Most Harsh Celebrity Break-ups

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Matt Damon and Minnie Driver

The couple dated for over a year, until Matt Damon said during an interview on Oprah that he is single, which shocked the whole world, as well as Minnie. Minnie Driver shared later for the Los Angeles Times, “It’s unfortunate that Matt went on Oprah. It seemed like a good forum for him to announce to the world that we were no longer together, which I found fantastically inappropriate.”

 

Katty Perry and Russell Brand

They were married for 14 months, and the news about their divorce left everyone speechless. In 2013, a year later after the divorce, Katty Perry shared the Vogue how Russell ended things between them. “He’s a very smart man, and I was in love with him when I married him. Let’s just say I haven’t heard from him since he texted me saying he was divorcing me December 31, 2011.”

 

Sylvester Stallone and Jennifer Flavin

They dated for five years until Stallone broke up with her in 1994 through a six-page handwritten letter, which he sent through FedEx. Flavin was left heartbroken, but a couple of years later, Stallone and Flavin got back together and eventually married in 1997. They are still a couple.

 

Richie Sambora and Heather Locklear

Heather Locklear’s publicist said in 2006 that the actress filed for divorce. This shocked Richie who had no clue, and he even said “It’s completely untrue,” to ABC News when they asked him about the divorce.

 

Porsha Williams and Kordell Stewart

The Real Housewives of Atlanta star Porsha Williams shared to ABC News, “I literally was lying in bed and I looked at Twitter and it was going crazy. I saw on Twitter that my husband has filed for divorce.”

When she asked NFL star, Kordell Stewart, she said that he ‘’blew her off.’’ “It wasn’t a confrontation,” she said. “It was me just simply asking my husband, ‘Had you filed?’ which seemed crazy coming out of my mouth. He said he thought about it and we’ll talk about it later and he left for work. I had to call my attorney to find out.”

 

Daniel Day-Lewis and Isabelle Adjani

Adjani shared with The Mail On Sunday in 1996, “I told him I was pregnant … We never saw each other again. He never told me it was over.”

Adjani said that Daniel requested to be in the delivery room, but he never showed up. He also supposedly told her through FedEx that he got married to his then-girlfriend, Deya Pichardo.

When Adjani called them, “Deya answered the phone. I asked if I could speak to Daniel as I had just received his note about the wedding and I wanted to congratulate them both. Then I realized it was a terrible shock to her and that she was not his betrothed … She didn’t have a clue.”

 

Charlize Theron and Sean Penn

Charlize ended her engagement with Sean Penn by simply avoiding his calls and text for a while. An insider shared with US Weekly “Charlize wasn’t responding to his calls and texts. She just cut it off.”

 

Phil Collins and Jill Tavelman

Phil Collins actually used a fax machine, which was his way of communication back in the 90’s to end things between him and his wife, with whom he was married for 10 years.  “[Daughter Lily] hasn’t seen her father for two months. She keeps weeping, ‘I want my daddy,'” Tavelman shared the People magazine. “Phil sends her faxes, but I know she’d rather hear his voice. Phil doesn’t phone because he has to save his voice for the next day.”

 

Taylor Swift and Joe Jonas

During an interview with Ellen Degeneres, Taylor said, “I’m not even going to remember the boy who broke up with me over the phone in 25 seconds when I was 18…I looked at the call log — it was like 27 seconds. That’s got to be a record.”

 

Taylor Swift and Calvin Harris

They dated for over a year, and they broke up in June 2016. The drama came after their break up.

The two collaborated on Calvin’s song. After the break-up, Taylor started dating the actor, Tom Hiddleston, and her spokesperson revealed that she co-wrote Calvin’s song “This is What You Came For.” Calvin didn’t deny it, but he did tweet this: “I figure if you’re happy in your new relationship you should focus on that instead of trying to tear your ex bf down for something to do… Hurtful to me at this point that her and her team would go so far out of their way to try and make ME look bad at this stage… I know you’re off tour and you need someone new to try and bury like Katy ETC but I’m not that guy, sorry. I won’t allow it.”

 

Kim Kardashian and Kris Humphries

After dating for only three months, the couple got married in August 2011. The marriage ended 72 days later. Allegedly, Kris Humphries found out about the divorce in the press, and he declined a $7 million divorce settlement because he wanted Kim “to admit to fraud, to admit the whole thing was staged for publicity, to make a public apology to him because he really wanted a marriage.”

 

Adam Levine and Nina Adgal

While he was with Nina Adgal, he got back together with his ex-girlfriend, Behati Prinsloo, and even got engaged. He informed Nina about it through a text message.

 

Big Sean and Naya Rivera

“We’d been fighting for five straight days while he was traveling, and then on the one day that he was back in LA, he said he didn’t want to see me,” Rivera revealed in her book Sorry Not Sorry: Dreams, Mistakes, and Growing Up. “Well, a**hole, I’ve got a key to your house. I walk in, go downstairs, and guess what little girl is sitting cross-legged on the couch listening to music? It rhymes with “Smariana Schmande.”‘ She continued, “I learned that I was no longer getting married from the internet, and at the same time as the rest of the world. Not only were we no longer getting married, but apparently, we weren’t even together anymore.”

 

Johnny Depp and Amber Heard

After less than two years of marriage, Amber filed for divorce in May 2016, and two weeks later, she filed a domestic violence restraining order against Johnny. The divorce was finalized after 8 months, and in the agreement, Amber was not allowed to speak about the domestic violence she previously filed against the actor.

