Celebrity interviews can be a minefield of embarrassing moments, awkward questions, and random surprises. From verbal slip-ups to full-on walkouts, these 16 painfully cringeworthy moments with celebrities will make you fidget in your seat and doubt everything you thought you knew about your favorite stars.
Dakota Johnson on Ellen
Ellen made a prize fool of herself with a backhanded remark that Johnson didn’t invite her to her birthday party when she did.
Johnson called her out on it, saying, “Actually Ellen, that’s not true,” to which Ellen would go on to remember that she was, in fact, invited, but by then, the interview had turned visibly sour.
Joan Rivers on CNN
Rivers famously walked out of a CNN interview when the reporter jokingly called her “mean” for her Fashion Police critiques.
Rivers took umbrage with this remark and proceeded to mop the floor with the interviewer before storming off.
Avril Lavigne on Popworld
In a case of severely bad chemistry, pop singer Lavigne certainly didn’t bounce off of Alex Zane’s questions.
In her defense, Zane asked her about being proposed to in Venice by saying, “Isn’t it true Venice smells of eggs?” to which Lavigne looked like she wanted to leave there and then.
Cara Delevingne on Good Morning Sacramento
The interview totaled around four minutes but could have been four hours, owing to how uncomfortable it was.
The reporter opened the interview by mispronouncing Delevingne’s name as “Carla,” and it all went rapidly downhill from there.
Lady Gaga on Tonight With Jonathan Ross
At the beginning of her career, Gaga performed a series of interviews where she behaved like something of an oddity.
This was one of them. She appeared with a teacup and seemed to deliberately make the interview awkward by acting intentionally bonkers.
Dakota Johnson at the Oscars
Johnson again, but again – not her fault!
While appearing on the Oscars red carpet with Mom Melanie Griffith, the reporter asked questions about Fifty Shades of Gray, which made Griffith uncomfortable – which in turn, irritated Johnson.
Meg Ryan on Michael Parkinson
Ryan handled this prickly, accusatory interview like a pro, despite Parkinson’s apparent attempts at poking the bear.
Ryan later called out the interviewer and likened him to a “disapproving father.”
Madonna on Letterman
Madge is not one to suffer fools gladly – or inappropriate questions.
As well as fielding questions about her private life, she awkwardly sat through an interview with Letterman, repeatedly trying to get her to kiss a male audience member.
Anne Hathaway on Extra
Extra host, Jerry Penacoli, decided that Hathaway’s physique and catsuit should be the key focus of an interview about Catwoman.
After gracefully answering questions about both, Hathaway quipped, “Are you trying to lose weight? Are you trying to fit into a catsuit?”
Scarlett Johannson on Extra
Penacoli crops up again for his inappropriate and irrelevant questions about female stars’ costumes.
Johansson famously called out the Extra host when he felt the need to ask whether she could wear underwear beneath her Black Widow costume.
Samuel L. Jackson on KTLA
When the KTLA entertainment host infamously mixed the Pulp Fiction star up with actor Laurence Fishburne, Jackson locked his jaw in and didn’t let go until there was blood.
Jackson repeatedly referenced this gaffe throughout the interview and quipped that the host best do his research so he doesn’t “confuse any of the white actors he interviews.”
Sean Connery on Barbara Walters
This interview appeared in 1987, and Walters wasn’t letting Connery off the hook about previous misogynistic remarks made in the past.
Walters referenced a quote that hitting a woman is okay if the situation merits it, to which Connery confessed he still held that view. The rest of the interview was conducted through Walters’s gritted teeth.
Taylor Swift at the 2015 Grammys
For some reason, a red carpet reporter said to Swift she felt that the singer would be walking home with more than an award and insisting it would be with “lots of men.”
Swift clapped back, “I’m not walking home with any man. I’m going to hang out with my friends, then I’m going home to my cats.”
Jennifer Aniston on Letterman
Letterman, who has something of a reputation for being a total creep to his female guests, exercised that flex with gusto when interviewing Aniston in 1998.
For reasons entirely unfathomable, Letterman decided to suck on a piece of Aniston’s hair. Just took it in his mouth and sucked it… because… who knows.
Vin Diesel on Carol Moreira
Diesel was promoting xXx when he was interviewed by Brazilian YouTuber Carol Moreira.
Halfway through the interview, Diesel began referring to her as beautiful. By the end, he was kneeling at her feet, calling her “sexy,” while Moreira was visibly uncomfortable.
Britney Spears on Diane Sawyer
During the #FreeBritney movement, footage resurfaced of Spears being interviewed by Diane Sawyer, and many people demanded Sawyer apologize for her conduct.
The disastrous interview seemed to take the side of a woman who wanted to shoot Spears because she was a “bad role model” to young girls.
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