Celebrities Who Treat Their Significant Others Like Trash

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Love isn't easy, but it's a whole lot harder when your significant other treats you like utter trash. Though Hollywood relationships are notoriously short-lived (blame the pressures of fame and red carpet-worthy egos,) some stars are undeniably terrible partners. From Gwyneth Paltrow, who's totally willing to admit she's hard to date, to Chris Brown, who was put on probation for his disturbing crimes against Rihanna, the spectrum of inconsiderate partners is notably vast. There are hundreds of ways to hurt the one you love — and even more if you've got money.

Not every celebrity bad boy (or girl) stays that way, though. Some regretful partners actually do change. Take Adam Levine, for example, who allegedly apologized to his exes before settling down, or Justin Bieber, whose plea for forgiveness infected airwaves in 2015. Then there's John Mayer, who still seems sort of bitter about that one Taylor Swift song (yeah, we're still waiting on the world to change, too.)

If the bad press is true, these celebrities are notoriously inconsiderate partners that you wouldn't want to date.

Johnny Depp is known for taking roles that depict complicated men, whether it's Captain Jack Sparrow, the boozing womanizer in Pirates of the Caribbean, or Paul Kemp, the boozing journalist in The Rum Diary. Sometimes, it appears that Depp isn't far off from the characters he portrays, at least when it comes to the drama surrounding his marriage to Amber Heard.

Depp and Heard met while filming The Rum Diary in 2009 and got engaged in 2014. Nine months after tying the knot, Heard asked for a temporary restraining order. TMZ published photos of her battered face — Heard claimed Depp smashed a phone into it, and that wasn't the only alleged incident. According to Heard's court filing, Depp was drunk and high when he showed up to her birthday party a couple of months later, violently grabbed the actress by her hair, and shoved her to the ground. Then there was a leaked video of Depp apparently throwing a wine bottle and glass at his wife.

Depp and his team ferociously denied Heard's allegations and claimed the video was heavily edited, reported the Daily Beast. In fact, a great deal of celebrity friends came to the actor's defense, including director David Yates, who cast Depp in Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them, and J.K. Rowling, the billionaire author behind the Harry Potter franchise. 

Heard filed for divorce in 2016, negotiated a $7 million settlement, which she donated to charity, and dropped the domestic violence case against her ex. Whatever really happened between these two, Depp doesn't come out smelling like roses.

Brad Pitt has certainly had some tumultuous relationships, and if you asked his ex-wives, he seems to be the common denominator.

In the early '00s, Pitt's divorce from Jennifer Aniston prompted the press to essentially frame the actress as the world's saddest lady for the rest of her career. What happened? Pitt supposedly had an emotional affair with co-star Angelina Jolie on the set of Mr. and Mrs. Smith. The new lovers claimed they took things to the next level only after his split with Aniston, though Pitt later said that the aforementioned movie is his favorite because it's where he "fell in love."

And get this: Before his divorce from Aniston was finalized, Pitt posed for an epic W magazine photo shoot with Jolie. The piece, titled "Domestic Bliss," cast the two "friends" as a sexy husband and wife with kids. In response to the spread, Aniston told Vanity Fair that Pitt has "a sensitivity chip that's missing." 

As for Brangelina, those two appeared to have it good for nearly a decade, but in 2016, they went through an explosive breakup and nasty custody battle. Pitt told GQ that substance abuse was at the root of the "self-inflicted" collapse of his relationship with Jolie. "I can't remember a day since I got out of college when I wasn't boozing or had a spliff, or something. Something," he said.

Though all that sounds awful trashy, Pitt has now reportedly embarked on a cleaner lifestyle.

Jalena is an inescapable force, even in 2018. The notorious relationship began in 2010 when Selena Gomez and Justin Bieber were innocent teens on an innocent date at IHOP. Oh, how things went so wrong in a few long years (it felt like a lifetime, did it not?)

Bieber was reportedly not the best boyfriend to sweet Selena. After all, he allegedly penned the track "Sorry" about the "Good For You" songstress. What does he have to be sorry for? A whole lot. Some highlights include that time he got into a fist fight with Orlando Bloom after allegedly hooking up with Bloom's ex-wife. This move seemed purely spiteful because Gomez was rumored to be canoodling with Bloom at the time. While Gomez was struggling with Lupus, Biebs was busy getting arrested for drunk driving and resisting arrest, egging his neighbor's home, and urinating in a custodian's mop bucket. Classy.

