30 Celebrities Stunned Their Fans With Their Unexpected Memoir Confessions

Everybody loves celebrity memoirs filled with shocking revelations. Unfortunately, there are so many that you'll never read them all. But luckily, we're on hand to summarise the biggest bombshells. So to find out which actor was hypnotized by 1960s cult leader Charles Manson, which comedian pee'd in his wife's purse, which Spice Girl punched her husband on the nose, and which Friends star had a crush on their colleague, read on…

In Beyoncé: Running The World, Queen Bey revealed that she broke up with her then-boyfriend and future-husband, Jay-Z, because he allegedly had an affair with Rihanna. The worst part is that Rihanna was just 17 years old at the time in 2005.

Prince Harry revealed that he struggled for years grieving his famous mother, Princess Diana's passing when he was a boy. In his 2023 memoir, Spare, he wrote he believed his mother had faked the infamous Paris car crash and disappeared. He wrote, "With nothing to do but roam the castle and talk to myself, a suspicion took hold, which then became a firm belief."

Jennifer Aniston revealed that when she was nine, the news that her parents had split up came as a complete shock. The Friends star explained, "I went to a birthday party, and when I came back, [mom] said, 'Your father's not going to be around here for a little while.'"

Matthew McConaughey's biography Greenlights is filled with hilarious, raucous stories, Texan cowboy wisdom, and lessons he learned at the University of Life. However, it's not all fun and games. The actor confessed that his first intimate encounter was when a man "knocked me unconscious in the back of a van."