By otakuyassine3@gmail.com 
When you read or watch a celebrity interview, it generally seems safe to assume you can take their words at face value. However, fans forget that many of these people are actors — they basically lie for a living. So, sometimes, they might embellish an answer…or make it up completely out of nowhere.
Here are 11 funny times celebs admitted to lying in interviews:
1.THE LIE: When Robert Pattinson appeared on The Late Show with David Letterman in 2009, he shared a story about having dinner with his stalker, who had such a bad time that she stopped stalking him afterwards.
Here’s the full clip, with this part starting at the 1:50 mark:
THE TRUTH: In 2024, he confirmed to the New York Times that the stalker story was a fabrication.
He said, “The only thing people would ever ask me about was being famous. You go into, like, a fugue state.”
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2.THE LIE: In 2009, Robert Pattinson reportedly told Extra that he didn’t “really see the point in washing your hair” or particularly “care if it’s clean or not.”
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THE TRUTH: In 2022, he told MovieMaker, “[What I said about not working out is] the same thing as saying in an interview when I was like 21 that I didn’t wash my hair.”
“It just sticks for 15 years,” he added.
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3.THE LIE: Appearing on Today in 2011, Robert Pattison told a dark story in response to a question about wanting to “run away and join the circus” as a kid.
Here’s the full clip:
THE TRUTH: The following week, a reporter asked him about the story during a press event in Germany. He reportedly replied, “I said those things. But I actually made the whole thing up. It’s coming back to haunt me. I said it on some show. It was really early in the morning, the day after the New York premiere. Someone asked me what my experience with the circus was and I was like, ‘I have nothing interesting to say.’ I don’t know why I said that!”
Then, in 2024, he told the New York Times that he’d recently watched the clown story clip back.
He said, “There was absolutely no hesitation at all [in my voice],” he says with a combination of pride and alarm. “I’m like, ‘What on earth? Are you possessed?'”
He added that he lied out of boredom.
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4.THE LIE: When Robert Pattinson appeared on Jimmy Kimmel Live! in 2011, the host brought up the actor’s often-repeated story about a former stint as a hand model.
THE TRUTH: With his mother in the audience, Robert couldn’t keep up the lie.
She even debunked it herself.
Here’s the full clip, with this part starting at the 2:13 mark:
5.THE LIE: In 2020, Robert Pattinson told GQ that he ignored the trainer the studio hired and was “barely doing anything” in terms of working out for The Batman. He said, “I think if you’re working out all the time, you’re part of the problem.”
He continued, “You set a precedent. No one was doing this in the ’70s. Even James Dean — he wasn’t exactly ripped.”
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THE TRUTH: Two years later, he told MovieMaker that he’d been joking to GQ. He said, “That really came back to haunt me. I just always think it’s really embarrassing to talk about how you’re working out. I think it’s like an English thing. Unless you are in the most unbelievable shape, where people are just genuinely curious, going, ‘How have you achieved, like, physical perfection?’ or whatever.”
He continued, “You’re playing Batman. You have to work out. I think I was doing the interview when I was in lockdown, as well, in England…I was in a lower gear of working out.”
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6.THE LIE: In 2015, Suki Waterhouse told Us Weekly, “I rinse my hair with Coca-Cola sometimes.”
“I don’t like my hair when it’s washed — it’s fine and limp — but Coca-Cola makes it tousled, like I’ve gone through the Amazon or something,” she said.
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THE TRUTH: In 2022, a fan on Twitter asked Suki if she still rinsed her hair with soda, so she admitted to making up the strange beauty secret.
7.THE LIE: In her 2020 Architectural Digest house tour, Dakota Johnson gushed over her big bowl of limes.
Here’s the full video, with this part happening at the 4:58 mark:
THE TRUTH: Appearing on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon a year later, Dakota admitted the viral moment couldn’t have been less true.
