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Being a public figure isn’t easy. They’re stripped of their privacy, scrutinized for their appearance, their behavior is constantly judged, and they can no longer enjoy or do things that regular people do. Not to mention the “friends” who are only with them for the fame or the admirers who are out of control.

It’s really no surprise that this pressure can take a toll on a person’s mental wellbeing. People are noticing this more and more as celebrities begin to exhibit strange behavior.

When redditor Darvelic asked netizens who they thought had legitimately lost their mind, they received more than 8,000 comments within a week. Scroll down to find celebrities who couldn’t cope with their fame and unfortunately got out of hand.

While you're there make sure to check out a conversation with Darvelic who started this discussion in the first place and psychiatrist David Puder who kindly agreed to tell us more about the mental health challenges that public figures might face.

#1

30 Celebs That Seem To Have Completely Lost It, According To People Online Kanye. He’s def gone off the deep end. 


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Strange to think we’ve been saying that for nearly 20 years and he’s still out here demonstrating we haven’t seen nothing yet 

springtimeinparis , Kanye West/Youtube Report

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Sand Ers
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9 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

He started out off the deep end. The press needs to stop rewarding his shìtty behavior.

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30 Celebs That Seem To Have Completely Lost It, According To People Online Tom Cruise and all of Scientology.

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Ray Ceeya (RayCeeYa)
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9 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Scientologists believe a lot of silly things, but they're not the ones firebombing Planned Parenthood and shooting up Mosques. They aren't banning books and picketing drag shows. I think you know who I'm talking about.

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30 Celebs That Seem To Have Completely Lost It, According To People Online Elon.

I liked Elon for a while. He bought water filters for the people of Flint, Star Link is going to get high speed internet to the farthest reaches of Earth and Teslas were self-driving bad**s electric cars! All good ideas IMO. Then the stupid cyber truck. And ruining Twitter and blowing 44billion dollars. Nobody even calls it X. Now I hear he’s trying to get employees to sleep at work. What a dingleberry! People got families and pets and personal lives. Nobody wants to live at work!

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Sand Ers
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9 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

He hasn't changed. He simply no longer needs to pretend to not be an àsshóle.

Krd
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9 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

He definitely changed at least a little. Either that or he stopped pretending, and we are just seeing his actual personality. He has clearly become a far-right fanboy, whereas he used to lean/talk like a progressive.

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Ray Ceeya (RayCeeYa)
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9 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Muskrat never had a mind to begin with. He inherited an Apartheid Era diamond fortune and made a couple of good investments. Right now the board at Tesla wants him out and Space-X is looking pretty shaky.

Bexxperience
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9 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

The board of Tesla consists of his cronies who are highly invested in Tesla (and other Musk enterprises). They are bound to lose a fortune if they get rid of him - unless they sell beforehand, which I assume would be considered insider trading - because Tesla's stock value is linked to the mythos of Musk, the genius entrepreneur.

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LokisLilButterknife
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9 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

He’s always been a narcissistic a*****e who’s tried to hide behind the facade of “brilliant young inventor changing the world.” No, he takes credit from other better, more intelligent people and treats his workers like c**p. He is also extremely sexist and supports anti- LGBTQIA+ rhetoric. Yeah, a real great guy…🙄

JayWantsACat
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9 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

And he's going to fund Gina Carano's "fReE sPEeCh" legal battle against Disney. Because that this idiot and Twitter needs is to blow time and money into something this f*****g stupid.

Bogdan Chelariu
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9 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

He's turned into the rich villain in every cop show!!! The guy that makes every controversial statement in the book, has parties with drugs and prostitutes and acts like a dodgy mob boss if anybody speaks about it...

Roxy222uk
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9 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

It is physically impossible to get to be that rich without exploiting and riding rough shod over a **lot** of people. Impossible.

