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32 Baffling Behaviors and Beliefs That Only a Celebrity Could Get Away With

February 08, 2024

Go ahead — start spouting off about how the moon landing was fake, the Star Whackers are after you and that leprechauns are real. See how long you keep your job.

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In a 2008 interview, Oscar-winning French actress Marion Cotillard said that the 9/11 attacks were an inside job (to get rid of money sucker buildings that were losing too much money) and that the moon landings were faked. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Randy Quaid

In 2010, Randy Quaid and his wife fled to Canada, claiming that their lives in Hollywood were in danger from a network of star whackers who had already murdered Heath Ledger and David Carradine. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Megan Fox believes in leprechauns and speaks in tongues. In her defense, she did know Shia LaBeouf and read two Transformers scripts out loud. GRACKED.COM — Source

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According to rapper and CEO of Terror Squad Entertainment Fat Joe, the entire hip-hop industry is ultimately controlled by the GAY MAFIA! CRACKED.COM — Source

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CRACKED COM KESHA BELIEVES not ONLY that SHE has EXPERIMENTED SEXUALLY WITH A GHOST but that LATER SHE had TO have HER ~~VAGINA EXORCISED~~ — Source

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Emma Stone

AMERICA IN GOD TRUST ME LIBERTY Emma Stone QUARTER DOLLAR believes her grandfather's ghost drops quarters around the house CRACKED.COM — Source

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Duck Dynasty

Phil Robertson of Duck Dynasty believes that men should marry girls who are 15 or 16 years-old before they are ruined like most 20 year-olds are. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Sir Arthur Conan-Doyle, famed author and creator of one of the most rational, logical and non-superstitious detectives in all of fiction... ...as in this guy SHERLOCK HOLMES Believed in fairies, specifically this picture here GRAGKED.COM — Source

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Dan Aykroyd

GRAGKED.COM Iconic film actor, Dan Aykroyd is a vocal proponent of the existence of Extraterrestrials; specifically the visitation of Earth by aliens in spacecraft and their abduction of humans. Member of Mutual UFO Network, Mr. Aykroyd has proclaimed that he believes in the coming of a revelation on a mass-scale to the fact that aliens are real. — Source

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CRACKED. COM During an interview for Scary Movie 5, comedic actor Katt Williams stated his belief that by wearing a dress on SNL, Kevin Hart had sold out to the Illuminati. This was in reference to Dave Chapelle's conspiracy theory where he claimed that most black comedians wear a dress at some point in their careers as the entire CIEUTIS entertainment industry is ANNUTE under the Illuminati's control at their own detriment. — Source

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Rapper Akon defends his ownership of a South African diamond mine under the belief that Amnesty International exàggerates the existence of blood or conflict diamonds. GRACKED.COM — Source

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CRACKED.COM LEGENDARY COMIC-BOOK WRITER GRANT MORRISON IS KNOWN FOR TELLING BIG STORIES FILLED WITH MIND-BLOWSING IDEAS... НЕ ALSO BELIEVES THAT НЕ WAS VISITED BY HIGHER-DIGNENSIONAL BEINGS WHILE ON A 1994 TRIP TO KATHMANDU. НЕ DESCRIBES SAID BEINGS AS SILVER BLOBS AND CLAISAS THEY TOOK HIM TO ALPHA CENTAURI AND SHOWED HIA THE TRUE NATURE OF THE UNIVERSE. НЕ ALSO BELIEVES THAT MAGIC IS REAL, AND THAT WRITING IS A FORM OF IT. НЕ CLAIMS THAT НЕ HAS PERFORMED MAGIC BY WRITING COMICS, AND THAT BY WRITING HIS CHARACTERS INTO CERTAIN SITUATIONS, THE SAME THINGS LATER HAPPENED TO HIM. НЕ ALSO — Source

