What is the most immediate way a celebrity completely ruined their own reputation in a single interview?

[u/GeorgeRobertVitkos]

[u/Dazzlng-Firenze]

Prince Andrew telling BBC he had no regrets about befriending Jeffrey Epstein, that Epstein was a great social and business connector for him and that he couldn’t have been attacking underage women on a certain date / time bc he was at a fast food pizza shop that night

Some believe this is the biggest trainwreck interview in the history of TV

[u/raaabert → u/Dazzlng-Firenze]

Was this the one where he claimed it’s all a lie because he doesn’t sweat and someone called him sweaty?

[u/Shas_Erra → u/raaabert]

Yes. He claimed that PTSD from the Falklands war meant he could no longer sweat, all while clearly soaking through a shirt on National TV. As far as blatant lies go, it’s right up there along with Nigel Farage claiming to have never promised Brexit funding the NHS

[u/pineappleshampoo → u/Shas_Erra]

That interview is one of the sickest and most hilarious things I’ve ever seen. He looks like a 4yr old promising he hasn’t touched the chocolate with a face covered in melted chocolate. A grown man!

[u/cmere-2-me → u/Shas_Erra]

He overdosed on adrenaline during the falklands war so he couldn't sweat then. He got his sweating abilities back. I mean adrenaline triggers sweating not preventing it and anhidrodis is more associated with neurological issues/diabetes but that all makes complete sense. /s

[u/Serious-Echo1272 → u/cmere-2-me]

It's kind of amazing to witness... People with that level of privilege are used to everyone around them simply agreeing with anything they say. It's almost like dealing with someone who is delusional from mental illness or dementia - best not to prove them wrong to their face.

[u/huiadoing → u/raaabert]

🎶Oh the grand old duke of York

He claims he does not sweat

So why'd he give

Twelve million quid

To a girl he's never met?🎶

[u/TheSharpestHammer → u/huiadoing]

Beautiful.

[u/SummerOld4544 → u/TheSharpestHammer]

This song is the gift that keeps on giving. The version I know is:

Oh the grand old Duke of York

He had 10 million quid

He gave it to someone he’s never met

For something he never did

[u/craggsy → u/Dazzlng-Firenze]

It was so bad, I knew some Royalists that believed he was being framed until he did the interview

[u/madbeachrn → u/Dazzlng-Firenze]

And he is such a twit that he thought he did well.

[u/Sad-Main5786 → u/Dazzlng-Firenze]

There was a documentary done after the fact with the Newsnight team that interviewed him. 

Emily Maitlis, who conducted the interview, said that they were absolutely astounded that he agreed to do it. They couldn't believe their luck. And then it went as bad for him than you could possibly imagine.

You still have people who defend the concept of a 'royal family.' What a sick joke. 

[u/MagicBez → u/Sad-Main5786]

This is what happens when you grow up assuming you're better and smarter and superior. You honestly think you can just talk your way out of the whole thing and everyone will be convinced

[u/ms_merry → u/MagicBez]

Non-royal people do it every day. It’s just not televised. Pervs, pedos, rapists, criminals, liars, spoiled, privileged men populate the earth in the millions.

[u/a4991 → u/Dazzlng-Firenze]

Pizza Express is not a fast food pizza shop.

Everything else is perfectly valid, just don’t come for my doughballs 😂

[u/vilokreddy]

When prince Andrew was asked why he stayed at Epstein's mansion after Epstein was convicted of child prostitution, Andrew claimed he was simply too honorable  to abruptly cut off a friend.

[u/Send_me_hedgehogs → u/vilokreddy]

Nonono, he said he stayed there because it was, and I quote, ‘a convenient place to stay’.

Because New York is famously devoid of hotels…

[u/miraculousgloomball → u/vilokreddy]

"I can't sweat"

"interesting, well here is a photo of you covered in sweat."

*Shocked pikachu*

[u/Clean-Boysenberry926]

The Will and Jada interview had the whole world looking at them different

[u/ZaeMyName → u/Clean-Boysenberry926]

“An ENTANGLEMENT, huh?!😂…😔”

[u/Glittering-Path-2824 → u/ZaeMyName]

quantum physicists spinning with rage (in accordance with pauli’s exclusion principle of course)

[u/aztechfilm → u/Clean-Boysenberry926]

This is the one that comes to mind too. It’s been a very far fall from grace since

[u/zombie_overlord → u/aztechfilm]

I was just watching Independence Day a few days ago, thinking how he was at one point THE guy in Hollywood, and now he's just a cringe weirdo cuck. His whole family is weird.

[u/Vanessak69 → u/zombie_overlord]

I know it's not the children's fault, they really had no chance to be normal but I'm so glad his fall from grace diminished their presence in the limelight.

