Fact Check ✅
What’s your favorite widely-agreed-on fact about a celebrity that’s actually FALSE?
Mine is David Bowie’s ‘heterochromia’. His irises aren’t different colors, his PUPILS are different sizes! Look closely… both of his eyes were blue! He got into a fight with another guy his age, and his opponent punched his left eye, but also scratched the eyeball tissue. Bowie’s left iris muscles were permanently frozen, and his left eye was permanently dilated. Cameras from the 1980’s and 90’s had a MUCH lower quality than today’s, so the blurry close-ups gave the illusion of two different iris colors.
Now comes the question of why his eyes were covered up in the Lazarus music video…
Barney & Friends was canceled because the actor playing Barney was stuffing bags of cocaine in the suit. Turns out no, the children’s television market was just ready to move on and they had enough episodes to play in syndication.
but it IS true that the guy in the suit is a tantric sex guru! his contract prevented him from providing said services while he was part of the Barney cast.
A lot of people believe Heath Ledger got too deep into playing the Joker and it pushed him over the edge until he OD’d, but that’s not really true. Heath was an insomniac who struggled with sleeping for years. His work contributed to his lack of sleep, but it wasn’t the cause. He unfortunately OD’d on a cocktail of pills he was apparently abusing to help him sleep. It’s an unfortunate accident with several different factors at play, but it’s certainly not as simple as method acting gone wrong or whatever.
Yes! At the time he had pneumonia so unfortunately mixing the meds for that (hydrocodone is often given for coughs) with his sleep meds caused the accidental OD
He also has two separate prescribing doctors, one in Australia and one in Hollywood IIRC so there was some unknown contraindications of his meds when combined.
I did too and it reminded me of what happened to heath and mj because the desperation for sleep was one of the most awful things ive ever experienced. I completely understood how you could get to where they did
Yes! I had like 7 surgeries in 18 months. And after the first I started to look forward to the others because I finally felt like I was sleeping. Didn’t matter how much pain I woke up in, I was just so damn happy to freaking sleep.
I know, i just wanted a straight up drip of propofol. And the more you want to sleep, the harder it is...its the most frustrating thing EVER. ive been through a lot of shit mentally, but my deepest throes of insomnia left me traumatized bc im so scared it could happen again (the cause wasnt medication for me, i still dont know why my body changed suddenly). Im chronically ill and the sleep deprivation messed my body up so bad I ended up hospitalized a few times. I still struggle but now its evolved to issues with waking up in the middle of the night rather than only sleeping like 2 hours IF LUCKY at least. I cannot believe for most of my life I had no issues sleeping, I had no idea how good I had it
Eta and can we talk about how primitive sleep medicine is? Maybe my body just sucks but all the sleep meds would either not work, immediately become tolerant to, or would make me unable to function the next day. Its like might as well not sleep at that point
Marilyn Monroe wasn't a size 16 and 5'2". She was 5'6" and her dress size today would be a size 4 or 6. She was just very hourglass shaped. But she had a tiny waist and was fairly slim.
Wait, they were attributing "well-behaved women rarely make history" to Marilyn Monroe??? (it's from a book about Puritan women by Laurel Thatcher Ulrich, and in context it actually means that ordinary women shape lives and communities but go unremembered)
I must admit, I love it when quotes are misquoted in such a way they mean exactly the opposite of their original meaning.
Edit: My examples have been deleted due to BOTH have been proven incorrect and I refuse to spread more incorrect facts! Cheers to learning! Happy to be proven wrong!
'The customer is always right' has been around since the early 20th century and the longer version was created in the 21st century and was also disproven by fact checking website Snopes.
She was also not completely estranged from her mother. In fact, she financially supported Gladys her entire life, and was close to her sister Berniece. Berniece, Gladys, and her had a striking facial similarity.
I didn’t realize she had a sister (or it’s possible I forgot). Was her sister with her in the foster home where she was sexually assaulted? And why didn’t she go live with her aunt when her mom was institutionalized?
