16 Times Celebrities Faced No Consequences For Saying Things That Crossed The Line

After Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt separated, Chelsea tweeted, “Angelina Jolie has filed for divorce from Brad Pitt… he wants the China; she wants Pax and Maddox. #sorrycouldnthelpmyself,” a reference to Pax and Maddox, the couple’s children adopted from Vietnam and Cambodia, respectively.

The American comedian made further discriminatory remarks about Maddox in her book Are You There, Vodka? It’s Me, Chelsea, writing, “I rolled over and picked an Us Weekly magazine off the floor. The cover had a picture of Angelina, Brad, and their little Eskimo son, Maddox.

“Maddox must have thought he hit the jackpot when some A-list celebrity rescued him from third-world Cambodia, only to discover that she was going to shuffle him back and forth to every other third-world country in the universe.”
 
In 2014, Chelsea used Lupita Nyong’o’s Oscar win for 12 Years A Slave to promote her book about her trip to Africa, Uganda Be Kidding Me—with no apparent connection besides Lupita’s African heritage. What’s more, Lupita’s origins are Kenyan, not Ugandan.

The stand-up comedian and actress reflected on her past behavior in 2021, sharing that she has “had an evolution.”

She told the New York Times: “I do want to be kinder and gentler. I want my jokes to not be reflective of a time in my life that I wasn’t aware of how they impact people.”