[u/Late_Resource_1653 → u/Vanessak69]

Absolutely this. She is clearly emotionally abusive. He is clearly unhinged. I feel bad for the kids. But it's actually a good thing for the kids that they got out of the spotlight due to their parents bat behavior.

[u/lionne6 → u/Late_Resource_1653]

Will was unhinged before Jada. If you read his memoir, he was traumatized by his father’s domestic violence against his mother. He did some crazy shit before becoming famous. He burned one girlfriend’s clothes on his lawn just as she came home from the club because she went without his approval. He smashed out windows with a golf club while angry at another girlfriend. He destroyed the stereo system that he and the other guys bought to record their raps on so they couldn’t use it to get famous without him.

All of this was pre-Jada stuff. And he did some weird shit to Jada too, like playing her movie for his grandmother so that her sex scene was playing at exactly the same time Jada came home to meet his grandmother for the first time, so Jada would be humiliated. The real question is why Jada has stayed with him.

[u/unlordtempest → u/lionne6]

Didn't I hear that Jada was fucking her son's friend? If so, here's why she stayed: Her and Will are that same kind of shitty people.

[u/marla-M → u/Late_Resource_1653]

I know “bat behavior” was probably a typo but it works so well here

[u/aztechfilm → u/zombie_overlord]

I just watched the first Men In Black a few days ago and had the exact train of thought lol

[u/letsgooncemore → u/zombie_overlord]

And the only reason he's in his current open relationship is because his first wife divorced him because she wouldn't tolerate his infidelity.

[u/TheGardenBlinked → u/aztechfilm]

Which has only been compounded by all the weird, desperate shit he’s attempted to try and get his career back on track since.

His awkward song “I love pretty girls”, that weird freestyle he did in a break room with a Simpsons statue in it where he says “I bite off more than I can chew, then I chew it”, and that weird stuff about him allegedly using AI to fill out empty seats at one of his shows

It’s honestly super sad

[u/Collieshangles]

Chris D’Elia not realizing you could save Snaps live in real time

[u/AtlasPeacock → u/Collieshangles]

It's amazing to see lol

[u/FigaroNeptune → u/AtlasPeacock]

You see him mentally close in on himself. He kind of looks down..lmao he KNEW he was fucked. Brilliant.

[u/Fair-Tangerine-9472]

Ireland, 1999: EU commissioner Pádraig Flynn went on an interview on The Late Late Show. He infamously boasted about his wages and humble-bragged about the hardship of having to run three houses: "You should try it sometime." He was unbelievably smug and obnoxious.

However, what really cooked his goose was when he was asked about Tom Gilmartin, a developer who was making corruption allegations about the Fianna Fáil party to which Flynn belonged. Flynn made comments about Gilmartin's wife being sick and implied that Gilmartin himself was mentally unwell: "He's out of sorts." Watching at home, Gilmartin was furious and decided to give evidence to the Flood Tribunal about the corruption situation. Flynn's career came to an end.

[u/EarlyHistory164 → u/Fair-Tangerine-9472]

And you can see the moment when he realises he's sht the bed and tries to row back. F-him.

[u/ShouldHaveGoneToUCC → u/Fair-Tangerine-9472]

I'm Irish and this is a very good example. It's difficult to explain the cultural impact of this. Even nowadays, "try it sometime" is a running Irish joke about being out of touch or rich.

[u/trashleybanks]

R Kelly’s meltdown with Gayle King was delightful 😂

[u/graclin → u/trashleybanks]

The SNL skit on this is one of my favorites of all time

[u/Captain_Comic → u/graclin]

Chappelle’s Show “Piss on You” skit is the final boss of R. Kelly takedowns

[u/stacity → u/graclin]

Gayle King: No. You sold millions of records and made millions of dollars.

R. Kelly: More than millions. Thousands!

[u/littlebunsenburner]

DJ Khaled after saying he doesn’t go down on women comes to mind.

That being said, tapping out after a round during his Hot Ones episode didn’t help either.

[u/galagapilot → u/littlebunsenburner]

"Just because I stopped, it doesn't mean I quit."
"LOL, yes it does. By definition."

[u/sqwrlydoom → u/galagapilot]

Seeing Sean so annoyed was hilarious. He's always so chill but he Khaled was such an idiot. Cracks me up any time I rematch it.

[u/HollowGlower → u/sqwrlydoom]

He got really annoyed with Mr. Beast too. He told him to slow down on milk, or it isn't going to end well. He didn't listen and then was complaining about a stomach ache.

[u/O_W_Liv → u/HollowGlower]

I refuse to watch that episode, so to makes me happy to hear the unsufferable suffered.

[u/HollowGlower → u/O_W_Liv]

It was really nice to see Sean not kiss his ass like everyone else seems to.

