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We asked the BuzzFeed Community to share the celebrities they lost respect for, and they were very opinionated. Here are some of the most insightful replies: Warning: This post includes topics of sexual assault. 1. “I lost respect for The Rock after he showed support for Joe Rogan.” Jeff Kravitz / FilmMagic “In early 2022, Rogan posted a video on Instagram addressing people who felt his podcast spread misinformation about COVID, and Johnson commented, ‘Great stuff here brother. Perfectly articulated. Look forward to coming on one day and breaking out the tequila with you.’ That showed us his true colors of him there. He only backtracked when he found out about the video of Rogan saying the N-word.” Jc Olivera / WireImage / Getty Images 2. “James Woods. Absolutely fantastic actor, but he’s also a Trump supporter, and he tweeted really awful things about a gender-nonconforming child.” Slaven Vlasic / Getty Images During Pride month of 2017, James Woods tweeted a photo of two parents celebrating their gender-creative child. Woods captioned the picture: “This is sweet. Wait until this poor kid grows up, realizes what you’ve done, and stuffs both of you dismembered into a freezer in the garage.” Jon Kopaloff / FilmMagic / Getty Images 3. “Ellen Pompeo. I have totally separated her from Meredith, her character on Grey’s Anatomy. Especially after she made some comments about Harvey Weinstein and his accusers that sounded like victim blaming.” Amy Sussman / Getty Images In a 2018 interview, Ellen Pompeo said that she once did go into a room with Harvey Weinstein and had a half-hour conversation with him. “He did nothing inappropriate toward me. Now had he, I would’ve picked up that glass and smashed him across the side of the face with it. It’s all what we’re willing to tolerate. And our self-esteem: What are we going to put up with…to be accepted. How bad do you want to be in show business?” Gotham / WireImage / Getty Images Pompeo, in 2020, went on Twitter to say that she had not known Weinstein was a rapist at the time of the interview, although the interview happened months after the allegations against him came out. She stated that she did not start following the news about Weinstein until the trial began. Raymond Liu / ABC via Getty Images 4. “Michael Jackson. Yes, I know he was never convicted, but in 2019, he was accused of sexually abusing at least two men when they were children in the ’80s and ’90s.” Justin Sullivan / Getty Images 5. “I used to really like Matt Lauer. He really made The Today Show, until I found out about his sexual misconduct allegations in 2017 and his sexual assault allegations of him in 2019.” Bravo / NBCU Photo Bank / NBCUniversal via Getty Images 6. “I used to defend Katy Perry. Then Katy tricked a contestant on American Idol to kiss her on the lips in 2018, and I found that so wrong.” Eric Mccandless / ABC via Getty Images In Benjamin Glaze’s audition, he told the judges that he had never been kissed. Katy Perry called him over to her, and he gave her a kiss on her cheek. Perry complained, so Glaze agreed to do it again. When he leaned in the second time, Perry surprised him with a kiss on her lips. ABC Benjamin said he was “a tad bit uncomfortable” by her kiss, and if Perry had asked to kiss him, he would have said no because he wanted his first kiss from her to be special. ABC 8. “John Barrowman. There are claims that he exposed himself several times on set over a decade. It’s been talked about for a while, but it popped up again after his Doctor Who cast-mate Noel Clarke was accused of sexual harassment in 2021.” Karwai Tang / WireImage Barrowman described his actions as ‘silly behavior,’ not sexual harassment. Karwai Tang / WireImage / Getty Images 9. “When I found out William Shatner supported Autism Speaks, I lost a LOT of respect for him.” Michael Loccisano / Getty Images for SXSW On World Autism Awareness Day in 2017, William Shatner tweeted out a graphic that was part of a campaign from Autism Speaks. Autism Speaks is a controversial autism advocacy organization that many people feel stigmatizes autism because they paint it as a scary disease that needs a cure. Frazer Harrison / Getty Images for SXSW 10. “Paula Deen and Hulk Hogan because using the N-word in private does not make it any less egregious.” Tara Ziemba / Jerod Harris / Getty Images In 2013, Paula Deen admitted to using the N-word in her deposition in a lawsuit. When asked if she ever used the N-word, she replied, “Yes, of course.” She explained that she used it “when a Black man burst into the bank that I was working at and put a gun to my head.” She said, “I didn’t feel real favorable toward him,” referring to the robber. Tara Ziemba / Getty Images When asked if she used it since then, she said, “I’m sure I have, but it’s been a very long time.” Slaven Vlasic / Getty Images Hulk Hogan was caught using the N-word in a 2012 radio interview that resurfaced in 2015. Jerod Harris / Getty Images 11. “Ryan Reynolds. He and Blake Lively got married on a slave plantation. I think some research could’ve been done beforehand, perhaps.” Gotham / Getty Images In 2012, Reynolds and Lively got married at Boone Halle in South Carolina. It’s a slave plantation that has also become a popular wedding venue. Joe Sohm / Universal Images Group via Getty Images In 2020, Reynold expressed regret saying, “It’s something we’ll always be deeply and unreservedly sorry for,” he said. “It’s impossible to reconcile.” Alberto E. Rodriguez / Getty Images 12. “Deshaun Watson. I’m a Clemson alumni and die-hard fan of the football team. But his 22 accusations of sexual misconduct are not something I can ignore.” Diamond Images / Diamond Images / Getty Images 13. And lastly, “Sean Connery. I used to love his movies, but then I read about a comment he made decades ago in a 1965 interview about how it was fine to hit women if they’ re ‘hysterical.'” Stephen Shugerman / Getty Images for AFI In 1987, he doubled down on this when Barbara Walters questioned what he said, about hitting a woman with a closed fist, and he said, “I haven’t changed my opinion .” He then continued to say that he believes that some circumstances merit slapping women. View this video on YouTube US&A TV / youtube.com
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