17 Celebs Who Referred to as Folks Out For Being Problematic
News 617 December 5, 2025 0
The video depicts a number of clips of anti-ICE protestors to the lyrics “Wanna check out some freaky positions?”, adopted by numerous clips of individuals being handcuffed and forcibly detained, alongside the lyrics “Have you ever ever tried this one?” Sabrina additionally famously “arrests” somebody — normally a celeb — at each one among her concert events proper earlier than the track for being sizzling.
Sabrina responded to using her track within the video, saying, “this video is evil and disgusting. Don’t ever contain me or my music to learn your inhumane agenda.”
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In November of 2025, Olivia Rodrigo denounced the Division of Homeland Safety and the Trump White Home for posting a video to Instagram set to her track “all-american bitch,” encouraging folks to self-deport.
Throughout the crescendo of the track the place Olivia screams, the on-screen textual content reads, “If ICE finds you,” with clips of handcuffed detainees being boarded onto buses and planes. The subsequent line of the track, which is tender and mellow, exhibits clips of smiling immigrants ready in line to board a aircraft, some holding flags and baggage.
Olivia commented, saying, “do not ever use my songs to advertise your racist, hateful propaganda”. The track is now not playable on the video.
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Earlier in 2025, Millie Bobby Brown took to Instagram to place a number of journalists on blast by title for critiquing her bodily look and “[acting] like [she’s] supposed to remain frozen in time, like [she’s] ought to nonetheless look the way in which [she] did on Stranger Issues Season 1.”
“This isn’t journalism. That is bullying. The truth that grownup writers are spending their time dissecting my face, my physique, my decisions, it’s disturbing,” she says, after citing particular articles and the journalist who wrote them. “Disillusioned folks can’t deal with seeing a lady change into a lady on her phrases, not theirs. I refuse to apologize for rising up. I refuse to make myself smaller to suit the unrealistic expectations of people that can’t deal with seeing a lady change into a lady. I can’t be shamed for a way I look, how I costume, or how I current myself,” she continued.”
Millie closed out the video seeking to the longer term, saying, “Let’s do higher. Not only for me, however for each younger woman who deserves to develop up with out concern of being torn aside for merely current.”
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Earlier this yr, Hayley Williams known as out nation singer Morgan Wallen because the “racist nation singer” whose Tennessee bar she references in her track, “Ego Loss of life at a Bachelorette Get together.”
When requested about which singer impressed the road by The New York Instances, Hayley responded, “It could possibly be a pair…however I’m all the time speaking about Morgan Wallen, I don’t give a shit.” She continued, “Discover me at Complete Meals, bitch. I do not care.” Morgan does, in actual fact, personal a bar on Broadway in Tennessee, known as “Morgan Wallen’s This Bar & Tennessee Kitchen.”
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Talking of Morgan Wallen, Maren Morris additionally known as out the “Final Evening” singer, who was caught saying the n-word in a clip shared on-line by TMZ in 2021.
Taking to social media, she tweeted, “…this isn’t [Wallen’s] first ‘scuffle’ and he simply demolished an enormous streaming document final month regardless. Everyone knows it wasn’t his first time utilizing that phrase.” Talking of the dearth of accountability Morgan and people like him within the trade have confronted, she continued, “We preserve them wealthy and guarded in any respect prices with no recourse.”
She continued on in regards to the prevalent lack of accountability, replying to Kelsea Ballerini on Twitter, who had quote-tweeted a now-deleted publish highlighting the discrepancy within the requirements male nation acts vs. feminine nation acts are held to. Maren added, “we would be dropped, endorsements misplaced, social pariahs to music row…” Later, on Sophia Bush’s Work in Progress podcast, she revealed that each she and her son obtained loss of life threats for her public criticism.
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Maren Morris additionally known as out Jason Aldean’s spouse, Brittany, for her anti-trans feedback, iconically dubbing her “Rebel Barbie”.
In 2022, Brittany shared a make-up transformation video with the caption “I’d actually prefer to thank my mother and father for not altering my gender once I went by means of my tomboy part. I like this girly life🤎✌🏼” She reportedly went on to unfold misinformation on “the genital mutilation of youngsters,” referencing gender-affirming care.
Maren replied to a tweet about Brittany and her feedback on trans people, saying, “It is really easy to, like, not be a scumbag human?” In reference to Brittany’s then-hair extension enterprise, she continued, “Promote your clip-ins and zip it, Rebel Barbie.”
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In 2020, Samantha Ware, who appeared within the remaining season of Glee, known as out star Lea Michele on Twitter for her “traumatic microagressions” and making her life “a dwelling hell” on set.
This all began with a now-deleted tweet the place Lea Michele spoke out in help of BLM, saying “George Floyd didn’t deserve this. This was not an remoted incident and it should finish. #BlackLivesMatter.” A number of days later, Samatha quote-tweeted Lea Michele’s publish, calling her activism into query after having an allegedly horrific expertise together with her on set. That now-deleted tweet learn, “LMAO REMEMBER WHEN YOU MADE MY FIRST [TELEVISION] GIG A LIVING HELL?!?! CAUSE ILL NEVER FORGET. I BELIEVE YOU TOLD EVERYONE THAT IF YOU HAD THE OPPORTUNITY YOU WOULD ‘SH*T IN MY WIG!’ AMONGST OTHER TRAUMATIC MICROAGRESSIONS THAT MADE ME QUESTION A CAREER IN HOLLYWOOD.”
