Celebrity Feuds You Probably Forgot About

In the early 2000s — at the height of low rise jeans and tabloid drama — Hilary Duff and Lindsay Lohan engaged in a petty love triangle over Aaron Carter. It all started in 2003. After two years of dating, Carter suddenly decided he was "bored" with Duff and started cheating with Lohan. Eventually, he broke things off with Lohan long enough to focus on Duff's "Lizzie McGuire Movie" premiere, but the pair called it quits for good when he cheated on her again, this time with a different girl.

Fueled by Carter's betrayal, the teens began showing up to each others' movie premieres with the sole intention of stealing the spotlight. Duff went to the "Freaky Friday" release and Lohan retaliated by dazzling at the "Cheaper By The Dozen" premiere. Things only escalated from there. While Duff was working on "A Cinderella Story," Lohan called Duff's co-star, Chad Michael Murray, to talk trash and spread rumors. That same year, Lohan made fun of Duff in a "Saturday Night Live" skit. Duff was unimpressed, telling Access Hollywood: "I'm not here to talk bad about her like she talks bad about me all the time." Even Duff's then-boyfriend, Joel Madden, got involved. The Good Charlotte singer infamously refused to give Lohan's little brother an autograph until his sister publicly apologized.

In 2007, it seemed like things finally started to cool down. "We are both adults, and whatever happened, happened when we were young," Duff told People. "It's over."

The Chicks singer Natalie Maines made a comment about George W. Bush that blackballed the band for the next 14 years. On March 10, 2003, a day vividly remembered by country fans nationwide, Maines told a London crowd that she was "ashamed the president of the United States is from Texas" in reference to Bush. The comment was made shortly after the U.S. invasion of Iraq. Despite the cheering approval of the crowd, the comment would cause some major backlash and before long, radio stations all over the nation were banning all Chicks records, even "renting steamrollers and hosting parties" to destroy any merchandise they could get their hands on. Fellow country music star Toby Keith famously joined the chaos by performing in front of a large photo of Maines beside Saddam Hussein.

Maines was shocked at the reaction to her words, especially given that the full quote was actually: "Just so you know, we're on the good side with y'all. We do not want this war, this violence. And we're ashamed the president of the United States is from Texas." The former president responded simply, stating: "The Dixie Chicks are free to speak their mind. They can say what they want to say."

In 2020, after a 15-year hiatus, the Chicks released "Gaslighter." That same year, they announced they were changing their band name to the Chicks. They had previously been known as The Dixie Chicks.

R&B legend Mariah Carey and rap icon Nicki Minaj famously feuded during their time as judges on "American Idol." The rivalry came as a surprise, because the women had recently collaborated on "Up Out My Face," with the music video going No. 1 on YouTube in just one day. When Minaj was first approached for the collaboration, she was very surprised. Fresh on the scene with no album out, she couldn't believe the R&B icon wanted her on "Memoirs of an Imperfect Angel." "She's an icon, I've loved her since I was little, like 'Vision of Love,' 'Someday.' I was one of those little girls in the mirror singing her songs with my mother," Minaj gushed. Two years later, the women would work together again on the "American Idol" set.

Before long, rumors spread that Minaj and Carey were fighting behind the scenes. Both artists had a reputation for being divas, and public speculation helped escalate the animosity. Long after they left the show, Minaj told Ellen Degeneres: "I heard them saying 'Mariah doesn't want you on the panel' but I was like, 'No. I am friends with Mariah.' [...] And so I went there and I started to feel a bit of the shade. And I just kind of overcompensated by being crazier." Carey later called the experience one of the "worst" she's ever had.

While it seems like the dust has settled on their feud, the icons are still not exactly friends.

Despite being friendly, Katy Perry and Taylor Swift fell out over drama with their backup dancers. It began when three of Perry's "California Dreams" tour dancers were offered spots on Swift's "Red" tour. Before Swift's tour ended, the same dancers left to join Perry on her "Prismatic" tour, which Swift took as a direct attack. "[The fight] had to do with business," she told Rolling Stone. "[A female pop star] basically tried to sabotage an entire arena tour. She tried to hire a bunch of people out from under me." Shorty after, Perry cryptically tweeted: "Watch out for the Regina George in sheep's clothing..." and many interpreted this as shade toward Swift (which Perry later confirmed to be true).

The incident prompted Swift to write "Bad Blood," and the song was confirmed to be about Perry when one of Swift's backup dancers joined her in a shark costume — directly referencing Perry's viral Super Bowl performance.