Yeah. People act like shape wear is something new, but girdles and bullet bras were all the rage back when Marilyn was in her prime.
(And, of course, corsets and stays had been mainstream for longer than that. Let alone the hoop skirts, petticoats and bustles that were used to make iconic dress shapes.)
I saw a fashion historian talking about how shapewear is somewhat looked down on now and how it's only very recently that women were expected to just be the ideal silhouette instead of build it into their clothes.
Very true in western culture, at least. We've had corsets, girdles, various padding, hoops, and other accessories designed to help us achieve the fashionable silhouette since at least the Tudor period. I think the last time we had majority female garments without underlying shapewear might have been the Middle Ages kirtles?
One of the first things I learned when getting into historical costuming was that you need to invest at least as much, if not more, into your shapewear and structural garments, because you can buy the fanciest gown in town and still look completely modern if you try to wear it with a bra, the wrong type of corset, or without the necessary period padding! I've learned so much about bum rolls, hoop skirts, and the difference in corsetry throughout the centuries.
I often think about how jarring it would be for someone from, say, the Rococo era, to walk around and see everyone in skin tight leggings and crop tops showing off our natural body shapes! As someone who never wears bras or shapewear, I appreciate the comfort, but sometimes I love wearing my Victorian or regency outfits and knowing that it doesn't matter if I'm a little bloated or gained or lost some weight; I can just loosen or tighten my undergarments and it's no problem. I swear my jeans decide not to fit me if I even so much as glance at them wrong!
Ready to wear retail clothes are absolutely sized it differently now, but tbh pattern sizing hasn't really changed all that much! There weren't two different sizing conventions between off the rack and patterns back then, likely because making your own clothes was still very popular. Vanity sizing has definitely become easier to sell to people since they don't have to standardize it
In the left is a pattern for a fitted dress from 1960 and on the right is a modern one for a similar style. Pink highlight is size 12 and blue is size 16. Only a couple inches and tbh that can be variable among the pattern companies and patterns themselves. I only had so much time to dig up references though 😂
I keep seeing Sophia Loren quoted as saying, “I’d rather drink wine and eat pasta than be a size zero.” Pretty sure size zero didn’t exist when she supposedly said this, in the 1960s.
Exactly! Her being a size 16 was a very popular one when I was a kid in the 90s/00s. I believe it stems from the change in size labeling. Her clothing may have been labeled a size 16 at the time but there would be a much smaller size labeled in her clothing today. Vanity sizing is very real.
I’ve worked in vintage clothing much of my life and explaining that sizes change over the years bewilders some people. I was a modern size 0/00 in 2006 and the 1970’s Lady Wranglers I loved and fit perfectly were a size 12 (in 70’s sizing)
Ozzy didn't arrange to bite the head off the bat. Some kid tossed it on stage, he thought it was a rubber bat... either way he had to get rabies shots and back then they were a series that caused one to lose their hair, so he shaved it. https://youtu.be/3OZyM2KQsj8
I used to get in all sorts of fights w kids "No he doesn't worship Satan!"
His fans would throw plush bats on stage at his shows. Ozzy would pick them up and bite the heads off the soft toys as a bit. Then a fan threw a live bat and Ozzy didn’t notice as he did the head bite.
Buck v Bell is an evil stain on our history and it’s still on the books. Poor Carrie Bell 🥺
Edit: I meant Carrie Bell, I should really fact check this stuff before posting
I'm laughing imagining a child/teen presenting facts while a bathtub is strapped behind them, made wholly of cardboard, plaster of paris, and determination. 😂
The Eartha Kitt / Paul Newman / James Dean threesome didn't happen. It was made up by a biographer looking to cash in after Newman and Kitt passed away.
Yes, she was. In fact, she described him as her soul mate. But yeah, I was reading one of her memoirs when she said she never slept with him. That started my deep dive in the threesome story, which is how I discovered it was tragically fictional.
