25 Infamous Cheating Scandals That Rocked Hollywood Fans

Cheating is never a good thing. It’s disrespectful to everyone involved, an affront to the institution of marriage, and widely condemned by society. Naturally, when some of our favourite stars are caught in compromising situations, fans often feel outraged, disheartened, and heartbroken. Recently, a Redditor asked, “Celebrities who have been ‘caught’ cheating on their partners or who ended a relationship?” They cited the Ariana Grande/Ethan Slater relationship as an example, and netizens responded with some of the most notorious infidelity scandals they’d heard of, naming Ewan McGregor, Meg Ryan, and Ted Danson among the most shocking examples.

#1

Image source: visitedby3spirits, Jimmy Kimmel Live Ethan Hawke cheating on Uma Thurman with the nanny.

#2

Image source: Southern_Schedule466, Searchlight Pictures Off the top of my head the more well-known folks I can think of would be Michelle Williams & Amanda Seyfried. Natalie Portman’s husband Benjamin was living with his long-term girlfriend when they got together. Natalie got pregnant & married Benjamin not very long after meeting on the set of Black Swan. And he reportedly cheated on Natalie recently. Matthew Macfadyen (from Succession & Pride and Prejudice) asked out his now-wife when she’d been married for 8 weeks to someone whom she had a toddler with. She immediately left her then-husband, and her & MM were married with a baby together not even two years later.

#3

Image source: Darmop, A Current Affair Prince Charles cheating on Princess Diana with Camilla Parker-Bowles, surely?

#4

Image source: tardersauced, Jimmy Kimmel Live I am going to go old school and mention Ted Danson's affair with Whoopie Goldberg while Danson was still married to his first wife of 16 years, who was paralyzed by a stroke giving birth to their first child. Danson's wife filed for divorce and Danson and Whoopie dated for a over a year before they broke up, allegedly because his parents disapproved.

#5

Image source: cryscros, bethenny Gotta throw out Kelsey and Camille Grammer Kelsey suggested Camille go on the show Real Housewives of Beverly Hills to preoccupy her while he was cheating during his time on broadway You watch the entire thing play out on the first season of RHOBH, it was really sad.

#6

Image source: HotChiTea, Strombo Just remembered another one. Shania Twain’s husband cheating on her with her best friend (who was also her assistant) Marie-Anne. The biggest horrendous part about it is Shania confided to her best friend about her suspicious that her husband was having an affair. Only for her best friend to gaslight her to believing he wasn’t. Her “bestie” the whole time was *the other woman* he was sheet riding with. Shania has a cursed life. Seriously. The woman is also an absolute stunner, especially in her young years (and when the affair happened) like I don’t understand how you cheat on Shania Twain, especially when you look like a a head of cauliflower. He was punching with Shania.

#7

Image source: madsdab, TODAY Adam Levine - he cheated on his pregnant wife Behati Prinsloo and wanted to name the unborn child after his 23-year-old mistress.

#8

Sandra Bullock's husband at the time Jesse James cheating on her throughout the marriage with like 20 women. It was so gross. Image source: effypom

#9

Image source: hedgehogwart, Ruthie's Table 4 Jude Law cheating on Sienna Miller with the nanny and Balthazar Getty cheating on his wife with Sienna Miller.

#10

Image source: TripleThreatTua, The Graham Norton Show Ewan McGregor and Mary Elizabeth Winstead cheating on and then leaving their spouses for each other.

#11

I was young but I remember when Meg Ryan had an affair with Russell Crowe, it was a huge deal. The media ripped her to shreds and honestly I feel like it effectively ended her career. I say it’s a bunch of BS considering how Dennis Quaid was regularly cheating on her for years. I don’t condone cheating, but that marriage could not have been easy for Meg. Image source: Craphole-Island

#12

Image source: anon, The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon Billy Crudup leaving a heavily pregnant Mary Louise Parker for Claire Danes was quite the Scandal and ruined his career.

#13

Image source: suspiciousactually, Taste of Country Jason Aldean getting caught with his mistress at a bar in 2012, apologizing to the world and his then-wife and promising to go to couple’s therapy, only to file for divorce a year later and marry the woman he was cheating with ? Two kids and ten years later, they’re still together.

#14

Image source: anon, Golden Foot TV No one mentioned Gerard Piqué cheating on Shakira with his assistant? And she trashing him and his new partner in a song?

#15

Jack Nicholson got another woman pregnant while he was with Anjelica Huston and she beat him up (he always cheated on her but the baby stuff + seeing an article on a magazine of a woman who slept with him was her breaking point). Image source: Karilyn113

#16

Image source: JustSomethingISaid, Warner Bros. Pictures Olivia Wilde cheating on Jason Sudeikis with Harry Styles during the filming for Dont Worry Darling. The best part of that movie was the messy behind the scenes.

#17

Image source: sharipep, The Late Late Show with James Corden The governator Arnold Schwartzenegger cheating on Maria Shriver with the nanny/housekeeper, who he got pregnant. The kid looks just like a young Arnold too.

#18

Image source: plaidtattoos, Neal Brennan Didn't David Letterman admit to having an affair with an intern? Someone was going to blackmail him, so I think he did a whole admitting to it thing right on his show, like instead of a monologue.

#19

Image source: Ayyyegurl, Peacock Jay-Z cheating on Beyoncé. He wasn’t caught but instead outed by his own wife. Between the event that was/is Lemonade, the elevator incident coming full circle, and poor Rachel Ray being mistaken for Becky with the good hair, his infidelity led to some great pop culture moments.

#20

Image source: Commendatori_buongio, Music Choice Robin Thicke getting caught cheating on his wife because he took a picture in a club but didn’t realize there was a mirror behind him so the pic shows him grabbing the woman’s behind will never be not funny to me

#21

Image source: CowboyLikeMegan, The Interview I will always remember magazines running the photos of Kristen Stewart cheating on Robert Pattinson with Rupert Sanders and then her releasing a statement to the press apologizing to Rpattz and saying she loves him.

#22

Image source: anon, Katie Maliani Justin Timberlake cheated on jessica beil w his co star from a movie they were filming. He publicly apologized and they remained together.

#23

Image source: Lemonzip, extratv Jerry Seinfeld and Jessica Slklar met at the gym on Christmas Day, three weeks after she married Eric Niederlander. She left Niederlander immediately and married Seinfeld as soon as the divorce was final. At the time of their meeting Seinfeld, 39, was also in a relationship - with a 17 year old girl named Shoshana Lonstein. He gave multiple interviews defending the age difference.

#24

Image source: party4diamondz, Zach Sang Show Zayn Malik with numerous women while dating/engaged to Perrie Edwards.

#25

Image source: pezzyn, DwyaneWade I know infidelity in the sporting world comes as no surprise but I felt her pain on hearing Gabrielle union story of how Dwayne Wade cheated and got his side girlfriend pregnant when Union had been years by his side helping him raise his other kids and they’d actively been trying to conceive through tribulations of fertility issues. Brutal.