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Reputation is a fickle thing. It can take years—if not decades—to build up. But it only takes moments to destroy. Most stars know that they’re always in the spotlight, so whatever they do is going to have consequences. This is why it’s so important to have high moral standards and behave respectably when you’re a public figure.

The members of the AskReddit online community spilled the beans about which celebrities they have personally lost any and all respect for due to their atrocious behavior. You’ll find their thoughts below. Feel free to chime in with your own opinions in the comments.

#1

50 Celebrities That Messed Up So Badly That Barely Anyone Respects Them Anymore Tom Hanks

...isn't on this list because he's wholesome as f**k and a world-class gentleman.

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#3

50 Celebrities That Messed Up So Badly That Barely Anyone Respects Them Anymore I'll mention a group: Actor Scientologists. When the whole Scientology news exploded roughly 8 years ago, I lost all respect.

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Riley Quinn
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18 hours ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Travolta and Cruise being Scientologists doesn't bother me because as an atheist I thing all forms of religion are bs. So, they believe in some space alien. No whackier than the 18,000 different gods people believe in. And, before you get your panties in a knot, if you believe in a god, you've already poo-pooed all the other gods. I'm simply being inclusive.

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Let’s not be naive or holier-than-thou: everyone makes mistakes. To err is human, and all that. And to a certain extent, everyone deserves a second chance, forgiveness, and the opportunity to make amends. However, some sins are so egregious that it makes you wonder if redemption is even possible.

Fully protecting your reputation is impossible. However, a good rule of thumb is to avoid acting impulsively. If you think you’re about to make an important decision, write an angry comment, be rude, do something unethical, etc., it’s vital that you stop and think.

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#4

50 Celebrities That Messed Up So Badly That Barely Anyone Respects Them Anymore Elon Musk, I got caught up in romantisizing the progress he was apparently making towards space travel. I remember saying I thought he was the closest we'd get to a real-life Zefram Cochrane. When I came to realise he was just another billionaire buying ideas and taking credit for them I stopped respecting him pretty quickly.
Marilyn Manson, I don't think I need to really explain why.

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Ann Kapoxeet
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19 hours ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

He is such a gross human. It says something when your child doesn't want anything to do with you.

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#5

50 Celebrities That Messed Up So Badly That Barely Anyone Respects Them Anymore Madonna, ever since I found out she dumped her three chihuahuas at a dodgy kill shelter and one of them died after having its face mauled while the other two were basically starving by the time they were rescued. She was literally Madonna, she could have found them a good home. Or you know, literally hired someone just to care for them.

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50 Celebrities That Messed Up So Badly That Barely Anyone Respects Them Anymore Chris Brown. The whole "he hit Rihanna" thing was downplayed in the media. Read the actual police report and you'll see that he tormented and even attempted to kill her. And this man is still walking and making music and garnering fans. Really does make me sick.

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Nikole
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19 hours ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

He tried to push her out of the moving vehicle and would have succeeded if she hadn’t been wearing her seatbelt. I hate him. I remember after it happened, freaking Wendy Williams was discussing it on her show and dismissed it with a “Oh, but they’re just kids”.

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Give yourself some time to think things over if you feel like you’re in a situation where you’re very emotional and about to potentially make a mistake.

Try to consider the consequences of your actions, both immediate and long-term. Run your decision by the people you trust the most. If you have a public relations expert or a manager on your payroll, definitely get in touch with them.

Forbes notes that something you should always think twice before responding to someone in anger or frustration. Especially in a work context.

#8

50 Celebrities That Messed Up So Badly That Barely Anyone Respects Them Anymore Gwyneth Paltrow - Goop

The medical information, that's just wrong, the $100 dollar vagina candle, the Recipies it's just nonsense and she's not a bad actress.

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#9

50 Celebrities That Messed Up So Badly That Barely Anyone Respects Them Anymore Idk if he counts as a celebrity, but i f*****g dispise doctor phil now. Not only did he send trouble kids to a child labor and endangering camp, made an excuse for it, but he also literally told a male abuse victim that he was abusive for fighting back and that hes a scumbag

Edit: ok these comments are getting overwhelming, but for those who asked "why did you even respect him in the first place?" I first knew phil from the catch me outside girl and i thought he was doing something good for her. As well as helping family members with their destructive family lives. I didnt realize what he was REALLY doing to these people til recently.

