Top 10 Hollywood Rumors That Turned Out To Be True

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The rumor mill occasionally churns out the truth. For this list, we’ll be looking at various rumors within and around the film industry that were later confirmed.

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00:00Jennifer Garner opening up for the first time on her scandalous split from Ben Affleck in the new

00:05issue of Vanity Fair. Welcome to Ms Mojo and today we're counting down our picks for the top 10

00:11Hollywood rumors that turned out to be true. It's just one of the disastrous situations that I've

00:17created and it's the worst thing that I've ever done. For this list we'll be looking at various

00:22rumors within and around the film industry that were later confirmed. We'll be covering the lighter

00:27as well as the more serious stories. Some of these may have also been the worst kept secrets

00:32at the time so long as they were publicly unsubstantiated. Are there any we missed?

00:36Let us know in the comments. Number 10 Anthony Ramos and Jasmine Cephas Jones is split.

00:43A lot of movie stars try to keep the limelight away from their personal and romantic lives

00:47which we totally understand but that unfortunately leads to a lot of onlookers to jump to conclusions.

00:57In 2021, In the Heights actor Anthony Ramos was reportedly spotted getting chummy with an

01:09unidentified woman at a club despite ostensibly being engaged at the time to his Hamilton co-star

01:15Jasmine Cephas Jones. This story was broken by a TikTok user leading to speculation that Ramos

01:25was cheating on Jones or that the pair was no longer together. Just a day later however,

01:30a follow-up story broke that the two had indeed called it off some time prior.

01:37Number 9 Dean McDermott's infidelity. I cheated on my wife. I'm really mad. I was out of control.

01:44In 2006, actors Dean McDermott and Tori Spelling married after meeting on the Lifetime movie

01:50Mind Over Murder. They since had five children but began to undergo public personal struggles

01:54starting in 2013. In December of that year, Us Weekly broke a story that McDermott had been

01:59unfaithful to Spelling. McDermott entered rehab the following month followed by numerous other

02:04rumors regarding their troubled marriage. In April 2014, Lifetime debuted a docuseries titled True

02:10Tori which addressed McDermott's cheating in the first episode. I got a call from my publicist and

02:14she said I just want to tell you something. It's a girl and she's claiming that she had an affair

02:23with Dean in Toronto when he was there. The couple stayed together in the coming years though

02:27were said to be undergoing a trial separation as of June 2022. Quote, Dean has been caught in so

02:32many lies and infidelities over the years and Tori is just over it. Number 8 Charlie Sheen and The

02:39Black Book. At this point, the life and times of Charlie Sheen have been well documented but back

02:44in the 1990s much of it was the subject of speculation. Hey look, I'm not saying I don't

02:50trust you and I'm not saying I do but I don't. In 1993, a woman named Heidi Fleiss was arrested

02:56for acting as a madam operating a ring of sex workers in Los Angeles. Though Fleiss has been

03:01historically tight-lipped about her clientele, one name that leaked early was that of Hot Shots actor

03:06Charlie Sheen. This was due to a traveler's check with Sheen's name on it being found on Fleiss's

03:11person at the time of her arrest. Heidi arranged women for Charlie back in the 1990s and he

03:16testified against Fleiss after his name came up in her Black Book of Clients. In 1995, Sheen testified

03:22at Fleiss's trial confirming he'd used her service over two dozen times. I have never spoken to

03:28Charlie since then. At the time when he did testify against me of course I had some harsh feelings but

03:33I was young and I didn't understand why he was doing it. Number 7 Jamie Foxx and Katie Holmes'

03:39relationship. Whereas some actors try to hide a breakup, others try to hide an entire six-year

03:44relationship. Such was the case with Jamie Foxx and Katie Holmes, who reportedly dated from 2013

03:50to 2019. In fact, rumors arose about them from the jump, but consistent repudiations kept news

03:55stories from presenting it as fact. I saw pictures. Did you and Katie Holmes play basketball for

04:00Valentine's Day? Like some real loving basketball game? Uh-oh. Are we losing? Foxx and Holmes were even

04:11photographed holding hands on multiple occasions, but they continued to deny the claims. So I guess

04:16some knucklehead who was here with the fam cam, you know what I'm saying? And I guess they tried to get

04:22money from him or whatever. I said, but you know, I mean, like I said, it's amazing what people will do to

04:27sell you out. It wasn't until the pair split that the public got any confirmation they were ever

04:32together. They are just both caught up in their own families, careers, and obligations that their

04:38relationship had to take a back seat. It must take a lot to hide a relationship for half a dozen years,

04:43but good for them for keeping their private lives private as possible. Number six, Ben Affleck and

04:49the nanny. Ben Affleck has had a much-publicized romantic life over the years, from Jennifer Lopez

04:54to Jennifer Gardner and back to Lopez. But it was a lesser-known woman who got the rumor mill going.

