10 Famous Celebrities Who Ruined Their Careers

[Music] in 2004 Ashley Simpson was riding high on the strong sales of her debut album autobiography her older sister Jessica who also had a music career as well as a hit reality TV series what's much more visible in the media but Ashley's brand of thoughtful introspective pop helped push autobiography to sales of 400,000 units in just its first week and then in one stunningly awkward moment before an audience of millions on national TV it all fell apart Ashley was the musical guest on the October 23rd 2004 episode of Saturday Night Live and she was using piped in pre-recorded vocal tracks over her live band her first song went off without a hitch but the wrong vocal track was briefly played for the second track confusing Ashley the band and the audience Ashley danced a brief jig before exiting the stage and stepping into the giant torrent of negative publicity her actions following the disaster didn't help she blamed everything from her band to acid reflux for the incident and was booed by the crowd at the 2005 Orange Bowl after her off-key performance of her song Lala even though were returned to Saturday Night Live the following year went much better her career never recovered to later albums sold poorly and got weak reviews and she has since almost entirely faded from the public eye ex rapper and new-school R&B singer Cee Lo Green became a huge media presence shortly after his collaboration with DJ and producer Danger Mouse their release under the name Gnarls Barkley produced the worldwide hit single crazy and launched CeeLo to international stardom earning him a judging spot on reality singing competition The Voice and his own TBS series The Good Life but in 2014 his career came crashing to a halt when he pleaded no contest to a felony count of furnishing a controlled substance the club drug ecstasy to a woman who later woke up naked at his hotel with no memory of the evening to make matters worse he then unleashed a series of tweets that seemed to imply that rape was not possible if the victim was unconscious saying if someone has passed out they're not even with you consciously and people who have really been raped remember his TBS series was immediately canceled and he was also let go from the voice though he has since returned while he may have been able to keep from completely destroying his career his profile is certainly as high as before and his public image may never recover in 2014 Iggy Azalea had one of the hottest careers in Raths her debut album the new classic became the first by a female solo rap artist to top the Billboard chart and it's single fancy also topped the singles chart for seven weeks but just as her career was poised to really take off Iggy began using Twitter to cause as much damage to it as she could she began beefing with more established artists such as Nicki Minaj and Azealia Banks which was seen by many as a way to boost her fame it also had the unfortunate effect of putting Iggy into the middle of the national conversation about appropriation of black culture by white artists which Iggy did not handle well when legendary A Tribe Called Quest rapper q-tip took to Twitter to offer his respectful and inform views on the situation Iggy responded by tweeting that nobody was forcing q-tip to support her style of music which completely missed his point and that his opinion just didn't matter to her more beefs embarrassing public incidents and racially insensitive comments only added fuel to the fire she was dropped from her label by Protege Ti in 2015 and her once red-hot career is stalled in the late 1990s the four stars of the popular sitcom Seinfeld with the highest-paid actors on television when the show ended in 1998 all four had trouble finding similar success Michael Richards who played wacky neighbor Cosmo Kramer tried and failed to launch his own sitcom the Michael Richard show but it lasted only a few episodes and Richards was making his living on the stand-up comedy circuit when disaster struck in 2006 Richards responded to a comment from a black audience member in a racially charged fashion and making further remarks that reference lynching and the Jim Crow era of racial segregation video of the rant taken by someone else in the audience quickly went viral and Richards was the subject of an intense media backlash overnight an awkward apology on David Letterman's Late Show with Jerry Seinfeld by his side did nothing to help and Richard's job prospects vanished his work since the incident has been limited to cameos guest appearances and some voice work his only starring role was in the 2013 TV Land sitcom Kirstie which was canceled twelve episodes hip-hop R&B duo Milli Vanilli had one of the best-selling albums of 1989 their smash debut girl you know it's true the album produced three number-one singles and two more in the top five and made fab Morvan and Rob Pilatus international stars in 1990 they were given the Grammy Award for Best New Artist but this win was the beginning of the end of Milli Vanilli in mid-1990s singer Charles Shaw came forward to claim that he was one of the actual vocalists on Milli Vanilli's album and that fab and Rob had not sang on the record at all rumors swirled until November 1990 when producer Frank Farion admitted that the pair were Impostors and had been recruited only to act as an attractive front for the work of others four days after this announcement the group were forced to return their Grammy various attempts to record new music with their actual voices failed to interest the public and Rob Pilatus turned to drugs and petty robberies as the group star faded in 1998 on the eve of a promotional tour for a new album pilatus was found dead of an overdose of prescription drugs and alcohol in a hotel room in Germany the CBS sitcom Two and a Half Men was among the most popular shows on television for all of its 12 season run for eight of those seasons Charlie Sheen portrayed Charlie Harper a reluctant family man based largely on Sheen's own bad-boy image he earned multiple