Success is hard to achieve but harder to maintain because it requires a person to keep performing well on a regular basis and keep a disciplined approach without getting distracted. However, there are many celebrities who were not able to handle success and it went up in their heads. They were found consuming the substance, partying endlessly and many other things which earned them a bad image and brought their career to halt.
Here we are going to talk about 15 such celebrities who were doing great professionally at one point of time but they made some mistakes which destroyed their career to a large extent.
Lindsay Lohan was going great once upon a time, in fact, she was touted as the next big actress to watch for. She was getting paid $10 million for every movie and many endorsement deals were offered to her. However, her habit of partying endlessly and then coming late to work irked directors and producers. Besides that, she was rude and moody too because of the hangovers that she had. While it is being said that she has recovered a lot in her personal life, her professional career seems to be going nowhere as of now.
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The actor has given some wonderful performances in movies Braveheart, What Women Want, Lethal Weapon and Passion of the Christ but it has been a pretty long time that we have seen him in a big movie. His role in the movie Expendables 3 was also not able to give him a comeback. The reasons behind Mel Gibson’s dwindling professional life are his closeness to alcohol and investigations going against him for domestic violence. Many times he has sounded racist and this has led to directors and producers making a distance from him.
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Once he was one of the most powerful people of Hollywood and he used his power in order to make women do something which they never wished to. In October 2017, it was reported by New York Times and New Yorker that more than 80 women from Hollywood have accused him of misusing them. Cases are going on against him and he is completely out of public view. Looking at the quantum of accusations, it can be said that he won’t be able to make a comeback ever again.
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Remember Buffy Summers from the hit show Buffy the Vampire Slayer which used to get aired in the late 90s? The lead character was played by Sarah Michelle Gellar and it ran successfully for six years. As the show ended, Sarah was not able to get good work as she was typecasted. She tried her luck in some movies and shows but nothing seemed to work in her favor.
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She had a promising career in her teenage days; in fact, she had her own show on Nickelodeon known as The Amanda Show. Besides, she worked in some movies too and almost all of them worked well at the box-office. But then success backfired and Amanda got into the news for all the wrong reasons such as the problem of substance consumption, fighting with strangers, breaking everything in hotel rooms, etc. Later it was found that she was ill and her treatment started. Presently, she doesn’t seem to be interested in making a comeback any time soon.
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She was looked as the next big thing happening in Hollywood as this actor-singer started her career at the age of 12 and appeared in many shows of Nickelodeon. Everything was going well for her until her fights with co-stars made her infamous, especially with Ariana Grande. When the show Victorious was scrapped by Nickelodeon, many people blamed it on Justice and her starry tantrums and behavior. Since then, Justice is also finding it difficult to revive her career.
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Eddie is famous for not just his acting skills but also his stand-up comedy but presently, the actor is not seen much in movies. Since 2011, we haven’t seen him in any big movies and he is also not nominated for any acting awards other than Golden Raspberry Awards for Worst Actor in 3 different movies.
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The American singer-actress took a break as she wanted to give some time to her family with her partner Future but the couple called it quit just after their son was born. Ciara decided to make a comeback and she came with her album “Jackie”. But the comeback was a big failure as less than 20K copies of the album have been sold.
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Cameron Diaz became very famous after she worked in movies likes The Mask, There’s Something About Mary, Charlies Angles, etc. but nowadays she is not seen much in movies. Considering the fact that she is also not showing any interest in movies, we may say that she is not going to make a comeback in Hollywood now.
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Ray Rice is an American footballer whose career was going on great until a video in which he was seen hitting his fiancée was posted online. The league named Baltimore Ravens of the National Football League (NFL) that he played for terminated his contract as NFL is pretty strict when it comes to domestic violence. It has been four years since that incident but no team wants to give Ray another chance as they don’t want to harm their own image.
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The American former professional boxer is one of the greatest boxers that we have ever seen but he also has a history of troubled behavior. He has not only been convicted for rape but has also gone bankrupt despite earning huge amounts in fights as well as in movies. A lot of money that he has earned has been spent in paying his lawyer’s fees and now we feel that this retired boxer hasn’t left with much scope to work in movies as well.
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She was called the Queen of Rap in the 90s and but some bad decisions on her part and sentence of one year for telling a lie to the judge proved very costly for her career. There is no doubt that she has given some really memorable songs but she hasn’t come up with any new song since 2006. You just can’t live on your old work; if you want to grow and get more popular, you need to come up with new work. Agree?
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The golfer was unstoppable as far as his career was concerned. He had been winning many championships and his wife and kids were standing beside him, supporting him. But then the ugly truth about Tiger Woods came out and people got to know about his illicit affairs. His wife divorced him and got $120 million as compensation and his career suffered a lot because of all this. He may be playing golf now as well but he is no more that Tiger Woods we used to know.
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Keri was known for her superb songwriting skills in the late 2000s and she wrote many songs for famous singers, such as Keyshia Cole, Beyonce, Britney Spears and others. However, in one song written by her, she took a dig at Beyonce which ultimately had an adverse effect on her career to such an extent that she hasn’t released any album since 2010.
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Chris Brown’s career was going fine until he hit Rihanna; fans didn’t like this act of him and his music sales declined. Somehow after some time, the sales went up but they went down again and his own team filed a case against him accusing him of being a maniac on tour.
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