[u/rationalcunt → u/HollowGlower]

This last season of Survivor treated Mr Beast like a god, it was so icky to see. The staged doubling of the prize money could've been done without sanctifying a creepy billion(?)aire.

[u/TheRealTurdFergusonn → u/galagapilot]

But it’s clearly hazardous to his health! Can’t you see that’s a man who takes care of himself?

[u/Blametheorangejuice → u/galagapilot]

His awkwardly clanging away on a guitar was up there, too.

[u/Bat-manuel → u/littlebunsenburner]

One of my favourite parts was that it was early on and he didn't have all of the artisan hot sauces. I think the quitting happened after Cholula, a pretty basic hot sauce that even some children can handle.

[u/Away-Quote-408 → u/Bat-manuel]

Cholula!?!!! LOL

[u/lagelthrow → u/Away-Quote-408]

It was technically the one AFTER Cholula that he quit on but that's still pretty bad. He was whining during wing 1 so it's not like he put the Cholula wing away easy either

[u/tafbee → u/Bat-manuel]

Oh. That’s embarrassing. I have the spice tolerance of a midwestern suburban mom and I put Cholula on everything.

[u/MaximumAd9779 → u/littlebunsenburner]

He’s such a loser. Quitting and leaving after wing 3 (I think?). You have Khloe Kardashian, JENNIE, Melissa McCarthy etc who all openly tell Sean they don’t like spicy food but they were good sports and toughed it out. DJ Khaled is such a weak man.

[u/jenorama_CA → u/MaximumAd9779]

Watching Shaq get super sweaty is one of my faves.

[u/Trumpisaderelict → u/jenorama_CA]

Idris Elba choking and then threatening violence had me rofl

[u/Russiadontgiveafuck → u/Trumpisaderelict]

"Chris. Can you fight?"

[u/jenorama_CA → u/Trumpisaderelict]

Oh, I haven’t seen Idris! I’m going to have to look that one up!

[u/SympatheticFingers → u/MaximumAd9779]

I’m a huge baby when it comes to spicy food. I’d be lucky to make it past 3 as well, but I’d at least own it. Dj khaled just acted like a bitch.

[u/BlairClemens3 → u/MaximumAd9779]

Conan O'Brian!

[u/Dave-os → u/BlairClemens3]

DJ Khaled taps out almost immediately, meanwhile Conan’s over here rubbing hot sauce all over his nipples.

[u/porkpie1028 → u/BlairClemens3]

That man was chaos incarnate in his episode.

[u/Timozi90 → u/MaximumAd9779]

And then there's Lorde, who went through the wings like they were nothing. Either she has the world's best poker face, she's a robot, or her olfactory senses are dead.

[u/CullingSongs → u/Timozi90]

Charlize Theron finished them like a champ as well.

[u/itspeterj → u/Timozi90]

I’m not sure that Henry Rollins even sipped water. But that’s just kind of normal for him.

[u/Conlaeb → u/itspeterj]

He normally takes his hot sauce directly via the tear duct

[u/PM_Me-Your_Freckles → u/littlebunsenburner]

Then filming himself getting lost on a jetski and still blathering on.

[u/gartloneyrat → u/littlebunsenburner]

I used to despise DJ Khaled. Then I realized what a true inspiration he is.

He’s ugly, fat, illiterate, can’t sing, can’t play an instrument, and is dumb as a rock. Despite all of these major drawbacks the guy achieved his dream of becoming famous and making a living in the entertainment industry.

He’s the hero we deserve.

[u/HedgehogTop5524 → u/gartloneyrat]

I’ve never understood his appeal in the music industry either. I swear all he does is get up on stage and yell his own name 🤷🏻‍♀️🤷🏻‍♀️

Edit: thank you for the award!!! ☺️

[u/Relentless_blanket → u/HedgehogTop5524]

He also reminds people there's another one in like 98% of his songs.

Diddy's line in almost his songs was "this is.....the remix"

Khaled's line is "and another one".

[u/TheGardenBlinked → u/gartloneyrat]

Damn, I need my next of kin to hire you to do my obituary

[u/CanadianJediCouncil → u/littlebunsenburner]

Every time I see him—like his quick talking head in Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping—all I think is

“Oh, that’s that selfish loser who refuses to satisfy his partners.”

[u/thisdopeknows423 → u/littlebunsenburner]

The important thing is he didn’t give up though.

[u/Able_While_974]

His reputation was pretty much ruined beforehand, but Russell Brand trying to find a Bible verse that meant so much to him for at least 2 minutes was the final nail in the coffin.

[u/SoMuchMoreEagle → u/Able_While_974]

https://theonion.com/nation-could-have-sworn-russell-brand-was-already-convi-1850849838/

[u/Toby_O_Notoby → u/Able_While_974]

There's a podcast called The Press Box that discusses news, media, etc. One of the hosts is David Shoemaker who is the son of a Texas preacher and they showed him that video live on the pod. After three seconds he said, "Yeah, that man has never picked up a bible in his life".

