# Legendary, apocryphal or just plain untrue stories of celebrities **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [October 21, 2016, 7:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/legendary-apocryphal-or-just-plain-untrue-stories-of-celebrities/769270 "2016-10-21T19:47:56Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2016, 10:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/legendary-apocryphal-or-just-plain-untrue-stories-of-celebrities/769270/61 "2016-10-24T10:29:34Z")
> [@PatrickLondon](#): > > Unlikely in the UK in the 1960s. Yep, that’s why it’s in the “unlikely, yet true!” category. ---
**Author:** ![muldoonthief](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/muldoonthief/32/3188_2.png) [@muldoonthief](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/muldoonthief)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2016, 12:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/legendary-apocryphal-or-just-plain-untrue-stories-of-celebrities/769270/62 "2016-10-24T12:33:53Z")
> [@cochrane](#): > > There’s a rumor that Keith Richards has had all of his blood replaced in order to kick a heroin addiction. [Keith denies it](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0UKBQgR97R8#t=2m45s) while being interviewed by Hunter S. Thompson. “I mean, who’d want it?” (Watch the entire interview BTW. It starts with Hunter playing a recording of pigs being castrated as he knocks on Keith’s hotel door. Keith answers the door with a cattle prod.) ---
**Author:** ![WordMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e8c25b/32.png) [@WordMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WordMan)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2016, 1:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/legendary-apocryphal-or-just-plain-untrue-stories-of-celebrities/769270/63 "2016-10-24T13:04:11Z")
> [@muldoonthief](#): > > [Keith denies it](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0UKBQgR97R8#t=2m45s) while being interviewed by Hunter S. Thompson. “I mean, who’d want it?” > > (Watch the entire interview BTW. It starts with Hunter playing a recording of pigs being castrated as he knocks on Keith’s hotel door. Keith answers the door with a cattle prod.) I can’t recall the specifics from Keith’s book, but I seem to recall he went through a “blood cleansing” procedure where he was hooked up to some sort of dialysis-type machine that removed some stuff while the blood was circulating through him. He mockingly described it as a blood change and the idea stuck. ---
**Author:** ![Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/earl_snake-hips_tucker/32/3269_2.png) [@Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Earl_Snake-Hips_Tucker)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2016, 3:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/legendary-apocryphal-or-just-plain-untrue-stories-of-celebrities/769270/64 "2016-10-24T15:22:08Z")
Muhammad Ali threw his Olympic gold medal into the Ohio River. ---
**Author:** ![Amateur\_Barbarian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/59ef9b/32.png) [@Amateur\_Barbarian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Amateur_Barbarian)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2016, 3:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/legendary-apocryphal-or-just-plain-untrue-stories-of-celebrities/769270/65 "2016-10-24T15:34:30Z")
> [@Common\_Tater](#): > > Fred Rogers was a sniper in Vietnam w/ numerous confirmed kills. I actually heard this one in the .mil, and it never made any sense to me. The whole “don’t let the glasses (sweater) fool ya” thing goin’ on though, it was amusing I suppose. Dr. Ruth _was_ an Israeli sniper. And Steve Perry spent years dying of throat cancer. ---
**Author:** ![Bijou\_Drains](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bijou_drains/32/2814_2.png) [@Bijou\_Drains](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bijou_Drains)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2016, 3:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/legendary-apocryphal-or-just-plain-untrue-stories-of-celebrities/769270/66 "2016-10-24T15:40:55Z")
what is true is Mama Cass and Keith Moon died in the same London apartment 4 years apart. ---
**Author:** ![Randolph](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e5b9ba/32.png) [@Randolph](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Randolph)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2016, 3:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/legendary-apocryphal-or-just-plain-untrue-stories-of-celebrities/769270/67 "2016-10-24T15:45:18Z")
Mrs. Krabappel and Principal Skinner were in the closet making babies and I saw one of the babies and the baby looked at me. ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2016, 4:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/legendary-apocryphal-or-just-plain-untrue-stories-of-celebrities/769270/68 "2016-10-24T16:53:44Z")
> [@x-ray\_vision](#): > > The Alice Cooper rumor I heard when I was a kid was that he gave an empty cup to the someone in the first row at one of his concerts, they passed it around and all spit in it, gave it back to him and he drank it. Years ago, when “Alice Cooper” was still a band and not a person, the members of the band (guitarist Glenn Buxton, singer Vince Furnier, organist Mike Bruce et al) would hear sick rumors about themselves and try desperately to tell the media that these things never happened. It was their friend Frank Zappa who convinced him to EMBRACE their sick image, and never to deny anything. Over time, even the weirdest, most disgusting rumor HELPED the band, making them more popular and getting them publicity they couldn’t have bought at any price! ---
**Author:** ![nearwildheaven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/90db22/32.png) [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2016, 5:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/legendary-apocryphal-or-just-plain-untrue-stories-of-celebrities/769270/69 "2016-10-24T17:11:58Z")
> [@Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](#): > > Muhammad Ali threw his Olympic gold medal into the Ohio River. I’m pretty sure that’s true. ---
**Author:** ![cochrane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cochrane/32/10441_2.png) [@cochrane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cochrane)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2016, 5:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/legendary-apocryphal-or-just-plain-untrue-stories-of-celebrities/769270/70 "2016-10-24T17:20:01Z")
> [@Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](#): > > Muhammad Ali threw his Olympic gold medal into the Ohio River. > [@nearwildheaven](#): > > I’m pretty sure that’s true. And it was found and returned to him, too. > **[Muhammad Ali’s Olympic Gold Medal Found In Ohio River](http://empirenews.net/muhammad-alis-olympic-gold-medal-found-in-ohio-river/)** ---