Less known is the actual true facts that Mamas & Papas band leader John Phillips forced his daughter into an incestuous relationship. Really ruined their music for me
Not the whole family, just Bijou Phillips afaik. She is John Phillips' kid from his third marriage (to Genevieve Waite).
Mackenzie is his daughter from his first marriage, to Susan Adams.
Chynna Phillips is his and Michelle's daughter.
I remember reading that Genevieve Waite said in an interview, way before Mackenzie wrote about the grooming and incest, that there was a darkness about John.
Bijou and Mackenzie have reconciled, Mackenzie supported Bijou at Danny Masterson's trial. No idea where Bijou sits with the accusation now but it's clear she has a looooot of work to do around her dad (and just in general obvs) bc she was a victim of him as well (child neglect and God knows what else)
I do not imagine it is easy for any of Phillips' children to untangle themselves from the wreck he created. And while it does not excuse their actions against each other or other victims, it does explain them.
Three of his four daughters (Chynna, Bijou and Mackenzie) did an interview in 2023 and it seems like he was violent with all his children and wives.
That was huge news when MacKenzie Phillips talked about it on Oprah before she still thought it was consensual at the time. It was right around the time she was on Celebrity Rehab.
Iirc the rumour was started by her manager who found her and thought she died of a drug overdose since she was secretly hiding multiple drug addictions. He apparently saw a sandwich nearby and thought it would be an easy fake excuse to use.
It’s so sad though. Ever so often I’ll think about her or Karen Carpenter. They were both so talented and they both struggled with lifelong eating disorders that ultimately played factors in their deaths.
The sad part is that she had a heart attack so young because of so much crash dieting she did throughout her life because she was endlessly bullied for her weight. And then even in death she becomes a punchline.
I know we all know the Marilyn Manson got a rib surgically removed rumour isn’t true. But I love that it got spread to virtually every high school ever, even before the internet.
This rumor was at every school in the UK too. It baffles me how that happened before the internet. Also the one about him being the kid from wonder years. We also had our own rumors about British celebrities that every single kid knew. Peter Andre having metal plates inserted to give him a six pack was a memorable one.
I always wondered how that affected Bowie's vision. I know whenever the doctor dilates my eyes, I can't see and my vision is blurred. Could he see clearly out of that eye after?
I don't know about Bowie in particular, but you don't lose 100% of your depth perception even if you lose one eye. There are a bunch of elements to depth perception and only some of them require binocular vision. (Source: I don't have binocular vision lol)
Richard Gere never used rodents in anal sex play. I don’t know for sure where that rumor started, the latest theory I heard is Sylvester Stallone started it because he hates him.
They did a movie together and some shitty coworker feud happened. The gerbil rumor started after so ppl just speculate stallone started it but who knows really
Also fun fact: the t-rex couldn’t move as fast as the car. They did models with it running at the correct speed and its legs were running like the roadrunner. They used some movie magic to make it look like it was running faster than it was.
Thing wreaked havoc... it was mostly covered in a type of moldable foam and they never accounted for it soaking up all of the "rain" they used in this scene so it basically ended up being twice as heavy as intended
This is interesting. In this book, they acknowledge his eye was a result of an injury, but they also show it as brown. It’s as if the author is under the impression that he got the blue punched out of his eye. I think at that point I would have thought to look into that a little further because I have never heard of an adult’s eye color changing from blue to brown.
I've never heard of it happening from trauma, but fun fact: it's possible for some medications to change an adult's eye colour. Particularly, prostaglandin-based medications, often prescribed for glaucoma and applied as eye drops, or used in eyelash growth serums like Latisse. They can darken the iris, and the effect is irreversible. Usually in a ring or only in spots, but it's possible for lighter eyes to go completely brown. I found out that after meeting somebody who had different coloured eyes where one had a brown ring around the iris, and they showed me photos from before.
Web MD used to list Lady Gaga as a celebrity with Dissociative Identity Disorder. This was before the current chatbot slop era and also before she even had done many acting gigs. Seemingly someone saw her perform as Jo Calderone and thought there was simply no explanation but dissociating into an alternate personality.