05:00It's a bombshell report. Has Ben Affleck been dating the family nanny? And here she is,

05:06surrounded by paparazzi. In 2015, Affleck and Gardner announced their separation. That same

05:12year, reports began to circulate that Affleck had also entered a relationship with their children's

05:16nanny. Affleck threatened to file a lawsuit over the allegations at the time, but didn't. All

05:21allegations of a romantic relationship are baseless and untrue. In 2016, a year before the actors

05:28officially filed for divorce, Gardner confirmed the tryst. However, Gardner also claimed the two

05:34were already separated before she learned of the development. We had been separated for months

05:38before I ever heard about the nanny. She had nothing to do with our decision to divorce.

05:43Number five, Ellen DeGeneres' sexuality. We'd like to think we're past speculating on someone's

05:48sexuality, but we definitely weren't back in the 1990s. Has there ever been anyone you felt you

05:53clicked with? And what was his name? Susan. Best known at the time for her self-titled sitcom,

06:05Ellen DeGeneres came out as a lesbian in 1997. It was even punctuated by her character coming

06:10out herself on her show. However, reports of the episode were leaked well in advance,

06:15leading many publications to question whether DeGeneres herself was planning on coming out.

06:19Who'd you think I was gay? Oh, wow. I'm sorry. I just kind of got that vibe.

06:26Vibe? Like a gay vibe? Like I'm giving off some kind of gay vibration?

06:33Others, meanwhile, wondered if the whole thing was merely a ratings ploy. Just a couple weeks prior

06:37to the episode's airing, however, DeGeneres put the story to bed by indeed confirming her sexuality.

06:42Why do I have to be so ashamed? I mean, why can't I just say the truth? I mean,

06:46be who I am. I'm 35 years old. I'm so afraid to tell people. I mean, I just, Susan, I'm gay.

06:55Number four, Kevin Spacey's accusations. What started as a playful cartoon gag

07:00became eerily shrewd in hindsight. One of Hollywood's best-known actors, Kevin Spacey,

07:05the latest high-profile star, caught up an allegation. In the mid-2000s, vague rumors

07:10about actor Kevin Spacey's sexuality and dealings within made their way to the Family Guy writer's

07:16room. In response, the show featured a bit in a 2009 episode whereby baby Stewie fabricates

07:22having escaped from Spacey's basement. Ten bucks. Five bucks. Eight bucks and I'll do it. Fine.

07:26The clip began resurfacing in 2017 when Spacey was accused of having sexually harassed fellow

07:32actor Anthony Rapp when the latter was underage. I'm beyond horrified to hear his story.

07:37I honestly do not remember the encounter. It would have been over 30 years ago.

07:41But if I did behave then as he describes, I owe him the sincerest apology for what would have been

07:47deeply inappropriate drunken behavior. Several others have since come out with

07:51similar accusations, effectively halting Spacey's career and tarnishing his public image.

07:57Number three, Arnold Schwarzenegger's illegitimate child. Actor Arnold

08:01Schwarzenegger's tenor as the governor of California came to an end in 2011.

08:05What also came to an end that year was his relationship with Maria Shriver.

08:09This was without any doubt the biggest setback and the biggest failure.

08:14Though their divorce wouldn't be finalized for another 10 years, what prompted the split was

08:18the discovery that Schwarzenegger had fathered a child in 1997 with their housemaid Mildred Baina.

08:24You wrote that if you told her, then she would tell her family and you'd be afraid that it would

08:29spin out from there. Which exactly is what happened.

08:32Schwarzenegger wasn't even aware of this until the boy started taking on his distinctive features,

08:37at which point he started providing financial support.

08:40Rumors regarding the child were finally put to bed in May of 2011,

08:44when Schwarzenegger confirmed the story.

09:01Number two, Brangelina. Hollywood power couples are nothing new,

09:05but few have marked the 21st century quite like Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie.

09:17From 2000 to 2005, Pitt was married to Jennifer Aniston of Friends fame,

09:21but their split sparked gossip about he and Jolie, his Mr. and Mrs. Smith co-star.

09:26Rumors had already circulated that Pitt and Jolie had gotten more than friendly on set,

09:30leading many to question if the timelines overlapped.

09:33Parties involved denied the claims, but in 2008, after Brangelina was well established,

09:38they confirmed they indeed fell in love on set, despite reaffirming there was no actual infidelity.

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10:13Number one, the Harvey Weinstein scandal. The worst kept secret in Hollywood was also one of

10:19the most egregious. In 2017, the New York Times and the New Yorker published exposés on Harvey

10:30Weinstein and his so-called casting couches, with dozens of women accusing the movie producer of

10:35various forms of assault going back decades. Weinstein's shady practices were something of

10:54a dark joke in Hollywood beforehand, with numerous celebrities alluding to his skeezy ways.

10:59As of today, more than 100 women have come forward against Weinstein,

11:03leading to his arrest in 2018 and his sentencing in 2020 to 23 years in prison.

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