Though they've both dated other people, these two keep winding up together. In 2018, after reportedly reuniting for the umteenth time, Gomez's mom, Mandy Teefey, admitted she was "not happy" about the rumored return of the Biebs. 

Most of us remember Tom Cruise's relationships by their fairy-tale moments, like his famous movies alongside Nicole Kidman, or that time he jumped on Oprah's couch to exuberantly proclaim his love for Katie Holmes. What we don't remember are how those love stories played out. 

Amidst his growing dedication to Scientology in 2001, Cruise abruptly filed for divorce from Kidman after 10 years of marriage. Though Kidman admitted it was a "shock to [her] system," she did quip to David Letterman, "At least I can wear heels now." In no world is stealthily exiting a decade-long marriage like it's Mission: Impossible commendable behavior, but apparently Cruise did it anyway.

His relationship with Katie Holmes, which was long-rumored to be a contract marriage, may have been even more out of control. According to the Mirror, Holmes had to follow a long list of bizarre marriage rules, including requiring complete silence during labor. She allegedly wasn't allowed to utter a single peep while delivering Suri, and according to some reports, she feared for her safety after filing for divorce because of the church.

Of course, this is speculation at its finest, but it's certainly the kind of trash-talking that would make us wary of another Cruise wedding.

Kardashians generally take the moral high road when it comes to relationships — from Khloé Kardashian supporting her troubled ex-husband during his recovery to Kris Jenner supporting her ex-husband's transition into womanhood long after their divorce. Rob Kardashian is the exception to the rule.

Rob's relationship with Blac Chyna seems insanely tumultuous by tabloid accounts. From explosive fights documented throughout their reality TV show, Rob & Chyna, to abuse claims and restraining orders, to their apparent affinity for airing their grievances on social media. 

In 2017, after an exhausting year and a half of on-and-off dating, Chyna took to Snapchat to claim Rob beat her up. She also allegedly sent Rob a video of herself kissing another man in an effort to get him to leave her alone. Rob countered by posting several explicit photos of her online in what appeared to be some sort of deranged (and potentially criminal) hours-long social media rant.

This incident was the final straw for Chyna, who filed a restraining order. Her lawyer, Lisa Bloom, had this to say in a statement: "Mr. Kardashian, you are now on notice: revenge porn is illegal. Cyberbullying your ex is harassment ... Your attempts to shame and control [Chyna] are hereby rejected."

You don't have to watch Jersey Shore for long to realize Ronnie Ortiz-Magro doesn't have much tact when it comes to relationships. Audiences may recall the anonymous note some housemates typed to warn Sammi "Sweetheart" Giancola about her man's trifling ways. The infamous note said that when Giancola wasn't around, Ortiz-Magro "put his head between a cocktail waitress' breasts," made out with two girls, and "was grinding with multiple fat women." Believe it or not: those weren't his worst offences. 

As Life & Style reports, the star's relationship with Giancola was the most toxic on the show. How could it not be when it was clouded with a heavy stream of "Ron-Ron Juice" and fights that escalated to the point where he actually tried to throw Giancola and her entire bed onto the porch? If you think Giancola had it bad, you haven't yet tuned into Jersey Shore: Family Vacation.

Once Ortiz-Magro settled into the Miami house, it didn't take long for him to completely forget about his pregnant girlfriend Jen Harley. He invited a group of girls back to use the hot tub and did something suspicious behind a closed bathroom door. Later that year, Ortiz-Magro appeared to have a physical fight with Harley on Instagram live. 

We should mention that Harley was arrested for domestic battery after allegedly dragging her baby's daddy with a car, reported Us Weekly, so let's give thanks these two have since called it quits.

There's a reason Jesse James is a notorious Hollywood bad boy. The guy has a terrible track record with women. Beloved Oscar-winning actress Sandra Bullock famously divorced the Monster Garage star after he was caught cheating on her with the kind of gal who'd allegedly tattoo a swastika on her stomach. Not only did he mess with Miss Congeniality, but he also told the Daily Mail that cheating is a "part of life" and "a lot of good" came from the dissolution of his marriage. Nice, right?

Mistreating America's sweetheart wasn't an isolated incident. According to People, he announced his engagement to tattoo artist Kat Von D less than a year after divorcing Bullock, telling Howard Stern (via Us Weekly) that she was better in bed. Six months later, Von D called off the wedding, claiming in a lengthy Facebook post that James cheated on her with 19 different women. Shocking, right?