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Tyranamar Suess
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19 hours ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Yes. He's a pathological narcissist. He saw his own reflection in Trump and loved it.

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What celebrities have you personally lost all respect for and why, Pandas? On the other hand, who are some public figures that you genuinely look up to?

Are there any stars who messed up who you think eventually managed to move past their sullied reputations? Let us know what you think.

#10

50 Celebrities That Messed Up So Badly That Barely Anyone Respects Them Anymore Bill Cosby.

He wasn't like Cliff Huxtable at all.

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Ron Man
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19 hours ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

You saw Cliff Huxtable for 22 minutes each week. You don't know what he did with the rest of his time.

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#11

Not really a celebrity, but Rudy Giuliani.

I was 28 when 9/11 happened. He honestly and truly was America's Mayor during that time. We had no clue about who the dude actually was. These were the innocent times when social media was little more than a fever dream in Tom Anderson's mind.

I can honestly not think of a single person who was so widely held in such high regard, and has since fallen so low.

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Tyranamar Suess
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19 hours ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Don't you love how he showed up to vote in the vehicle he was supposed to give his victims? Everyone associated with Trump is dirty to the core.

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#12

50 Celebrities That Messed Up So Badly That Barely Anyone Respects Them Anymore For someone not already listed here, I’ll go with Ellen - used to respect her a lot for being a trailblazer before everything came to light in 2020.

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#14

50 Celebrities That Messed Up So Badly That Barely Anyone Respects Them Anymore Danny Masterson

Thought he was cool but later found out he is a higher up in scientology and got away with raping the wife of Cedric Bixler-Zavala (singer of the mars volta) and poisoned 2 of his dogs.

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#15

Dan Schneider. He crated a ton of shows on nickelodeon that I loved growing up but he's a disgusting man that *more than likely* molested a lot of young female stars growing up.

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#16

50 Celebrities That Messed Up So Badly That Barely Anyone Respects Them Anymore This pandemic showed a lot of celebs to be self centred and out of touch.

I lost respect for everyone in that awful Imagine rendition.

"Imagine no possessions" they sing while sitting in their billion dollar mansions. Meanwhile the rest of us are losing our jobs.

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#17

I think the overall take away from this thread is don't put anyone on a pedestal. You don't know anyone 100% besides yourself and even that can change. Everyone's flawed in some way.

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Marnie
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18 hours ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I am disappointed in many of these people who I did not put on a pedestal. This sort of implies we were putting them on a pedestal of perfection, and then they showed themselves to be human. But these posts are talking about despicable things, not just human faults.

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#18

Whoopi Goldberg for saying the Holocaust wasn't about race and downplaying Jews as a race and a discriminated people.

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14 hours ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Let's not forget that recently she tried to get a bakery cancelled because she slandered them. She wanted to order these special cupcakes for her birthday and the owner of the bakery told her that they couldn't make them for her. Whoopi assumed it was because of her political stance and blasted that all over The View and wanted everyone to cancel this bakery. The owner replied to her that it was because their oven was broken and no one would be getting anything special ordered because of that and not because of anything else. So Whoopi had her followers leave bad reviews on this bakery and is probably going to be sued very soon. Piece of trash that one!

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#19

50 Celebrities That Messed Up So Badly That Barely Anyone Respects Them Anymore Elisabeth Moss - how do you play the main character in a show like The Handmaid's Tale, yet practice Scientology in your personal life? I don't get it.

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medcrest
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15 hours ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

She's an actress. She makes her living pretending to be somebody else.

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#20

Steven Seagal. Because he is the world’s worst actor bar none.

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#22

Oprah. She did a special once on the Holocaust but made it all about her. It was very distasteful. We watched it back in high school, and even the teacher turned it off. To be fair, I had never watched her or her show before, but that experience soured her for me.

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Mammie
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18 hours ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Oprah is awful. Sits in ONE of her mansions, and preys on the poor saying she understands their lives and knows what they need. B******t. Stop listening to the wealthy. All of them. They do not care about you!

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#23

Anyone that we find had ties with Epstein.

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Michael Largey
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18 hours ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Someone like Epstein will seek links with perfectly innocent prominent people in hopes that they will help bail him out when he gets in trouble so they won't be named as an associate.

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#24

Mark Wahlberg. Dude is a straight up scumbag. He has committed multiple hate crimes, attempted murder, assaults, dealing d***s… list goes on.

