The Most Jaw-Dropping Celebrity Falls

Celebrities are always doing something entertaining. Sure, their work is worth watching, but so are their personal lives. Sometimes, it's sparring on social media or fighting each other in public. Other times, it's walking across a grate while wearing stilettos. (Okay, that last one might just be Rihanna, but it's impressive, nevertheless.) Sometimes, though, it's quite literally falling. It's not surprising — celebrities are just like us, right? Although that statement isn't exactly true, stars falling, tripping, and tumbling certainly make a case for it.

To make us feel better about our clumsiness, we rounded up a list of the most jaw-dropping celebrity falls. And before we're accused of schadenfreude, let us just say that we don't find joy in celebrities falling — we simply amassed a list of something that continues to occur. And if it makes us feel a tad better about ourselves in the process, well, that's just an added bonus. Without further ado, let's get into these jaw-dropping falls, shall we?

Jennifer Lawrence is clumsy — just ask, she'll tell you. While on "The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon," the actor discussed her propensity for falling. "I fell in every single city on the press tour," she quipped to host Fallon, who started the conversation by saying, "Between both of us, we've gotten more press over tripping and falling than anyone."

We presume most of Lawrence's falls go unnoticed — there aren't cameras following her every move — but some of her most epic tumbles have been broadcasted for the world to see, like when she tripped while climbing the stairs on her way to accept her first Oscar award. Lawrence had been nominated for her work in "Silver Linings Playbook," and when she finally made it to the top of the steps, she received a standing ovation. Though the audience's reaction very well could have been for her superb performance in the movie, Lawrence said, "You guys are just standing up 'cause you feel bad that I fell, and that's really embarrassing, but thank you."

Though Lawrence keeps a good attitude about her clumsy moments when they happen, she doesn't like when it happens. "It's not fun ... at this point, it's so embarrassing," she added in her interview with Fallon.

Hiking is dangerous, and to that Shawn Mendes can attest. While on a hike with friends, Mendes tried to pose for a photo. Encouraged to flex his muscles, Mendes looked more clumsy and less strapping as he slipped and fell down the trail. Mendes didn't fall too far, though, and quickly recovered.

It seems his ego recovered quickly, too. "I guess that's what I get," Mendes captioned the evidence of the fall in an Instagram video. Proving he has a sense of humor about the slip, Mendes added John Mayer's "Gravity" over the video, the lyrics of which say, "Gravity is working against me."

This isn't the first time Mendes has fallen and posted about it on social media. Back in 2019, while on tour in Brazil, the singer was running through a crowd of fans, giving the ones closest to him high-fives. Mendes tripped and fell flat on his face, and a fan who recorded the moment uploaded it to Twitter. "How did the floor taste," the original tweet read. Mendes responded by reposting the video and adding, "LOL wow. Tasted bad." We're glad to see Mendes can stay so upbeat about his mishaps.

We all have a celebrity or two we'd like to meet, but we don't imagine many of us have a celebrity we'd like to fall on us. But if being accidentally clobbered by a famous person is your fantasy, you'll be jealous of a girl or two in the audience at the 2013 Billboard Music Awards. While performing his hit song "Adorn," singer Miguel jumped over a crowd of people onto another stage, but the stunt didn't go quite as rehearsed and he landed on a couple of his fans. One fan's back bent over the stage and her head was stuck under Miguel's leg. Miguel quickly moved his leg off the girl and continued performing as if the incident didn't happen.

Miguel spoke with Billboard about his performance afterward. "The crazy thing is, when you're performing and you're just kind of into it, you never know where it's gonna go and where you're gonna go with it, and how that might turn out. So this is one of the less favorable moments," he said.

Two years after the show, one girl in the crowd, who said she was physically hurt by the singer's stunt, sued both Miguel and the MGM Grand Hotel — the site of the awards show.

Lady Gaga is known for her outrageous performances, but she might have gone a little too far in 2019 while performing in Las Vegas. The singer invited a fan on stage during her set and jumped into his arms. After momentarily bouncing with him, the fan's knees buckled and he and Gaga fell off the stage into the crowd. Gaga landed on her back, and the fan landed on top of Gaga. "Everything's okay," Gaga said almost immediately after the fall. "The only thing that's not okay is we need some stairs for the damn stage so I can get back up," she added. Gaga and the fan both got back on stage and hugged each other after confirming the other was unharmed.

Ever a class act, Gaga invited the fan to sit next to her at the piano while she continued the concert. The singer noted she'd fallen off stage before, and while most fans probably don't recall all the times she's fallen, we can't forget the time she jumped. In one of the most epic Super Bowl Halftime Show performances of all time, Gaga jumped down to the stage after beginning with a patriotic medley. Thankfully she didn't fall during that performance.

The artist behind some of our favorite early and mid-aughts hits, Pink is a bona fide rockstar. She's proven just how badass she is over and over again, including the countless times she's harnessed up to perform aerial moves during her concerts. Unfortunately, one of those times resulted in an injury for the singer. While performing in Nuremberg, Germany, Pink was preparing to sing her song "So What" while backup dancers were clipping her into her harness. Pink can be seen throwing her hands in an "X," seemingly to signify that she wasn't properly secured in the harness and that whoever was operating the apparatus needed to wait a moment. The singer was then pulled across the stage while yelling "No" repeatedly before falling off the stage.

After hitting the ground, Pink said, "Oh f**k, that hurt like a motherf**ker." Per BBC, the singer was taken to the hospital after the incident, but she assured fans via Twitter that she was okay. "Nothing's broken, no fluid in the lungs, just seriously sore," she said. "Didn't get clipped in2 harness correctly, drug me off stage, fell in2 barricade. Getting xrays. I hope it at least looked cool," she added.

Jennifer Lawrence only has one Oscar, but she has two falls recorded at the awards show. While attending the 2014 ceremony, Lawrence took a tumble on the red carpet, just one year after falling during the actual broadcast. The actor tripped over a cone and grabbed onto the people around her to stop herself from falling, but she still hit the ground.

Lawrence is, obviously, no stranger to falling, and she had another incident on the red carpet ahead of a "Hunger Games" installment premiere. While in Madrid, Spain, Lawrence fell over her dress.

The actor took to "The Howard Stern Show" to discuss how all her falls have altered public perception of her. "Everything would have been fine if I didn't fall on that goddamn traffic cone," she said of her second Oscars trip. "It immediately looked like it was my shtick," she continued. Shtick or not, the public has certainly been entertained by JLaw's falls.