James has since moved on to wife No. 4, billionaire heiress Alexis DeJoria, who's been subject to the same cheating scandals as the women before her. In an interview with InTouch, hair stylist Myla Harris claimed she exchanged racy social media messages with James during his relationship with DeJoria. Is this really news?

When you catch your British hunk cheating with the nanny, it's time to get yourself a James Bond-worthy love triangle — at least if we're going by the Sienna Miller playbook. According to Reuters, when a tabloid journalist pulled a 007 and hacked into actor Daniel Craig's cellphone, the spy found an incriminating voicemail of Miller saying "I love you" to the James Bond star. She was still with the philandering Jude Law at the time.

During the News Corp. phone-hacking trial, Miller addressed the incident, reportedly describing Craig as her best friend. "Whether or not I was in a relationship with Daniel Craig at the time, it was a very brief encounter," she said. Law also owned up to grilling Craig about the alleged affair during the trial. 

The starlet has admitted to doing "immoral" things. "When I wasn't at work, I wasn't behaving the way you should," she told Esquire (via Us Weekly). Perhaps she was referring to the whatever-it-was with Craig, or maybe she was alluding to her affair with actor Balthazar Getty, who was married with four children when he ran off with Miller. "I probably seem like not a particularly nice person, not a girl's girl," she told GQ (via the Us Weekly).

Eminem may be a rap icon, but the star rose to fame off the back of controversial lyrics that depicted extreme violence against women. Some of his songs targeted his ex-wife Kim Mathers, the mother of his child. A track titled "Kim" depicts a disturbing fantasy about a murder-suicide. It was so vulgar it was left off the clean version of The Marshall Mathers LP.

In an interview with Dr. Keith Ablow (via People), Kim claimed Eminem's abuse led her to attempt suicide. Things reportedly came to a head when she saw her on-and-off husband beating up a blow-up doll that looked like her on stage. "When Marshall's first tour started is when his ego just went 'poof,'" she told Ablow. "Like he was God, that's what he thought. ... I was just told that I should be grateful that he still talks to me."

In 2017, Eminem released the track "Bad Husband," which apologizes to his ex-wife.

Kris Jenner is running an empire, but somehow, she still had time for the odd affair. There have long been rumors that the Kardashian matriarch bed O.J. Simpson — and that the football star is Khloe Kardashian's real father. Those rumors, which Simpson refuted, are so notorious that Khloe even cracked a joke about them in 2016.

The truth is that Kris did have an affair, but not with Simpson (at least as far as we know.) According to Us Weekly, the momager owned up to cheating on Simpson's attorney, Robert Kardashian, with soccer player-turned animator Todd Waterman in her 2011 memoir Kris Jenner ... And All Things Kardashian. In an episode of Kocktails with Khloe, the Revenge Body star admitted her mother's cheating "destroyed" her father and remains one of Kris' "biggest regrets." 

"I had the happiest life you could've dreamt about," Kris said during an interview on OBJECTified (via Us Weekly). "But when you're in something, sometimes people think the grass is always greener, and that was, like, what I think I went through at some point."

According to the Daily Mail, Waterman admitted Kris was still sleeping with him when she started dating Caitlyn Jenner, meaning she may have cheated on two different people with the same guy. 

Taylor Swift might be a total peach when she's in a relationship (Joe Alwyn certainly doesn't seem to mind), but her exes appear to be singing a totally different tune. The Reputation songstress has a notorious rep for doling out biting remarks and trashing her exes in her hit songs.

According to People, Swift made a big deal about Joe Jonas allegedly dumping her in a 27-second phone call, but the Jonas Brother claimed she was the one who hung up on him. Next up was Harry Styles, who reportedly received a passive aggressive shout-out during a VMA acceptance speech. Then there was John Mayer, who told Rolling Stone he was "really humiliated" by Swift's song "Dear John" and "didn't deserve it." (Honestly, what do you expect when a grown man dates a teenager?)

Calvin Harris may have seen Swift's ugliest side after their 2016 split. In some now-deleted tweets (via Stereogum), the DJ accused her of trying to tear him down "for something to do." Their relationship was also subject to cheating rumors, which Swift's Reputation lyrics didn't do a great job of dispelling. In addition, Cosmopolitan accused Swift of throwing actor Tom Hiddleston under the bus with "Getaway Car."

Moral of the story is: if you don't want a Taylor Swift breakup song written about you, marry her.