As a society, we tend to put celebrities on a kind of pedestal. On an almost unconscious level, we expect our favorite movie, music, and television stars to be free of normal human flaws.
Unfortunately, many of your favorite celebs have some wild flaws. And we know this because of the most surprising sources: their nannies!
Celebrity nannies have dirt on the biggest stars in Hollywood. Keep reading to learn more about their most disturbing confessions!
Rob Lowe
Rob Lowe is no stranger to scandals, though by 2008, many thought those wild days were behind him. But that was the year that Lowe’s nanny hit him with a whopping 12 allegations, including labor code violations and even sexual assault. According to People, Lowe’s ex-nanny, Jessica Gibson, also claimed that Lowe’s wife Sheryl had harassed her as well.
In turn, Lowe claimed that Gibson was trying to blackmail him for $1.5 million dollars. And after he went public with his claim and a judge ended up dropping some of the labor code violation charges, it looked like Lowe was in the clear, especially after Gibson dropped her lawsuit.
However, People reports that a second nanny, Laura Boyce, brought forth her own sexual harassment allegations against Sheryl. The nanny claimed the woman kept saying “racial and sexual epithets,” though her lawsuit and the Lowes’ countersuit against her were eventually dismissed.
Mick Jagger
Some of these celebrity nanny confessions seem a bit more logical than others. For example, Mick Jagger’s former nanny to his son, Gabriel, claimed in 2002 that the Rolling Stones rock star had an affair with her.
In a tell-all interview with the Mirror, the nanny, Claire Verity, claimed Jagger had an affair with her less than 48 hours after they first met. In fact, she painted a lurid picture of meeting Jagger when he was naked and fresh out of the shower.
“I have to say he’s pretty well endowed,” she said. Describing one particular lovemaking session, she claimed, “He hitched me up onto the breakfast bar, and he pulled down my jogger bottoms. We kissed passionately; my head was swimming. The next thing I remember, he was making love to me.”
In case you were wondering, Verity has no regrets about the affair. “After all, I was with one of the sexiest stars on the planet,” she said. As for Jagger, he denied all of her claims.
Mariah Carey
Mariah Carey is one of the most beloved singers of all time and the undisputed queen of Christmas tunes. But according to former nanny Simonette DeCosta, Carey is also the queen of not paying her bills.
According to ABC News, DeCosta often worked over 100 hours a week watching the twins that Carey shares with her now ex-husband Nick Cannon. The nanny claims she was on call 24/7 and often went without any kind of break, but she wasn’t properly compensated for all the overtime. Furthermore, Carey went on to fire the nanny “after berating her for exhibiting too much affection towards her children.”
Eventually, DeCosta reached an undisclosed settlement with Carey. And as for the singer, she eventually became much more open about the high demands she has for nannies and how often she ends up firing them.
“I fire nannies like this,” she said, snapping her fingers, in a 2014 interview with Power 105.1’s The Breakfast Club. “And I hate doing it, but I have to because if they try to make themselves more important in the baby’s mind than me…”
Victoria and David Beckham
Since they got married in 1999, David and Victoria Beckham’s relationship has generated continuous controversy. And in 2005, their former nanny Abbie Gibson decided to make things worse by spilling all the tea on their relationship in exchange for cold, hard cash.
The Daily Mail reports that the former nanny shared her tales of the Beckhams with News of the World (a publication no longer in print) for about $300,000. She claimed to see the couple constantly bickering and that David’s cheating really threatened the stability of their relationship. Gibson really got into the dirty details, revealing that Beckham had allegedly cheated on his wife with a beautician, a personal assistant, and a third woman as well.
The Beckhams hit back, suing Gibson for a breach of confidence, resulting in her eventually issuing an apology in 2009. Meanwhile, the Beckhams ended up getting an undisclosed amount of money from the News of the World, a publication that had profited nicely from their family drama.
Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman
Most of the disturbing nanny confessions involved very specific allegations. However, in one case, a former nanny’s offhand observation ended up generating a ton of scandal and controversy.
The nanny in question is Suzanne Hansen, a celebrity nanny who has previously worked with stars like Danny DeVito and Rhea Perlman. She eventually decided to write her own tell-all book with a fitting title: You’ll Never Nanny in this Town Again. And in that book, she dropped a juicy little detail about Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman.
All Hansen really did was point out that she didn’t really see Nicole Kidman around when taking care of the adopted children that Kidman shares with Tom Cruise. This led to rampant online rumors and speculation about Kidman not putting much effort into motherhood.
However, it’s tougher than usual to verify the truth of Hansen’s claims. In addition to the fact that Hansen doesn’t appear to have been the children’s direct nanny, Hollywood.com points out that Cruise’s nannies had to sign a confidentiality agreement so strict that they “couldn’t even say for whom they were working.” So even if she was their direct nanny, she would not be able to say so, leaving her allegations against Kidman something of a loose end among Hollywood gossips.
The lesson is try working with people you trust
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