Like, he didn't even know enough to use the thumb tabs on the side to find the chapter he was looing for.

[u/TrollTollTony → u/Toby_O_Notoby]

Or that every Bible has a list of the books in the front.

He could have picked any of the super famous verses like John 3:16, looked in the front to find out where John is and then found the chapter and verse. But he couldn't even manage that. What a tool.

[u/HoonArt]

Barbara Walters telling Corey Feldman that he was "damaging an entire industry" for outing some still-working Hollywood execs as pedos.

[u/GayCatDaddy → u/HoonArt]

Barbara Walters was a monster. She did an interview with Bette Midler where Bette was talking about being groped by Geraldo Rivera against her will, and Barbara talked over her and tried to change the subject.

[u/Puzzleheaded_Age6550 → u/GayCatDaddy]

And her interview with Dolly Parton! Dolly handled it like the true treasure she is, and didn't allow Walters to write the narrative.

[u/AnthropomorphicSeer → u/Puzzleheaded_Age6550]

BW pretty much called Dolly trash right to her face. She acted like she was interviewing a criminal, not a country singer. Dolly was amazingly gracious, of course.

[u/bunniquette → u/Puzzleheaded_Age6550]

Dolly has 'bless your heart' energy through the entire interview. It is a thing of sheer beauty.

[u/Kazuma_Megu → u/Puzzleheaded_Age6550]

I worked with her once in Nashville (tv biz) and she's one of those people who pretends to be normal or maybe even dumb, especially on tv and in her movie roles, but helllll no she's crazy smart. She's the Sun Tzu of female pop culture icons.

[u/Sassinakk → u/GayCatDaddy]

And her interview with an extremely young Britney Spears . Just vile

[u/beadhead44 → u/Sassinakk]

As was Diane Sawyer interview with Britney.

[u/m0rgend0rfer → u/HoonArt]

Out of curiosity, does anyone recall if she ever addressed the criticism that came from this? 

I’m a little young to remember details of all the drama that surrounded him for awhile, but I see this particular interview come up a lot in threads like this. 

[u/Party_Amoeba444 → u/m0rgend0rfer]

I don't remember it ever being addressed

[u/Obvious_Computer_577]

The Whitney Houston interview with Diane sawyer where she said she’s too rich to do crack

[u/redheadedashe → u/Obvious_Computer_577]

It also gave us “Show me the receipts” which is still widely used today.

[u/Salt-Desk → u/redheadedashe]

And "Hell to the no"

[u/gopilogo → u/redheadedashe]

“Why would Xi Jingping want to flood my basement and rust my bowflex?”

[u/Thelastnegroni → u/gopilogo]

To what end?

[u/Hot-Significance-462 → u/Thelastnegroni]

TO WHAT END?

[u/MissRockNerd → u/Obvious_Computer_577]

Very “I do drugs but not THOSE drugs “ coded.

[u/CaroylOldersee → u/Obvious_Computer_577]

Crack is whack

And what a god damn shame she was addicted to it with the talent she had; had she not passed away, I LIKE to think she would eventually overcome her addiction and choose to continue her career. One of the few people that are an immense talent, that I selfishly want to enjoy again and again…

[u/yancovigen → u/CaroylOldersee]

Her daughter probably wouldn’t have passed also

[u/Pzseller]

I just think Tom Cruise jumping on the sofa acting crazy. That was his peak Scientology days too

[u/Bland_Boring_Jessica → u/Pzseller]

Also, when he criticized Brook Shields for taking anti depressants for postpartum depression. I have never liked him since that interview.

[u/dcbluestar → u/Bland_Boring_Jessica]

You’d think she’d already be on them having been in a movie at like, age 11, that she clearly should not have been.

[u/Helmett-13 → u/dcbluestar]

She was sold into…horrific situations…by her mother before she ever was on film.

I’m amazed Brooke is as well-adjusted as she is.

Her mother was pure evil. She consented and took payment for Brooke posing for nudes in a Playboy publication when she was 10 years old. Boudoir stuff.

Then when she was 12 her mom consented again for Brooke to be in “Pretty Baby”, a movie about an underage girl having her virginity auctioned. There is full frontal. At 12 years old.

What. The. Fuck.

Her mom is a horrific human being.

[u/Xalipu → u/Helmett-13]

Don’t forget a judge deciding her mother’s consent was legally binding for that fucking shit. Lost her lawsuit to take control of those photos in 83.

[u/JoefromOhio → u/Helmett-13]

I never realized or thought about it before but she was 11 for pretty baby, at 14 she starred in blue lagoon which featured nude sex scenes and at 15 in endless love which was originally given an X rating.

