The Most Embarrassing Celebrity Confessions

Zac Efron might have stolen your "High School Musical"-loving hearts, but he appeared to be more like the worst nightmare of every high school girl's father when a condom fell out of his pocket on a red carpet in 2012. To be fair, Efron's reaction skills were on point. He quickly retrieved the rubber and hid it behind a wry smile and a closed fist. What makes this more embarrassing, however, is that the prophylactic popped out at a movie premiere for "The Lorax" — a kids' flick.

After the initial shock died down, Efron appeared on the "Today" show, and when prompted to discuss the snafu, he said, "I never really had a pocket-checking policy when I was going on the red carpet before, but now we've fully instated one." When interviewer Matt Lauer responded with, "[It's] better to be safe than sorry, right?" Efron quipped, "That's a great message to add to the many messages in the film."

Robert Pattinson has spent the majority of his career attempting to distance himself from the sparkly emo vampire role that made him a household name. Unlike his clean-cut-and-dead character Edward in "Twilight," the very much alive Pattinson seemingly wanted everyone who had a poster of him on their wall to know that he was anything but clean. 

In a 2009 interview with the UK's New! Magazine (via Us Weekly), the actor claimed he rarely changed his clothes — to the point where fans may have switched their allegiance to Team Jacob. "These jeans are a few days old," he told the mag. "But the top is probably fresh because it gets to the point where even I can't stand the air around me. I don't know, my personal hygiene — it's so disgusting!"

We assume Pattison can afford dry cleaning and a pretty decent washing machine these days, so hopefully, his clothes and personal hygiene habits are in a much better place. They certainly seem to be. Following years of sharing some surprising details about his lack of hygiene, he told The Wall Street Journal in 2014, "I was a brush-your-teeth-and-have-a-shower kind of guy. I can't tell if it's because of my association with Dior or because I'm older, but I've started moisturizing. It's been a quite profound change in my life."

In a game of "Snog, Marry, Kill" on BBC 1's "School Run" (via ET), Nick Jonas decided to marry Demi Lovato, snog (look it up) Kate Hudson, and off Miley Cyrus. Now, why would the famous boy bander theoretically kill off a woman he dated for two years? You guessed it — embarrassment. 

"The first person I kissed was Miley Cyrus and I kissed her outside of California Pizza Kitchen in Hollywood. Very romantic," Jonas divulged to the crowd. "I'd just had a pizza that had onions all over it. I'm sure that my breath smelled terrible."  

We can't blame the dude for trying to win a woman's heart with pizza at a casual dining chain, but we feel Jonas might be overthinking the power of onions on relationships a bit. "I don't know [if she'd remember]. I'd have to ask her," he conceded of the "7 Things" hitmaker. "But I'm sure she does. It was probably pretty potent."

We've probably all seen "Superbad" at this point. And it's great — who doesn't love coming-of-age comedies where friends go on a quest to lose their virginities, and then hijinks ensue? However, if you've tried to repress Christopher Mintz-Plasse's love scene as a traumatic memory, turns out it was worse for him while acting it out in real life. 

In a 2009 interview with The Guardian, Mintz-Plasse, who played McLovin, revealed that his mom was watching. "Because I was 17, for legal reasons my mother had to be on the set," he explained. "It was real awkward but it worked out [okay] because when I watched the movie with her the sex scene wasn't awkward because she'd been right there when it happened." Yikes. 

Well, the cringe is real with this celebrity confession, with Mintz-Plasse going on to say, "Afterwards we didn't talk about it; we still don't speak about that moment." Understandable!

If you've ever happened to catch any Kristen Bell interview, you'll quickly realize that she's a habitual oversharer (more on this below). That was the case once again when she appeared on "The Joel McHale Show with Joel McHale" in 2018.

"I did have anal worms two weeks ago, I swear to god. They're called pinworms," "The Good Place" star casually dropped on the unsuspecting audience. Some might feel that she probably should have ended it there, but honestly, who doesn't like hearing an uncomfortably detailed story about anal worms? Go big or go home — and true to form, Bell opted for the former. According to the actor, her road to an itchy butt started when she asked teachers at her daughters' preschool why all the carpeting had recently been removed. The answer? A pinworms breakout. Bell then immediately went home, hopped on Google, and discovered they were very contagious, adding, "Of course, my 3-year-old was [scratching] for like a week. And then you have to monitor it and you have to look in their poop and when you wipe their butt. Sure enough, I wiped ... saw a little white worm." 

Later that day, Bell caught the itch herself. Luckily, the anal worm invasion was treated and defeated by what the star referred to as "chalky nonsense from the drugstore." Let Bell's cautionary tale be a lesson to everyone: Avoid places with ripped up carpets and keep those fingernails clipped.

Singer and fashion designer Jessica Simpson shocked her fans when, during a 2010 interview with Ellen DeGeneres, she said she often skips the tooth-brushing part of oral care and goes directly for the mouthwash. "I don't brush them everyday," she said (via Us Weekly). "I'll use a shirt or something. I know it's gross, but I always have fresh breath." Simpson also defended her regimen, saying, "My teeth are so white and I don't like them to feel too slippery, but I do use Listerine and I do floss every day."

