There are a number of people for whom fame is everything. They will just about do anything to achieve fame and in doing so end up ruining themselves. Today, in a technology driven world and the onslaught of social media, becoming famous is as easy as saying cheese. But just as social media can make you; it can also break you especially if you slip up along the way. Here are 12 people who ruined their lives for fame.
Perez and her boyfriend are perhaps the world’s most idiotic people. They tried all sorts of stunts on YouTube to become famous. One day they went too far when her boyfriend Pedro Ruiz asked her to shoot a book held in front of his chest. You know what happened next, the bullet went straight through killing him on the spot. Monalisa will soon be famous in prison.
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Gia Allemand the girlfriend of NBA player Ryan Anderson was a contestant on “The Bachelor” and “Bachelor Pad”. When Anderson told her he didn’t love her anymore, she couldn’t take it and hanged herself with a vacuum cleaner cord from the stairwell of her home. This is exactly the depression that contestants of reality shows go through when they can’t stand rejection.
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These are the worst parents ever. They tried playing pranks on their kids and posting it on social media. In one video they can be seen pranking their 9-year-old son by blaming him for something he didn’t do. In the video they can be heard hurling abusive and curses at the child. This prompted viewers to contact protective services to investigate the couple for child abuse. The videos have since been taken down.
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Martina Adams had almost disfigured herself with plastic surgery with the false notions it made her look beautiful. But now still unsatisfied, she says she wants to transform herself into a black woman and she has started by changing her hairstyle to an Afro look. She plans to change her facial structure, her buttocks, and her hair to look completely black. What a weirdo.
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David Nuno was a victim of the choking game where kids do silly things and post it on YouTube. David Nuno and his friends were playing the choking game when he lost consciousness and passed out on the floor falling on a piece of glass and cutting his jugular vein. He bled to death which goes to show the foolishness of such incidents.
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Ryan Dunn starred in the TV Show Jackass that was made into a movie. It consisted of men performing stupid stunts like idiots. Ryan Dunn died during one such stunt racing his Porsche at 130mph in a 55 mph zone. He crashed dying instantly along with his co passenger Zachary Hartwell.
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Paula Goodspeed joined American Idol but was made fun of by the judges. Her Favorite judge was Paula Abdul but her way of honoring the judge was to show up dead in her car parked near Abduls house. If the judges thought she was crazy, she proved them right.
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Dalia Dippolito once approached a detective to kill her husband which was captured on the show “Cops”. She tried getting out of the situation by saying her husband was on it also and the whole thing was a ruse to get publicity. Her Husband denied it and she was arrested and sentenced to 16 years in Jail.
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Saad Khan a Pakistan reality show contestant tried swimming across a lake wearing a 15-pound backpack. He began drowning and cried for help but people were unsuccessful in saving him. He died doing something ridiculous just to become famous.
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Russell Armstrong and his wife Taylor regularly appeared on the “Real Housewives of Beverly Hills”. He began living beyond his means. He accrued several debts which ultimately ended in their divorce. The Show even aired all their problems and Armstrong ended hanging himself in his house in Bel, Air.
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John Cerniglia appeared on Gordon Ramsay’s show Kitchen Nightmares. In the show Ramsay criticized his business saying it would ultimately end up in the Hudson River because Cerniglia did not have an idea to run his business. Cerniglia was so affected that he ended up jumping into the river which turned out to be the Hudson.
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Among people who ruined their lives for fame, Joey Kovar, the star of real World appeared on the Celebrity rehab with Dr. Drew. He did struggle with alcohol addiction and even had to be admitted into rehab while still a cast member. He felt the pressure was too much and never recovered. He ultimately died of drug overdose in 2012 when he was 29 years old.
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