11 Jaw-Dropping Celebrity Cheating Scandals
Get your daily dose of drama by looking back at some of the most infamous celebrity cheating incidents.
If there are two things that gossips love in this world, it's celebrities and scandals, so a celebrity cheating scandal is their holy grail. While watching your favorite A-list couples split can be hard for their diehard fans, let's face it: relationships are complicated and no one is perfect. But for stars, their mistakes become front-page news. Here's a list of some of the wildest celebrity infidelity stories that shocked fans around the world.
Instagram model and influencer, Sumner Stroh, 23, shared a TikTok video claiming that she and Adam Levine had an affair while the musician was still married to Behati Prinsloo. With more than 16 million views, Stroh provides screenshots of exchanged Instagram messages to back her story in which the “Moves Like Jagger” singer asks if he could name his baby Sumner. Soon after Stroh’s video went viral, Levine shares an apology on Instagram, writing, “I used poor judgement in speaking with anyone other than my wife in ANY kind of flirtatious manner. I did not have an affair, nevertheless, I crossed the line during a regrettable period in my life. In certain instances it became inappropriate." However, two more women have come forward with alleged flirtations from the singer.
While the world is wrapped up in Bennifer (the other one) right now, lest we forget that Ben Affleck was once, in a soap-operatic turn of events, caught cheating on Jennifer Garner, the mother of his children and wife of 10 years, with the nanny. The couple divorced in 2018.
Kevin Hart's infidelity story is a little bit more complicated than being caught with the nanny or exposed on Instagram—he was actually being extorted. After denying any wrongdoing, he took to Instagram in 2017 to apologize to his wife Eniko Parrish and his kids. It was then later revealed that someone was in possession of a sexually-explicit video of Hart and was attempting to receive money from him. Hart and Parrish stayed together, and he spoke about it on a podcast in 2020.
This cheating saga has unfortunately been one of the longest of modern times. After having been caught cheating on Khloé Kardashian just days before the birth of their daughter True, Tristan Thompson has subsequently gone on to publicly cheat on Kardashian on several additional occasions, even fathering a child in the midst.
When you think of a cheating scandal—you probably think of this one. Tiger Woods was the center of one of the most explosive and scandalous cheating revelations of the early aughts. His serial cheating became public knowledge on Thanksgiving in 2009.
When Arnold Schwarzenegger and Maria Shriver announced their separation in 2011, after 25 years of marriage, it was a shock to everyone. The bigger shock however came later when the world found out that Schwarzenegger was the father of a son born in 1997, mothered by the couple's housekeeper at the time.
One of the hottest couples in Hollywood at the time found themselves being dissolved by infidelity. In the midst of their still fresh engagement, news surfaced that Jude Law had been having an affair with—that's right—the nanny. The affair was revealed when the nanny's diary was leaked to the public in 2005. The pair stayed together on and off until splitting for good in 2011.
When Beyoncé dropped Lemonade, it was clear that the marriage between the two had suffered from some sort of infidelity. Although the visual album was filled with both visual and musical references to extramarital affairs, it wasn't entirely explicit until Jay-Z dropped 4:44 in which he apologizes to both Beyoncé and his daughter, Blue. After months of internet sleuths working to uncover "Becky with the good hair," many in the Beehive believe that she was referring to fashion designer Rachel Roy.
When Kristen Stewart and Robert Pattinson met on the set of Twilight, the two quickly became romantically involved. Their dreamy relationship came to a halt when paparazzi photos were released of Stewart engaged in some heavy-duty PDA with film director Rupert Sanders. The photos were everywhere—even Donald Trump had a lot to say about the incident—and Stewart was forced to publicly apologize to Pattinson. Unfortunately, shortly thereafter, the pair had to complete the press tour for their film Twilight: Breaking Dawn—Part 2.
Although this scandal turned out to be not true (thank GOD), it created one of the craziest 24 hours on the internet. The rumor alleged that A$AP Rocky cheated on Rihanna, who is close to giving birth to their first child, with her friend, shoe designer Amina Muaddi. Sources close to the couple as well as Muaddi herself have denied the allegations, and the person who started the rumor has publicly apologized.
Emily Ratajkowski and her husband Sebastian Bear-McClard are splitting up, supposedly due to McClard's infidelity. While no official statement has been released, the model has been liking clever tweets surrounding their split for the past two days. One tweet read, "Girls, how are we celebrating Emrata's divorce." Ratajkowski also liked a tweet that stated, "can't believe that little bitch cheated on emrata." Many fans are taking her likes as confirmation of the cheating rumors.
