Affairs are common in all industries, but sometimes it feels like they happen — or at least go public — even more often in Hollywood. Celebrity cheating scandals are so commonplace that we sometimes forget that they're real people going through real heartbreak.
When a celebrity is caught cheating, their PR team might work to make excuses, deny the affairs, and do whatever they need to recover their reputation. But every so often, the celebrity does a novel thing — they admit it.
These 13 celebrities publicly admitted to their affairs — whether they came clean on their own or were initially outed by others — and accepted any negative press that might bring them.
Kevin Hart cheated on his pregnant wife.
In an interview with The Breakfast Club and previously on his Instagram, Kevin Hart admitted to cheating on his then-pregnant wife Eniko Parrish. It was later reported that a friend of Hart's had been charged with blackmailing him for a large sum of money and allegedly threatened to release a sex tape of the actor.
"I'm gonna go home, I'm gonna address it, I'm gonna make my wife fully aware of what's going on in the situation that I have now put us in," Hart said in a 2017 interview with Power 105.1 FM's The Breakfast Club. "I'm hoping that she has a heart to where she can forgive me and understand that this is not going to be a reoccurring thing and allow me to recover from my f------ massive mistake. That's what I'm trying to do not only as a man, but within teaching a lesson to my son."
Ryan Phillippe cheated with a co-star.
It's rumored that Reese Witherspoon found out about husband Ryan Phillippe's affair after reading texts between him and "Stop Loss" co-star Abbie Cornish. Though they don't speak about it often, he did tell W Magazine that the marriage was having problems before his affair.
"It was unfair for her [Cornish] to be called the names that she was, because it wasn't about that," Phillippe told the publication in 2008. "I don't think an outside person can ever cause a divorce. I had difficulties in my relationship, and in my marriage, long before I ever met her."
Kris Jenner has admitted to infidelity publicly.
Kris Jenner, on an episode of "Keeping Up with the Kardashians," admitted that she had a boyfriend when she first got involved with Robert Kardashian. Not only that, but her boyfriend actually caught the two of them in the act.
"I actually had a boyfriend who was always out of town," Jenner said in a 2018 episode. "His name was Cesar. So while he was living on the road, I met Robert Kardashian. Robert came over one day when Cesar was out of town … Cesar came home to surprise me. Well, it wasn't pretty. Not proud of it."
In her 2011 memoir, Jenner confessed to cheating on Kardashian as well — this time with a man who she calls "Ryan" in the book, but who has been reported to be professional soccer player Todd Waterman.
"He kissed me and I kissed him back … I hadn't been kissed like that in 10 years. It made me feel young, attractive, sexy, and alive," she wrote.
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