Britney Spears, Justin Bieber, Amanda Bynes, Michael Jackson, Whitney Houston, Chandler from friends, Corey Feldman, McCauly Culkin, Brittany Murphy, Robin Williams, and a whole plethora of people- Have serious mental and addiction problems.
They all look glamorous on screen, but how many of them are STILL broken on the inside? (Or made broken by Hollywood)?
How many of our celebrities are happy and living great lives?
I only mention celebrities because these are people everyone knows.
Or maybe we are subject to the availability bias? Maybe it seems like most people in Hollywood are living bad lives bc They never show the good stories. Nobody focuses on the boring, sane, life of someone.
They Only show the breakdowns and tears and drama and all of that.
Still, I wonder what percent of people who have “made it” are living good lives versus crappy lives. And by crappy I mean unhappy/depressed, even if they are super rich and famous and adored by most fans.
Also, I think celebrities have to deal with so much shit that normal people don’t have to, the fan cause it’s vultures to flock around them. Also they have a lack of privacy. Who wouldn’t be driven crazy by a lack of privacy? And tons of vultures flocking to you day in and day out?
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Recent study ranked the entertainment industry as the #3 most depressed career group. Something like 20% of people are depressed. That’s in general. I bet fame & fortune accelerates and amplifies the effect.
I also think it’s going to keep getting worse as competition floods the market. Probably 50 years ago it wasn’t so bad because it was more of a niche career, but nowadays every kid with a youtube channel is trying to be a star so the competition is insane. The pressure on celebrities to stay “trending” must be unbearable.
Privacy? Nope. Paparazzi hiding in the pipes. The other day I saw the britney umbrella flipout for the first time. Hell yea I would’ve handed her a dozen umbrellas. Assholes literally chased her to a gas station just because they saw she was upset about something. Imagine when you’re at your lowest and some assholes chase you to a gas station and start videotaping for the whole world to see.
Yea I feel like celebrities get an extra smelly dose of reality cake.
I bet you it’s all the “nice” celebrities suffering, like Britney. But all the evil ones, like Oprah or Ellen
or JLo, are living it up, having amazing happy lives.
The good ones often take their lives, the ones that can’t stand the corruption in Hollywood. Or those who don’t want to play by their rules.
In the case of Brittany, that was all orchestrated in regards to the paparazzi. There were people (her shitty family) who wanted to control Britney and take her money. She’s been controlled for her entire life. When she didn’t want to play ball anymore, and wanted some independence and freedom to do what she wanted, that’s when they went in for the kill.
And the best way to do that was to make her have public meltdowns, captured on camera for the world to see. and then bribe judges to hand over conservatorship. It was all orchestrated. Britney had no chance. No I did most people they had conservatorship pushed onto them.
This has been done too many people before Britney and after.
The Brittany thing Exposed the corrupt practice of conservatorship. No just among the rich and famous but also among the avg person, usually elderly or disabled.
It is a disgusting practice that needs to be changed. But it is a lucrative business for all the corrupt assholes so therefore nothing is going to change. If something was going to change things would’ve changed when the Britney scandal expose conservatorships. But nothing has changed. And it is so easy for Unscrupulous people to take away someone’s life, by slapping on the conservatorship.
This has been going on for many many decades to the disabled and elderly people. This is a way for unscrupulous people to get Vulnerable peoples money.
It is well known this happens, and the Brittany case exposed all of it. but of course nothing is done about it. Why? Because they are all in on it. So many people profit off of conservatorships, including corrupt judges and lawyers.
Yup just like the population at large, there are good ones and sucky ones. The sucky ones always prevail because they don’t care about hurting others. Hence no matter what mental health problems they complain about (probably just for attention, but I won’t assume), they always seem to ‘get over it’ and write a book and continue walking the red carpet like royalty.
I haven’t read about the whole Britney thing because it’s just too disgusting to read. I assumed it’s exactly what you said. Some sleazy family member or ‘loved one’ sees a weakness and rushes in for the kill, greases the palms of a few corrupt judges, and suddenly in our lovely land of the free, all your hard work gets ripped away just because you’re depressed.
We haven’t progressed a step since the 1600s when all someone had to do was say “she’s a witch” and suddenly the law steps in, hangs them and gives their estate to the highest bribe. It’s an American tradition. YEEHAW THOU!
