10 Celebrities Who Hit The Self Destruct Button
10. Mel Gibson
Actor and director Mel Gibson issued a formal apology for his behaviour and anti-semitic remarks following his arrest on July 2006 on suspicion of drunk driving.
9. Sean Penn
Sean Penn served 32 days in jail after assaulting a photographer in 1987 and was charged with criminal battery and vandalism after a run in with paparazzi in 2009.
8. Naomi Campbell
Model Naomi Campbell has had repeated incidents including her arrest for the assault of two police officers at Heathrow Airport and hitting her maid in the head over a pair of missing jeans.
7. Russell Crowe
Actor Russell Crowe plead guilty to third-degree assault after admitting to a judge he threw a phone that hit a Manhattan hotel concierge in June 2005.
6. Bjork
Icelandic singer-songwriter Bjork attacked and tore the shirt of news photographer Glenn Jeffrey when he photographed her arrival at Auckland international airport in January 2008.
5. Christian Bale
British actor Christian Bale apologised in February 2009 for his highly publicised on-set verbal attack on Terminator Salvation’s director of photography, Shane Hurlbut.
4. Britney Spears
After divorcing Kevin Federline, she started partying without underpants, shaving her head and hitting rehab, all with two young children.
3. Martin Lawrence
In 1996 actor Martin Lawrence was hospitalized after police found him at a busy L.A. intersection in a pot-induced stupor screaming at passing cars with a loaded gun in his pocket.
2. Whitney Houston
A stormy marriage to singer Bobby Brown together with alcohol and drug abuse seen the onetime squeaky clean Whitney Houston hit the slippery slope. She was on that downhill ride for almost five years before she cleaned herself up.
1. Robert Downey Jr.
In 1996 Robert Downey Jr. was stopped by police for speeding and discovered crack, heroin and an unloaded gun in his car. Soon after he wandered into a neighbour’s house and passed out. What followed were five years of relapses, jail time, stints in rehab, and lost jobs.
Others who never made the list must could have include Charlie Sheen (drug overdose), Bobby Brown (too many to list), Christian Slater (jailtime and rehab).
Posted on March 6, 2010 | Filed Under Showbiz
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Wesley Snipes, anyone?