A number of different actors on the Glee set spoke out in help, with their very own tales about Lea Michele. Claims included Lea Michele allegedly referred to background actors “cockroaches” and refused to allow them to sit with forged members at lunch as a result of they “did not belong there.” Drag Race star Willam stated, “Lea handled me so subhuman i left the set of Glee.” Forged member Amber Riley additionally chimed in with a delicate gif in help.
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In 2015, Melissa McCarthy spoke with Leisure Weekly about calling out an unnamed reviewer on the Toronto Movie Pageant who made sexist feedback about her look in a overview of her movie, Tammy. Based on Melissa, the critic’s feedback included claims that she was solely an excellent actor when she “seemed extra engaging” and that her husband — who directed the movie — ought to “by no means be allowed to direct [her] as a result of he allowed [her] to look so homely.”
“Would you say that to any man?… [When an actor] is enjoying a personality that’s depressed and dejected, would you say, ‘Nicely, you look horrible!'” Melissa then requested if the critic had a daughter, and upon his affirmation that he had two, she continued, “Watch what you say to her. Do you inform her she’s solely worthwhile or legitimate when she’s fairly?”
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In 2021, Lucy Liu spoke out in regards to the “inexcusable and unacceptable” language co-star Invoice Murray hurled at her on the set of Charlie’s Angels again in 1999. On the time, media protection of it felt very sexist, in line with Lucy, assuming that she was the issue regardless of Invoice being the one to instigate the battle, in line with Lucy.
Sharing her aspect of the story on the Asian Sufficient podcast, she defined that the remainder of the forged took that weekend to remodel a scene, which Invoice could not attend. Being the most recent addition to the forged, Lucy did not have a lot authority within the rewrite. When Invoice returned for rehearsals, he was very sad with the modifications, and — in line with Lucy — started taking it out on her. “I used to be, like, ‘Wow, he looks as if he’s wanting straight at me,” she recalled. “I say, ‘I’m so sorry. Are you speaking to me?’ — and clearly he was, as a result of then it began to change into a one-on-one communication.”
Regardless of Invoice being a extra established actor within the trade, Lucy stood up for herself. “I don’t wish to be that particular person that isn’t going to talk up for myself and stand by the one factor that I’ve, which is my dignity and self-respect,” she mirrored. “As a result of regardless of how low on the totem pole you might be or wherever you got here from, there’s no have to condescend or to place different folks down.” Lucy shared that, to today, she doesn’t remorse her choice, and that many years after the very fact, crew members from that set have come as much as her and informed her how grateful they’re she stood as much as him.
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In 2021, Nicole Kidman known as out reporter Eva Wiseman for asking a “sexist” query about her earlier marriage to Tom Cruise on her Being the Ricardos press tour, undermining her precise commentary on the movie and the well-known couple that impressed it.
Throughout the interview, Nicole took a second to understand a sentiment the movie touches on, {that a} relationship can’t have a cheerful ending however nonetheless depart stunning issues in its wake. Talking of Lucy Ball and Desi Arnaz — who the movie is about — she started, “You may’t make folks behave the way you need them to, and generally you’re going to fall in love with somebody who isn’t going to be the particular person you spend the remainder of your life with. And I believe that’s all very relatable. You might have youngsters with them. You might not, however they have been very a lot in love.” Eva adopted Nicole’s musings by asking if that was her “means of speaking about Tom Cruise.”
Nicole adamantly denied any connection of her assertion to her first husband, and requested to not be “pigeonholed” as a well-known actor’s ex-wife. Wanting to debate her work and never within the shadow of a relationship that ended 20 years in the past, she defined the query felt “virtually sexist” to her, saying, “I’m undecided anybody would say that to a person… Sooner or later, you go, ‘Give me my life. In its personal proper.'”
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In 2022, Lili Reinhart slammed Kim Kardashian after she revealed on the Met Gala purple carpet that she misplaced 16 kilos in simply two weeks to suit into Marilyn Monroe’s costume.
In a collection of Instagram tales, Lili went on to critique Kim’s interview and the way in which it perpetuated poisonous eating regimen tradition in Hollywood and past, saying “To overtly admit to ravenous your self for the sake of the Met Gala. When you recognize very effectively that thousands and thousands of younger women and men are wanting as much as you and listening to your each phrase.” Chatting with her followers, she continued, “Please cease supporting these silly, dangerous celebrities whose complete picture revolves round their our bodies.”
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Again in 2018, Rihanna known as out Donald Trump’s presidential marketing campaign crew, swiftly responding to reviews that her track “Do not Cease the Music” was being performed at his rallies.
