Celebrity Stories so Bonkers They Must be True

Anyone who’s ever had a favourite hat can relate to the plight of Bono when the U2 frontman flew into Italy for a charity concert and realized he’d left his beloved chapeau, a black trilby, in London. Naturally, he soldiered on an did the show sans hat, right? Wrong! As the Telegraph reported, he bought his hat a $1,200 First Class ticket on British Airways so the hat could be delivered to him before he hit the stage.

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When Paris Hilton’s dog Tinkerbell shuffled off this mortal coil in 2015, the pampered pet went out with the knowledge that her pet live a luxurious life. According to Curbed, Hilton paid $325,000 to build her beloved “Tinky” a two-storey, 300-square-foot doghouse, featuring a crystal chandelier, designer furniture and even a balcony. Yay rich people!

People have been trying to prove the existence of the elusive Loch Ness Monster for decades — but they weren’t Charlie Sheen. During an 2014 appearance on The Tonight Show, Sheen hatched a “winning” plan that involved “an old-style wooden rowing boat, a traditional Tilley lamp, a boat hook, a thick chain… and a leg of lamb.” He told host Jay Leno that while he never did catch the creature, "something happened. There was an event at the top of the water that was crazy." Sheen remains convinced that what he saw was indeed Nessie. "Why not?” he told Leno. "If people talk about something for, like, 200 years, it's got to be there, right?"

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Remember when Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 mysteriously went missing in 2014 and authorities were mystified? They should have asked Courtney Love. As The Guardian reported, the Hole singer shared a photo of what she believed to be an oil slick in the middle of the Pacific Ocean, and pasted in on Facebook. “I’m no expert,” she said in the understatement of all time, “but up close does this look like a plane and an oil slick?” she asked.

In court documents that emerged in a legal battle between Elton John and his former manager, it was revealed that Sir Elton spent just under $400,000 on fresh flowers in a two-year period. His explanation, according to The Telegraph: "I like flowers.”

Well, he certainly isn't like these frugal celebrities.

Evan Rachel Wood prefers to inhabit only areas that are free of demons. If she has even the slightest hint of demonic activity, the Westworld star just pulls out her handy demon-banishing kit:  “Sage and the gemstone tiger’s eye,” she told Associated Press. “For cleaning demons out of places.”

You’ve heard the phrase “star-crossed lovers?” That takes on new meaning when it comes to Fran Drescher and ex-husband Marc Jacobson, who knew they were right for each other because both believed they’d been abducted by aliens. After they met, “we realized that we had the same experience. I think that somehow we were programmed to meet," Drescher explained. "We both have this scar. It's the exact same scar on the exact same spot… that’s where the chip is."

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Some celebrities have enough money to hire nannies and security personnel. But they didn’t create one of the biggest film franchises in movie history. George Lucas, however, did, and the guy who brought us Star Wars has his own private fire department for his massive Skywalker Ranch compound, employing 14 full-time firefighters. His fire brigade is the real deal; Lucas even lent them out to help battle California wildfires in 2018.

Best known for controversial novel The Corrections, author Jonathan Franzen revealed in an interview with The Guardian that, in order to keep his mind “free of all clichés,” he wrote in the dark, wearing earplugs, earmuffs and a blindfold. “You can always find the ‘home' keys on your computer,” he explained. “'They have little raised bumps.” This probably explains why Franzen’s next book is titled %_)BT(PIJphfHhs#}a8J&%qw(^_Rmlz*#?.

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In an Us Weekly feature listing 25 things we don’t know about Kacey Musgraves, the Grammy-winning country star did indeed have some surprises to offer. “I have a very irrational fear of spiders. And alien abductions,” she admitted, adding, “Speaking of, I’ve seen several UFOs.” Want more? She once went on a hunt for Bigfoot but “didn’t find him,” and once framed a joint rolled for her by Willie Nelson.

Singer Kesha insisted she was being “very serious” when she revealed in a 2013 appearance on Jimmy Kimmel Live! that she believed her body was haunted. "It's a problem," she said. "I was told I had dead people in me so I called my hypnotherapist. So then she said she had to exorcise my body. And then I got a ghost meter to read it, just beeped at my [privates].”

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For a variety of reasons, Lady Gaga came to believe a ghost — named Ryan, apparently — was haunting her. To keep this pesky poltergeist at bay, she’s reported to have shelled up $50,000 for an electromagnetic field meter — or, as it is more commonly known, a ghost detector. If only she’d have known who to call.

Many stars have spoken about having supernatural experiences, but Lucy Liu topped them all in a 1999 interview. Let’s let Liu explain what happened in her own words: “I was sleeping on my futon on the floor, and some sort of spirit came down from God knows where and made love to me. It was sheer bliss. I felt everything. I climaxed. And then he floated away.”

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St. Patrick’s Day is probably a big holiday for Megan Fox, given her declaration that she’s a firm believer in leprechauns and other Irish mythology. ”I believe in all of these Irish myths, like leprechauns,” she told Esquire. "Not the pot of gold, not the Lucky Charms leprechauns. But maybe was there something in the traditional sense? I believe that this stuff came from somewhere other than people's imaginations.”

When money is no object, things can get nuts. Take what happened in 2007 when Leonardo DiCaprio and Nicolas Cage reportedly both became so enamoured with a 67-million-year-old Mongolian dinosaur skull that each decided he had to have it. Cage wound up winning the ensuing bidding war, paying $276,000 for it. In a totally unrelated story, a few years later the IRS put a lien on Cage for more than $6 million in unpaid taxes.

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Best known for playing skeevy Uncle Eddie in the National Lampoon’s Vacation film franchise, Randy Quaid went off the deep end in 2010 when he began ranting about Illuminati “star whackers” who were "attempting to kill” he and his wife for “their money.” Added his wife Evi, "We are refugees … we are Hollywood refugees… I feel like Uma Thurman buried in a coffin… I genuinely feel these people are trying to kill us.”

While Charlie Sheen may or may not have encountered the Loch Ness Monster, Rob Lowe believes he had an "incredible encounter" in the Ozark Mountains with what locals call a “wood ape,” local vernacular for what’s more commonly known as Sasquatch or Bigfoot. “I was lying on the ground thinking I was going to be killed,” he said, admitting, "I sound like a crazy, Hollywood kook right now.” No, not at all, said literally everyone, while backing away slowly…

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When you’re a busy, weed-smoking mogul with multiple projects on the go, rolling your own blunts can eat up a lot of precious time. That’s why Snoop Dogg hired full-time employee who has one and only job: to roll joints for his boss. “That mother****er is like Lurch from The Addams Family. ‘You rang?'” Snoop revealed in an interview for The Howard Stern Show. Seth Rogen, who was sitting in for the interview, backed him up. “He knows how to gauge the look on someone’s face when it seems like they want a blunt,” said Rogen of Snoop’s joint-roller, “and if they do, he gives you one.”

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Not only can Willow Smith whip her hair back and forth, the daughter of Will Smith and Jada Pinkett Smith has also mastered the control of time itself. In a not-just-a-little-bonkers interview with the New York Times Magazine, Smith declared that she can make time "go slow or fast, however I please. That's how I know it doesn't exist.”

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When Tom Cruise and then-wife Katie Holmes were awaiting the arrival of daughter Suri, Cruise wanted to keep tabs on his unborn child. Instead to going to a hospital and taking a peek with a sonogram machine, Cruise decided to buy his own, plunking down $200,000 so he could take a peek at Suri in utero.

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