1. Lady Gaga
In an episode of “The Conversation With Amanda De Cadenet” that aired in May 2012, never-married pop star Lada Gaga offered her thoughts on divorce:
My grandmother… was married to my grandfather for 60 years. My parents are still together, 30 years. Divorce is not an option for me,” she said, adding, “It’s like, I’m gonna get married and that’s it. He’s stuck with me.
2. Justin Timberlake
After breaking up with long-time girlfriend Cameron Diaz in January 2007, Justin Timberlake told The Guardian that he blamed his inability to commit on his masculinity:
As much as I’ve learned, I am still a man so I have some kind of learning disability. And women wouldn’t have us any other way.
3. Kim Kardashian
After filing for divorce from Kris Humphries in October 2011 — 72 days after she tied the knot — Kim Kardashian took to her personal blog and offered fans this explanation for her marriage’s demise:
It just didn’t turn out to be the fairytale I had so badly hoped for.
4. Oliver Stone
At the height of the OJ Simpson murder trial in 1994, twice-divorced director Oliver Stone reportedly told The New Yorker
Anybody who’s been through a divorce will tell you that at one point they’ve thought murder. The line between thinking murder and doing murder isn’t that major.
5. LeAnn Rimes
In a September 2011 interview with Ellen DeGeneres, LeAnn Rimes summed up the experience of leaving husband Dean Sheremet for her married co-star — and future husband — Eddie Cibrian:
I went through a divorce and an affair, which was really fun… then I went through getting married, which was even more awesome.
6. Madonna
In an interview October 2009 interview with Rolling Stone, Madonna said that divorcing Guy Ritchie after eight years of marriage was “challenging,” adding,
I’m very grateful that I had work to do. I may have thrown myself off a building.
7. Angelina Jolie
In a November 2004 interview with Esquire, twice-divorced Angelina Jolie offered a a peak into her romantic life:
I have mainly two very close lovers. Wonderful men. I’ve been married so much in my life, I never really had lovers. So it’s been a kind of fun time. Hopefully the men are enjoying it as well.
8. Charlie Sheen
In an interview with RadarOnline in March 2011, Charlie Sheen had this explanation for why his marriage to Brooke Mueller was over:
I’ve been looking at it too long, that’s why I divorced the b*tch.” (He didn’t specify what “it” is)
9. Tom Cruise
After news emerged in 2000 that Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman were ending their nearly decade-long marriage, a cryptic Cruise offered this explanation to the press:
Nicole knows why.
10. Mike Tyson
Mike Tyson and Robin Givens divorced in 1988, after just one year of marriage. In an interview with the Daily Telegraph that ran soon after, the boxer offered this explanation:
You can’t stay married in a situation where you are afraid to go to sleep in case your wife might cut your throat.
