“For your parents to be together for 20+ years and then your dad to leave for an actress that looks so much like your mum did when she was young…it’s just cruel.”

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"Rockstars cheat all the time, but this one bugged me the most because he spent years portraying himself as a dedicated family man. He always had his kids around him."

"I’m still a Foo Fighters fan, but I’m no longer a fan of Dave. Probably a lot of fans are in the same boat."

"Agreed. I honestly feel like having an affair with the nanny is such a low effort cliche. You couldn't even bother to get off the sofa to have an affair? Don't go fishing off the company pier. Have the courtesy to at least cheat with someone with a different zip code."

"Gavin Rossdale was my immediate answer. From the time I was a kid, I idolized him and Gwen Stefani as the coolest couple in the world, especially knowing how messed up her first breakup left her (from hearing it in her songs). They were together for so long. No reason I should have cared as much as I did, but it cut deep for some reason."

"They were long-time partners (14 years), and he cheated on her with their three children's nanny, who was 23 YEARS younger than him — discovered by Gwen when she found naked pics of the nanny on Gavin's tablet."

"Oh yeah, that was a huge one for me, too. He was always my example of a famous actor who managed to stay married and (seemingly) loyal. Sigh."

"Hugh Jackman and Sutton Foster, the home-wrecker (this isn't her first rodeo). Both of them absolutely disgust me now, especially him, since he always presented the perfect marriage in public. Sutton is equally at fault, of course, but Hugh knows what he's getting with her. Won't this be her third marriage?"

"This was the one I was scrolling for before posting. She supported him through his substance abuse and rehabs, and he went and messed around on her."

"The fact that she did not leave him totally took the wind out of the song 'Irreplaceable.' Disappointed she stayed."

In interviews, Jay-Z said they used the corresponding albums as a form of therapy to work out marital issues.

"Some of his adult children don’t speak to him. He is no Captain Picard."

"This is it for me. I had been a fan for a long time, and he always talked so glowingly about his wife and seemed like an honorable, good person. The fact that his daughter was so incredibly upset also showed how blindsided the family was by it. For your parents to be together for 20+ years and then your dad to leave for an actress that looks so much like your mum did when she was young…it’s just cruel. Then they have a baby. He starts a whole new life essentially and leaves his faithful, older wife behind; that’s really shameful on his part."

"And all three had roles in the Harry Potter movies, playing characters that never interact with each other throughout the series."

"I was born after his assassination and recall my mother speaking of her disappointment about him to teenage me. It must have been so exciting to be a Democrat (an American, too, I dare say?) at the start of the '60s, at least on a certain level. (I realize times are never 'good' except in the rearview mirror, of course.)"

"I remember him being on a talk show (I don’t know if there were restrictions on topics), and after two minutes, the host says, 'I’m sorry, but I have to ask, what the hell were you thinking?’ The entire audience erupted. I think everybody wanted to know. 😂"

"Having Elizabeth Hurley as your girlfriend and f*cking a crackwhore is like drinking the finest champagne and going: 'I wonder what drinking piss tastes like.'"

"He should have had to give the kidney back."

"I am from North Carolina and was still living there at the time. I'm also the right age to have had Kerry/Edwards be my very first election. I have never gotten over that affair. It was probably my first big 'celebrity disappointment,' and the fact Elizabeth was so popular didn't help."

"John Edwards. So much promise, he had it all. Then came his affair and child with Rielle Hunter that he denied. Elizabeth was also battling cancer. What a scumbag. Couldn’t keep it in his pants."

"And he cheated with his engaged employee, too. Damn near ruined the entire company. The Food Network show had just dropped, too, when all that went down."

"Still find it creepy that he called it a 'workplace relationship' rather than an affair and made special mention of it being 'consensual,' shortly after it all came out. How could he ever know that when he was her HR and wrote her paychecks?"

"So disgusting, honestly. She had just had their baby! And Ariana Grande was liking pictures that she posted. I can't believe she would go for him knowing that he was married. Obviously, that doesn't change the fact that he decided to do that."

"My young self was destroyed by Kristen Stewart and Robert Pattinson. 🙈"

"Dr. Seuss’s first wife, Helen Palmer, left him a suicide note after overdosing on barbiturates that is utterly heartbreaking: 'Dear Ted, What has happened to us? I don't know. I feel myself in a spiral, going down down down, into a black hole from which there is no escape, no brightness. And loud in my ears from every side I hear, 'failure, failure, failure...' I love you so much...I am too old and enmeshed in everything you do and are, that I cannot conceive of life without you... My going will leave quite a rumor, but you can say I was overworked and overwrought. Your reputation with your friends and fans will not be harmed... Sometimes, think of the fun we had all through the years...' Just eight months after she killed herself, he married his mistress."

"Letterman has always been a scummy douchebag, and his apology on TV was lame as fuck."

"He was such an over-the-top 'wife guy,' too."

"I saw him live last week, and more than half his set was about his wife and in-laws. He's still the 'wife' guy, just with a new one."

"TBH, when it came out, he was such an abusive asshole, I’m sure she felt it was a bullet dodged."

"Brad Pitt looks to get laid every day, no matter what his relationship status is. He also has about a 99% success rate. You don't get involved with Brad Pitt and expect fidelity."

"Yeah, Thurston and Kim Moore were the ultimate cool couple in the early '90s, and not only did they break up, they also broke up because he was a creepy, stereotypical rock star."

"And he didn't just trip and fall, he dug his own grave by proceeding to act like the worst douche on earth after it all came out."

"He didn’t come across like that because his reputation meant a lot to the media. I’ve spent many years working in various capacities at Pebble Beach. Even the stories people tell about him that aren’t supposed to make him look bad make him sound like an asshole."

"I’m old enough that Woody Allen really was a surprise. Especially leaving his girlfriend for a child that she raised practically with him. I don’t care if he’s her official adopted father, I don’t care if he’s the next-door neighbor, it’s creepy that he saw her as a child and then wanted her as his wife."

"He turned out to be so gross, too. I felt so bad for his wife, but at least she's able to do some good with the settlement."

"This news made me so shocked before, like how the fuck could you fumble that badly. Dude was so wholesome and loving, too, geez."

"That broke my heart for her. Not only is she a total knockout, but she also seems like such a sweet woman who really loved him. He fumbled BIG TIME."

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