Emmy and Golden Globe nominations for his role and at the time the trouble began was the highest-paid actor on TV but between February 2010 and January 2011 Sheen checked into rehab three separate times causing the show's production to go on hiatus twice he became widely known at this time for making bizarre public statements introducing the phrases tiger blood and winning to pop culture but crossed a line in an interview on the Alex Jones Show in which he made anti-semitic and somewhat threatening remarks about two and a Half Men producer Chuck Lorre who is Jewish in response CBS pulled the plug on the remainder of two and a half men's eight season leaving eight episodes unproduced Sheen's contract was terminated and he was replaced for the rest of the show's run by Ashton Kutcher while Sheen's career is currently non-existent and he has cooled down on his bad public behavior in recent years the final episode of the sitcom in which a sheen look-alike has a piano dropped on his head caused a new round of terrible remarks with Charlie saying that Chuck Lorre must feel safe where he lives and that he doesn't care whether Lori lives or dies Hulk Hogan had been a fixture in the world of professional wrestling and pop culture in general since the 1980s his reality series Hogan Knows best was among the highest-rated in the genre and his wrestling contracts alone made him a millionaire many times over but a 2014 viral video showed a side of the Hulkster that most fans wish they had never seen in it he complains bitterly about the fact that his daughter Brooke is dating a black man dropping n-words left and right hook wishes that at least she had picked a rich black man like a basketball player and concludes with the words I guess we're all a little racist the rant caused World Wrestling Entertainment to not only terminate his contract but to scrub any mention of him from its website Hogan released a pleading apology to the media but the damage was done adding to the demise of Hogan's career was a leaked 2012 sex tape in which his partner was someone other than his wife the tape would lead to his divorce in the lawsuit against website Gawker in which Hogan stated that his legacy entertainment had been severely damaged if not destroyed as a result of the leak and that his global brand was forever tarnished Tiger Woods was consistently ranked among the top golfers in the world for over a decade he also benefited from a squeaky-clean public image which allowed him to take on a massive number of product endorsements making him one of the highest-paid athletes in the world but this image took a bizarre turn for the worse on Thanksgiving night in 2009 when a domestic dispute between Woods and his wife model Elin Nordegren got crazily out of hand the day before tabloid magazine the National Enquirer had run a story complete with photos on Tigers month-long affair with nightclub hostess Rachel Uchitel Tiger had been forced to confirm his cheating to his wife and the night had ended with Nordegren smashing out the back window of tigers SUV with a golf club the story quickly went viral but the trouble was only starting more women began coming forward and by two weeks after the thanksgiving incident it was reported that Woods may have had as many as 14 mistresses he quickly lost all of his major endorsements dropped out of an upcoming tournament and checked into rehab for sex addiction Tigers game seems to have completely left him since the scandal while he still collects on a few endorsements he has not won a major tournament since and Ellen left him in 2010 in the 2010 NFL Draft the New England Patriots selected two tight ends on consecutive days the first Rob Gronkowski would go on to all-star success in Championships but the second Aaron Hernandez would extinguish his promising career by participating in some horrifying crimes after two productive seasons Hernandez was given a five-year contract extension in 2012 one that featured the largest signing bonus 12.5 million dollars ever given to a tight end but in July of that same year two men were killed in Boston when shots were fired into their car Hernandez would eventually be charged with the crime but he continued to play for the Patriots while under investigation then in June 2013 a friend of Aaron's named Odin Lloyd was shot and killed in an industrial park less than a mile from the tight ends home Hernandez quickly fell under suspicion with the Patriots barring him from their facilities and he was arrested less than a week after the murder at trial Hernandez and two accomplices were found responsible for the death although Hernandez himself never admitted to pulling the trigger he was sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole the downfall of American icon Oh Jay Simpson began on June 12th 1994 when his wife Nicole Brown Simpson and her friend Ronald Goldman were found stabbed to death outside Nicole's home the shocking crime captured the imagination of the public due to the involvement of the star NFL running back and beloved TV and film personality Oh Jay famously led Los Angeles police on a bizarre low-speed chase in his white Ford Bronco before eventually turning himself in an event tuned into by millions on live television Oh Jay's contracts evaporated overnight and he was put on trial for the brutal double murder in what was called the trial of the century although he was not found guilty a decision which divided the public he was later found liable for the deaths at a civil trial in order to pay over 33 million dollars to the family of Ronald Goldman but OJ's problems didn't end there in 2008 he was convicted of multiple felony charges stemming from an incident in which he and several other men threatened a Las Vegas sports memorabilia collector with weapons he was sentenced to 33 years in prison but was granted partial parole on some of the charges he may be released as soon as 2017 but he's not likely to find many career prospects on the outside [Music]

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Published: Mon Jan 02 2017