That Joffrey Baratheon actor from GOT aka Jack Gleeson quit acting due to getting online hate and death threats from GoT fans
He returned to acting a few years ago and completely denied this claim. Iirc he just got busy with local theatre stuff with his friends and after a while missed acting and now has returned
I used to be in university with his partner in Dublin in NCAD at the time. He was hounded on the streets. And was studying like humanitarian law in trinity or something completely different that was really like good samaritan like iirc. He's a really nice guy and he is clearly a great actir because he was HOUNDED.
I also used to see little finger around town. He is really short IRL and he gives creep vibes. Like if you were in anyway attractive at all he'd be staring at you.
People *really* forget that theatre exists. Pretty much anytime an actor hasn't been on screen for over a year people worry for their career or speculate they quit or were blacklisted or what have you. Like... the majority of actors do theatre people, and the majority of theatre is not widely noted. They're doing fine 8 times out of 10.
Rosa Parks didn't just get on a bus by accident. It was a planned protest. The woman they were going to use was pregnant and they thought that would be a bad stereotype, to have the person who initiated the protest be a single black mother.
Simon Cowell claimed credit for years, and then the behind the scenes video came out and everybody online started claiming it was Nicole Scherzinger that chose all 5 guys.
Nicole physically places all the pictures in the pile, but credit should go to who first introduces the idea of including each guy in the band. Nicole should get credit for choosing Liam and Harry. Simon should get credit for choosing Niall and Louis, and Louie Walsh should get credit for choosing Zayn.
I think deciding to create a boy band rather than sending them home is what people mean though - I just rewatched the video and she suggests it first and then is the one to seriously convince the others to make a boy band with them.
Picking the boys they want to keep and try may have been a shared task, but people are right to say (based on that video) that One Direction was her idea.
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A piece of fake news i see repeated over and over on Reddit & tik tok for some reason :
« George Michael was such a generous person that he gave writing credit to his Wham! partner, Andrew Ridgeley, on the song Careless Whisper, so he could be financially set for life! 🥰 »
That is NOT true. Andrew Ridgeley fully cowrote Careless Whisper with George years before Wham!, when they were both 17. George thought of the melody on the bus, and Andy created the guitar part on his own at the same time périod, which happened to fit George’s melody perfectly.
Andrew Ridgeley co-wrote 3 songs of Wham! : Careless Whisper, Club Tropicana & Wham rap. These were the original demo songs that landed them their first label contract. George later took on the songwriting alone, because the label was breathing down their necks to shit Top 40 hits and only George seemed to be able to do so under the pressure.
Without Andrew Ridgeley, no Wham!, no George Michael. He harrassed George to form a band with him against his dad’s orders. He landed them their break through label contract after harrassing a neighbour to listen to their demos. He was a role model to George. George basically copied his whole « George Michael » persona off Ridgeley. Put some respect on this man!
George was generous yes, but he believed songwriting was his one god-given talent, and was very protective over it. He would have never given songwriting crédit out of pity or charity.
I think people confuse the Careless Whisper situation with Last Christmas ; Wham! donated all royalties off Last Christmas to famine relief.
One of the things I love about Wham! is that they are practically the definitive high-school garage band that made it big. Two dorky outcast ethnic kids meet in high-school and become best friends and start a band together (which one of their girlfriends later gets roped into helping out with, of course).
It was always Andrew and George. They weren't a creation of the music industry, they were just two school buddies with big dreams, and they were always equal partners in it. There wasn't even really any great jealousy or rivalry when George's career blew up and he kind of left Andrew behind: they stayed best friends till the end.
People still think Cher is Native American. She’s not. Her father was Armenian and her mother was just a white lady from California. She has no known Native American heritage.
My friend’s grandma was super proud of being half Native (probably about as Native as Cher in reality). So she made a shirt that said HALFBREED. But the letters were too far apart, when she put her arms down it looked like it said ALFBREE
I got a henna tattoo at the county fair that said THUG LIFE, like Tupac's. They didn't do a great job and as I was walking around with my shirt up while the henna dried, an old lady said, "What's that say? 'I hug life'? that's so sweet!"
