The Top 5 Most Unexpected Movie Star Meltdowns Of All Time

[Sheridan Passell]

By Sheridan Passell

So it’s being reported that Owen Wilson tried to kill himself last weekend……WHAAT??

Some meltdowns are sadly predictable, like a member of the Lost cast being arrested for drunk driving. Indeed, Lohan’s now been done so many times I’m starting to get the arrests confused (how many times has it involved cocaine? Once or twice?). But other movie star meltdowns come completely out of leftfield, and the way the world sees them changes overnight…

5th - Pee Wee Herman


 
Anyone whose name translates as Piss Piss Herman probably was going to get into trouble sooner or later. But I still wouldn’t have predicted it.

Before the advent of dvd and the internet, perverts still had to leave their homes, and this led to a few mishaps.

In 1991, Saturday morning kids show Pee-Wee's Playhouse had been running for 5 years, and there had been two Pee Wee movies. He even had a star on the walk of fame.

Then alter-ego Paul Reubens decided to catch a triple bill (take that Grindhouse) of ‘Catalina Five-O: Tiger Shark’, ‘Nancy Nurse’, and ‘Turn Up The Heat’ in a Florida XXX cinema. He also chose to whack off while doing so.

He got caught. And fined $50.

According to reports, he is left handed.

Prof. Loug, who writes for the site, once caught someone doing the same in Jingle All The Way.

[Sheridan Passell]

4th - Hugh Grant
 

 
Hugh knew?

I wasn’t sure whether to go with this, or his formally alleged assault of a photographer with a tub of baked beans. Just why he was taking baked beans, in a tub, to Liz Hurley’s house remains a complete mystery. Hugh was alleged to have followed up the baked beans throw with a couple of kicks up the arse. Photographer - P’owned.

Back in 1995, the LAPD blowjob department swept in on a parked car containing Hugh Grant and new found friend Divine Brown. It was a wise decision from Grant, and entirely necessary. It’s not like he was dating Liz Hurley at the time.

Unfortunately ‘9 Months’ was coming out, so he had to get out on the press circuit and promote it. On Larry King he described his motivations as 'dishonourable, shabby and goatish’. But enough about his reasons for making the film...

[Sheridan Passell]

3rd - OJ Simpson
 

 
One minute he was Nordberg getting stuck on the bottom of a bus and dragged across the country. The next he was stuck in a white Bronco dragging the police across the country. To go from cop to wanted criminal so quickly took us all by surprise.

Not since Leslie Nielson farted live on TVAM and then said “You’re not going to ask me to leave are you?” (see below) has a Naked Gun star’s fall from grace been so public.

Thankfully, it turned out The Juice was innocent. Otherwise he’d be higher on this list. But it must frighten O.J. to think the real killer is still out there…

[Sheridan Passell]

2nd - Mel Gibson
 

 
Mel.

All that time spent oh so carefully balancing Passion Of The Christ to assure the world there wasn’t even a hint of anti-semitic intent behind it… and then he blows it all in one, admittedly legendary, bender.

It was a double whammy faux pas, but it always surprises how much the booze booze vroom vroom side of it gets overlooked. As soon as you get behind the wheel of a car under the influence of alcohol you become a lethal weapon.

My favourite part is when he claimed to own Malibu.

[Sheridan Passell]

1st - Eddie Murphy
 
This one doesn’t get talked about nearly as much as it should.

At 4:55am one morning in 1997 a pre-op transsexual prostitute was arrested in Eddie Murphy’s car.

Just take a minute on that…


Eddie.

Murphy.

Pre-.

Op.

Transsexual.

Prostitute.


Eddie Murphy said it was all a misunderstanding and he was just being a good Samaritan. His old haunt Saturday Night Live responded with a sketch called "Good Samaritan Eddie Murphy" about a superhero who scoured the streets of Los Angeles, looking for transsexuals who needed a lift.

Even more bizarrely, the transsexual died a year later after trying to swing from her apartment’s roof to an open window using a towel.

Perhaps one day they’ll make a movie about Eddie Murphy getting involved with a man dressed as an unsavoury woman and all the trouble that ensued….

Hang on.

[Mahmoud El-Azzeh]

Hahaha, I love this article. Mel Gibson = Pillock.

[Oldwell]

From a pre op transexual to Scary Spice...

As for poor old Mel Gibson's claims of ownership, perhaps he thought he was back in the Thunderdome. We doonnt neeed anotherrr heeerrrroooo!

[Prof. Loug]

If I put on a dress, even momentarily, doesn't that technically make me a pre-op transexual?

[David Hawk]

I'd say only if you add stockings Prof.