Here’s the full clip, with this part starting at the 0:18 mark:
8.THE LIE: In 2023, Dakota Johnson told the Wall Street Journal, “Sleep is my number one priority in life…I’m not functional if I get less than 10. I can easily go 14 hours.”
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THE TRUTH: A few months later, in early 2024, she told Bustle, “I know I’ve exaggerated in this interview, and you can tell that I’m exaggerating because you see my face. If it’s written down, it’s hard. But it’s fine. I got into a funny little fight with somebody. I was really annoyed by everyone in the world talking about my sleep schedule, and someone that I know was like, ‘But do you really sleep 14 hours a night? That’s amazing.’ And I was like, ‘Did you read the article, or did you just read the fucking headline? Asshole.’ I bit her head off.”
“I don’t have a nine-to-five job, so I don’t wake up at the same time every day. Some days if I’m shooting, I’m waking up at 3 o’clock in the morning, and I work a 17-hour day, and then when I’m not working, I sleep a lot because I am fucking exhausted. Or I’m depressed. So just like, everybody, fuck off,” she said.
She also said that lying to the press is “the most fun.”
She said, “Sometimes, when you’re in a ridiculous situation, you just have to be ridiculous.”
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9.THE LIE: During the early days of One Direction, Liam Payne and Louis Tomlinson told an interviewer that Niall Horan was dating Carly Rae Jepsen.
Liam said, “Did you hear that Niall and Carly Rae Jepsen are together?”
Louis said, “They’ve slept together! They’ve slept together!”
The interviewer asked, “When did this start?”
Liam answered, “You know, they kind of just met each other.”
Louis added, “They met online!”
You can watch the full clip here.
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THE TRUTH: Speaking to Sirius XM in 2019, Niall lightheartedly called out Louis for starting the rumor.
Appearing on Sirius XM a few weeks later, Louis reacted to Niall’s clip and reminisced on how much fun they used to have making things up in interviews.
Here’s the full clip:
10.THE LIE: At the 2024 Twisters premiere, Paul Scheer told a red carpet interviewer, “I’ve aged great since the first Twister. A lot of people don’t know that I had a small part in that. One of the background people was pregnant. That was my mom, and now, I’m the legacy character.”
“I’ve come back,” he said.
You can watch the full clip here.
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THE TRUTH: Later, on the podcast Lovett or Leave It, he hilariously called out how ridiculous it was that people took him seriously, as he was born in 1976.
In reality, he had a small cameo as an airport traffic police officer.
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Here’s the full video, with this part starting at the 15:20 mark:
11.And finally, THE LIE: In 2021, Andrew Garfield repeatedly shut down speculation that he was going to cameo in Spider-Man: No Way Home. For example, on the Happy Sad Confused podcast, he was very adamant that the rumors weren’t true.
Here’s the full clip:
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THE TRUTH: When Spider-Man: No Way Home premiered, the truth was out — Andrew had been keeping his appearance in the movie a secret all along. In 2022, he told The Wrap, “It was stressful, I’m not gonna lie. It was rather stressful but also weirdly enjoyable.”
He continued, “It was like this massive game of Werewolf that I was playing with journalists and with people guessing, and it was very fun.
There were moments where I was like, ‘God, I hate lying.’ I don’t like to lie, and I’m not a good liar, but I kept framing it as a game. And I kept imagining myself purely as a fan of that character, which is not hard to do.
I placed myself in that position of, Well, what would I want to know? Would I want to be toyed with? Would I want to be lied to? Would I want to be kept on my toes guessing? Would I want to discover it when I went to the theater? Would I want to be guessing, guessing, guessing?
I would want the actor to do an incredibly good job at convincing me he wasn’t in it. And then I would want to lose my mind in the theater when my instinct was proven right. That’s what I would want.”
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What’s your favorite wild celebrity interview answer that later turned out to be a lie — or one you suspect will be debunked in the future? Let us know in the comments!
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