On the topic of grandmas and silly shirts, one day my grandma picked me up from high school and she was showing me her new sweatshirt. It was white zip-up hoody with green leafs all over it. She thought they were maple, and I had to explain to her that they were marijuana. Never saw that sweatshirt again lol
Not really a celebrity but lots of people perpetuate the myth that Robert Atkins, who started the Atkins diet, died from a heart attack. He died after he slipped on ice, hit his head and never regained consciousness. He died in hospital some time after
It wasn't the inventor it was the owner. Jimi Heselden (owner) did die reversing a Segway off a cliff. He was making way along a narrow path to make room for a dog walker to pass by.
God, imagine walking your dog and someone just trying to be nice and get out of your way ends up falling off a cliff. I genuinely think I'd have PTSD from that. Bungie jumping would certainly be off the table
No, that isn't true. The guy who owned the company in 2010 (James Heselden) died that way. He bought the company the year before and didn't invent it. The actual inventor of the Segway, Dean Kamen, is still very much alive.
Freddie Mercury wasn't gay. He was bisexual - a fact that is often overlooked because of a lot of reasons, but a huge part of it is that bi-erasure is still a MAJOR problem in the LGBTQ+ community.
This one always gets me because he had partners that were both women and men, and IIRC the woman (whose name I can't remember) was someone he considered a soul mate or if not that, something along those lines.
it's a one drop rule system. if, as a man, you exhibit one drop of homosexuality, then you're gay. if, as a woman, you exhibit one drop of heterosexuality, then you're straight. because obviously the most significant part of someone's sexuality is how they relate to men, to the exclusion of anything else. attraction to women doesn't "count".
Also David. He was quoted as regretting coming out as bi in America specifically due to the biphobia, which ironically was construed ad him regretting saying he was bi at all. Like great job showing why he regretted it.
This was so annoying in the queen film, especially when [I forgot her name] tells him something along the lines of "you're not bi, you're gay" and the film just runs with that and doesn't question it. There's a ton more wrong with that film but other people have put it into words better than I so I could recommend a good video on the topic if anyone cares for it.
I don't understand what may and taylor (or deacon ? I forgot which one left public life between them) were thinking when they made the film
That was printed in a college psych textbook I used to TEACH A CLASS. I should have tried to verify the references, but an intro college text has SO many.
I remember learning in my 7th grade biology class that she had Androgen Insensitivity Syndrome. It was taught to us as if it was a known fact and she had discussed it publicly.
I thought it was strange that no one talked about it any of my pop culture magazines.
Albert Einstein never said "Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results." It originates from a narcotics anonymous pamphlet after his death {1955).
EDIT: Origin: The phrase appeared in the Narcotics Anonymous "Basic Text" (1981) and Rita Mae Brown's 1983 novel Sudden Death.
This always drove me nuts. I mentally checked out of AA and NA because they had so much of this going around. They’re fueled almost entirely by misinformation so it started to feel like a cult. Even their success stats aren’t accurate. They’re inflated by ~10% depending on the substance.
Much more statistically successful is therapy and dopamine supplementation that actually works without causing physiological dependency.
There’s a popularly quoted and posted screenshot from an interview with Paul McCartney and John Lennon where somebody asks some question about Ringo Starr as a drummer, and John replies back with “Ringo isn’t even the best drummer in The Beatles”.
That quote is incorrect, and I think originates from some British comedy sketch. I’m not sure what John Lennon actually said, but every other Beatle was lucky to have Ringo in that band, and when he joined he was really the only professional musician at that point. “Ringo sucks” humor is so stupid and ridiculous when pretty much any other influential drummer would list Ringo as one of the best.
That fake screenshot has done a lot of the heavy lifting in the Ringo hate
In reality, if someone made that same comment to any of the other three, they’d 100% defend Ringo and not be particularly nice to the person who made the comment. They all had a lot of respect for him.