Replying to a tweet about it, she made completely clear that the track was not allowed for use transferring ahead and that she nor her folks “would ever be at or round a type of tragic rallies.” The subsequent day, Rihanna and her crew took authorized motion and despatched a cease-and-desist letter to the Trump camp.
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In 2016, America Ferrera known as out her former supervisor for believing she may solely play chubby Latina sidekick roles and that she had “unrealistic” expectations for her profession.
Recalling the story to the New York Instances, she stated, “I had simply gained [a top award at Sundance], and [my manager] wished me to audition for the Latina chubby woman in a pilot. She wasn’t even the lead; she was simply the sidekick, with the identical joke in each scene. I stated, ‘I’m not getting into for that,'” she started.
“Once I finally left him, he [told] one other of my reps, ‘Any person ought to inform that woman that she has an unrealistic concept of what she will be able to accomplish on this trade.’ That was somebody I used to be paying to signify me.”
Sacha and Insurgent have been within the 2016 movie The Brothers Grimsby collectively, which Sacha additionally wrote and produced. Previous to figuring out Sacha as her alleged harasser, she informed Folks about an unnamed actor who “known as [her] right into a room and pulled down his pants,” then requested her to carry out a lewd act in entrance of his mates. She defined that she documented the harassment together with her company and made it recognized amongst trade circles, however nonetheless struggles with what occurred on set, saying, “Why did I keep in that state of affairs… with that terrible man?… I ought to have left. It wasn’t price it. However on the identical time, I used to be like, ‘Oh effectively, do the fitting factor, be knowledgeable and end the film.’ Now I’d by no means do this.”
She later went on to element extra disrespect she confronted on the set, like her physique being exploited for laughs. “It’s one factor for somebody who’s fats to take advantage of their measurement for comedy, but it surely’s one other for any individual else to humiliate you,” she stated. Moreover, she claimed to show down a nude working scene, and stated she was requested to look at the stripper they employed in her place do it on the monitor.
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After a lot of feuding forwards and backwards in interviews and on-line, Marlon Wayans known as out Soulja Boy earlier this yr for his anti-LBGTQ feedback about Marlon and his transgender son, Kai.
Sharing a screenshot of Soulja Boy’s now-deleted tweet — which was seemingly in response to Marlon shading him on a radio present for acting at Trump’s Crypto Ball — he commented, saying, “You already know you will get cancelled for transphobic slander like this… Thankfully for you that you just don’t have a profession. Apparently, You BEEN cancelled for the final 17 years. Crank that was 2007. We ready.” Marlon has not been shy about publicly supporting his son and being an ally to the LGBTQ neighborhood.
The feud continued on, with Soulja Boy tweeting “I’ll piss on yo mama grave… I’ll dig ur mother up and kill that bitch once more,” about Marlon’s late mom in a now-deleted publish. Marlon responded with an AI-generated diss observe in regards to the rapper, calling him out for drug use and being a sellout.
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On an episode of 60 Minutes Extra time early in her profession, Woman Gaga gracefully identified the absurdity of Anderson Cooper asking her to handle the rumor that she “had a male appendage” and was a “hermaphrodite.”
“Possibly I do…wouldn’t it be so horrible?” she started. “Why the hell am I gonna waste my time and provides a press launch about whether or not or not I’ve a penis? My followers do not care and neither do I.”
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And at last, a number of actors from the Harry Potter franchise have spoken out about creator J.Ok. Rowling’s seemingly infinite transphobic remarks, and that features the long-lasting trio — Daniel Radcliffe, Rupert Grint, and Emma Watson — who performed Harry, Ron, and Hermione, respectively.
In 2020, Daniel launched a assertion by means of the Trevor undertaking, saying, “Transgender girls are girls. Any assertion on the contrary erases the id and dignity of transgender folks and goes towards all recommendation given by skilled well being care associations who’ve much more experience on this material than both Jo or I.” When requested about it by the Atlantic, he stated staying silent would have appeared like “immense cowardice” coming from him, and that he “wished to try to assist those who had been negatively affected by [J.K. Rowling’s] feedback.”
Rupert additionally issued a press release in 2020, saying, “I firmly stand with the trans neighborhood. Trans girls are girls. Trans males are males. We must always all be entitled to stay with love and with out judgment.” Talking of his and J.Ok. Rowling’s relationship, he referred to her as his “auntie” whose views he does not essentially agree with, however who continues to be his auntie. “It’s a tough one,” he stated of their dynamic.
As for Emma, in 2020 she tweeted, “I need my trans followers to know that I and so many different folks world wide see you, respect you and love you for who you’re,” she shared, following the tweet up by noting two trans-inclusive charities she donates to.
When it comes to her and J.Ok. Rowling’s relationship, earlier this yr, Emma clarified that their bond whereas filming the collection makes her nonetheless capable of “treasure Jo,” however relating to their opposing beliefs, she simply does not “know what else to do apart from maintain these two seemingly incompatible issues collectively on the identical time and simply hope possibly they may someday resolve or co-join themselves, and possibly settle for that they by no means will, however that they will each nonetheless be true.”