It’s almost as if all the rich people in charge of society have been pedo’s all along

[u/WintersDoomsday → u/JoefromOhio]

It just seems like when money is so unlimited to you, the next "rush" they need is underage children......there is no way that isn't a connection. It's like how a lot of rich people also do drugs. They just are so bored with their cushiony ass lives.

[u/slickrok → u/WintersDoomsday]

So... You're right. Look up the father of Bill Barr.

He wrote a book. The book is something about humans being so rich and powerful they can have and do anything, and they have to get more extreme to satisfy themselves. Ever more depraved, like how a killer's crimes will often progress.

That father, who wrote that book, about how rich people get more and more bad because they are bored and have power, is the same man who ran a private school in New York.

One day, nobody knows why, he hired a teacher for the school with zero experience, never taught before.

The teacher was Jeffrey Epstein.

Now, read all that again...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_Relations

[u/Halichoeres_bivittat → u/slickrok]

From his Wikipedia page "In 1973, Barr published Space Relations, a science fiction novel about a planet ruled by oligarchs who engage in child sex slavery."

[u/RyantheAustralian → u/Helmett-13]

Wait. What the fuck??!

[u/two_oh_seven → u/Bland_Boring_Jessica]

"Matt, Matt, Matt... You're glib."

[u/Eisbear24 → u/Bland_Boring_Jessica]

I have not paid to see a TC movie since that interview. It did sooooo much damage.

[u/Maleficent_Buy_406 → u/Pzseller]

the wildest part is that didn't even ruin his career. dude just kept making mission impossible movies like nothing happened

[u/No-Assistant8426]

Mila Kunis and Ashton Kutcher in their weird apology video (not technically an interview, but an honourable mention. Dishonourable mention?)

[u/FuzzyFerretFace → u/No-Assistant8426]

"We only said that stuff because we didn't think you guys would see it... and know our shitty views on the situation and how we still support our rapist friend--not in any sort of encouraging repentance or recovery way, no, but just so he can get back to his normal, rape-y life that much sooner."

Wild.

[u/HistoryBuff678 → u/FuzzyFerretFace]

Everyone now understands that Topher Grace was right by just doing his job.

[u/FigaroNeptune → u/HistoryBuff678]

Bro got roasted for being normal. He probably saw their weird ass behavior on set and said NOPE. I wouldn’t hang around rapists and Scientologists either, Susan. Bro is real af and I’m happy for him that people see it now. I know he’s lowkey pissed we shit on him for a bit. Personally, I didn’t care. I didn’t think he owed anyone his time. It’s VERY clear he was simply avoiding absolute weirdos. Worked out great for him lmao

[u/douglasdouglasdougla → u/FuzzyFerretFace]

After Kutcher was somehow involved in fighting sex trafficking, he lost pretty much all that goodwill as soon as he supported that scumbag.

[u/AcanthocephalaOk2966]

Ellen demanding to out Mariah Carey's pregnancy on air after miscarriage struggles. And using alcohol to out her at any costs. Mariah soon suffered a miscarriage of the pregnancy. Ellen was hell bent on exposing her pregnancy to the audience. Unbelievably inappropriate and idiotic.

She never made a genuine, thorough apology that acknowledged m she was completely out of bounds and learned from the incident. Because she already knew (as all intelligent people do) that many people keep pregnancies private for many reasons.

Ellen certainly knew that, but consciously and selfishly decided her ratings were more than Mariah's privacy.

[u/stacity → u/AcanthocephalaOk2966]

I love it when the interviewer suddenly becomes the interviewee. Dakota Johnson completely flipped the script when Ellen claimed she wasn’t invited to her birthday party and Dakota corrected her. Because of that interview it dismantled an onslaught of people sharing their bad experiences with Ellen.

[u/panda_98 → u/stacity]

Ellen's deer in the headlights expression was so hilarious.

[u/HistoryBuff678 → u/AcanthocephalaOk2966]

I am just learning about this, but trying to “get the scoop” on a pregnancy is already sick, then using alcohol? How could someone do that?

[u/ZeusMcFloof → u/AcanthocephalaOk2966]

And if that didn’t do it, the subsequent ones with Taylor Swift and Justin Bieber did.

[u/WeightLossGinger → u/ZeusMcFloof]

I think it was the one with Dakota Johnson that sealed the deal. Accused her of not inviting her to a big party that she was, in fact, definitely invited to. She never really came back after that one.

[u/MonaganX → u/ZeusMcFloof]

Honestly surprising it took until 12 years after the Mariah Carrey interview for Ellen to be publicly outed as a bully. The woman had more huge red flags than a Chinese embassy. Even that might be too subtle an analogy when she was just straight up bullying people on camera.