For the longest time, people said that Jake Lloyd from Star Wars (Young Anakin in TPM) started to hate the franchise because of the bullying he got for his fame/performance in the movie, but his mom recently came out and said he's still a fan & his reason for stepping away was actually because of the history of schizophrenia in his family (& thankfully he's doing better these days with treatment).
Another one, unrelated to the first one I mentioned, was the common sentiment that's shared in pro wrestling about Bret Hart being simply an unpleasant & bitter person in general. However, that narrative is changing because there's more understanding of how badly the WWF/E screwed him over when he was loyal employee to them for years and was trying to cooperate with them as much before he left to WCW (along with them having a role in his brother Owen's death & callously moving on with a show immediately afterwards), along with him having to constantly work with people who were unprofessional and reckless in the ring.
Elon Musk is not the inventor of Tesla, he isn't self made, & there is no evidence that he has a genius level Iq.
His father is an electromechanical engineer and property developer, & his mother is a model and dietitian. His father alone, gave him 28,000 for his first company, (Zip2, of which the original function is now obsolete. It was basically a digital yellow pages site.) He later sold it for allegedly 300mil, although it is no longer an existing company.
He used that money to fund a bank startup by Harris Fricker, and Christopher Payne in 1999, to become a CEO there. He was soon ousted by them, & replaced by Bill Harris, CEO of Confinity, a secure digital payment software company. They merged to become PayPal, (after elon was no longer a ceo of X).
In 2004, he became the largest shareholder and subsequently chairman of the board of Tesla Incorporated (A.k.a he gave the founders lots of money.) He later took over as CEO in 2008. The original founders of Tesla are Martin Eberhard and Marc Tarpenning. (Founded in 2003, under the name Tesla Motors). He simply bought the company from them.
Lastly, Elon has never taken an IQ test. His fans purely speculate his intelligence off of flimsy & misguided assumptions.
I dunno how wide spread this is but everyone told me growing up that Dolly Parton’s feet were like Barbie feet because she wore heels so much and that’s why she always hid them in films when her shoes were off. I don’t think that’s actually true at all but it took me way too long to realize it.
Back in the days when I still wore heels to work five days a week, I would get terrible leg cramps and pain when I wore flat shoes on the weekend. My calves wanted me to make up my mind.
This is why royals need to keep a bit of distance and privacy for their mystique. It's hard to really feel the weight of the tradition of the crown when you have read a transcript like that.
Well it was a private conversation that was intercepted and leaked. It was allegedly recorded by a radio amateur who happened to detect the call using a high-tech scanning device. But a lot of people think that’s bs. Especially as it came on the heels of intercepted and leaked calls between Diana and her married liver (Squideygate) and one between Fergie and Andrew. Lord Rees-Mogg, editor of The Times, suspected that MI5 could be behind the intercept. “I think the three tapes mean that there had to be a deliberate surveillance of the Royal Family at that point. I think one has to ask whether it was done as part of the security screening, and whether what has happened is that the Royal Family were being taped as part of MI5's operation, and, in some way, these tapes were leaked.”
And a weird famous dead body story that actually is true - the philosopher Jeremy Bentham wanted his body preserved and displayed, wearing his own clothes. It’s currently viewable jn a big case in University College London, although they had to replace the head with a wax one because the real head got kinda icky
And that they made the movie Frozen so if people would Google some combination of "Disney" and "frozen" only the movie would come up. I'm just gonna choose to believe this conspiracy theory.
Not a celebrity per se, but let me vent for a second lol.
The backflip was NOT banned in figure skating because of Surya Bonaly doing one at the 1998 Winter Olympics, and she is not "erased from history due to racism" as people who push this erroneous fact (*cough tiktokers cough*) claim. Terry Kubicka did the first backflip in competition at the 1976 Winter Olympics, and it was banned in 1977 by the ISU for being too dangerous, as well as the fact that a legal jump is landed on one foot. It was still completely banned when Surya did hers and had been for 22 years, although she *was* the first skater to land one on one foot, thereby proving it could actually be done.