James016
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9 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I bet he is pissed that his $56bn payday has been revoked. But that is an insane amount to pay one person.

devotedtodreams
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9 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I've never understood why people creamed their pants over him, he's always been unsympathetic to me. If I hadn't thought he wasn't right in the head before, I definitely did when the whole Twitter fiasco occurred. And yes, I still call it Twitter.

TotallyNOTAFox
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9 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I have respect for the scientists, engineers and all the other people that work for him as they are the ones making awesome stuff - he just happens to run the companies that provide ressources for them. Doesn't make him a genius or anything like that

Bash
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9 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

He has money and nothing else. He didn’t create anything, he’s no genius. He hired the geniuses. He’s a spoiled white boy, full stop.

DadManBlues
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9 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

'Then the stupid cyber truck.' People decide to buy that bullsheet. He just found out that people need no design at all, they just need the function.

Savannah greenleaf
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9 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Up ote because I have not heard or seen the word "dingleberry" in quite some time! Now I will be laughing the rest of the day.

bbfa
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9 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

He's turning that Starlink off and on depending on his political views. Very disturbing.

Jo Davies
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9 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Can't believe no one is talking about the 1,500 that were tortured and killed in the name of science. Neuralink.

Tamara Mays
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9 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Funny, there was never a time when I didn't question his sanity. His need to populate the world with his seed is disturbing as is his need to eliminate average humans with robots.

Cee Mor
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9 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

100% but it really seems like a lot of it might be drugs

Mr.Li
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9 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

In japan they Office worker are sleeping at work. They say it is a good sign, cause the peeps are working themselves to the bone, that they need a sleepbreak....

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It’s convenient to believe that being a celebrity is all glitter and glamor. Sure, wealth, status, and endless opportunities may create a picture of a perfect life, but it can also mask the psychological effects that come with being a public figure.

Producer Julie Crosby from Cromono International acknowledges that mental health issues in the entertainment industry are widespread and severe. Meanwhile, various studies show that rates of suicide, suicidal thinking, depression, anxiety, and substance abuse are significantly higher in show business professionals than in the general public.

Bored Panda reached out to redditor nicknamed Darvelic who started this discussion in the first place. Naturally, we were curious to know what inspired to take such a question online.

"My initial inspiration was Nicki Minaj’s multi-day online rants against Megan Thee Stallion. Although rap beef can get out of hand, I found it bizarrely one-sided and maniacal. And when I heard Nicki’s song, “Big Foot”, I thought, ‘She’s lost it now.’

In truth, while Nicki’s behavior was ugly, it wasn’t out of the realm of her character. The whole drama is trivial. I’m no psychologist but I think someone who’s lost their mind, they’re tangibly self-destructive, alienating, and make you feel as though you’re the one taking crazy pills."

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#4

30 Celebs That Seem To Have Completely Lost It, According To People Online Rudy Guiliani. He was smart enough at one point. Now, his brain is just pickled. He's a good lesson in what alcohol can do to you, long term.

teambob:

Rather than going down in history as a hero, he will go down as a very confused villain

superfastmomma , RudyGiuliani Report

#5

30 Celebs That Seem To Have Completely Lost It, According To People Online Most, if not all, Q-Anon followers

MooseMalloy , Anthony Crider/Flickr Report

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

How people got sucked into this boggles the mind. It’s like 4chan in real life.

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#6

30 Celebs That Seem To Have Completely Lost It, According To People Online Get Mitch Mcconnel out of there. dude is literally phasing out of consciouness.

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

Always been a fascist though. Starting to have second thoughts now that his life's work of poisoning the Supreme Court with like-minded fascists has succeeded.

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We also reached out to a physician, psychiatrist, and host of the “Psychiatry & Psychotherapy Podcast" David Puder, to find out why some celebrities may struggle with their mental health.

"There is incredible pressure on public figures, and a lot of financial vultures are trying to pull away resources from them without giving them much value. They often don't end up with a good therapist, but rather some shiny gimmick that will "seek to help them", but really just overcharge and take their money and possibly catapult their brand forward. 