Meanwhile, Simpson's dentist later weighed in, telling People magazine, "I was kind of shocked. I assumed everybody brushed their teeth all the time. People pay us a lot of money for that slippery feeling. It's kind of the best part." He added, "It's great that she's flossing all the time, but you have to brush too. What goes on in your mouth really affects your whole body." By the way, the American Dental Association (ADA) recommends brushing twice daily and replacing one's toothbrush every three to four months or sooner, depending on the bristles' wear.

Fans at Katy Perry's iHeartRadio listening party for "Prism" in 2013 got a bit more information than they probably needed when the "Firework" singer was asked to describe the contents of her purse. Noting that her bag was "big and empty now," the pop star then confessed to possibly being a witch or maybe the world's most adorable potential serial killer. We kid, of course, but we'll leave you to be the judge on this one.

"One of the first times I went to the Grammys, I got to share a dressing room with Miley Cyrus and Taylor Swift," Perry explained (via Yahoo! News). "And I asked them for a lock of their hair from each one of them, which is totally creepy, but awesome." According to Perry, "I put little bows on them individually and put them in my purse. And that was my little secret and I'm a freak!"

The subsequent on-and-off feud between Perry and Swift has, of course, been so well-documented that a future civilization might just base an entire religion around it — but considering these two officially commemorated making amends in Swift's "You Need to Calm Down" music video in 2019, we're guessing Perry's kept Swift's lock of hair intact.

You might know Lucy Hale as Aria Montgomery from the teen mystery drama "Pretty Little Liars," but in an interview with People, she apparently told the whole truth about her driving skills. 

"I was having dinner with my boyfriend at the time's family. He was telling them how bad of a driver I was. I was sticking up for myself, saying I was a great driver. And then I backed up into his aunt's new car. I was humiliated. It was terrible," she said. The damage? A minor dent on Hale's car, thankfully none to that of said boyfriend's aunt, and some hurt pride on the actor-singer's part. "My boyfriend at the time was like, 'See? I told you,'" she added. Ouch.

This unfortunate anecdote wasn't the first time Hale took the self-deprecating route when describing her prowess, or lack thereof, behind the wheel. Back in 2014, she called herself "one of the worst drivers" with a laugh in an interview with Fox News, and even left a warning for trash cans and mailboxes everywhere: "I don't hit moving objects, I hit stationary objects. And I have a talent for getting parking tickets."

Who doesn't love Hugh Jackman? "X-Men" villains? The man is a global treasure. Unfortunately, he is, believe it or not, an actual human in real life ... capable of making human mistakes. 

In an appearance on "Rachael Ray," everyone's favorite movie mutant reminisced about the time he wet his pants during a 1996 Australian production of "Beauty and the Beast." According to Jackman, who was playing Gaston, he had been suffering from painful headaches for months and was advised to drink more water. On this particular day, however, he went a tad overboard on the hydration. 

"Literally, I'm picking up Belle and as I pick her up, I stopped singing," Jackman told Ray (via ABC News), "and right in that moment I realized the muscles you need to release in order to sing are the ones you do not want to release if you need to go." We've all been there, Hugh. We still love you. Please come back and play Wolverine again — he probably doesn't require that much water. 

Justin Bieber kicked off his 2012 "Believe Tour" in Glendale, Arizona by giving a stadium full of screaming girls and their parents something they weren't expecting: vomit. Twice. 

According to The Hollywood Reporter's account, "Bieber suddenly turned around and doubled over while his dancers continued to dance and his backing track continued to play." While the Biebs ran backstage to handle his stomach issues, "Some unfortunate person cleaned up the mess." We feel there should be a support group for this kind of thing (we're looking at you, Chris Brown's pants guy). After throwing up once again shortly after, Bieber was luckily able to return to the stage and into the welcoming arms of his Beliebers. "It's hard for me, you know, not feeling great and throwing up in front of a bunch of people," he told the crowd, who naturally answered in the affirmative when the pop star asked, "Will you love me even though I'm throwing up on stage?" 

After the concert, Bieber addressed the headline-making incident on Twitter by quoting "Anchorman": "And .... Milk was a bad choice! Lol."

For Charlie Puth, music entails more than just alternating pitches and frequencies — it's also a sex language, and one he does not hold back on using. During a May 2022 interview, the "One Call Away" singer opened up about his first time masturbating and his interesting choice of song for the moment. "The first song I ever jerked off to was f***ing 'This Love' by Maroon 5," he told Bustle. "Now I'm good friends with Adam Levine. [I told him] and he was like, 'That's really weird.'"

This was, however, not the only intimate tidbit of information Puth has shared with the public. In the same interview, Puth delved into details about when he lost his virginity at the age of 21, revealing that it was with a fan who had requested an autograph on her chest. "I never saw her again," he added. "She was lovely, but it makes me sad sometimes because I wish the older version of me was like, 'Hey, you might want to just make this like a little more memorable.'"

