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And today we're counting down our picks for the celebrity controversies that we now have a better understanding of, thanks to new details and updated perspectives.

Their marriage license application stated Aaliyah was 18.

Federal prosecutors argue Kelly bribed a clerk to accept a fake ID number 10.

Pamela Anderson and Tommy Lee's stolen tape in the mid-90s, the release of Pamela Anderson and Tommy Lee's sex tape became one of the decade's biggest celebrity scandals and one of the first viral sensations of the early Internet age.

At the time, tabloids treated it as a joke, with many assuming Pam and Tommy were profiting off the video.

But as we later learned, the tape wasn't leaked.

It was stolen from their private home by a disgruntled cop electrician.

We had no way to navigate it because there was no one else that was going through anything like this.

So we didn't really have a playbook on how to get it all back or make it go away.

Pamela's 2023 memoir and Netflix documentary reframed the entire event as a devastating violation that deeply traumatized her.

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Late Pamela and Tommy Lee Baby, maybe one or two.

What once looked like a spicy celebrity scandal is now understood as a major case of exploitation and invasion of privacy.

Number nine Bruce Willis Bizarre Interviews.

For a period in the mid to late 2010s, Bruce Willis had a reputation for being aloof and difficult during press appearances.

This is especially true for a now infamous BBC One interview where Willis appeared disengaged and even confused.

At the time, people laughed at his incoherence and chalked it up to disinterest.

That would have been your choice of time.

Or maybe there is a good day to die hard.

But after his family revealed in 2022 that Willis was suffering from aphasia and later frontotemporal dementia, those strange interviews took on a potentially heartbreaking new meaning.

Family released a statement today saying he's been diagnosed with frontotemporal dementia, which affects behavior, speech and language.

There is currently no cure or treatment for ftd.

It's now entirely possible that we were watching the early stages of a serious neurological decline with a man quietly struggling to keep it together under immense pressure.

Number 8 Winona Ryder's shoplifting arrest In 2001, Winona Ryder's arrest for shoplifting over $5,000 worth of designer clothes shocked Hollywood.

He said the actress walked past three cash registers with a pile of clothes and handbags before leaving the store.

Tabloids portrayed her as spoiled and depicted the incident as nothing more than a reckless act of stealing.

The truth, however, was revealed to be far more complex.

Ryder has divulged that she was struggling with mental health issues at the time and was on heavy prescription painkillers for a broken arm.

She's since said she doesn't even clearly remember the incident, telling Esquire in 2024, I think I just checked out.

There was a period when I was not in season.

It's now clear this wasn't a bratty celebrity stealing for fun.

Number seven Anna Nicole Smith's Trainwreck Appearances what is the truth about Anna Nicole Smith?

Model, reality star and actress Anna Nicole Smith was once written off as a drunk ditzy celeb spiraling out of control.

Her often slurred speech and erratic behavior at public events made her a late night punchline.

And if I ever record an album, I want this guy to produce mine make me beautiful duets.

But after her tragic death in 2007, a much sadder truth emerged.

Anna Nicole Smith has died modeling movies, her own TV show.

The world is infatuated with Anna Nicole Smith.

A death that opened a Pandora's box of questions.

It turns out that she had been struggling with chronic pain and deep grief over the sudden death of her adult son Daniel.

And behind the perceived chaos was a woman being manipulated, exploited and self medicating her suffering.

I mean this is hard drugs that they're trying to say, you know, I had Vicodan and Xanax.

That's prescription drugs that I have to take.

Because of what we know now, all the trash TV fodder should have been seen as a warning.

Number 6 Katherine Heigl vs Hollywood in the late 2000s, Katherine Heigl went from America's sweetheart to being labeled difficult.

Just recently there was a Facebook Q and A.

Someone asked you, I've heard rumors that you're very rude.

You took on the question, what did you say?

After breakout roles in Grey's Anatomy and Knocked up, she publicly criticized both projects, calling the latter sexist for portraying women as uptight and men as lovable slackers.

At the time, her comments were branded ungrateful.

But years later, many have reassessed aspects of Knocked up, admitting the film hadn't aged well because of certain themes.

Her critique of Grey's Anatomy's writing, the reason she withdrew from Emmy consideration, was also later echoed by several co stars who confirmed the show's all around toxic environment.

There was a part of me that thought because I had won the year before, that I needed juicy, dramatic, emotional material and I just didn't have that that season.

Thanks to these confirmations, it is clear Heigl wasn't simply being difficult, she was standing up for fairness and creative integrity.

Number five Charlie Sheen's Substance Abuse Shame is suffocating.

I lit the fuse, you know, and my life turns into everything.

Charlie Sheen's public meltdowns, substance abuse and Winning era were infamous and many assumed that Charlie was just an out of control partier.

You judged me, you condemned me, you discarded me.

But decades later, we've learned that his substance abuse had a deeper root.

In 2025, she revealed in his memoir that he began drinking as a teenager not to party, but

A severe stutter, something he continued to do throughout his career.

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