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I have treated famous people, and no one will ever know who or for what reasons—namely because of the sacredness of confidentiality and also different laws. This might not be the case for celebrity "coaches" or even pseudo-religious movements that prey on famous people.

Darvelic has also wondered about the same thing many times. "I guess you could say it’s social media or our divided political and social opinions — which all certainly play a role. And public figures are just people. After all, they’re not immune. I don’t know, but it feels like a time of great change."


#7

30 Celebs That Seem To Have Completely Lost It, According To People Online Jada Pinkett Smith

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#8

30 Celebs That Seem To Have Completely Lost It, According To People Online Madonna. Have you seen her Instagram? Do yourself a favor and DON’T go look at it. It’s sad and pathetic.

JustAGuyGettingBy93 , Madonna/Youtube Report

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Bogdan Chelariu
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9 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I think her Instagram looks like the collection of images when you google "worst plastic surgery results"...

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#9

30 Celebs That Seem To Have Completely Lost It, According To People Online Anyone who thinks Taylor Swift is a CIA asset or whatever. That's just hilariously dumb.

pabodie , Taylor Swift/Youtube Report

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JayWantsACat
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9 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

It's pretty hilarious how mad they get when musicians, athletes, actors, etc voice their opinion. "StICk tO [x]" but only when it's not their guy. It's crazy how they love to point out the left's "hypocrisy" but are completely blind to their own.

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If the redditor were asked this question themselves, they would choose Elon Musk.

"His obsession with Twitter, his engagement with often disprovable right-wing rhetoric, renaming Twitter to X and thinking it’s going to be the Everything App, his erratic use of drugs, his toxic relationships with his exes and many of his children — some born through IVF or surrogacy. I can go on and on, but this is a guy who was once equated with some of the greatest minds of the modern age. Now he’s mirroring Donald Trump. It’s disturbing."

#10

30 Celebs That Seem To Have Completely Lost It, According To People Online Nick Cannon? I think this is the guy. Trying to populate the world having children with as many women as he can. Just stop. Massive insecurities or ego issues.

FunAdministration796 , Jorge Gonzalez/Flickr Report

#11

30 Celebs That Seem To Have Completely Lost It, According To People Online Super shocked to see no mention of Joe Rogan.

Wavemanns:

He has no mind to lose.

getdivorced , StevenCrowder/Youtube Report

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

I don't know how anyone listens to his podcast. Aside from the stupidity, anti-science, conspiracies, etc. he just makes sounds and acts like an idiot who thinks he's smart. He and his MAGA chud guest making fun of something Biden said, saying they should get him out of there and whatnot and he's losing his marbles, only to find out Biden was quoting Trump? They completely changed their and mumbled about how you should double check sources. No "Trump is losing his marbles, get him out of there". Nope. When they found out it was Trump who said it, they just mumbled and moved on. F*****g hypocrites.

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#12

30 Celebs That Seem To Have Completely Lost It, According To People Online The my pillow guy needs a conservatorship.

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Mike Lindell is the name you’re looking for, though a lot of people just call him the MyPillow guy. But yes, he’s insane.

Generallybadadvice , Gage Skidmore/Flickr Report

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Puder tells us that some warning signs of this happening to public figures can be internal as well as external.

"I think there are the internal aspects, which only the celebrity would know, decreased sleep, inability to focus, anxiety, anger, depression, suicidal thoughts, things like that. Public things that might be observed are issues with addiction, leaking out irritability, isolation, or odd statements that seem to hide something underneath."

#13

30 Celebs That Seem To Have Completely Lost It, According To People Online Greg Abbott. Seriously, dude?

Barfignugen:

I don’t think he’s lost his mind, I think he knows full well exactly what he’s doing. He’s just an evil monster.

