15 Celebrities Who Suffer From Truly Odd Phobias
![15 Celebrities Who Suffer From Truly Odd Phobias](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/8/5/5/797855_320x180.jpg)
Ahhh! We didn't see you there! You surprised us! It was scary! But we're not ashamed. Lots of things are scary…AHH!! See? We're not even going to specify what that was, and isn't that terrifying??!
Sometimes, mundane things are scary, like the dark or leaving the house. We all know about those (and as nerdy writers for a comedy website, probably suffer from them, if we're being honest). But there are some really weird phobias out there. Nope, it's not all monsters under the bed and spooky ghosts and Candymen, Candymen, Candy…canes. Candy canes. Let's be safe here. And unfortunately for celebrities who have to live public lives and give a whole lotta interviews, it's pretty easy to find out their strange, strange fears. And while we try to be empathetic and not point and laugh, some of these are really baffling.
Turns out, Judi Dench is terrified of, uh, schoolchildren. No, really. Here’s the full story, plus 14 others:
![Adam Driver can't stand watching or listening to his own performances. It's so bad, when they tired to play a clip from Marriage Story for him in an interview, he just walked out and never bothered to come back. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/8/6/5/797865.jpg)
![Jodie Foster has a fear of cats, because a lion nearly killed her once. It happened on the set of 1972's Napoleon and Samantha, when she was eight years old-the lion even took her in its jaws and shook her. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/8/6/6/797866.jpg)
![Billy Bob Thornton is somehow utterly afraid of pieces of antique furniture. It was kind of a problem on the Love Actually set, when Hugh Grant would point out antique furniture to him, making him freak out. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/8/6/7/797867.jpg)
![One Direction star Niall Horan is ornithophobic, or afraid of birds. It's due to a bad childhood experience, and he now thinks pigeons are horrible and he immediately sours on a walk in the park if pigeons show up. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/8/6/3/797863.jpg)
![Dame Judi Dench has a terrible fear of schoolchildren gathered together. I have always had a terrible fear of a lot of schoolchildren together ... I don't know why, but I just have, are the exact words she used to describe it. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/8/5/9/797859.jpg)
![Woody Allen absolutely refuses to ride an elevator, no matter what. Because of that, Christina Ricci and Jason Biggs had to forget about the elevator and go up three flights of stairs to promote a movie one time. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/8/6/8/797868.jpg)
![Oprah really hates chewing gum, thanks to bad childhood experiences. She grew up poor, and her grandma would stick chewing gum around to save it-s Oprah would bump into chewing gum, say, on the bedpost. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/8/6/0/797860.jpg)
![Justin Timberlake is absolutely terrified of spiders just spiders - in general. Apparently, it's pretty bad: one time, he said I was staying at a nice hotel and I had to call reception because I spotted one in my room. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/8/5/7/797857.jpg)
![Khloe Kardashian really tries to avoid one part of the body: the belly button. I hate belly buttons. You can't touch mine and I don't want to touch yours, is the exact way she described the (extremely odd) phobia. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/8/6/9/797869.jpg)
![Kristen Bell goes to great lengths to avoid touching people with pruney fingers. She doesn't want her fingers to get wet, so she wears gloves in the pool. That way, she doesn't have to touch people with wrinkly fingertips. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/8/6/4/797864.jpg)
![Kylie Jenner has particularly odd phobia of, uh, a cup that's full of dust. I don't know why. It's like one of my pet peeves is when there's a lot of dust in a cup and it's getting in my system, she explained. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/8/7/0/797870.jpg)
![Strictly Come Dancing host Claudia Winkleman has a phobia of ... water. I don't like or believe in water, I won't have it... I've never knowingly had water, I don't like it, she said (yes, she used exact words). CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/8/6/1/797861.jpg)
![Vincent D'Onofrio has a really seated fear of monkeys, of all things. He's had it pretty much his entire life, and it's all thanks to some truly bad experiences in a Florida monkey park years and years ago. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/8/5/8/797858.jpg)
![David Bowie was afraid to fly from 1972 to 1977, and took zero flights in that time. The reason is simple, if kind of odd - he apparently had a premonition that he'd die in a plane crash, so he wanted to make sure he didn't get on a plane. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/8/6/2/797862.jpg)
![Kendall Jenner has trypophobia a fear of, well, holes in odd patterns. Trypophobics are afraid of tiny little holes that are in weird patterns, as she says. She's especially creeped out by pancakes, honeycomb and lotus heads. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/8/5/6/797856.jpg)