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CRACKED.COM Iconic actor Richard Belzer is a prolific author of books about conspiracy theories, including recent volumes about the death of Princess Diana and the diappearance of Malaysian Airlines Flight 370. Не is particularly passionate about the Kennedy assassination, alleging in his book 'Hit List' that there was an elaborate government conspiracy to kill the President, and that Lee Harvey Oswald was on a secret mission to *stop* the assassination. Belzer often appears on Alex Jones' radio show to promote his work. — Source

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While she was married to Billy Bob Thorton, Angelina Jolie thought it would be romantic if the two of them slashed their fingers with razor blades and smeared the blood into lockets that each of them would wear. She believed that this act would strengthen their bond and the two wore the lockets for the remainder of their marriage. GRACKED.COM — Source

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Steven Segal

CRACKED.COM ...a lot of these mass murders and all this funny stuff that is going on, I believe a lot of this is engineered. Steven Segal on gun control, Feb 2014 — Source

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Alice Walker

CRACKED.COM Alice Walker, Pulitzer-winning author of The Color Purple, is a devoted follower of British conspiracy theorist David Icke. This includes a belief that the world is controlled by a villainous race of reptilian creatures from another planet. — Source

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CRACKED.COM Charlie Sheen Has spoken openly about his belief that 9/11 was an inside job — Source

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Steven Spielberg rescues Oscars. Не buys up Oscar statuettes sold by their original owners, and donates them to the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. Не does it to preserve movie history. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Mackenzie Davis

Mackenzie Davis makes art out of dead animals. She takes the bones of mice and other small animals (pooped out by woodland owls), collects them, and makes magical creatures out of them. CRACKED.COM — Source

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R. Lee Ermey (the drill sergeant from Full Metal Jacket) wrote dirty poems as a hobby. DE and CRACKED.COM — Source

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Jack Dorsey

Every Friday, Square CEO Jack Dorsey drives new employees to the Gandhi statue at San Francisco's Ferry Building. Then he walks them through famous San Francisco districts while he lays out his Four Corners of Square philosophy. CRACKED.COM — Source

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David Bowie carried a cross and a Jewish talisman to ward off witches. DEA Не went through a period in which he was sure witches wanted his semen so that they could make a baby they'd sacrifice to Satan. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Kevin Page

Kevin Page, who played the executive who gets shot by ED-209 in RoboCop, has been collecting models and toys of ED-209 for over 30 years. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Emma Watson

Emma Watson keeps around 10 personal diaries. RSTGENERATI star+ I keep a dream diary, I keep a yoga diary, I keep diaries on people that I've met and things that they've said to me, advice that they've given me. I keep an acting journal. I keep collage books. CRACKED.COM — Source

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As a hobby, Tom Hanks takes pictures of gloves. Specifically, single lost gloves lying in the snow. Sometimes they're pretty little knitted gloves, sometimes they're hard working... What is a better metaphor for the loneliness of the city? Of a single lost glove? he asks. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Bill Murray sometimes gets out on the street and directs traffic. V CRACKED.COM — Source

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Super Mario creator Shigeru Miyamoto measures everything. Не carries around a tape measure, looks at nearby objects and guesses their length, then measures them to see if he was right. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Lou Ferrigno

Lou Ferrigno collects Beanie Babies. The body builder (who played Hulk in 1978's The Incredible Hulk) does it mainly for his sons, but he's still competitive about it. You're always trying to outdo the other people and get ones that you don't have. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Billy Bob Thornton carefully avoids antique furniture. Не makes sure not to get into a room with pre-1950s furniture (it's a weird phobia). CRACKED.COM — Source

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Oprah can't stand chewing gum, and she banned it in her studio. Her grandmother would put chewing gum on dinner plates while eating, which left Oprah forever grossed out by chewing gum. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Christina Ricci refuses to swim in a pool by herself. It's because she thinks that somehow a little magic door is going to open up and let the shark out. CRACKED.COM — Source

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James McAvoy has a bizarre superstitious ritual. On the first day of every month, he makes sure to say white rabbit to the first person he talks to. GRACK — Source

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