Meggarea , Gage Skidmore/Flickr Report

#14

30 Celebs That Seem To Have Completely Lost It, According To People Online Still Ezra Miller.

I think any celebrity who has an outstanding warrant has basically lost their mind.

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

The things Ezra is accused of need addressing if they haven’t been already.

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30 Celebs That Seem To Have Completely Lost It, According To People Online As an older guy wanting to sound hip on current events, I'll go with Nicki Minaj.

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Megan Thee Stallion indirectly dissed Nicki Minaj on her latest song by saying 'These h**s don't be mad at Megan, these h**s mad at Megan's Law'. Nicki Minaj felt alluded to because her husband is a convicted sex offender.

Nicki Minaj is now acting extremely erratically. She's having IG lives where she's sputtering literal nonsense for an extended amount of time, hurling abuse at her own fans on social media, tweeting NONSTOP, making fun of Megan for being tall, for having big feet, for being shot on the foot, making fun of her mom's death...

Megan's diss was a throaway line on a song, Nicki devoted the entire track to Megan, and she said a lot of vile and childish things. It's just not a good look for someone with the career trajectory she has. Public sentiment is very much against her and has been for years, and her ramblings now feel like she has lost every shred of sanity she had.

SardineAbuser , Nicki Minaj/Youtube Report

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Celebrities might feel hesitant to reach out for help due to worries about their career or public image. In this case, Puder recommends finding a reliable and professional therapist who can address their concerns.

"I would say that a good therapist will remain 100% confidential, and that can be discussed in the first appointment. They want to find a psychiatrist or some licensed professional who has a private office or does Zoom calls. I would find a psychiatrist/therapist who is ok with being the only person interacting with them (for example, there is not a large front office, but rather just a sole provider who can be the point person). 

I would also look for someone who will keep what we call in psychotherapy, "the frame"- meaning someone who will keep therapy in session, and charge their normal rate for time (I charge the professional athletes/famous people I treat the same as anyone else), and has a private office. My office for example has a waiting room only for me, and therefore they will not bounce into anyone else."

#16

30 Celebs That Seem To Have Completely Lost It, According To People Online Kevin Sorbo

jumpupugly:

For what it's worth, Sorbo had three distinct strokes caused by an aneurysm in the shoulder. This caused some issues with his ability to physically perform as an actor, and likely also caused some brain damage.

This isn't to say that brain damage causes people to be stupid or evil, but the trauma of that event - plus the limited career he had afterwards - would provide an opportunity for him to begin seeing the world through the lens of bitterness and persecution that is modern conservatism.

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Rayne OfSalt
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9 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

His wife also sent him to one of those whacked out christian cult rehab places after his 3rd stroke. That said, he was a d*ckhead before the strokes - he'd regularly hit on young women and minors during filming or on set.

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#17

30 Celebs That Seem To Have Completely Lost It, According To People Online Jaden Smith. When I saw him in 2010's The Karate Kid I was convinced he was going to be a huge star. Now he's just a huge......I honestly don't know what to call him!
He has just tried too damn hard to act quirky and unique with his style of clothing and his "deep" tweets. He honestly sounds like he's certifiably crazy.

Elle12881 , Jaden/Youtube Report

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

Again....damaged by his mother. I genuinely believe jada has alot to answer for

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30 Celebs That Seem To Have Completely Lost It, According To People Online Terrance Howard. Dude thinks he’s unlocked some new math.

“Twenty years from now, they'll know that one times one equals two. We're about to show a new truth. The true universal math. And the proof is in these pieces (of plastic that he builds with his wife). I have created the pieces that make up the motion of the universe. We work on them about 17 hours a day. She cuts and puts on the crystals."

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What may help is a good support system, as it’s important to have people around them to whom they can talk and escape from the noise that eventually comes with success. Those who recover the best are the ones who pick up their lives right where they left off. Meanwhile, offering them therapy and a safe space where they can talk everything out can also be very beneficial.

