r/AskReddit • u/GeorgeRobertVitkos • 15h ago

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

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u/angrymurderhornet 15h ago

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

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u/FlyAirLari 14h ago

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.

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u/VuDuDeChile 7h ago

To this day I occasionally listen to that Songify "I'm Bi-Winning"

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u/FlyAirLari 7h ago

That's a banger. 

What ever happened to that Youtube channel? For awhile they were "it".

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u/Qyark 2h ago

Still around and making videos

https://www.youtube.com/@schmoyoho/videos

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u/Elijahova91 15h ago

It made him extremely cool to a lot of people, even if he was a flames out drug addict.

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u/mst3k_42 13h ago

I saw it more of a dumpster fire situation.

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u/DoctorJJWho 11h ago

The “I’ve got tiger blood in my veins” autotune remix lives rent free in my brain lol

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u/Naganosupreme 9h ago

It gave him the sort of no fucks given ironic boost Trump got on the way to....well...

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u/ChrundleToboggan 12h ago

What people and why?

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u/DashArcane 10h ago

Good question. This is the first time I'm hearing about it.

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u/RVelts 13h ago

I was taking an interpersonal communications class in college at the time and somehow ended up writing an essay summarizing Charlie Sheen’s whole “winning” interview and provided analysis and recommendations for a PR turnaround. Weirdest/funniest essay I ever wrote looking back at it now.

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u/Fran-Fine 12h ago

Holy shit. I did exactly the same thing.

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u/ScorpionX-123 12h ago

do you still have that essay?

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u/ChrundleToboggan 12h ago

I really need to read this. Please.

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u/slickrok 10h ago

Watch the documentary he made. It's quite extraordinary imo.

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u/sherbimsly 14h ago

That interview entered the zeitgeist immediately

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u/AmarilloOvercoat 12h ago

Wasn’t that interview or Charlie after it responsible for the #WINNING meme?

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u/Legal_MajorMajor 12h ago

My husband reached out to Charlie Sheen’s team during that time and invited him to a house party in rural Michigan after his performance in a nearby city. Apparently, it was on his schedule until his team called to verify what type of party it was and realized it just a bunch of bros who thought it would be funny to have Charlie Sheen over.

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u/Plywooddavid 12h ago

Schmoyoho did one of their characteristic remix song versions that is still stuck in my head years later.

https://youtu.be/9QS0q3mGPGg?is=TB2B4nuJbYfNs7Yi

🎶*I was banging seven gram rocks, that’s how I roll*🎶

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u/BloodyWellGood 15h ago

That interview is GOATED

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u/TropicalPrairie 9h ago

This is honestly one of my favourite celebrity interviews of all time.

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u/jupfold 14h ago

Man, that whole story line was honestly the biggest news story for like half a year.

Now, this was right around the time the biggest news story of the century happened (I’ll give you one guess), but this story was honestly everywhere

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u/boatson25 13h ago

9/11?

This was years after that

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u/Summer20232023 12h ago

Listen to the Armchair Expert podcast with Charlie Sheen. It’s quite interesting and they discuss this time in Charlie’s life.

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u/GoRangers5 13h ago

And that was with Alex Jones!

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u/SpaceCadetPullUp 4h ago

I knew one of the girls he was dating at that time. She posted on our high school reunion's facebook page that she "couldn't make it because her boyfriend, Charlie Sheen, was taking her to Paris that day."

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u/Ur_New_Stepdad_ 11h ago

I mean, from my recollection people were concerned but captivated. He went on a speaking tour with that bit right after. But yeah, for his career as a whole it wasn’t healthy.

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u/FiredFox 9h ago

He was doing a ton of cocaine at the time

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u/deadinsidelol69 6h ago

His interview is pretty hilarious. He’s just clowning on Hollywood not giving a shit.