The two women beefed for years when, finally, in a 2017 Carpool Karaoke video, Perry told James Corden: "I tried to talk to [Swift] about it, and she wouldn't speak to me. [...] It was a full shutdown, and then she writes a song about me. And I'm like 'Okay, cool, cool. That's how you wanna do it? Karma.'" Perry later claimed that Swift tried to "assassinate her character." It was only after she sent Swift a literal olive branch in 2018 that the two mended their relationship.

When Kylie Jenner stole Tyga from Blac Chyna, Chyna knew exactly how to get revenge. She began dating Jenner's brother, Rob Kardashian, in January 2016, and the two went on to have an incredibly tumultuous relationship. At the time, Rob was living with his sister, Khloé Kardashian, who was quite vocal about her distaste for Chyna. When things started heating up between the couple, Khloé kicked Rob out, leading him to move in with Chyna. Rob later proposed with ​​an impressive seven-carat diamond ring worth $325,000.

Soon after, the couple announced Chyna's pregnancy via Instagram. Trouble struck when the Kardashian sisters planned to film the baby shower for "KUWTK." Rob was completely against it, and evidently, neither him nor Chyna attended the shower.

That year, the couple broke up and got back together multiple times. Things escalated when leaked screenshots of Chyna calling Rob "lazy," "fat," and "insecure" were made public. Right before Christmas, they physically fought in a nasty argument broadcast on Instagram Live. Rob then posted an NSFW dump of private photos of Chyna, prompting her to take legal action against him for violating revenge porn laws. "The moral of the story is, he doesn't respect me, so if you can't respect me, you have to respect the law," she told ABC News. In February 2022, Rob announced he'll be dismissing the assault and battery lawsuit he initiated after their Christmas blowout. Now, it seems the pair are quietly co-parenting their daughter, Dream.

The two rap moguls started as friends, with Drake often citing Kanye West as an inspiration in his early days. They collaborated on several projects together, including "Find Your Love," Drake's breakout single from his 2010 album, "Thank Me Later." While the men engaged in friendly competition over the years, things took a left when Pusha T called out Drake on his 2018 single, ​​"Infrared." The single, produced by West, insinuated that Drake's latest album was ghostwritten by Quentin Miller. There was also speculation that West told Pusha T about Drake's secret child, as Drake had recently confided in him about his relationship trouble. "I tell [Kanye] I'm having trouble with my son's mother. We had a conversation," Drake told HBO's "The Shop." "I wake up, and all these dates are out ... Then the next two days, whatever, I wake up now to this text from him, passive like, 'Yo, I love you brother.'"

Pusha T then dropped another diss,"The Story of Adidon," which accused Drake of being a deadbeat dad and forced the rapper to confirm the existence of his son. West offered a half-baked apology on Twitter, but reignited the feud with his 2021 single, "Pure Souls." Drake responded on Trippie Red's "Betrayal," leading West to leak his address. "You will never recover. I promise you," West said in a since-deleted post.

The rappers reunited in November 2021 with friendly photos on Instagram. "It's time to put [the feud] to rest," West noted.

Cardi B and Nicki Minaj were cordial until their media-fabricated feud turned very real. Fans picked up on some animosity when Minaj allegedly liked an Instagram post shading Cardi B's rapping style. While the screenshot turned out to be photoshopped, the incident caused a media frenzy, where the female rappers were constantly pit against each other. Later that year, they both featured on the Migos track "MotorSport." Fans speculated even more when it looked like Minaj had filmed her music video parts on different days than everyone else. A month later, Cardi B revealed that Minaj had changed her verse and implied she might've done so to one-up the newcomer. Minaj told Apple Music's Beats 1 that the accusation "really hurt my feelings."

"The first interview [Cardi] did after 'MotorSport' came out, it just really hurt me 'cause she looked so aggravated and angry," Minaj tearily shared. "I kind of felt ambushed."

The quarrel came to a head on September 7, 2018, when the two women had a physical altercation during New York Fashion Week. According to several sources, Cardi B became upset when she heard Minaj criticizing her parenting skills. Cardi B lunged at Minaj, throwing her shoe, though she ultimately left the party with a large knot on her head, while Minaj left unscathed. Minaj also firmly denying any wrongdoing. A source told Us Weekly: "Nicki really respects Cardi and will always root for the success of other female artists and MCs."