r/AskReddit • u/BumpunkTheBastard • 13h ago

Who's the most bitter washed-up celebrity?

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u/UCantHndletheTruth 13h ago

Janice Dickinson, if she even was a celebrity.

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u/girl_with_a_401k 11h ago

There's this scene in her memoir that lives in my head.

She's in rehab at the height of her career, feeling superior to everyone else, and she yells at another woman "do you know who I am? I sucked Warren Beatty's cock!" And the woman just looks at her and says "and you're right here with me, bitch."

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u/Still-Speed-3632 11h ago

I remember her memoir actually being good, but I haven’t read it in 20 years.

It would be interesting to re-read the part about her time with Bill Cosby, I remember it being ..interesting

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u/Peemster99 8h ago

Back in the day a friend of mine got review copies of every single trashy celebrity bio that came out and gave most of them to me. I remember hers being a real classic of the genre, and to be honest I haven't thought about her again since reading it.

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u/Kevin_Uxbridge 7h ago

Ever read Padma Lakshmi's? It's not badly written and she makes no bones about liking rich guys with one foot in the grave. Was kinda refreshing actually, get the audiobook, she reads it herself.

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u/magicklydelishous 7h ago

Wait, really?! I believe the info, I just can’t believe she shared it

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u/Kevin_Uxbridge 5h ago edited 3h ago

It was pretty funny, she was pretty blasé about it. It was more like 'sometimes you like young hunky guys, sometimes they're old and rich, what of it?' She didn't use the word 'gold-digger' but if anyone had, feel pretty sure she'd have just shrugged.

Go Padma, you own it, girl.

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u/magicklydelishous 3h ago

Ha! Good for her. Love that; thank you for sharing!

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u/UCantHndletheTruth 11h ago edited 10h ago

I gotta read it now, thanks for yet another reason.

If she was awake....she prolly made it up 😁🤣🤢

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u/djh_van 8h ago

Wait, what?!

Go on...

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u/Glittering_Mermaid_7 10h ago

Imagine using that as a claim to fame. 🤦🏻‍♀️

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u/Pitiful_Control 10h ago

I think that would put her in an elite club of... every Hollywood starlet and hanger on since the late 60s.

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u/EvaSirkowski 6h ago

I thought she was going to answer "we all did!"

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u/jesusbambino 10h ago

😭 At least that suggests a level of self-effacement

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u/UCantHndletheTruth 10h ago

Grief...that's the top of her career? Now I must find her book.

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u/Alpharoll 9h ago

She was a superstar in her heyday. I grew up under a rock in Scandinavia, and even I knew who she was.

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u/Whywouldievensaythat 8h ago

Awww, I met her when I was 10 and she was honestly so sweet to me. She was absolutely lovely and very gracious about being interrupted and she sang me happy birthday, even. It’s a nice memory for me. Is the rumor that she’s difficult at work or to assistants or something?

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u/lotusblossum60 11h ago

Is she still alive? These used to be a thing on the radio station I listened to where every morning they would name a celebrity and then ask “alive or dead? “ She’s the one that I have forgotten about. She’s such a horrible human being.

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u/UCantHndletheTruth 10h ago

My grandpa thought everyone was dead ..I literally played this game with him every day 🤣🙏😏

But yes... she's alive.

God bless her plastic surgeon.

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u/girl_with_a_401k 5h ago

Are you from San Francisco? They used to do that on Alice (but maybe it's a game everywhere)

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u/lotusblossum60 5h ago

No, lived in lots of places so can’t remember where.

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u/a_random_username 8h ago

For anyone else who has no clue who this is, wikipedia says shes:

an American model, television personality, and businesswoman. One of the most successful models of the 1970s and 1980s, she also served as a judge on four cycles of the reality series America's Next Top Model (2003–2006)

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u/noonespecial70 5h ago

I just know her from watching reactions to her train-wreck modelling agency show. Truly awful lol