11 Times Celebs' Families Spilled Their Secrets Or Aired Their Dirty Laundry Out In Public

Some famous people are good at setting boundaries between their public vs. personal lives, while others have to learn the importance of such boundaries the hard way. The same can be said for other people in their lives, famous or not.

Here are 11 times celebs' family members revealed their secrets or aired out their dirty laundry:

1.In 2020, Emma Roberts was trying to keep her pregnancy "pretty low-key," but her mom — who was new to Instagram — unwittingly confirmed speculation by publicly responding to well-wishers. She'd mistakenly believed Emma had revealed the news herself because of a tabloid headline.

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On Jimmy Kimmel Live, Emma said, "It was a disaster, and I found it all out on a plane so I couldn't get to her, I couldn't call her or attack her. I could just iMessage with her and DMed her and ask her to please stop."

2.After welcoming her son, Rhodes, Emma Roberts made the decision to not show his face on social media. However, in 2023, her mom revealed Rhodes's face to the world with an Instagram picture.

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Sharing her mom's post on her own Instagram story, Emma added, "When your mom posts your son's face without asking but you love them both, so whatever."

3.In 2011, Adele's dad sold a story to the Sun shortly after they reunited. He said, "I was a rotten father at a time when she really needed me... We met up at Camden Market, and we were sitting at a stall drinking tea when I brought up the subject of my drinking. I started to tell her what had happened to me, and she gave me this huge, kind smile and put her arms 'round me. 'It's OK, Dad. I understand. I forgive you,' she said. Just like that, she forgave me. I was so grateful."

His decision to speak to the tabloid damaged their relationship.

A year later, Adele told Vogue, "I was actually ready to start trying to have a relationship with him, He's fucking blown it. He will never hear from me again. Because there is nothing that would upset me more than my dad being bribed by the press, it's like, just let them run it, then. Don't you give them ammunition. It makes me angry! To come back after 10 years and be like, 'Maybe her problem with men comes down to me.' It's like, fuck off! How dare you comment on my life? It makes my blood boil. It makes my family feel awkward; it makes my friends feel awkward around me; it makes me act awkward; it makes me sad. There's consequences other than just getting a bit a fuckin' money that lasts you half a year. It blows my mind. 'I love her so much'? Really? Why are you telling me that through a newspaper? If I ever see him, I will spit in his face."

However, Adele and her father reconciled before his death in 2021.

4.On Red Table Talk, Matthew McConaughey said, "As soon as I got 'famous' after [1996's] A Time to Kill, I started to have my weekly Sunday call home to call my mother. Mother wasn't answering the phone. A fan of my fame was answering the phone. I was trying to find my own balance with fame and stuff. And I would share things with her...some of those things I would share might show up in the 6 o'clock news three days later."

She even went so far as to let a tabloid news program inside her house so they could film the actor's childhood home. That's why he stopped speaking to her. However, eight years later, they reconciled.

He said, "My boat was built well enough where I didn't feel like she could sink it. We healed that up in 2004."

5.In his 2023 memoir Spare, Prince Harry alleged that, in 2019, his older brother, Prince William, confronted him about his wife Meghan Markle, and the argument escalated until Will "grabbed [Harry] by the collar, ripping [his] necklace, and…knocked [him] to the floor."

Harry wrote, "I landed on the dog’s bowl, which cracked under my back, the pieces cutting into me. I lay there for a moment, dazed, then got to my feet and told him to get out."

He said that, after he refused Will's urging to hit him back, the older brother left, then came back "looking regretful, and apologized."

6.Also in 2023, Prince Harry alleged that his stepmother, Camilla Parker Bowles, had leaked private conversations to the press so they'd cover her favorably.

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He told CBS, "That made her dangerous because of the connections that she was forging within the British press. There was open willingness on both sides to trade information. And with a family built on hierarchy, and with her on the way to being queen consort, there was gonna be people or bodies left in the street."

7.In the '10s, model Sarah McDaniel became well-known for having one blue eye and one brown eye. Some people accused her of faking heterochromia, which she denied. Her father, whom she has a strained relationship with, reportedly shared a childhood picture showing Sarah with two brown eyes as "proof" she was faking heterochromia.

However, Sarah maintains that she has heterochromia, and, with her sister's encouragement, she ignores people who accuse her of faking it.

In 2019, she told Elle, "[My sister] was like, 'Just don't pay attention, it's not like your talent is all in your eyes. They're not what makes you yourself.'"

8.In 2024, Liam Gallagher claimed that his brother and former bandmate, Noel Gallagher, turned down "a lot of money" he was offered to reunite with Liam for an Oasis reunion tour.

Liam told MOJO magazine, "Noel? He ain't fucking doing it... I did call him! Well, my people called Noel's management team. We put an offer on the table for an Oasis thing — because we got offered it — and he said no. It was a big tour, a lot of money. He turned it down. I get it; he's got a divorce going down. I'll do the Definitely Maybe thing and have a nice time without him."

9.In a 2023 essay for Newsweek, Tessa Gourin, the estranged daughter whom Jack Nicholson has never publicly acknowledged, said, "In recent months, 'nepo baby' is the worst thing you could ever call the successful child of a celebrity. Yet, as Jack Nicholson's 'illegitimate' daughter, it's a label that I would be thrilled to have applied to me... Having grown up without my father, I've sat on the sidelines and watched in frustration as other celebrity children have seamlessly secured roles or been signed to huge agencies... It's probably difficult for some to fathom exactly how I could have a legendary actor for a father, but not count myself among the enviably connected. The truth is, in all of my 28 years of life, we have never had a relationship."

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She continued, "Although I flew from New York City to Los Angeles to meet on the odd occasion as a young girl (at the behest of my mother), it was always clear that he wanted no part in my life. Have you ever been on a date and sensed that the other person just wasn't feeling it? That's pretty much how every interaction I have ever had with Jack Nicholson has gone. Harsh though it may seem, I hold no bitterness toward him for his decision, though it's taken a while for me to understand it."

10.After Britney Spears gave a court statement in 2021 asking for the dissolution of her conservatorship, her younger sister, Jamie Lynn Spears, put out a statement on her Instagram story, claiming that she'd "supported" her sister. A month later, in a since-deleted Instagram post seemingly alluding to Jamie Lynn's statement, Britney said, "There’s nothing worse than when the people closest to you, who never showed up for you, post things in regards to your situation, whatever it may be, and speak righteously for support."

She continued, "So, if you’re reading this, and you know who you are, and you actually have the nerve to say anything about my situation just to save face for yourself publicly!!! If you’re gonna post something, please stop with the righteous approach when you’re so far from righteous it’s not even funny."

11.And finally, during a 2021 appearance on Ellen, Khloé Kardashian said that her sister, Kourtney Kardashian Barker, is "one of the best public pee-ers in town."

"She owns it with pride," Khloé said.