Hollywood world is full of glitz and glamour. The life that most celebrities are experiencing is what most of us are dying to have. The comfort, riches, and fame are all associated blessings that they are enjoying each day. Even though they have been basking in the limelight for the better part of their lives, celebrities are humans, too, just like you and me. Nonetheless, they are also open to pitfalls of their weaknesses that might drive their career down, and lose the spark of eminence. Some were not able to control situations, and they fell into traps and temptations that lurked their career and fame away. Here are ten of the most heartbreaking celebrity confessions.
10. David Petraeus
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Having been uncovered by the FBI as having an extramarital relationship with his biographer, Gen. David Petraeus gave up his job as CIA director. He is a war hero. He wrote a letter to his CIA staff confessing sins that he was guilty of engaging himself into an extramarital affair after being married to more than 37 years.
9. Fantasia, American Idol Finalist Had an Affair and Abortion
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Aside from being an American Idol finalist, Fantasia has also been nominated in the prestigious Grammy Awards. She was brought to the hospital in 2010 after a suicide attempt, right at the time when she was also being blamed of having an affair with a married guy. She even had the name of the guy tattooed on her neckline. The married guy’s wife even tagged Fantasia in the couple’s divorce hearings. Fantasia refuted that she was involved with the man before the couple decided to part ways. It was during the proceedings when Fantasia made a clean breast of everything and made confessions that she had an abortion. The guy’s wife still plans to file a suit against him.
8. Bogus Milli Vanilli
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Eighties pop icon Milli Vanilli embarrassingly gave back the Grammy awards they won in 1990 after the duo made the revelations to getting the credits for a multi awarded album with which they actually never participated in. After a reporter uncovered the scam, Rob Politus and Fab Morvan, both Germans, were obliged to give back their Best New Artist award and divulge they were not part of the actual team that made the hit singles in the album.
7. Jim Bakker
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World renowned television evangelist Jim Bakker was found guilty of fraud in 1989. The conviction came after a newspaper uncovered that millions of cash donated to the popular PTL Club of Bakker were being utilized inappropriately. Bakker as also discovered as having an affair with a church staff and part of the donations were used to keep the relationship secret. Bakker owned up and he confessed before the public that he had “sinned”. He even wrote a memoir entitled “I Was Wrong.” The televangelist was released in 1994, paroled.
6. Tyler Perry’s was Abused as a Child
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If you are familiar with the Madea movie series, you ought to know that Tyler Perry is wrote, directed, and starred in them. The series possessed both emotional and comedy moods. However, his interview with Oprah’s showed a more profound and sensitively intricate facet to the film personality. Perry divulged information about his experiences when he was a child, having suffered mental, emotional, and sexual abuse from his father and male and female family acquaintances.During the interview, Perry wept while telling Oprah how he was physically abused by a lot of people at the tender age of 10. He even had to hide beneath the house because his father beat him badly. He even tried to kill himself. Perry’s confessions of his past caught different reactions from viewers both good and bad.
5. Congressman Anthony Weiner
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New York congressman Anthony Weiner made a very shameful declaration of guilt two years ago after it became known that he had delivered evocative, uninhibited, and scandalous pictures to a number of females on the Internet. The Democrat, fresh from marriage, was forced to step down from Congress prior to initially denying that the images that were made public were of him and claiming that his online account had been hacked. In his resignation speech, he apologized “for the personal mistakes I have made and the embarrassment I have caused,”.
4. Pastor Ted Haggard
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New Life Church, the highly appealing church with over 10,000 members, was headed by Pastor Ted haggard. In 2006, the pastor had led his church to global embarrassment when he was implicated in a scandal. He even confessed to having had intimate activities with gay prostitutes. He even admitted to using crystal meth. Haggard was instrumental in the election of President George W. Bush. And had shocked people the most is that he actually supported a Colorado constitution amendment which prohibits gay marriage. This man confessed that he had committed immorality and even tagged himself a liar and a sinner. He was removed from the church, and he now has established an entirely new church that supports same-sex marriage.
3. Jesse James Confided that he Cheated
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Sandra Bullock’s former husband, Jesse James, has become one of the most hated persons in the US. After she won best actress, Sandra was shocked to know that her husband had been cheating on her. Jesse confessed to the public that he cheated with a stripper named Michelle McGee, ex-Amish, anti-Sandra Tattoo model. Women detested him for cheating and men reviled him for giving up a sure winner for a stripper. He, in the end, admitted his deceiving ways and publicly asked for forgiveness via People magazine. He has gone to rehab for sex addiction and blamed child abuse for his imprudence.
2. Tour de France Idol Lance Armstrong
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7-time Tour de France champion, Lance Armstrong has been consistently acknowledged as one of the best athletes America has ever had. He, with reservations, made the revelations after a long investigation performed by anti-drug authorities discovered that the cyclist ingested prohibited performance-enhancing drugs. With a possible lifetime ban from sports competitions and piles of proof gathered by the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency, Armstrong came clean that he made use of prohibited substances to TV show host Oprah Winfrey.
1. Former US President Bill Clinton
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The embattled President Bill Clinton confessed to what may have been the most notorious declaration of guilt of sexual indecency by an American politician in the entire US history, this after he emphatically denied the allegations saying, “I did not have intimate relations with that woman.” After a few months, after Lewinsky provided as proof a DNA-stained dress while being grilled in a congressional hearing, Clinton addressed the nation and confessed to having “improper physical relationship” with Monica. The president escaped being impeached.