**Author:** ![Morbo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/morbo/32/389_2.png) [@Morbo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morbo)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2016, 7:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/legendary-apocryphal-or-just-plain-untrue-stories-of-celebrities/769270/71 "2016-10-24T19:51:51Z")
A recent one: Taylor Swift is a [clone of Zeena Schreck](http://i.amz.mshcdn.com/oPTxdVycIU_FFKxW9V1aTJ7Ud2w=/950x534/2016%2F09%2F10%2Fb5%2Ftaylorswiftzeenalavey.e9d4a.jpg), former high priestess of the church of Satan and daughter of Anton LaVey. ---
**Author:** ![Superdude](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/superdude/32/13450_2.png) [@Superdude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Superdude)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2016, 12:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/legendary-apocryphal-or-just-plain-untrue-stories-of-celebrities/769270/72 "2016-10-25T00:19:21Z")
> [@Mister\_Rik](#): > > A couple I heard more than once, back in the day: > > Alex Lifeson and Geddy Lee of Rush “discovered” Neil Peart working in a car wash, where he happened to mention to them he was a drummer. > > AC/DC hired Brian Johnson after one of the Young brothers overheard him singing along with an AC/DC song on the radio while performing his day job as a roofer. > > In reality, both guys auditioned for the bands like anybody else would do. Peart showed up as one of a string of drummers trying out for the band; Brian Johnson was invited to audition because the guys in AC/DC had heard him singing with his own band and thought he’d be a good fit. I suspect that both rumors started out as simple wish-fulfillment. “It could happen to me!” And it did. [Once](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judas_Priest#Ripper_Owens_.281996.E2.80.932003.29). ---
**Author:** ![GoodOmens](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/d26b3c/32.png) [@GoodOmens](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GoodOmens)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2016, 1:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/legendary-apocryphal-or-just-plain-untrue-stories-of-celebrities/769270/73 "2016-10-25T01:00:10Z")
> [@Randolph](#): > > Mrs. Krabappel and Principal Skinner were in the closet making babies and I saw one of the babies and the baby looked at me. The baby looked at you? ---
**Author:** ![CaptMurdock](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/captmurdock/32/11736_2.png) [@CaptMurdock](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CaptMurdock)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2016, 1:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/legendary-apocryphal-or-just-plain-untrue-stories-of-celebrities/769270/74 "2016-10-25T01:34:27Z")
Sonny & Cher were brother and sister. Frank Zappa and Leon Redbone are actually the same person. ---
**Author:** ![AppallingGael](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b9bd4f/32.png) [@AppallingGael](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AppallingGael)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2016, 2:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/legendary-apocryphal-or-just-plain-untrue-stories-of-celebrities/769270/75 "2016-10-25T02:08:11Z")
> [@cochrane](#): > > And it was found and returned to him, too. > > [Muhammad Ali’s Olympic Gold Medal Found In Ohio River | Empire News](http://empirenews.net/muhammad-alis-olympic-gold-medal-found-in-ohio-river/) [http://empirenews.net/about-disclaimer/](http://empirenews.net/about-disclaimer/) FWIW, I always doubted the story. Though maybe he was trying to toss it across, _a la_ George Washington. ---
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2016, 11:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/legendary-apocryphal-or-just-plain-untrue-stories-of-celebrities/769270/76 "2016-10-25T11:53:39Z")
> [@GoodOmens](#): > > The baby looked at you? [http://simpsons.wikia.com/wiki/Grade\_School\_Confidential](http://simpsons.wikia.com/wiki/Grade_School_Confidential) ---
**Author:** ![WOOKINPANUB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wookinpanub/32/132_2.png) [@WOOKINPANUB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WOOKINPANUB)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2016, 12:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/legendary-apocryphal-or-just-plain-untrue-stories-of-celebrities/769270/77 "2016-10-25T12:57:31Z")
Gene Simmons has had sex with ONE MILLION women (or whatever the supposed number is). Bianca Jagger once caught Mick and David Bowie dancing in the sheets. ---
**Author:** ![CaptMurdock](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/captmurdock/32/11736_2.png) [@CaptMurdock](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CaptMurdock)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2016, 2:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/legendary-apocryphal-or-just-plain-untrue-stories-of-celebrities/769270/78 "2016-10-25T14:52:00Z")
> [@WOOKINPANUB](#): > > Bianca Jagger once caught Mick and David Bowie dancing in the sheets. I heard that was Angela Bowie. ---
**Author:** ![muldoonthief](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/muldoonthief/32/3188_2.png) [@muldoonthief](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/muldoonthief)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2016, 3:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/legendary-apocryphal-or-just-plain-untrue-stories-of-celebrities/769270/79 "2016-10-25T15:46:59Z")
> [@kayaker](#): > > [http://simpsons.wikia.com/wiki/Grade\_School\_Confidential](http://simpsons.wikia.com/wiki/Grade_School_Confidential) [Whoosh](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PE63y7ctAwA). ---
**Author:** ![xizor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/xizor/32/102_2.png) [@xizor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/xizor)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2016, 7:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/legendary-apocryphal-or-just-plain-untrue-stories-of-celebrities/769270/80 "2016-10-25T19:08:17Z")
Stevie Nicks having roadies blow cocaine up her vagina with a straw because she had blown out her septum already. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/legendary-apocryphal-or-just-plain-untrue-stories-of-celebrities/769270.md?page=3) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/legendary-apocryphal-or-just-plain-untrue-stories-of-celebrities/769270.md?page=5)