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Celebs With Surprisingly Dark Pasts

By:: Cracked Plasticians; Andres Diplotti

March 18, 2020

Celebrities seem to lead perfect lives. They have the big three Fs: fame, fortune, and free burritos at Chipotle. It's pretty easy to look up to them with admiration and envy, wishing you were them.

But sometimes, tinsel covers up misery. Even the biggest-deal celebs have skeletons in their huge walk-in closets -- they've done horrible things, or had horrible things happen to them. We've put together a list of people with bright lives, but a dark past:

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When Dylan McDermott from American Horror Story was five, his mom was shot dead by her gangster boyfriend, John Sponza. McDermott sought justice for y

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Drew Barrymore took very young to the party lifestyle. She was drinking at nine years old, smoking pot at 10, and snorting cocaine at 12. By 13, she h

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Billy Joel wrote his song Tomorrow is Today based on his suicide note. Joel tried to take his own life in 1970, when his affair with his drummer's w

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Leighton Meester, who you've seen in Gossip Girl, was born in jail. Her mom was doing time for drug smuggling. CRACKED COM

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Matthew Broderick collided with a Volvo in 1987, killing two women. He claims he doesn't remember that day, or why he was driving in the wrong lane. H

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CRACKEDC COM Samuel L. Jackson led a protest in college that escalated badly. Police had to intervene when protesters took several faculty members hos

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CRACKEDCON Pamela Anderson has revealed that she was molested by a female babysitter when she was six, raped at age 12, and gang- raped by her boyfrie

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CRACKED.CON When Jackie Coogan was 19, long before he became Uncle Fester, a close friend of his was murdered. Coogan was part of a mob that lynched t

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Tyler Perry has described his childhood as a living hell. He was often beaten by his father, and several adults abused him sexually. CRACKED COM

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CRACKEDcO Ludwig van Beethoven had a harsh childhood. His alcoholic father wanted Ludwig to become the next Mozart, and would force him to practice al

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CRACKEDCON Charlie Chaplin married actress Lita Grey after he knocked her up and she refused to have an abortion. He was 35 and she was 16.

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CRACKEDG COM Oprah Winfrey was beaten up regularly during her childhood. Sexually abused since age nine, at 14 she gave birth to a child, who died two

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CRACKEDo COMT Abraham Lincoln lost his mother when he was nine, and his father left to find a new wife. Abe and his 11-year-old sister had to fend for

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Albert Einstein gave his first wife a list of stipulations that he expected her to follow. Essentially, she was to be his maid and expect nothing in r

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CRACKEDo COM Zach Braff, also known as J.D. from Scrubs, beat up a kid in 2005. Several teens sprayed fake paint on his Porsche as a prank for Punk'd.

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CRACKED COM Robert Downey Jr. got his first hit of weed from his own father when he was six years old. He's been addicted to drugs since age eight.

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Keanu Reeves' life is full of tragedy. His father left when he was three, and his best friend River Phoenix died from a drug overdose. His girlfriend

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Tom Baker, of Doctor Who fame, had a very strained relationship with his wife's family to the point of attempting to murder his mother-in-law with gar

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Charles S. Dutton, the sage groundskeeper who helps inspire Rudy in Rudy, went to prison for manslaughter at 17. It wouldn't be his last conviction.

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CRACKEDCON Peter Yarrow (center) is the Peter of the folk group Peter, Paul and Mary. He's also a convicted sex offender. He went to prison in the '70

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Don King was convicted of manslaughter in 1967 for stomping an employee to death over an unpaid debt. CRACKED COM

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Kiefer Sutherland has done a few short jail stints for driving under the influence. He also got in trouble for headbutting a fashion designer in 2009.

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CRACKEDCON Chuck Berry had a considerable rap sheet. He was in jail for robbery and illegally transporting a year- old girl across state lines. In 199

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Madonna was raped shortly after moving to New York City. A man said she could use his telephone- only to assault her at knifepoint once she was in his

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Coco Chanel didn't just revolutionize fashion she was also a Nazi spy. Declassified documents identify her as a secret agent working for the Germans,

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Joaquin Phoenix spent his early childhood in a sex cult called the Children of God. When the family left the group in 1978, they changed their last na

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