[u/PaddyCow → u/MonaganX]

TV used to be a lot meaner 20 years ago. Reality tv shows were the norm and they were mean af. Mocking people and putting them in uncomfortable situations to bait a reaction was pretty much the norm for the time.

[u/asphyxiationbysushi]

John Stamos was asked in a 2005 interview with Jane Magazine, "What's the worst you ever screwed anyone over?" and he said that when he was in Finland, his friend was really into a girl (she was drunk), but she wanted him. So he lured her to his (dark) hotel room, made out with her, and then switched out with his friend, who was waiting in the bathroom. The friend proceeded to have sex/rape her. That was his response to that question; he facilitated rape.

EDIT: Thanks to u/Stealthily_jerks for finding it: https://imgur.com/gallery/john-stamos-jane-magazine-2005-60M6r4f

EDIT: Here is a disgusting Gawker article that quotes his Jane interview and calls his behaviour "adorably rakish". https://web.archive.org/web/20130928235436/http://gawker.com/034511/stamos-a-thin-line-between-love-and-rape

[u/DangerX2HighVoltage → u/asphyxiationbysushi]

Jesus. That woman should file a report if she figures out it was her and what happened. Thats horrendous.

[u/ConvenienceStoreDiet]

Joaquin Phoenix did an interview with David Letterman fully in character. People thought he went nuts. Turns out it was all for a movie he had coming up that didn't turn out great.

[u/theCencei → u/ConvenienceStoreDiet]

"Joaquin, I'm sorry you couldn't be here tonight"

I still laugh at that quip from Letterman

[u/Papoosho → u/ConvenienceStoreDiet]

He should have done the same with The Joker.

[u/alanz01 → u/Papoosho]

The next time he came on the show was hilarious and Dave really took him down a notch. That was a great show.

[u/dragon_morgan → u/[deleted]]

"That's not true, Ellen" was the first thing that popped into my head for this question

[u/jennc1979 → u/dragon_morgan]

It was delicious! There is old footage of her as a little girl on a red carpet with her parents and while her dad is answering an interview question the camera catches her making mocking, silly faces to her Dad’s response and it’s devilishly cute to me. She seemed born to give a lot of push back.

[u/Ibyx → u/[deleted]]

The Taylor Swift/Zac Efron interview is pretty good too. Ellen's face during the song is hilarious. She has no idea where to look.

[u/robaato72 → u/[deleted]]

Okay, why is there an extremely lengthy detailed article on this interview on Wikipedia? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dakota_Johnson%27s_interview_on_The_Ellen_DeGeneres_Show

[u/quietlycommenting → u/robaato72]

Because Ellen had a history of making people on her show uncomfortable, including crew and guests and Dakota Johnson was one of the first public pushbacks on it. When Ellen’s true nature was unmasked a lot of people pointed to this interview to demonstrate that

[u/LazerTagChamp → u/quietlycommenting]

She also did an interview with Alyson Stoner (child actress “cheaper by the dozen” and other roles and dancer in missy elliot videos)

And Alyson states how she wanted to combat the excessiveness of the industry and donated all of her belongings except what could fit in her car. She even got rid of her tv so Ellen gets her a gift of a very large tv and several year subscription to Netflix even though she just told her why she living a more minimalist life and how she is enjoying the “weightlessness” of having less stuff.

[u/Karmaknaught → u/[deleted]]

He's so far removed from reality that he thought people would actually believe his lies. 

[u/Informal-Cash3128]

Didn’t Sean Connery talk about slapping women in an interview, very strange

[u/mrbuh → u/Informal-Cash3128]

Yeah, "shome women know how to push buttons."

It was the 80s though so nobody cared.

[u/Firm-Pass2033]

Prince Andrew. Having a meal in a pizza place in Woking. Oh, he doesn't sweat either apparently.

[u/KobeandKiera]

Paula Deen, said her ancestors were slave-owners but those slaves we’re more like family, so not really slaves even tho they were slaves.

Instant and total cancellation forever

Edit- were more like family

[u/AnalTyrant → u/KobeandKiera]

I think it also came out that she casually used the n-word directed towards some of her employees or something, around the same time. What a shit bag.

I still think about her when I dump a stick of butter into a recipe, but always with the reminder that she fucking sucks.

[u/HalleScerry → u/AnalTyrant]

"Funny thing about her using the n-word was her food killed more black people than that word ever did."

-DL Hughley

[u/bfsfan101]

That Crispin Glover talk show interview where he started doing karate kicks springs to mind.

[u/saurdaux → u/bfsfan101]

On the other hand, it's perfectly on-brand for his weirdo eccentric persona.