Of course, if you follow Puth on TikTok and Twitter, you might already know of his affinity to write or talk about sex. So much so that, in August 2021, social media personality Sarah Schauer tweeted, "If someone doesn't f*** him soon I fear the worst." And if you thought the singer would reject this reputation on the internet, the answer is no. "I'm really horny. I think to be a creative, you have to be a little bit," he told Bustle.

If you thought nothing was wilder than getting a semen therapy prescription from a doctor, you might want to hold that thought. Shawn Mendes is here — and he apparently has an embarrassing sleeping habit. During an August 2021 appearance on "The Late Late Show with James Corden," singer Camila Cabello exposed how Mendes has the ability to fall asleep easily, mostly after about five minutes of lying down, and that when he gets deep into the sleep, the "Treat You Better" singer has a habit of sleep-talking. Disclaimer: his words are anything but ordinary.

"I would be reading or something, and he would just start sleep-talking, and it would scare the s*** out of me, because he'd just be like, 'Baby! That! Feels! So! Good!' and then he'd go back to sleep. That is the first thing he ever said when he slept-talked, by the way," Cabello revealed. Confused as to what was going on, the "Havana" singer simply muttered "Thank you?" in response to Mendes' inadvertent dirty talk. 

Sadly, that November, and only a few months after Cabello's headline-making confession, the couple broke up. "We started our relationship as best friends and will continue to be best friends," they wrote in part in a joint statement on their Instagram Stories (via Page Six). Still, relationship or not, Cabello's confession about Mendes' dirty sleep-talking isn't one to forget.

If personal hygiene is of utmost importance to you, you might want to stay away from actors Kristen Bell and her husband, Dax Shepard, who apparently have an unusual approach to their kids' hygiene. The couple share two daughters, both of whom they don't bathe very often — at least, not until they smell. "I'm a big fan of waiting for the stink," Bell said during a joint appearance on "The View" in August 2021. "Once you catch a whiff, that's biology's way of letting you know you need to clean it up."

In another interview with "Daily Blast Live," Shepard explained that they had a more consistent bathing routine for their children as babies, but slowed this down as the girls got older. Let this come as no surprise, though, as the "Hit and Run" star doesn't treat himself any differently than his daughters. "I'll just say, for America, Kristen has better hygiene than me," Shepard admitted, explaining, "Kristen wears makeup more often than I do, she has to take it off. ... I'm not in that stuff that often, so I only have to [shower] when either a smell is present or I'm in that stuff."

It turns out these two aren't the only celebrity parents who don't bathe their children as often as some might think: Fellow actors Mila Kunis and Ashton Kutcher previously confessed on Shepard's "Armchair Expert" podcast that they only wash their two kids when dirt is visible on them.

In January 2022, Megan Fox announced her engagement to musician Machine Gun Kelly. "Just as in every lifetime before this one, and as in every lifetime that will follow it, I said yes," Fox captioned a heartwarming Instagram video of the proposal. But while a simple yes would have sufficed in sealing their love, Fox then revealed that they took things up a notch writing, "... and then we drank each other's blood."

The "Till Death" actor would later confirm in an interview with Glamour that she and Kelly did indeed exchange blood, though she also clarified some things. "So, I guess to drink each other's blood might mislead people or people are imagining us with goblets and we're like 'Game of Thrones,' drinking each other's blood," Fox said with a laugh. "It's just a few drops, but yes, we do consume each other's blood on occasion for ritual purposes only."

This, of course, is not the only surprising thing we've learned about Fox's relationship with Kelly. From foot fetishes and other TMI confessions about their sex life to that blood vial necklace Fox gifted to her man (okay, so maybe we all should have seen the whole blood-drinking thing coming), these two have long been open about the unconventional ways they express their love for one another.

Hooking up on a plane seems to be something cut out of a movie scene. But Cara Delevingne's experience was no movie. During a 2016 interview with her "Suicide Squad" co-star, Margot Robbie, Delevingne made the headline-making confession to Love magazine. "I've had sex in planes a lot," the actor candidly said (via The Sun). "But I've always been caught. It's super-hard not to get caught." 

As if randomly getting caught wasn't enough, Delevingne recounted of one of her in-air escapades, saying, "I had sex in the chair on the plane, and there was a guy watching." She added, "We ended up telling the air stewardess what was happening. Like, 'This guy keeps staring at us. Can you tell him to stop?'"

Delevingne is, of course, not the only celebrity to have had sex while flying, as the likes of Kris Jenner, Kim Kardashian, and Zoe Saldana have all admitted to being a part of the mile high club. Meanwhile, fellow model Chrissy Teigen once confessed a similar incident involving herself and husband John Legend to Cosmopolitan, explaining, "We were on our way to Thailand to see my parents, flying commercial first-class. We were under a blanket. We weren't even in one of those pod things. I feel like we should get a trophy for that."