From Ezra Miller To Johnny Depp: Here Is The List Of Hollywood’s Wildest Actors! Most Controversial Stars
Money and fame manage with worrying regularity to destroy all forms of self-control, as the personalities of the cinema know well
From Ezra Miller To Johnny Depp Here Is The List Of Hollywood’s Wildest Actors! Most Controversial Stars. The acting career often involves the exasperation of some extreme character traits, both for work necessities and the effect on the psyche of worldwide success and the generous paychecks bestowed in Hollywood. We have now learned that we must never get too attached to a public personality because even the most unsuspected is capable of disappointing any expectation and turning out to be a bad influence, but some actors have gone beyond the limit of “a maximum life” to finish directly in the field of debauchery.
Ezra Miller To Johnny Depp
The most talked about example of the last period certainly concerns Ezra Miller, (here is our review of Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore) seems to have cut all ties with moral rules: after countless physical and verbal assaults on unknown people, allegations of harassment and drug abuse, now Ezra Miller is also on trial for burglary. The American interpreter, with his unruly and largely illegal conduct, is burning all the chances of a muted return to the world of cinema, unlike many illustrious colleagues, who have been able to keep their impulses at bay (some more, some less) preventing them from ruining the life of sacrifices.
Charlie Sheen
The first name that comes to mind when talking about Hollywood and its damned children is certainly that of Charlie Sheen, guilty of numerous crimes, including drug abuse and domestic violence, but on the path of redemption thanks to his fruitful commitment to charity and awareness of sexual diseases. The disputes between the interpreter of Platoon and Wall Street began in 1990, when he “by accident” shoots him in the arm of his girlfriend, who decides to leave him following the incident.
The following years are a frenzied whirlwind of failed marriages, relationships with pornographic actresses and enrollment in escort programs, while the list of legal troubles due to verbal and physical abuse against his numerous partners grows, all seasoned by addiction to alcohol and cocaine which lead him to visit various detox centers. In 2015, he publicly admitted that he was HIV positive and that he had known it for 4 years, causing a wave of panic that will later be referred to as the “Charlie Sheen Effect”: thanks to his statement, online research on the retrovirus increased dramatically and many underwent prevention tests.
Amanda Bynes
Unfortunately, the list of actors who achieved fame at a very young age and who suffered numerous personality disorders is very long, but one of the darkest chapters rightfully belongs to Amanda Bynes, the star of the Nickelodeon channel in the 90s. The young interpreter was repeatedly stopped by the police in her car: the first time only because she was talking on her cell phone while driving, but later she was also found under the influence of alcohol and drugs, she hit a police car, caused two accidents (escaping without assisting) before the confiscation of the driving license which did not prevent her from getting back into the car, forcing the authorities to confiscate the vehicle.
Unfortunately, the situation turns out to be far worse than simple driving misconduct, as Bynes begins a grim tour of America’s psychiatric centers to assess her mental health after starting a fire in an elderly lady’s driveway and being deported from the fashion institute for evident instability. In 2014 she declares that she was diagnosed with bipolar disorder while now, after a period of rehabilitation in a long-term clinic, she lives sober in a monitored home together with a group of people.
Shia LaBeouf
Another actor ruined by fame at a very young age (and by the abuses inflicted by his father who suffered from PTSD) is the star of the Transformers saga, whose peculiar legal vicissitudes began in 2007 when he was arrested following his net I refuse to leave a Wallgreens in Chicago. Subsequently, LeBeouf was involved in numerous fights, feeding himself to the tabloids mainly because of his harassing alcoholism.
In 2014 he was arrested during a rerun of the musical Cabaret for annoying the public, with numerous witnesses claiming to have seen him chasing a homeless man in his torn shirt shortly before the show, and the following year he returns to jail after clumsily searching to cross the street as the light was red for pedestrians, staggering and shouting disjointed phrases to a patrol of agents who were then forced to stop him. He is currently on trial on charges of harassing and beating his ex-girlfriend FKA Twigs.
Lindsay Lohan
Starting her public life at the age of three must not have been easy for Lindsay Lohan, forced to model by her parents before the explosion of notoriety in the 2000s that made her one of the most famous women in the world. Her acting career began at the age of ten with a role in the soap opera Destini, before moving to the cinema under the guidance of Nancy Meyers, but it is her legal problems that always keep her on the front pages of tabloid newspapers.
The woman is repeatedly arrested by the police for driving under the influence, drug abuse, and continuous theft of valuables, including a jewel and a necklace of 2,500 dollars. The actress is often rewarded with hefty penalties for her exemplary behavior in prison, but once out of prison, she stands out for crimes that force her into solitary confinement or parole, such as when in 2012 she hit a pedestrian with his Porsche. Following a court ruling and the completion of socially useful services resulting from the 2012 drunken driving conviction, Lindsay Lohan has been free from any legal problems since 2015 for the first time in 8 years.
Johnny Depp
Impossible not to mention the most talked about actor of the year, because Johnny Depp became the protagonist of a judicial whirlwind both as a victim and as an executioner, bringing back the old vices that he seemed to have abandoned at the dawn of the 2000s. . With the explosion of his Hollywood career which took place thanks to the iconic starring role for Edward Scissorhands, Depp’s tormented personality darkens, leading him to self-harm and throwing him into the vortex of alcohol and cocaine that in 2005 will break his life of his friend River Phoenix.
