Fame used to come with a slight degree of insulation. A bad decision stayed between you, your publicist, and whoever was in the room. Then celebrities got smartphones, discovered they could talk directly to their fans without any filtering whatsoever, and the results have been spectacularly catastrophic time and time again.
The publicist exists for a reason. The reason is that famous people, left entirely to their own devices and a WiFi connection, will post things that no amount of reputation management can fully recover from. Tone-deaf statements, accidental confessions, ill-timed jokes, and the occasional complete personality reveal that nobody asked for or can unsee. The internet screenshotted all of it, and it has been waiting patiently to remind everyone, and here are the worst of them for your pure enjoyment.
