15 Fans Who Ruined It For Everyone

Stephen King wrote under the pseudonym Richard Bachman to test whether he was talented or his success just perpetuated itself. Fan Steve Brown noted similarities and tracked down proof, outing King and ending the experiment. Bachman “died,” from “pseudonym cancer.”

J.K. Rowling published The Cuckoo’s Calling as Robert Galbraith, in a bid to escape Harry Potter’s shadow. However, an anonymous fan tipped off the New York Times that this obscure new author had a secret, and soon it was all out. 

In 1993, a heavyweight fight between Riddick Bowe and Evander Holyfield was interrupted when eccentric paraglider James Miller crashed into the ring via the overhead lights. The eighth round was delayed while security, uh, beat the shit out of him.

Blink-182’s Travis Barker has had several incidents involving fans getting overexcited and breaking into his house. He was so certain stalkers would try to kill him that he had a gun on him during his second wedding in 2004. Creepy. 

A 2004 brawl between the Detroit Pistons and Indiana Pacers may not have escalated if not for one fan. As players were cooling off after a fight, a fan threw a drink at Ron Artest and everything went to absolute shit. 

Within one week earlier this year, singers Bebe Rexha and Ava Max were both attacked by fans, Rexha took a thrown phone to the eye and Max was slapped on stage. While neither canceled their tours, this’ll definitely affect their future plans. 

Selena Gomez canceled all meet-and-greets after overzealous fans nearly collapsed a security barrier on her during her 2016 tour. Justin Bieber also canceled meet-and-greets, citing the “emotional exhaustion” of meeting people who were so overexcited and overwhelmed to meet him. 

At the 2004 Olympics, shitty priest Neil Horan pushed Brazilian runner Vanderlei de Lima, in first place, into the crowd. De Lima ended up coming third while Horan babbled a bunch of nonsense about the end of the world.

Tennis enthusiast Günter Parche decided that the best thing he could do, as a fan of Steffi Graf, was to stab her rival Monica Seles. Oddly enough, Graf wasn’t impressed. 

Chappelle fan Isaiah Lee had written songs about him, but also felt motivated to attack him at a 2022 show. Not only was this wrong, it also led Chappelle to double down even more on being a dick. 

In 2016, Amy Schumer stated that she would no longer pose for pictures with fans, and it was all the fault of one individual in Greenville who refused to take no for an answer.

In 2008, Samuel Bartley Steele accused Bon Jovi of plagiarizing the lyrics to a song he wrote, and attempted to sue the band for $400 billion. That’s $400,000,000,000. That’s, what, twice the global movie industry?

A Courtney Love concert screeched to a halt in 2011 when a fan held up a Kurt Cobain poster. Love — who was married to Cobain — became extremely upset before, fairly confusingly, trying to get the crowd to chant that Foo Fighters were gay. 

A 2011 London Foo Fighters show stopped mid-song when Dave Grohl spotted a fight. Eventually it got back on track after a stern talking-to: “You don’t come to my show and fight, you come to my show and fuckin’ dance, you asshole.” 

A wrestling fan who fell victim to catfishing attacked WWE superstar Seth Rollins at a Monday Night Raw taping, pinning him to the floor. A con artist using Rollins’ name — not, crucially, Rollins — had swindled him out of thousands. 

At the 2021 Tour de France, a fan holding a sign accidentally hit race leader Tony Martin, who fell and caused over 50 cyclists to tumble. Several broke limbs — multiple limbs — and pulled out, while the fan was fined 1,200 Euros.