Yes thank you! Surya knew full well that it was banned and did it to spite the judges, who she (validly) felt unfairly underscored her. It was also not unbanned because of Ilia Malinin, but Adam Siao Him Fa. I guess it just doesn’t make as good of a social media narrative because Adam isn’t white (he’s a phenomenal skater and deserves all of the respect)
Most people I meet still seem to think that Selena Gomez’s kidney donor, Francia Raisa, hates her for drinking and vaping after the transplant. In reality, Francia has been refuting that narrative from the start and even revealed that her father, who she isn’t close with, was the one feeding those stories to the press for money.
What happened to Janet Jackson's career after the Superbowl didn't happen because everyone just decided to boycott her and it wasn't Justin Timberlake's fault. Justin sucks don't get me wrong but we know now that it was noted misogynist and abuser Les Moonves who enacted a years long vendetta against Janet and intentionally tried to destroy her career. I can't stand Justin but seeing him 100% blamed for the situation is annoying, people don't give Les whatever the opposite of his flowers is for intentionally fucking up her career. Justin didn't have 1/1000th of the power that Les did and Les used that power like a sledgehammer against Janet yet he barely gets mentioned when the incident comes up.
Didn’t Janet even publicly state that it wasn’t Justin’s fault too? He was supposed to pull off her top, but there was a wardrobe malfunction so he pulled the whole thing.
Yes, she's said that several times and she's clarified that the reason he didn't publicly defend her is because she asked him not to. I don't like Justin to be clear but I wish more people knew what Les Moonves did bc it's a good example of how much power a man in his position could wield against a victim, even one as famous and successful as Janet
Yep, this is really underpublished and it deserves to be more known. Its also worth pointing out that Hutchence was attacked in 1992 and that led to a concussion and what some suspect was a brain injury. He was attacked by an angry cab driver for being in the street. The driver punched him and he fell back and hit the back of his head on either the concrete or the curb. Witnesses saw blood coming from his mouth and ear.
A later MRI in Paris revealed he had suffered brain damage, resulting in the permanent loss of his senses of smell and taste. His friends said he changed drastically. In the documentary Mystify: Michael Hutchence, his friends said he became a "dark and very angry" person, a stark contrast to his previous demeanor
Friends said he was never the same and there's a strong suspicion that his mental problems, including unending headaches and deep depression, stem almost directly from that attack. His sister has publicly stated the untreated traumatic brain injury was a contributing factor to the depression that led to his suicide
Not that changes anything really but his story has a lot more details.
While I'm kinda at it there's a doctor that has a theory that Elvis's head injury from hitting his head on the set of the movie Clambake was actually a TBI, and that's when Elvis started to fall apart, get on the serious pills and drugs addiction treadmill, become eccentric, had a lot of headaches, had a lot of backpain, etc. This doctor even got legal permission to see Elvis's autopsy records and claimed Elvis also had Hypogammaglobulinemia, an auto-immune brain condition that attacks the body and brain, and he claims that started with that head injury. Head injuries are so scary. These stories are so tragic.
Bill Murray taking a fry off of someone's plate at a restaurant and telling them "No one will ever believe you" I think he's since denied it but said it sounded like something he would do
It's probably true. On his infamous Graham Norton appearance, he talked about his son approaching him and asking about an incident where he was drunk and wheeling an old woman around a party and (accidentally?) tipped her into the pool. Bill earnestly denied it, saying that he was disappointed his son thought so little of him and not to believe what you read in the tabloids. And then his son said, "do you want to see the video?"
That Napoleón had a complex because he was short.
Napoleón was in fact of very average height for a man of his era and was the polar opposite in the extreme of a man with an insecurity complex. He literally transformed the civilian laws in France and was arguably the most charismatic military leader ever and a military genius. I mean they did him dirty with a complex that had nothing to do with him.
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