The cherry on top of the cake is his comments about 9/11, and how he could have stopped the attacks if he was on one of the aircraft. Get f****d Mark.

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Fred L.
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15 hours ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

The cherry on top is that he tends to be a bad actor who still manages to get cast in starring roles.

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#25

James Corden, Ellen and “Dr”. Phil.

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Riley Quinn
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18 hours ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

He's your problem now, Britain. So long, James, and please don't come back.

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#26

Tyra Banks. The ways she exploits and abuses vulnerable contestants for views. Disgusting. It goes deeps. She's as bad as Wendy in her own way.

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#27

Tom Cruise is the first that comes to mind cause of his affliation with Sciencetology. Come one guys the reason why he is making bank with the Mission Impossible movies is cause he in big dept with that cult.

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Kali Chaos
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10 hours ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

He was also pretty awful to Katie Holmes, whom avoided several scandals and really seems like she just wants to be a good mom.

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#28

Tiger Woods. Cheats on his wife and repeatedly drives under the influence. He got away from his last crash without a warrant for a blood test even though the facts and circumstances clearly show some sort of impairment.

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#29

Allison Mack from Smallville. She was a leader in a cult that exploited women and made them sex slaves. Currently in prison.

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#30

Chrissy teigen. I'm embarrassed I was so fond of her persona, even bought her cook book.. Related to her struggles with alcohol. Now I just see her as a cringe worthy try hard who needs a never ending amount of validation. Oh and she told a teenager to kill themselves, tried to hide the media storm behind it and when it finally came out THEN gave a stupid public apology. SHE TOLD A TEENAGER WHO WAS BEING GROOMED TO TAKE A DIRT NAP, there's no public apology for that. Go away and work on yourself. Just..gross.

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#31

50 Celebrities That Messed Up So Badly That Barely Anyone Respects Them Anymore Mariah Carrey is a complete c**t to food service workers.

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Owen
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12 hours ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

She's insanely rich from basically one terrible song. And just a horrible person all round. Gives off major 'spoiled little child' vibes to me.

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#32

50 Celebrities That Messed Up So Badly That Barely Anyone Respects Them Anymore T.I. That dude was cool until he said he was getting his daughter checked for her virginity.

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Anne Nyheim
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14 hours ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Also, checking for virginity is not a real thing. At the most you can check for a hymen, but not everybody have one. It can be anything from all-covering to non-existant, and it could rupt from things like running, biking, marching the penguin, falling during gym at school, anything really.

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#33

Lizzo, after she started sexually harassing Chris Evans. Talking about her sexually explicit fantasies about him during an interview was just uncomfortable. If he’d made the comments about her that she made about him, he’d be cancelled immediately.

Then she ran into Chris Brown backstage somewhere and was filmed fangirling over him and called him her favourite person. Yeah, the same Chris Brown who nearly killed Rihanna, whose other ex has a restraining order against him, who has continuously proven since the Rihanna incident that he’s a violent piece of s**t and a danger to women…that’s your favourite person?

Not as bad as most of the answers on here, but I absolutely lost any respect I had for her after that point.

Edited to add: I may have lost respect for her, but a lot of these replies are gross. I feel the need to clarify that I don’t agree with any of the comments calling her names and talking s**t about her appearance.

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Nikole
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19 hours ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

This doesn’t even mention sexually harassing her backup dancers. And I’ll talk shít about her appearance. She was all about “body positivity” and being a big girl, but guess who’s losing weight now because it became a health concern? We KNEW it was a health concern.

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#34

Elon Musk. I've been a huge space fan my whole life and a proponent for electric vehicles and sustainable energy. There is no doubt SpaceX and Telsa have made huge strides in those industries, he should be a no-brainer idol for me, but his recent stance on Covid has really made me conflicted.

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#35

Kevin Hart.

I handled his table at the Casino I worked for, guy was a total d**k. My wife (even before my interaction) says he’s the biggest piece of s**t she ever dealt to. Other service industry employees have told me he’s the worst also.

Kevin Hart is a grade A a*****e AND a f*****g stiff. I used to like his comedy but after meeting him? F**k him.

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#36

Amber Heard, she manipulated the whole media, caused that Johnny got his career DESTROYED while some what innocent, and I never truly respected her even before.


Edit: I did some extra findings and now I basically am disgusted by both. But I hate Amber more still since she abused "feminism" to be still seen as good.

