Random Most Tragic Celebrity Breakup Stories (19 items)

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  (#1) Ben Affleck

  • Actor

  The world was sad to learn about Ben Affleck and Jennifer Garner's 2015 split. What was to blame? It appears that Ben got a little too close to the couple's nanny. A source close to the couple told E! Online: "She has not forgiven him for things that have happened, but she's committed to keeping her children happy."
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  (#2) Jennifer Aniston

  • Actor

  By now we know what came between Jen and Brad — and her name is Angelina. Brad and Angelina Jolie met while filming Mr. & Mrs. Smith. The rest is celeb breakup history. 
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  (#3) Kermit the Frog

  As CNN reported, Kermit and Miss Piggy took to their respective Facebook pages to announce: "After careful thought, thoughtful consideration and considerable squabbling, Miss Piggy made the difficult decision to terminate our romantic relationship." The two have been a couple for 40 years, making this breakup one of the harder ones for fans. 
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  (#4) Homer Simpson

  • Fictional Character

  In the 2015 season premier of The Simpsons, it was announced that Homer Simpson has been suffering from narcolepsy all these years. The diagnosis caused Homer and Marge’s marriage to eventually fall apart. To make a bad situation even worse, Homer turned to his pharmacist, voiced by Girls creator Lena Dunham. It seems the two have since rekindled their romance. 
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  (#5) Blake Shelton

  • Band/Musician

  Country music's star couple divorced in July 2015, much to the dismay of fans. While it seems that things just fell apart for the couple, the rumor-mill was swirling with allegations that The Voice star had gotten close with his co-star Gwen Stefani, who was also going through a divorce from rocker Gavin Rossdale.
  
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  (#6) Gwen Stefani

  While the couple has maintained that the decision was mutual, according to TMZ, Gwen thought Gavin was cheating on her and also felt that he was spending too much time away from the family while touring. A source says Gavin, in turn, thought Gwen was being hypocritical because she was on the road too. 
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  (#7) Kristen Stewart

  • Actor

  Fans were so excited to hear that Bella Swan and Edward Cullen were actually a real-life couple. They were not excited to hear that Kristen Stewart cheated on Robert Pattinson with director Rupert Sanders in 2012. In an interview with The Daily Beast, Stewart said “it was incredibly painful.”
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  (#8) Tiger Woods

  • Golfer

  After learning of her pro-golfer husband's affair, Elin Nordegren chased him out of the house with a golf club. After seeing allegations of cheating in the National Enquirer, Nordegren did a little detective work, scrolling through Woods' phone and finding tons of evidence of his cheating ways. Cut to Woods being chased with a golf club by Nordegren and then crashing his Escalade into a fire hydrant.
  
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  (#9) Amy Poehler

  • Comedian

  It sounds like scheduling was the main reason behind Amy Poehler and Nick Kroll's divorce. “Unfortunately, they just couldn’t make the relationship work with their schedules,” a source told Inquistr. 
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  (#10) Nina Dobrev

  • Actor

  When Nina Dobrev and Ian Somerhalder broke up, the rumor mill wondered if it was because Somerhalder was being considered for Fifty Shades of Grey. But as Dobrev told E! News, "I've said this before, that we didn't break up because anything bad happened or because there wasn't love or friendship." 
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  (#11) Selena Gomez

  • Band/Musician

  Will we ever know the true story of what happened between Justin and Selena? After breaking up and making up numerous times, the two officially split in 2014. As she told Glamour magazine in September 2015, "It's all part of my story. I'm growing and changing. I was in a relationship, and I was being managed by my parents, and I was still under Hollywood and Disney, and I was being held to this expectation of being the good girl."
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  (#12) Anne Hathaway

  • Actor

  Hathaway and Follieri split in 2008 after the Italian businessman was convicted of defrauding investors out of millions of dollars. In an interview with ABC News, Follieri had this to say: "She was very sweet to me. We had, I think, a very nice relationship. I don't have anything bad to say."
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  (#13) Jordin Sparks

  It seems like the pressure of getting married led to the end of Jordin Sparks and Jason Derulo's relationship. The "Marry Me" singer told Ryan Seacrest during an interview that “there was a lot of pressures of marriage. There was a lot of arguing and stuff like that that just weighed on our relationship over time. When you stop having more good times than bad bad times, it’s time to call it quits. It becomes something that is unhealthy.”
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  (#14) Kelsey Grammer

  Kelsey Grammer and Camille Grammer's divorce played out on Real Housewives of Beverly Hills. The Frasier star had been cheating on her with stewardess Kayte Walsh. Adding salt to the wound, the Kelsey and Kayte eventually married.
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  (#15) Ashton Kutcher

  • Actor

  Rumors of Ashton's infidelity were mostly confirmed when Scott Eastwood dropped a bombshell during an appearance on Watch What Happens Live. When host Andy Cohen asked other guest, Jon Cryer, if it was weird working with Ashton on Two and a Half Men (Cryer dated Moore at one point), Eastwood interrupted saying, "If it makes you feel any better, he did sleep with one of my ex-girlfriends — but she was my current girlfriend at the time."
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  (#16) Rihanna

  • Band/Musician

  Even after he beat her up, Rihanna intially decided to stay with Chris Brown. The two have been on and off again since the 2009 incident. But as the singer later told Diane Sawyer, “When I realized that my selfish decision for love could result into some young girl getting [slain], I could not be easy with that part. I couldn’t be responsible … If Chris never hit me again, who’s to say that their boyfriend won’t … [slay] these girls.” 
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  (#17) Sophia Bush

  Filming scenes on One Tree Hill was admittedly hard after Chad Michael Murray allegedly cheated on Sophia Bush with Paris Hilton during the filming of House of Wax. But as Sophia said during an interview on Watch What Happens Live, "Look, at the end of the day, we were two stupid kids who had no business being in a relationship in the first place."
  
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  (#18) Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes

  • Notable Figure

  A Daily Mail article from March 2015 reveals that Tom and Katie are still not fond of each other after their 2012 divorce, and that they leave conversations about their daughter Suri to intermediaries. While the church denies any involvement in their relationship, it's long been suspected that Tom's Scientologist faith got in the way of the couple's relationship and that the church had labeled her a "Suppressive Person." 
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  (#19) Ariana Grande

  • Band/Musician

  Tension had been building for months between Ariana Grande and Big Sean, but according to Hollywood Life, Big Sean's song "Stay Down” was the straw that broke the camel's back. In it, the singer talks a lot about Ariana and the couple's pleasure life and even describes her lady parts.
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  (#20) Britney Spears

  • Band/Musician

  We kind of knew this relationship was headed for disaster. But it was so much fun to watch, especially when B. Spears and K. Fed put their relationship on display for their TV show Britney & Kevin: Chaotic. After allegations of infidelity on his part, she let him know she was divorcing him via text message.

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