15 Stars Who Went Crazy And Got Fired

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Charlie Sheen

Hollywood isn't always what it's cracked up to be. Sometimes the characters playing best friends on screen actually hate each other in real life. The Drama that goes on when the camera is not rolling is often what tears apart a well functioning television show. Check out some huge stars that went crazy and ended up getting canned. 

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The lifestyle that Charlie Sheen was eventually going to have its consequences. He was the star of the television show Two and a Half Men when he decided to attack the show's creators in a little more crazy or style that was usual for the actor. He went on an anti-Semitic rant calling them all sorts of names and even physically threatened them. Needless to say this show fired Charlie from the show and killed of his character in a very crazy way. 

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Anne Hathaway

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Anne Hathaway what's supposed to be in the movie Knocked Up but she did not want to do a childbirth scene because she had never experienced childbirth in real life. She claim that it would be an insult to mothers trying to act out childbirth when never having experienced it herself. She would end up being fired and replaced with Katherine Heigl. 

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Harvey Keitel

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Harvey Keitel was rumored to have been originally cast as Captain Willard in Apocalypse Now. He was reportedly fired though because he struggled to play the character as a positive person. The actor was just off a fresh performance in the film, Mean Streets. 

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Damon Wayans

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Damon Wayans made one very large decision in his first year on the hit comedy show Saturday Night Live that resulted in him being released. Wayans decided 192 go away Off Script and Alive sketch and decided to play a flamboyantly gay cop rather than a straight up like he was supposed to. The SNL team did not appreciate the actor going rogue so they decided to let him go. It did not end up hurting his career but even Wayans today admits that was a pretty naive move.

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Columbus Short

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Columbus Short was the star of the TV show Scandal. The actor ended up going psychotic and has been arrested on assault charges and domestic abuse charges on more than one occasion. His most recent altercation with the law resulted in a restraining order from his wife and him being fired from the television show. It was a well-deserved move seeing as he held a knife to his wife's throat and threatened to kill her. 

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Lindsay Lohan

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Lindsay is one of the crazier ones on our list who is just getting into it over and over again. Being that young and living the lavish lifestyle isn't necessarily as easy as it seems. She lost out on quite a few roles due to her problems with drugs and alcohol. The Edge of Love, A Woman of No Importance, Poor Things and The Other Side are just among a few of the films the actress/singer has been fired from due to her party life and being incapable of separating it from her professional life. 

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Isaiah Washington

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Isaiah Washington was once a star of the hit TV show Grey's Anatomy until he decided to call his co-star a homophobic slur. As a result the show runners were quick to fire him from the cast. Washington later defended himself at the Golden Globe Awards stating that he never called his co-star what he was accused of calling him. 

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Jean-Claude Van Damme

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Jean-Claude Van Damme was originally cast to play the role of the predator in the movie Predator. He showed up to set confused because he had to dress up in a big red suit. He would complain relentlessly about the look saying that you look like a superhero. Eventually he was replaced along with the suit. 

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Judy Garland

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Judy Garland was originally cast to play the role of Helen Lawson in the movie Valley of the Dolls. It was even rumored that the character of Neely O'Hara was based on Judy's real life. In the early days of filming however Garland was show up late, drunk, and disorderly. Eventually the filmmakers fired her because of her vices. 

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Megan Fox

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Megan Fox was a large reason for many teenage boys going to the movies over and over again to watch their favorite robots in disguise. The actress got into some beef with producer Michael Bay and said some not so pleasant things about him publicly. This is the reason why Sam has a brand new girlfriend out of nowhere in the 3rd installment of the Transformers franchise. The to her since called a truce and have worked together again. 

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Ryan Gosling

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Ryan Gosling was originally cast to play the role of Susie Salmon's father in the movie Lovely Bones. Gosling had envisioned the character being 60 pound heavier then he currently was, a vision which he neglected to share with the director Peter Jackson. so Ryan Gosling thought it would be a good idea to go home and start showing some ice cream and proceeded to gain 60 pounds of pure fat. As Soon as he showed up on set he was fired. 

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Peter Dinklage

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Everyone now knows of Peter Dinklage from staying in one of the most popular current television shows on HBO Game of Thrones. When Tyrion was announced as the voice of a companion in the video game Destiny, fans work Beyond excited. He ended up being replaced but the game makers suggest that their decision to have Nolan North redo all of the lines of dialog for the game’s expansion has only to do with Tyrion’s busy schedule. 

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Richard Gere

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Richard Gere was fired from the set of Lord of Flatbush because he was foolish enough to piss off his cast member Sylvester Stallone. Balboa had instructed Gere not to each his greasy chicken sandwich yet the actor was crazy enough to go into Stallone's Toyota and do it anyway. The two ended up getting in a physical altercation and the filmmakers decided to release the gear and keep Stallone fresh off of his success from playing the role of Rocky Balboa. 

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Suzanne Sommers

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Suzanne Somers played the role of the Dead Sea and beautiful blonde roommates on the hit television sitcom Three's Company. The television show launcher to him and she became a Megastar but she became angry when she found out that her co-star John Ritter was making five times the amount she was. After four seasons on the show she demanded a 500% pay increase but would eventually end up getting fired as a result of her greed. 

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Shannen Doherty

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Shannen Doherty has been fired from 2 different hit television shows. Those shows were Beverly Hills 90210 and Charmed. The actress has been accused of being very spoiled but almost everyone she has ever worked with. It was even reported that she wants complained about being picked up in a town car instead of a limo. 

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