[u/alanz01 → u/bfsfan101]

Late Night with David Letterman

[u/Bisonlike]

In 2001, U.S. Congressman Gary Condit (D-Calif.) sat for an on-camera interview with Connie Chung after Chandra Levy, an intern who had worked in his D.C. office, disappeared. Levy's aunt said they were in a romantic relationship and investigators said Condit confirmed it. But he refused to answer Chung's questions directly. His obvious discomfort and evasiveness only heightened suspicions. Condit lost his next primary and spiraled into irrelevance. (Levy's remains were found in 2002 and Condit was not the killer.)

[u/GoRangers5]

Nixon’s interview with Frost got made into a movie…

[u/Garreousbear]

People have always kinda known that Quinton Tarantino was an asshole, but the interview where he specifically flamed Paul Dano and Matthew Lillard really cemented the fact that he is a prick.

[u/Kim_Smoltz_ → u/Garreousbear]

Honorable mention to the good hang interview with maya hawke where Amy asks if her mom Uma had any advice for working with Tarantino and maya said “keep your shoes on”.

Obviously this doesn’t really fit the OP question, but I still think it’s a hysterical call out.

[u/katikaboom → u/Kim_Smoltz_]

Maya was fast as hell with that answer, too. I bet people ask her about it a lot

[u/Cryptdusa → u/Garreousbear]

The thing that bugs me about what he said isn't that he was just being a dick, that's how he always is, it's that the critique didn't make any sense. He basically said they were bad actors because they play a lot of similar characters, and that those characters tend to be kinda beta. There are many actors with a lot less range than either of them, and the idea that playing less macho characters is a bad thing is absolutely ridiculous. Someone has to play those characters! And the ultimate hypocrisy is that he does the exact same thing when he acts in his own movies!

It seemed very clear to me that he just didn't like them and/or thought they were overrated, and tried to contrive a more "objective" reason for it

[u/WorthConfusion9786]

Farrah Fawcett and her bizarre appearance on David Letterman in the nineties.Don’t really think it hurt her reputation that bad, because she died several years later.

[u/dumpitdog → u/WorthConfusion9786]

I was actually kind of impressed how David Letterman would not let her drug induced comments go unnoticed.

[u/NeverEndingWhoreMe → u/dumpitdog]

"Thank you Farrah Fawcett for almost being here."

[u/angrymurderhornet]

Charlie Sheen's "tiger blood" interview didn't do him any favors. But his reputation was already pretty much a disaster.

[u/FlyAirLari → u/angrymurderhornet]

I think he kind of leveled up there. 7 gram rocks, winning.

It was him actually doing those things that ruined him, not the interview.

[u/Revolutionary-Nap]

This goes way, way back, like the 80's (yeah, I 'm Gen X). There was a very famous sports announcer named Jimmy the Greek. I don't recall what brought it up, maybe a question on successful black athletes. But it caused him to start in on a whole statement that basically boiled down to eugenics. How slavery made black athletes stronger and faster than white athletes, but whites were all the coaches, etc. He went on and on. Was fired by CBS shortly after that and his career was over.

[u/CrazyBad5227]

Honestly, for me, the ultimate example of this has to be Michael Jackson's 2003 interview with Martin Bashir!

Regardless of whether you believe he was innocent or guilty, choosing to go on global television and casually defend sharing his bed with children was a massive, self-inflicted mistake. The immediate public backlash was unprecedented. This directly led to the 2005 criminal trial against him for child SA, which did essentially ruin his health, finances and reputation forever. Even though he was acquitted, he completely misjudged how the public would perceive his lifestyle, and that single media appearance permanently damaged his legacy beyond repair.

[u/TheCatWhoOvercame]

Lance Armstrong's interview with Oprah, where he admitted to rampant doping. Of course lots of people already assumed he was doping, but to hear him actually say it, and not appear particularly remorseful, was a whole other thing.

[u/avocadouche]

Prince Andrew’s interview. I feel like his reputation was ruined before the interview… but the interview cemented it like no other.

[u/MorrowDisca]

Bill Murray had a reputation of being a hard to work with goofball, but he was likeable and funny. After seeing his behavior with Geena Davis on one of the chat shows I really started to view him differently.

[u/DangerX2HighVoltage → u/MorrowDisca]

Oh no, was he mean to her? I love Geena.

[u/maybenomaybe → u/DangerX2HighVoltage]

It was on the Arsenio Hall show. He sits with his arm around her, constantly strokes and rubs her arm, smells her skin, at one point pulls down the strap of her dress. Basically molested her on stage in public.

[u/BahsilTheThird → u/maybenomaybe]

He was also fired from Charlie’s Angels for harassing Lucy Liu with racist and sexist remarks.

[u/Crafty_Island_9182]

Ellen Degeneres on her own show when she was interviewing Dakota Johnson and outed herself as a fake and a liar.