The death of the young film legend redeems Depp who, realizing the final destination of that sad journey he has undertaken, decides to change his lifestyle. The accusations of violence coming from the ex-wife Amber Heard surprised public opinion, also because the woman declared that her husband was often under the influence of drugs and alcohol. Following the divorce, Depp sued Heard for libel and won the trial, as new charges against him and his violence crop up almost every day.
James Dean
The Bad Boy par excellence, one of the greatest actors in history, whose myth was also fueled by his untimely death at 24 following a car accident. The shy and sad personality of the protagonist of Burnt Youth is to be found in homosexuality that he has never been able to openly declare, which rose to the headlines only after his release from military service by citing sexual reasons as its cause. Dean had several relationships with men he was forced to call friends of him until the tabloids advertised his love for Anna Maria Pierangeli, the actress he met on the sets of Warner.
The pair were likely built only to hide Dean’s sexual inclinations, as he fed gossip to the paparazzi and instructed his friend Julie Harris to declare that the two were in love. The Italian actress, however, did not maintain this comfortable relationship and unexpectedly became engaged to the singer Vic Damone, causing James Dean to fall into the dark depression that he tried to silence in alcohol and motor racing: following one of these happened the tragic accident that broke his life, turning him into one of the most famous icons of Hollywood.
Miley Cyrus
Any character described after a giant like James Dean would have seemed weak and obvious, so we chose to include a girl who does not have big problems with the law, but who has only managed her transition from childhood to adulthood in a peculiar way. . Miley Cyrus has become famous for her interpretation of Hannah Montana both on film and in real life, participating in world tours and breaking through the hit-parades with her Disney-branded songs.
However, the youth of the actress and singer could not last forever, she was aware that she could not maintain her status as a teen idol once she grew up, so she decided to sexualize her image as much as possible to make it into adulthood as an established star: on stage, he performed pole dance and kissed band members, while flaunting his private life by calling himself pansexual, vegan and cannabis lover. Her relationships are now countless and always under the paparazzi lens, fueling the image of a rebellious girl that the girl’s former darling has always wanted to link to her name.
Elvis Presley
The King Elvis Presley would need an encyclopedia dedicated to him to be able to describe the cyclone that was his existence because the musical legend goes hand in hand with a life that to define unruly would be a euphemism not just (for a more spectacular reinterpretation we refer you to our review of Elvis Movie). Much of his excesses are to be found in a solitary and shy character that led him to isolate himself from the rest of the world since he was very young, which unfortunately will accompany him into adulthood making him fall into a vortex of drugs that will cause his death at only 42 years old.
Back from military service, Presley stood out in the world of cinema by participating in numerous films, fulfilling his dream of emulating the myth of James Dean, while his rocking career exploded with renewed enthusiasm thanks to the countless concerts held in Las Vegas. Fatigue and psychic emptying led him to abuse stimulants and amphetamines, while barbiturates and tranquilizers forced him to sleep between one event and another. He also went into a coma following an overdose of painkillers, while continuing to raise the bar of his live performances demonstrating that the Elvis character on stage was completely alien to the depressed and lonely individual of everyday life. Elvis died in ’77 in his Graceland from a heavy dose of barbiturates, finally giving him the well-deserved rest he never managed to achieve in life.
Natasha Lyonne
The protagonist of Russian Doll (if you don’t know the Netflix show we invite you to retrieve the review of Russian Doll 2) suffered at a young age from numerous problems caused by drugs and alcohol, putting her acting career at serious risk before the glorious rebirth with Orange is the New Black.
The woman fought for many years with her addiction to heroin, in fact in 2001 she was arrested for driving under the influence of drugs, resistance to arrest and property violation, but it is in 2005 that she hit rock bottom: she came hospitalized urgently due to hepatitis C and a collapsed lung, coming close to death on the hospital bed. From that moment the actress chose to change her life, also following an open heart operation that saved her from potentially fatal endocarditis, helped by her friend Chloe Sevigny who helped her to get out of the desperate spiral in which she was in danger of ending her life.
Robert Downey Jr.
From stars to rags, round-trip at the supersonic speed guaranteed by Iron Man’s Armor: Robert Downey Jr. fought against the demons that kept him out of the spotlight for nearly ten years, after a dazzling debut as a child actor under the direction of his father Robert Downey Sr. It is precisely the tumultuous relationship with his father that will initiate him into existence of drugs, because the abstruse director forced his son to smoke marijuana with him to show him his affection, effectively opening the doors to an inclination to addiction that will make him fall into oblivion in the 2000s, after numerous arrests for possession of heroin, cocaine and even firearms.
Before the abyss the actor seemed ready for an unprecedented explosion of popularity, thanks to the BAFTA and the Golden Globe brought home for his interpretation of Charlie Chaplin in Charlot, but in ’99 he was arrested and had to serve a year of sentence detained in a rehabilitation facility in California. After the release, things did not improve at all, despite the victory of another Golden Globe (the same actor believes that his performance was very overrated and that at that time he was thinking only of cocaine) is again arrested for possession of valium, definitively closing the bridges with television and film productions, which had no intention of working with him.
Out of prison, the light arrives with the knowledge of his current wife Susan Levin, who directs him on a path of meditation, yoga and activism, carefully reviving the public figure of Robert until the collective forgiveness arrived with Iron Man, thanks also at the insistence of director Jon Favreau who wanted him with all his might for the film. The actor claims to have been completely sober since 2003 and has distinguished himself in recent years for the volunteer work that distances him so much from the impossible character seen in his youth, proving once again that there is always a light that shines at the bottom of the tunnel, no matter how dark and haunting it is.