Yahoo Lifestyle I Genuinely Cannot Look At These 27 Famous People The Same Way After Learning These Bizarre And Shocking Facts
1.Brie Larson's full name is Brianne Desaulniers. She chose her stage name Larson because of her love for the American Girl Doll Kirsten Larson.
She said that she was tired of people not being able to pronounce her French last name.
2.Bradley Whitford is extremely flexible.
Allison Janney called him "the most flexible man I've ever seen in my life."
3.Margot Robbie can hold her breath underwater for five minutes.
"It's all about lowering your metabolic rate," she explained to Jimmy Fallon.
4.Jenna Ortega used to perform "autopsies" on dead lizards she found in her backyard.
"I'm a weirdo in the way I used to perform autopsies on little animals when I was younger," she said. "Little lizards that I found that were dead in my backyard."
5.Geena Davis is so good at archery that she almost qualified for the 2000 Olympic team.
“I found a coach and became utterly obsessed,” she said. “I took it up at 41, and it became my life for a couple of years.”
6.Before she was famous, Madonna worked at Dunkin' Donuts. She claimed she got fired after a week because she got caught playing with the jelly squirter machine.
7.Danny Trejo was once hypnotized by Charles Manson while they were in jail together. At the time, Danny was only 17.
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Back in 1961, Danny was arrested and being held in the same facility where Charles Manson was. Danny shared that in exchange for protection, Manson told his jail mates that he would take them through a guided meditation that would get them high without actually using any drugs. "For 15 minutes, in great detail, he walked us through the process of copping the dope, finding a place to fix, cooking the heroin in a spoon, drawing it into a needle, and sticking it in our veins," he explained. "If that white boy wasn't a career criminal, he could have been a professional hypnotist."
8.Before they were famous, Nicholas Galitzine and Simone Ashley worked together at a frozen yogurt shop.
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9.Before becoming the Duchess of Sussex, Meghan Markle was a professional calligraphist. She even wrote Robin Thicke and Paula Patton's wedding invitations.
10.Oprah Winfrey's first name is actually Orpah. She's named after a biblical character from the book of Ruth. However, the person who wrote it on her birth certificate wrote "Oprah", so the name stuck.
11.Matthew McConaughey and Woody Harrelson might be half-brothers, sharing the same father, famous hitman Charles Harrelson.
According to Matthew's mother, she "knew" Harrelson's father, Charles, and "frequented the same similar place out in West Texas one time when he was on furlough." Matthew checked the timelines and figured out his mom would've met Woody's dad while she was separated from Matthew's father. The two haven't taken a DNA test because Matthew was nervous to discover that who he thought was his father may not actually be his biological father.
12.Jack Black's mother is Judith Love Cohen, aka one of the engineers who helped bring back the Apollo 13 astronauts. She even went into the office the same day Jack was born.
Jack's brother Neil Siegel wrote in an obituary, "She actually went to her office on the day that Jack was born. When it was time to go to the hospital, she took with her a computer printout of the problem she was working on. Later that day, she called her boss and told him that she had solved the problem. And...oh, yes, the baby was born, too."
13.Doja Cat used to be babysat by Alexis Niers. Alexis is best known for being a member of the infamous Bling Ring, a group of teens who broke into celebrities' houses and robbed them.
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Alexis is also known for her iconic phone call, "Nancy Jo, this is Alexis Neiers calling." You know the one I'm talking about.
14.Robert Pattinson was kicked out of his elite British private school because he got caught stealing and reselling porn at school.
“I’ve never actually said this before. I was stealing porno magazines and selling them at school,” he told Howard Stern. “No one knew at all what to do with them, though. … I’d sell them for a lot of money.”
15.Ariana Grande claims she encountered a demon while she was on tour in Kansas City.
In 2013, she told Complex, "I've had a ghost/demon experience. We were in Kansas City a few weeks ago and went to this haunted castle and were so excited. The next night, we wanted to go to Stull Cemetery, which is known as one of the seven gates to hell on Earth. … I felt this sick, overwhelming feeling of negativity over the whole car, and we smelled sulfur, which is the sign of a demon, and there was a fly in the car randomly, which is another sign of a demon."
She continued, "I was like, 'This is scary, let's leave.' I rolled down the window before we left and said, 'We apologize. We didn't mean to disrupt your peace.' Then, I took a picture, and there are three super distinct faces in the picture — they're faces of textbook demons."
16.Denzel Washington has dislocated his pinky so many times that now his finger occasionally falls out of place when he moves his hand.
17.Benedict Cumberbatch was once abducted while filming a miniseries in South Africa.
He and his friends where on their way back to the set of To the Ends of the Earth when a tire blew out. Then, six armed men seemingly came out of nowhere asking them for their money and weed. They tied them up, and threw Benedict in the trunk of their car.
18.Jason Statham was a professional diver before becoming an actor.
He was on the British diving team for about 10 years.
19.James Corden's middle name is Kimberley.
20.Macaulay Culkin legally changed his name to Macaulay Macaulay Culkin Culkin.
Back in 2018, Macaulay had fans vote in a public poll to change his middle name, which was originally Carson.
21.Tim Allen was arrested in 1978 for possession of 1.4 pounds of cocaine. He was sentenced to 3–7 years in jail and was let out on parole after serving 2 years and 4 months.
22.Rob Lowe is deaf in his right ear.
He believes a case of mumps he had as an infant is what caused the impairment.
23.Jackie Chan has broken nearly every bone imaginable throughout his career, but while filming Armour of God, a stunt left him with a "hole" in his head
He explained that the stunt required him to jump through a tree, but the branches broke. In an effort to save himself, Jackie grabbed other branches, but those broke too. He ended up falling to the ground and cracking his skull, his whole body went numb, and blood was coming out of his ear. Then, he was rushed into surgery.
24.Ashton Kutcher gave himself pancreatitis and was hospitalized twice (!!!!) while preparing to play Steve Jobs in Jobs.
Steve Jobs was known to be a "fruitarian" and lived on a mainly fruit diet, which Ashton tried to replicate. His wife Mila Kunis explained, "He was so dumb. He...only ate grapes at one point...we ended up in the hospital twice. With pancreatitis! It was really dumb!"
25.Katy Perry used to carry around locks of Taylor Swift and Miley Cyrus's hair in her purse.
"One of the first times I went to the Grammys, I got to share a dressing room with Miley Cyrus and Taylor Swift and I asked them for a lock of their hair from each one of them, which is totally creepy, but awesome," she said. "I put little bows on them individually and put them in my purse. And that was my little secret, and I'm a freak!"
26.Awkwafina always gives a fake name to baristas. The name she frequently chooses is Michelle Pfeiffer.
27.Finally, Whoopi Goldberg's full name is actually Caryn Elaine Johnson. She gave herself the name Whoopi because she just happens to be a gassy person.
She said, "The true story is that my family is Jewish, Buddhist, Baptist, and Catholic — none of which I subscribe to, by the way, as I don't believe in man-made religions. So I took the last name from a Jewish ancestor. And I happen to be gaseous, which explains the first name, short for whoopee cushion."
