" The # FreeBritney people were laugh at mercilessly , and they turn out to be some of the people who maintain her go . "
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Recently, IaskedtheBuzzFeed Communityto tell me about the wildest celebrity rumors they heard that actually turned out to be true.
Here are 11 of their top answers:
1.“So much of the#FreeBritneymovement just seemed like parasocial fans overstepping, but it turned out they were right about a lot…”
— jennifern44d6a36a7
" Came here to say that . The # FreeBritney people were roast mercilessly , and they turned out to be some of the people who observe her going . "
— karaire
For 13 years , Britney Spears ’s Church Father , Jamie Spears , and attorney keep her under a conservatorship . Many fans led a motion calling for her to be freed from the conservatorship , which gained traction in recent yr .
During avirtual court appearancein 2021 , Britney say , " I just want my life back … This conservatorship is abusive . " She also said that , under the conservatorship , she was n’t allow to move out her IUD or even devolve on in a car if her young man was driving .
A few months by and by , Britney was finallyfreedfrom the conservatorship .
In her 2023 memoirThe Woman in Me , she publish , " I do n’t call up the great unwashed knew how much the # FreeBritney movement meant to me . Especially in the rootage … I think my connection to my fans helped them subconsciously know that I was in peril . Fans of mine — even though I had n’t allege anything online or in the press about being confined — they just seemed toknow . "
2.“Tommy Mottola [allegedly stealing] the ideas of his newly ex-wifeMariah Careyso he could give them toJennifer Lopez. It always seemed like a standard corrupt music industry rumor to justify the iconic ‘I don’t know her’ dis, but ended up being true!”
— joaqamole
In her memoirThe import of Mariah , Mariah write , " Tommy was furious when I cut the string he used to falsify me . There was no style he would allow me to have a huge success after leave him and Sony . He was not going to have me orGlittershine . "
She say that , for the Sung " Loverboy , " she sample " Firecracker " by Yellow Magic Orchestra . However , a month before her strain derive out , Tommy and Jennifer Lopez used the same sampling for " I ’m Real . "
She write , " After hearing my fresh song , using the same sample I used , Sony rushed to make a single for another distaff entertainer on their label ( whom I do n’t do it ) … And after all that shit , ' Loverboy ' ended up being the best - sell single of 2001 in the United States . I ’m real . "
3.“I stumbled across a gossipy article that claimed 23-year-old Loretta Young and 34-year-old Clark Gable, famous Hollywood actors, had an affair during the making ofCall of the Wild(1935), and he ended it when she became pregnant. She secretly gave birth to a daughter and placed her in an orphanage. Months later, Young announced to film magazines that she had adopted an orphaned toddler named Judy. She wasn’t married, so she explained she met Judy during a charity visit to the orphanage and felt she had to adopt her.”
" The rumor surfaced when Judy jump resembling Clark Gable . After hear those rumors , Judy face her adopted female parent , who admitted she was indeed her biologic mother .
However , Judy , who died in 2011 , never learnt her female parent ’s other secret . Gable and Young did n’t have an affair . He allegedly date - raped her . Judy was the result .
I found it so outlandish that I assumed it was just chin-wagging until I learn that Young confirm almost all of it in her authorized life story . "
— prolix
Judy was 31 when sheconfrontedLoretta about the rumors surround her parentage and find out the truth . Loretta in public reassert that Judy was the daughter of Clark Gable in her memoir , Forever Young : The Life , Loves , and Enduring Faith of a Hollywood Legend , which was issue after she died .
In 2015 , Linda Lewis , her girl - in - law , toldBuzzFeed Newsthat watchingLarry KingLive is potential what prompted Loretta to ask her Quaker / biographer , Edward Funk , and Linda to explain what the term " date ravishment " meant .
Linda said , " I did the estimable I could to make her understand . You have to remember , this was a very proper ma’am …. [She aver , ] ' That ’s what happen between me and Clark . ' "
4.“Ariana Grande’s marriage ending (remember her ring was ‘just being cleaned’ for, like, months?), and heralleged cheating scandal.”
" I ’ve been one to stick up for her because I really enjoy her music , and I would test to seem past some of the spoiled things she ’s done because she ’s done a lot of good as well , and she ’s been through a portion of very public heartbreak . But that whole outrage really at long last warped any positive linear perspective I had of her .
Especially since there have long beenrumorsthat she ’s a serial cheat who seems to go after men who are also in kinship . "
— arcticmankeys
In August 2022 , Ariana address speculation over her marriage in aTikTok make-up tutorial . She read , " I ’m just not wearing my wedding ring . It ’s getting clean . I ’m not getting a divorcement . Before you start , do n’t . "
About a year later , TMZreported that she was getting a divorcement fromDalton Gomezafter two year of marriage . Three days afterwards , reportscame out that she was date Ethan Slater , herWickedcostar , who was also married at the sentence . Both Ariana and Ethan were reportedly separate from their mate when they get together .
5.“Buffy Sainte-Marie being Beverly Santamaria. Still not over this. It’s fucking heartbreaking.”
6.“Will Smith and Jada Pinkett Smith being [non-monogamous]! They did have some [unconventional] stuff going on within their relationship!”
7.“Sir Christopher Lee was such a badass in real life that some of the stuff he did in WWII is still classified.”
8.Thetheorythat Taylor Swift was arriving to the Eras Tour stage every night by hiding in a janitor cart. I thought it was just another version of the ridiculoustheorythat she snuck out of her house by hiding in a giant suitcase!
9.“I know we’re all used to Harry and Meghan now, but I was blown away when the engagement was announced. And then the Oprah interview and memoir validating many of the accusations made against his family. What a time!”
10.Arnold Schwarzenegger having an affair and fathering a child with his family’s longtime housekeeper.
11.And finally: “On a low-key note:Dolly Partonhaving a bunch of tattoos.”
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