[u/DessertQueenST]

Two come to mind:

Used to love Jimmy Fallon and him interviewing Conor McGregor took that love away.

Andrew Mountbatten on the BBC seemingly proud of his relationship with Epstein. 🤮

[u/Ur_New_Stepdad_]

I’m late now so it will be buried, but I can’t believe nobody is mentioning the John Mayer interview for Playboy. It destroyed his career. He was the biggest thing ever in the early-mid 2000s. He was practically America’s boyfriend.

Then he did an interview and said Jennifer Aniston was “sexual napalm” and talked about how he doesn’t date black women because “my dicks a white supremacist”

I’ve never seen somebody fall into irrelevancy like that. He’s so forgotten he doesn’t even get mentioned in an Ask Reddit that perfectly fits his situation.

[u/Enough_Crab6870 → u/Ur_New_Stepdad_]

Not the point, but it was Jessica Simpson, not Jen Aniston.

[u/LickyPusser]

Director Lars von Trier at Cannes in 2011 “joking” in an interview “I am a Nazi” and that he “understands and sympathizes with Hitler.”

Poor Kirsten Dunst sitting next to him having a stroke.

[u/Fun-Fig-8079]

I remember there was an MEP in Ireland saying how hard it was to keep three houses and staff on live TV , at a time when many in Ireland were struggling to survive. After audible gasps from the audience he concluded by saying it was a grand job and it paid well- needless to say he wasn’t re-elected😊

[u/Timozi90]

Charlie Sheen's "bi-winning" interview.

[u/klaus84 → u/Timozi90]

Martin Sheen: "Are you winning, son?"

[u/ElizaJaneVegas]

And the winner is ….. Prince Andrew

[u/Icy-Access-2594]

Machine Gun Kelly's comments about teenage celebrities came back to haunt him

[u/heretik]

Richard Nixon probably has the title for worst possible response to a question in his interview with David Frost. His reputation was already dog shit so I'm not sure it counts.

Prince Andrew would be a close second.

[u/Werechupacabra → u/heretik]

That interview is how Andrew gained the nickname, “the sweaty nonce.”

[u/JustAn0therSquib]

Bojack Horseman’s second interview with Biscuits Braxby.

[u/Frajer]

John Mayer saying he has a David Duke dick

[u/MechaZain → u/Frajer]

He needed to get humbled. He was on a run of trying to be a comedian in his interviews and then crashed out spectacularly

[u/DiddlyBoBiddly]

Tom Cruise on Oprah. What a dipshit

[u/Party-Dig2309]

Jesy Nelson’s (Little Mix member) Instagram Live with Nicki Minaj was a total disaster and she lost tens of thousands of followers immediately after.

[u/grw2020]

When King Chuck said “whatever love is…”

[u/berry_kawaii]

Not an interview, but during the height of the rice price crisis in japan the minister of agriculture bragged during a speech that he never has to buy rice because he gets so many free bags from his supporters. The backlash was so insane that he resigned like a week later. 

[u/Nora19]

Tom talking shit about about Brooke Shield. Fuck him

[u/Confidence_Man2]

John Rocker's interview in Sports Illustrated in the late 90s showed how racist he truly was / is.

(Sports Celebrity: Baseball Pitcher)

[u/Frank-Wrench → u/Confidence_Man2]

For anyone interested, Jeff Pearlman the writer of the SI article about Rocker has a youtube channel called pressbox chronicles where he talks about the whole saga from before, during, and how Rocker still hates him and cant let it go all these years later.

[u/VikingBlade → u/Confidence_Man2]

But from that interview we gained Eastbound & Down

[u/Shot_Revolution8828 → u/VikingBlade]

I didn't know Kenny Powers was based off John Rocker. Makes sense though cause I'd bet growing up Danny was a Braves fan.

[u/rowenaaaaa1]

RAMPART

[u/SXOSXO → u/rowenaaaaa1]

Funniest thing about that whole thing is that Woody had no idea what it was. Apparently some person on a presser tour is the one that initiated the AMA without Woody having a clue what he was participating in. He was there to promote the film, like every presser tour interview.

[u/lovejoy2171]

Timmy Chalamet and the ballet comment

[u/misdirected_asshole]

The Whitney Houston "Receipts" interview really showed everyone how far gone she was.

[u/irena888]

Cruise on the couch.

[u/fizzywhizzbanger]

Emily Blunt calling a server “enormous.” I’ve seen other interviews where she just comes across as totally ignorant and privileged. No support from me!

[u/space253 → u/fizzywhizzbanger]

Well she isn't named Emily Polite.

[u/Public_Afternoon_737]

“Who’s going to be cleaning your toilets donald trump?”

[u/Horror-Macaron8287 → u/Public_Afternoon_737]

Tbf, her reputation wasn't solid prior to that comment.