Everybody dreams of interacting with their favorite celebrities.
But sometimes, encounters with superstars can lead to a lifetime of heartache - or worse.
Here's a look at some celebrities who ruined regular people's lives.
Mark Wahlberg
Before he rose to fame, Mark Wahlberg was a notable delinquent on the streets of Boston.
In 1986, the future Funky Bunch rapper was slapped with a civil rights injunction after
two separate incidents of hurling rocks and racial slurs at African-American school children.
The injunction warned Wahlberg that if he racially harassed someone again, he'd go to
jail.
Most people would take that as a warning, but Wahlberg seemed to take it as a challenge.
On April 8, 1988, Thanh Lam was getting out of his car when Wahlberg, who was 16 at the
time, approached him while carrying a large wooden stick.
According to the police report, Wahlberg shouted racist profanity at Lam before knocking him
unconscious with the stick.
While fleeing the police, Wahlberg then assaulted a second Vietnamese man.
And when Wahlberg was arrested later that night and brought back to the scene, he boasted
to police, "You don't have to let him identify me, I'll tell you now that's the motherf-----
whose head I split open."
Wahlberg was charged with attempted murder in the assaults, but after the charges were
reduced, he spent only 45 days in jail.
In 2014, Wahlberg requested a pardon for his criminal behavior, but later, dropped the
request after it spurred unwanted media attention about his past.
In 2016, he expressed regret for applying for the pardon, but according to The Wrap,
it did give him an opportunity to meet and apologize to one of his victims.
Val Chmerkovskiy
Dancing With the Stars performer Val Chmerkovskiy was sued in early 2016 by a 16-year-old girl
with Down syndrome who claimed the professional dancer published and popularized a 2014 meme
that made fun of her weight and shamed her parents.
The little girl's family said they discovered the mean meme when her sibling saw it on Chmerkovskiy's
Facebook page.
He deleted the post, but the family claimed the dancer helped the image go viral.
According to People, Chmerkovskiy responded to mass criticism on his Facebook, writing,
"I have no desire to discriminate or shame, I just think people should have a little more
knowledge and take more responsibility when it comes to their children's diet."
When news of the lawsuit broke in January 2016, Chmerkovskiy reportedly responded with
another dismissive Facebook meme, which according to The New York Post read, "Worry about your
character, not your reputation.
Your character is who you are.
Your reputation is who people think you are."
Unless, of course, people think you are an overweight girl with bad parents because a
celebrity told them so.
Charlie Sheen
In November 2015, Charlie Sheen revealed he was HIV positive on NBC's Today show.
Sheen said he had been living with an HIV diagnosis for about four years, and had paid
upward of $10 million in hush money to various alleged blackmailers in order to keep it a
secret from the public.
However, he also kept the secret from many of his romantic partners, and while Sheen
has maintained that precautions were taken, for him to keep partners in the dark about
his own status was dangerous to them and damaging to Sheen's character.
A woman who claimed to be Sheen's madam told Radar Online he could have put as many as
20 prostitutes at risk because of his behavior.
The madam said she had also been contacted by a number of panic stricken women concerned
they had been infected due to Sheen's dangerously selfish behavior.
"He could have privately called and told the partners that he had HIV or he could have
told me at some point and given me the opportunity to make an educated decision from a point
of full disclosure as to whether or not I wanted to do business with him!"
Vince Neil
In December 1984, Motley Crue lead singer Vince Neil caused an automobile accident that
claimed the life of his friend Nicholas Dingley of the band Hanoi Rocks, and severely injured
two others in the second car involved.
Neil, who had a blood-alcohol count of .17, well over the legal limit, was charged with
vehicular manslaughter and DUI, but got off with a slap on the wrist.
He told Blender magazine,
"I wrote a $2.5 million check for vehicular manslaughter when Razzle died.
I should have gone to prison.
I definitely deserved to go to prison.
But I did 30 days in jail and got laid and drank beer, because that's the power of cash.
That's f---ed up."
While the band later publicly spoke out about the dangers of drinking and driving, the incident
hasn't stopped stop Neil from getting in trouble with the law for driving drunk multiple times
since.
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