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#19

30 Celebs That Seem To Have Completely Lost It, According To People Online Transvestigators. There are people online on twitter who legitimately think that every famous person is trans and have had sex changes to swap their genders for some reason and they spend all day posting like skeleton and skull comparisons for various actors or other famous people, using skeletal diagrams that have obviously been photoshopped.

Korrin , World's Direction/Flickr (not the actual photo) Report

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

Inquisitors of any witch hunt are generally quite unhinged. You kind of have to be to not only think that an arbitrary trait is somehow "evil", but to also decide that you want to hunt down any and all traces of said arbitrary trait and expose them.

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30 Celebs That Seem To Have Completely Lost It, According To People Online Britney Spears. I think she had untreated post partum psychosis, and has just continued to spiral. Obviously, the conservatorship (sp?) was completely wrong of her family to do to her, but I truly think she has gone round the bend. Very sad.

emilybg78 , Britney Spears/Youtube Report

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Marno C.
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9 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

From the moment she was installed as a child into the Disney Matrix, she's been transferred from one machine to another and surrounded by all sorts of users and sycophants and "interested parties" who have a vested interest in her every smallest move. Where was her chance at a normal life?

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30 Celebs That Seem To Have Completely Lost It, According To People Online Ariana Grande. There’s no way she didn’t know how bad poaching that man was, if she didn’t. She’s truly lost.

penndelnj , Ariane Grande/ Youtube Report

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JayWantsACat
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9 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

So, it's all her and not the guy leaving? This is asinine to assign another person's actions on her. They both chose their own course of actions so f**k off with this "women be stealing men hurrrrr" b******t.

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#22

30 Celebs That Seem To Have Completely Lost It, According To People Online Vince McMahon

quool_dwookie:

Vince was always Vince. There just used to be enough hush money and a lack of digital footprint or accountability for evil powerful men. The recent stuff, I imagine, is only a teensy peek at an iceberg of things he's done.

44035 , Randall Chancellor/Flickr Report

#23

30 Celebs That Seem To Have Completely Lost It, According To People Online Gary Busey

EurekaBoyd1979:

Oh he's been off his rocker for years. I remember seeing him on Celebrity Rehab where he convinced himself that he was there to help the staff, not as a patient.

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Rayne OfSalt
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9 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

He suffered major brain damage after crashing his motorbike. Not quite the same thing as others on this list.

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30 Celebs That Seem To Have Completely Lost It, According To People Online Laurence Fox, apparently he did the haka while under cross examination in his recent court case (that he lost)

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Caroline Nagel
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9 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I liked him so much in Lewis and then he turns out to be a nutter Very disappointing

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30 Celebs That Seem To Have Completely Lost It, According To People Online Have no idea how it isn't mentioned but Antonio Brown. Dude seemed much more calm and collected off the field while still being an excellent athlete. He could handle a post game interview like he was just a normal and fairly charismatic dude for years, but now I'd go as far as saying he's legitimately insane

Happy-Measurement-57:

His info when you google him right now says that his occupations is “failing to pay child support” lmao

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Sand Ers
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9 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

A pro football career guarantees brain damage. The longer you play the worse the damage is likely to be.

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#26

30 Celebs That Seem To Have Completely Lost It, According To People Online Covid-19 made a lot of people's minds melt. Either the actual disease, or the isolation. The list hit musicians especially hard.

Ozzy Ozborn is basically incoherent now. More so than normal.

Eric Clapton told a giant crowd to "Keep Britain white" awhile back.

And Roger Waters somehow became more of an a*****e than he was before.

kegman83 , Ozzy Osbourne/Youtube Report

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9 months ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Ozzy has Parkinson's disease. Edit: and decades of drug use doesn't help.

