13 Times Celebs Stretched Their Credibility Until It Broke
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If there's one thing celebrities are good at, it's lying. They're expert storytellers, spinning tales that make them seem more interesting, talented, and all-around amazing than they actually are. Sometimes their lies are so outrageous that it's hard to believe they could get away with them. But surprisingly enough, sometimes the truth is even crazier than the lies! In this blog post, we'll take a look at some of the most famous celebrity lies ever told. Stay tuned – you're in for a wild ride!
Do you ever watch those daytime court shows and just to catch celebrities come up on the stand to lie their way out of a criminal charge? We always wonder what in the world they're thinking. It HAS to be better to just tell the truth! But, I guess, when your life is a series of lies, it's pretty hard to know what the truth even is. Anyway, in this post, we're going to take a look at some celebrity lies and try to decipher why they thought they could get away with it. Stay tuned!
![ELVIS PRESLEY wanted the world to think he was brunette LIE! CRACKED.COM Make me feel at home, if you really care, scratch my back and run your pretty fingers through my hair -. but be careful of dye stains. Elvis loved his black, black hair, but that wasn't the way his mama made him. His real locks were sandy blonde.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/9/1/6/782916.jpg)
![ROBERT PATTINSON says a clown car exploded LIE! Dream tinch CRACKEDo .COM The first time I went to see the circus, Pattinson told Today's Matt Lauer, one of the clowns died. His little car exploded. The joke car exploded on him. After doubling down on the story, Pattinson admitted a week later that he made the whole thing up.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/9/2/0/782920.jpg)
![ED SHEERAN says a princess slashed his face LIE! CRACKEDG According to Ed, Princess Beatrice cut his face while mock-knighting him. But James Blunt was there and he knows better: Ed was drunk, messing around and he cut himself. We made a fancy story up; people fell for it. It was very embarrassing.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/9/1/1/782911.jpg)
![SHARON STONE was never in Mensa TEL BR HC LIE! CRACKED.COM To combat her reputation as a bubbly blonde, Sharon Stone claimed Mensa membership. In 2002, Mensa called her out. She admitted the lie but said she did attend Mensa school. That's another lie since Mensa schools haven't existed since Stone was a toddler.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/9/2/1/782921.jpg)
![PAULA ABDUL claims she was in a plane crash LIE! CRACKED.COM Abdul has mentioned the 1992 crash on several talk shows, though details vary from show to show. Despite being a global superstar in 1992, there are no press accounts. Most damning, no crashes in the National Transportation Board database are even close to her description.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/9/1/7/782917.jpg)
![REBEL WILSON claimed her real name was Rebel LIE! CRACKED.COM Not SO fast, Melanie Elizabeth Bownds. Rebel sued an Australian tabloid after it reported her actual name and age, claiming the news cost her jobs in America. Despite the tabloid publishing what all parties acknowledged as the truth, Rebel still won the suit!](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/9/1/8/782918.jpg)
![MILEY CYRUS said she married Liam in 2013 LIE! CRACKED.co .COM It was a secret ceremony and there were doves and it was full of magic and ... well, no. The 2013 version didn't happen. Cyrus and Hemsworth did get married for real in 2018, only to file for divorce the following year.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/9/1/9/782919.jpg)
![JAMEELA JAMIL was attacked by a swarm of bees? LIE! CRACKED.com Jamil has a history of odd stories about the buzzkills, like the one in 2015 where she claims she and Mark Ronson were attacked by 500 bees. Ronson does not remember the incident that way, saying one or two individual bees approached slowly.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/9/1/4/782914.jpg)
![HILARIA BALDWIN has claimed she was born in Spain American Airline LIE! CRACKED.C She also speaks with a Spanish accent (sometimes) and claimed on the Today show to not know the English word for 'cucumber.' But she was actually born and raised in Boston. Massachusetts. Where they called her Hilary and where they have cucumbers.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/9/1/3/782913.jpg)
![KIM KARDASHIAN denied making a sex tape with Ray J LIE! CRACKED.COM In 2007, Kim claimed that she didn't make a sex tape with ex-boyfriend Ray J. Fast-forward to the good part, when she publicly admitted the lie a few months later.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/9/1/2/782912.jpg)
![ZAYN MALIK said he was going to lay low LIE! CRACKED.COM Zayn left One Direction in 2015. Why? Allegedly to take a step back from the limelight. One week later, he released his first solo single, having successfully avoided the public eye for a good 6 or 7 days.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/9/2/3/782923.jpg)
![DUSTIN DIAMOND said he revealed the good stuff The LIE! GRACKED.COM While plugging the seedy tell-all Behind the Bell, Diamond claimed it was time to get real about the show's sleazy past. When his former castmates expressed their dismay, Diamond changed his tune, claiming the entire thing was made up by a ghostwriter.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/9/1/5/782915.jpg)
![RYAN LOCHTE says he was mugged at the Olympics LIE! GRACKED.COM The story is convoluted but this much appears to be true: A drunken Lochte and three other athletes vandalized a gas station bathroom, then got into it with a security guard. The U.S. Olympic Committee apologized: The behavior of these athletes is not acceptable.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/9/2/2/782922.jpg)