the wave of High School Musical success but landed on a shore completely naked so to speak. In 2007 her naked selfies surfaces online, making a huge dent in her good girl image. There were serious rumors going around that she would be replaced in High School Music 3, but she eventually apologized and kept her part. But she didn’t stop posing nude in front of her camera since more of her nude selfies were leaked over the years. No wonder Disney had to change the whole cast of their upcoming HSM sequel.

 

Drew Barrymore

Playboy

Naked Photoshoots and Drug Problems

Long before she was a Charlie’s angel, Drew Barrymore was a nation’s nightmare as her early start in show business propelled all kinds of misbehaving: from drug and alcohol abuse to two stints in rehab and risky photoshoots for Playboy and Interview magazines. But she eventually re-built her life and career.

 

Demi Lovato

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Eating Disorder and Drug Addiction

Every Disney alumni comes with his or her very own set of demons and a closet filled with skeletons. Early fame caused serious health-related issues for then-18 Demi Lovato in 2010 and she ended up in rehab. She fought bulimia and drug addiction and has been a poster child for self-improvement ever since.

 

George Michael

YouTube

Public Restroom Incident

The British singer never shied away from a little controversy with his rather erotic music videos and playboy image. But he did take it a bit too far in the late '90s, when he was caught doing naughty things in a public restroom in California's Will Rogers Memorial Park. His partner in crime was an actual undercover policeman on an operation. Michael later mocked him in his “Outside” video, and the poor policeman even tried suing him, but it got him nowhere. Lesson learned: don’t mess with horny popstars.

 

Kim Kardashian

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Sex Tape

Let’s not pretend Kim K didn’t study Paris Hilton’s Book of Socialite’s Success like a Bible. And there must be a whole chapter dedicated to sex tapes. Her private video with ex-boyfriend Ray-J was leaked in 2007, four years after its recording and perfectly in time for the launch of Keeping Up with the Kardashians.

 

Britney Spears

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Nervous Breakdown

Britney’s blackout back in 2007 is still one of the most discussed and dark moments of seemingly carefree world of popstars. Rehabs, head shaving, losing custody of her kids, making a mockery of herself on that infamous VMA show and failing to promote her Blackout album properly… It took Britney a while to get back in shape and she’s still under a strict conservatorship. But at least she looks like she’s having fun again and her latest album Glory reminded the world why we loved her in the first place.

 

Cheryl

BBC

Assault

Fame can be pretty intimidating, especially when you’re young and temperamental. Case in point: British popstar Cheryl who just found her fame as one fifth of the girlband Girls Aloud in 2003 and almost immediately was charged with assault of a nightclub’s bathroom attendant, who also accused Cheryl of screaming racial slurs. The singer was eventually found guilty of causing bodily harm but cleared of racially aggravated assault charge. None of that prevented her from hailing an official title of Britain's National Sweetheart several years later and becoming one of the biggest celebrities in her homeland.

 

Kanye West

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Taylor Swift Beef

The size of Kanye West’s ego remains a mystery, but we’re pretty sure it’s the size of some undiscovered planet. One of his better known not-so-proud moments is the infamous Kanye VS Tayor Swift VMA 2009 episode, when he grabbed the microphone from the young singer’s hand to proclaim his adoration of Beyonce, which left everyone but Kanye stunned. Fast forward to 2016 and Taylor and Kanye are still beefing. 

 

Janet Jackson

People

Wardrobe Malfunction

By the time she was invited to perform at 2004’s Super Bowl, Janet Jackson was a well-established superstar with undeniable sex symbol status. But the world still freaked out when her breast got exposed onstage by Justin Timberlake. While some perks of that scandal were beneficial for Jackson (she became the most searched person in the internet in a blink of an eye), the consequences were severe. Most of the networks refused to support her next release since a lot of the companies were fined because of the incident. But Janet being Janet, she stayed in the spotlight even despite of the blacklisting and handled the situation with grace.

 

Nicki Minaj

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Various Nip Slips

Nicki Minaj is a big fan of public scandals, and before you can ask “What’s good?" she’s probably up to some new adventure. Back in 2011 she followed Janet Jackson’s footsteps and accidentally showed her nipple during Good Morning America live broadcast twice. But the consequences weren’t nearly as grand as what happened to Janet — the risky part was simply edited out for the rest of country (the show was live on the East Coast). But Nicki never learned her lesson and her outfits continued to expose her curves on multiple occasions.

 

Kristen Stewart

YouTube

Cheating

Bella and Edward may have gotten their undead happy ending in the Twilight saga, but things didn’t go as smoothly for Kristen Stewart and Robert Pattinson, who were dating since 2008. In 2012 the world was shocked to learn that Stewart cheated on everyone’s favorite vampire with Snow White and the Huntsman’s married director Rupert Sanders. For some that would have meant a career dead end, but Stewart managed to continue starring in big projects.

 

Robert Downey Jr.

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Arrests

The '90s were more rough for some celebrities than others. Robert Downey Jr. was the epitome of the '90s celeb-gone-wild with his countless drug-related charges and a year in prison in 1999. Luckily all the substances he consumed didn’t reflect on his acting skills, and by late '00s he was a proper movie star all over again, adored equally by teenagers and their parents.

 

Charlie Sheen

TODAY Show

Substances Abuse and Assault

As much as tabloids need people like Charlie Sheen, he needs all the media attention just as badly. Back in 2003 Jewel was name-checking Sheen in her celebrity-culture-mocking hit “Intuition,” and not much has changed since then. Sheen’s still the center of attention with arrests, scandals, health issues and ongoing movie/TV career. 

 

Justin Bieber

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General Idiocy

Oh, what hasn’t he done? It seems like in a moment the Canadian star went from the singer you were too ashamed to admit you like to the celebrity everyone loved to hate. These days Biebs is trying to behave himself and — most importantly — his music got much better. 

 

Woody Allen

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Marrying His Wife’s Adopted Daughter

Now that’s a pretty creepy one. Back in 1992 Woody Allen divorced his actress wife Mia Farrow after she found naked photos her husband took of her adopted daughter Soon-Yi Previn. After Farrow left Allen, he happily married Soon-Yi (whom he never adopted) and they’re still together.

 

Chris Brown

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Assault

Chris Brown and Rihanna’s romance seemed like a sweet R&B fairytale before all hell broke loose in 2009 and the world saw that horrifying image of Rihanna’s battered face. Brown did turn himself in, was sentenced to five years of probation and lost some lucrative endorsement deals, but eventually rebuilt his career and keeps on releasing bangers, although his public image is still far from perfect.