 

Chris Brown and Tran

In February 2017, Tran filed a restraining order against the singer, and Tran said that Chris was threatening her by saying “if he can’t have her, no one can.”

 

Linda and Hulk Hogan

After his supposed affair with Christiane Plante, the couple split in 2007.  Linda later, after he won $115 million judgment against Gawker, published a sex tape of Hulk and his friend’s wife.

 

Audrina Patridge and Corey Bohan

After being married for ten months, Audrina filed for divorce in 2017 and got a restraining order against Corey. “She got the restraining order because she was afraid how he would retaliate when she filed for divorce. Corey has said to Audrina multiple times, ‘If you leave me, I’ll come after you.’ So she had to get some additional protection,” shared an insider.

 

Future and Ciara

They broke up their engagement in 2014, just three months after their son was born. The bitter custody battle followed, as well as a lawsuit against Future for defamation of character and slander.

 

MEL b AND Stephen Belafonte

After almost being together for 10 years, the couple divorced in March 2017. Mel said Belafonte sexually exploited her and forced her to record sex tapes and engage in threesomes against her will, left their nanny, Lorraine Gilles pregnant, and then forced the nanny to get an abortion using Mel’s money. She also obtained a restraining order against him for physical abuse. The nanny later revealed that Mel was also the one harassing her and that the claims that Mel did it against her will were false.

 

Christina and Tarek El Moussa

They split because of fertility struggles and Tarek’s battle with thyroid and testicular cancer during the marriage. In 2016, 11 deputies and a helicopter arrived at the couple’s home after receiving a call about a “possibly suicidal male with a gun.”

 

Jennifer Aniston and Brad Pitt

Everybody knows this story: Brad Pitt divorced Jennifer when he fell in love with Angelina. Pitt shared with Parade in 2011 that he felt “pathetic” and like he “wasn’t living an interesting life… ‘’I think that my marriage had something to do with it. Trying to pretend the marriage was something that it wasn’t.”

 

Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt

 

In September 2016 Angelina filed for divorce after two years of marriage, and over ten years as a couple. Angelina said that “the health of the family” was at risk after a supposed fight between Pitt and 15-year-old son Maddox during a flight occurred.

 

Geena Davis and Reza Jarrahy

According to TMZ, they were never actually legally married, even though Geena filed for divorce in 2018 after 17 years together.

 

John Cena and Nikki Bella

Nikki Bella and John Cena ended their engagement in April 2018.”It’s clear that they had issues over what they wanted from a marriage and from family. She wants kids. But despite their differences and the fights they had, people still thought they would go through with the wedding. Everyone is surprised that it ended,” said a source to People.

 

Iggy Azalea and Nick Young

Iggy discovered Nick’s cheating ways, and that he even got his ex-girlfriend pregnant while still dating Azalea. Azalea shared on June 30, 2016, that she left Young after she caught him cheating on her with other women in their home on security camera footage.

 

Iggy Azalea and DeAndre Hopkins

A day later after confirming that she is in a relationship with DeAndre, she left a series of tweets (which were later deleted):  “I have come to the conclusion I am going to be alone forever. I am completely fine with that. I have a routine now. I watch movies alone in the shower n s**t … it’s nice.”

 

Nick Loen and Sofia Vergara

Before marrying Joe Manganiello, Vergara dated Nick Loeb. They even froze two embryos, and after their split, Loeb sued the actress in order to receive full custody of the embryos, as a way of punishment.

 

Rob Kardashian and Blac Chyna

Rob accused Chyna of cheating on his with three different men, and of being a habitual drug user and a golddigger. He went further as stating that he had to pay for a series of pricey plastic surgical procedures for Chyna after daughter Dream was born. On the other hand, Chyna supposed that Rob cheated on her in a series of since-deleted Snapchats and Us Weekly stated that she also accused him of domestic violence.

 

Rob Kardashian and Rita Ora

Before cheating accusation on Chyna, Rob accused Rita of cheating. “I never thought it was actually a relationship, in all honesty. I never mentally defined it as ‘boyfriend, girlfriend.’ When I split up with him, I said, ‘It’s because I’m never there, I don’t know how to do it.’ That’s all I said, then … the rest happened,’’ said Rita to The Sunday Telegraph.

 

Rita Ora and Calvin Harris

After Rob Kardashian, came Calvin Harris. After dating for around a year, Rita learned from Calvin’s tweets that their relationship is over in 2014.

 

Charles Saatchi and Nigella Lawson

After the pictures of Saatchi grabbing her by the throat, covering her mouth and seemingly hitting her face at an outdoor eatery surfaced in June 2013, Nigella decided to leave him.

 

Alex Rodriguez and Madonna

Alex was married to Cynthia Scurtis, and Madonna was married to Guy Ritchie when the two decided to have an affair. Even though Maddona denied the affair and the divorce plans, in 2008 the couple announced that their marriage is over, and her affair with Alex was one of the reasons for it.

 

Mariah Carey and James Packer

After a short engagement to James Packer, they ended it in 2016, after Mariah found out about the split from the press. “Mariah was totally blindsided by James. She read the news in Woman’s Day Australia that said he dumped her,” a source said.

 

Travis ‘’Travie’’ McCoy and Katy Perry

They were together for two years, but his drug addiction threatened their relationship. “As things started taking off for her the more I started to doubt my role in her life,” Travis said. “There were times I felt like a stepping ladder [for Perry].” He said she dumped him through an email. “It started off with ‘I love you so much I hate to do this,'” McCoy revealed. “Someone that you are ready to spend the rest of your life with sends you a f**king email just s**ting on your whole parade. It destroyed me.”

Source: Nicki Swift