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Doodles1983
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19 hours ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Johnny has his problems. But it was a co dependent relationship. Doomed to fail. And she is also a grade A narcissist. Johnny at least admits his issues.

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#37

Lance Edward Armstrong (né Gunderson; born September 18, 1971) is an American former professional road racing cyclist. Armstrong was stripped of his seven consecutive Tour de France titles from 1999 to 2005 after a doping investigation and his admission to using performance enhancing d***s. Also heard he was a wife beater. Little kid me used to heard about him all the time.

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Loudawg76
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19 hours ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

He is also a raging narcissist who destroyed the careers and lives of people who tried to call him out. Truly a piece of s**t.

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#38

Chad Michael Murray

I waited in line for a Nintendo Wii the day they came out. It was outside of a Best Buy. Some people camped out. I got there before sunrise, but not crazy early. It was a fun environment. Once the staff got there, they told everyone how the sale would work, got everyone excited, and I think handed out some stuff.

About 20 minutes before the store opened, Chad Michael Murray pulled up in a black SUV, right to the front of the line. Like, literally parked his car in the fire lane right at the front of the line, and got out. It was summer and he was wearing a leather jacket. He was clearly expecting people to be excited to see him. I was close enough to the front to hear him. He went up to the employee who was coordinating everything, and said he was here for his Nintendo. The guy was nice, and basically said what he would to anyone - great! you’re in the right place. Get in line. CMM says that he was told there would be one saved for him. The guy didn’t know what he was talking about. After a little back and forth and another employee getting involved, he walks away with his Nintendo. He clearly thought everyone would cheer for him as he walked away. But, they ran out of Nintendos that day. Some kid went home empty handed. I still get furious thinking about it.

F**k CMM.

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#39

I find it difficult to really feel connected to someone who sings about how "we're all in this together" yet they need to drive a small vehicle to go from one side of their property to the other so they can enjoy their pool.

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#40

Mariah Carey after her tea meltdown at the new years rockin eve fest and how we had to wait for her to perform the LAST song of the evening and this b***h wouldn't come out because she didn't get her tea and had to restart the song at least once if I remember correctly it was a while ago. But I absolutely can't stand her!

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#41

Dr Phil after seeing him tell a victim of domestic violence "You don't ever, never, ever, put your hands on a woman in anger" and telling him to just walk away if she attacks him because he tried to defend himself.

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Bill
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9 hours ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Well, that's pretty much the norm in society. My ex used to beat the c**p out of me. I was very weak with cancer. anyway, but anyway, If I so much as pushed her off of me. to get away from her Guess who went to jail?

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#43

So, this one is an entirely personal issue. But I used to work at a hotel and Jerry Seinfeld was staying there while doing a show and he was incredibly rude. Yelling at staff about mild inconveniences and stuff. Basically he went full Karen, even said that he'll never use this hotel chain again.

In his defense, this all happened late at night after he was returning from a show, so maybe he just was having a bad night, so I don't want to say he's a terrible person. Just he was very rude to me and my coworkers and it's left a bad taste in my mouth ever since.

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#44

Nick Cannon for expounding the racist conspiracy theory that Israel stole the Jewish identity from African people.

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#45

50 Celebrities That Messed Up So Badly That Barely Anyone Respects Them Anymore I'm still utterly furious at Mason Greenwood.

Edit: Manchester United footballer whose girlfriend published evidence of him beating, abusing, and threatening her with r**e last weekend.

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J Adams
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5 hours ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Despite him being caught red handed with audio recordings that almost everyone in britain heard there are still Manchester United fans who believe he is innocent because the victim backed out of the prosecution so he was never convicted in court.

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#48

James Franco. I’ve thought of him as a good actor but after I’ve seen that he’s a sexual predator, my respect gone downhill.

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#49

50 Celebrities That Messed Up So Badly That Barely Anyone Respects Them Anymore Drake Bell. I loved Drake and Josh growing up so I thought he was a pretty cool guy. Then ofc everything came forth recently about him being a p***phile, and apparently he has also been grifting people with cryptocurrency even more recently. I have no respect left for the man at all

Edit: NFT’s not crypto, my bad.

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Montanavanna
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5 hours ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I thought he came forward talking about his experience with alleged pedos in the industry, not that he is one. Hmm, maybe my memory is wrong.

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50 Celebrities That Messed Up So Badly That Barely Anyone Respects Them Anymore I would say Jeffree Star but I never had respect for him in the first place.

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