There were many husbands who put their wives in insane asylums when the husbands wanted to get rid of the wives to have an affair, or instead of divorcing.
Literally, all the husband had to say was “she’s crazy” and a woman was put into an insane asylum for the rest of their lives.
Life has never been fair. Life has never been just. Unscrupulous people will always always always win. That is a sad reality of life. That is something I want no part of. However, what is one to do? Other than wallow in depression? Or suicide? The reason I don’t want to it’s because that would mean the world has one. That would mean assholes would have won. And I’d hate to let them win. But I have very little left in me.
(Not-so-)fun fact: the medical term “hysteria” meaning “a psychoneurosis marked by emotional excitability” comes from the greek word “hystera” which means womb/woman.
An entire fucking disease was invented so men could lock up their wives.
I am bery aware of the origins of the term “hysteria.” And this is why to this DAY Why women are still not taken seriously by doctors.
When a man says he feels chest pain, he gets sent to get echocardiogram and all that jazz to get it checked out.
When a woman complains about chest pain, she gets brushed off, get told to see a psychiatrist or therapist, or told to take up yoga or go for a walk. She does not get sent for referrals to necessary tests or specialists. Trust me I have been there. It took 7 years for me to finally have an echocardiogram.
It happens to ALL The woman in my chronic illness groups. Women are just not taken seriously, even white women. Men seriously do not know how hard it is to be a woman.
And yet you have literally HALF of all men who seriously think it’s “so easy” and “so much better” being a woman simply bc “women don’t pay on dates.”
Which is fucking bullshit bc most women nowadays also pay. And even if men did pay (and it’s usually only during first dates or very beginning of dating) I’d rather get paid equally as males as opposed to 75% of a man salary for the same job. But Oh! We get “free dinners!” Fuck all these AH idiot males that think it’s SO easy to be a woman and that we just get “free rides.” That shit ended when women entered the workplace. Now women are SO “lucky” to have to work a full-time job AND Take care of the kids AND clean the house. Bc men sure AF don’t do that shit.
I feel for the celebrities that were taken advantage of- Britney, MJ, Even Justin Bieber. I never listened to his music or followed him because he’s not in my generation, and unlike most ppl, I don’t really care about popular artists.
but he was a good kid once. And all these vultures got to him and he’s all messed up now. There are interviews that alluded to him being SAed. Even in the interviews, the person doing the interviews Kept asking him very inappropriate questions, back when he was very young. Like all that is out now in light of the Epstein files. But it shouldn’t have taken this long for all that to be exposed. Especially since these interviews were already public.
Just like so many in Hollywood.
Hell, I never listen to Britney’s music either before her meltdown. Once the first public meltdown happened (This was years before her conservatorship was revealed) I listened to her albums. There was one album that wasn’t her usual bubbly pop stuff- it had songs about being broken and sad and that album i actually liked. OFC that was the least popular album bc dumb Americans like the silly bubble gum pop music.
How can someone like Britney escape? When so many people are paid to keep her in “chains?”
Like I literally never listen to her music back when she was super popular and everyone loved her music. And actually, I watched other documentaries of other celebrities (lesser well known ppl) before I watched or knew about her conservatorship.
Too many names to list, and I can’t remember at the top of my head, but I’ve seen so many documentaries on so many of the celebrities.
Some of these celebrities sounded like decent ppl.
And it pisses seeing those good/decent people being targeted and screwed.
It’s quite sad and so easy for unscrupulous people to completely destroy someone’s life. It is actually very easy for someone to do. And I just in relations to conservatorship – there are many ways to ruin peoples lives.
Anyhow, the point is, life is shitty. If you are poor well for obvious reasons. You can’t afford a jack shit. And if you are rich, well all these vultures fuck to you and try to take your money and Completely ruined peoples lives. So the only ones left are the unscrupulous ones or the AHs. The good ones either commit suicide or wind up doing drugs or alcohol.
This world was not meant for nice, good or honest ppl. The ones they succeed are almost always the assholes.
Just like that baby chick that pushed its siblings out of the nest and killed them. Nature as well as the human system is designed to benefit and propagate evil. Evil survives. The good die, and get taken advantage of.
I feel like the good people are only allowed to live so that we can support all the evil people. Because a world full of evil people cannot exist, because they would all kill each other.