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#27

30 Celebs That Seem To Have Completely Lost It, According To People Online Dilbert guy.


Dragonfront:


He was always kooky but he had a rare disease that made it so he couldn't speak and during that time he basically drove away everybody in his life and became a recluse. There is also a theory that he may have gotten brain damage while getting surgery to address it

LadyStag , gbafon gbafon/Youtube Report

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Ray Ceeya (RayCeeYa)
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9 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Scott Adams lost me when he came out as a climate change denier. Same with Michael Crichton.

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30 Celebs That Seem To Have Completely Lost It, According To People Online Graham Linehan. Once a well-loved comedy writer whose work (Father Ted, Black Books, The IT Crowd) was popular in the UK/Ireland and beyond…

…then someone pointed out a fairly transphobic joke he’d made in an episode of The IT Crowd.

Instead of doing what most comedy writers would do (“it was of it’s time, it hasn’t aged well, I wouldn’t make that joke now,” and move on) he turned overnight into a seething little anti-trans demon, spending his every waking hour on Twitter arguing with anyone who even slightly disagreed with him (right down to spending all of Christmas Day one year tweeting anti-trans s**t).

His work dried up as people understandably didn’t want to commission anything he had a hand in, lest they see their name associated with his in an way. Which meant his rage-tweeting then doubled to include anti-trans rhetoric AND moaning about being “cancelled.”

His wife left him and he lost his home. He’s now essentially your classic basement-dwelling neckbeard keyboard warrior.

signalstonoise88 , Open Rights Group/Flickr Report

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#30

30 Celebs That Seem To Have Completely Lost It, According To People Online Past Disney star Orlando Brown. Nobody talks about this enough but I legit worry for him and think something strange is happening. Look at his "interviews." They are just him rambling drug-riddled nonsense and I think they added in questions later to make it seem like a conversation. His interviews look like they take place in a sketchy basement. He even acted this way on Dr. Phil and everyone just pretends it's normal and that he isn't high as a kite. I do not wish to shame this man, but I think something is going on and I know I sound insane but I legit think he needs help

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#31

30 Celebs That Seem To Have Completely Lost It, According To People Online Jon Schaffer from the band Iced Earth. He was active as a musician from 1984 until 2021, when he was arrested for the Capitol terror attack.

The band Iced Earth was a good power metal band. It was active from the 80's until the 2020's. He's a really talented guitarist. But somewhere along the line, he got deep, deep, deep into conspiracy theories. I watched an interview with him a while back and he just didn't seem all there.

He gets sentenced next month. Even if he gets a slap on the wrist, Iced Earth is probably done as a band unless they get a touring guitarist for the international gigs. As a convicted felon, it's doubtful that Jon will be able to do international tours anymore.

Jon turned state's evidence on his fellow insurrectionists. He's sent some big name Oath Keepers to prison for a long time. I think that, because of this, he'll have a hard time in prison. Feds will probably keep him isolated.

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James016
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9 months ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I have a couple of their albums and they are very good but what the f**k was he thinking. The rest of the band quit after he got arrested. I think he is done. What oath was he meant to be keeping?

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#32

30 Celebs That Seem To Have Completely Lost It, According To People Online Jim Carrey is full Murray mode.

almagemela:

Saw some twitter posts from him a few years ago and it appears he had lost whatever sanity he had left

Wiccen , warnerbros Report

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30 Celebs That Seem To Have Completely Lost It, According To People Online Amanda Bynes, which makes me sad. She had so much potential when she was younger, and then she went absolutely bats**t.

The_Dog_Lady444 , warnerbros Report

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30 Celebs That Seem To Have Completely Lost It, According To People Online Honestly Biden


I've seen interviews he did back in the 80s when he was in congress, and there is a huge difference between him then and now.


He used to be extremely good at speaking and conveying a point. Now it's clear that he's an old man with dementia. 

Pleasant_Law_5077 , Dave Winer/Flickr Report

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

If Biden has "dementia" WTH does Trump have "Double Dementia"? "Mega Dementia"? "Maga Dementia"? I'll take the old man who probably never raped someone over the one who I guarantee did.

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