Is it just us or are celebrity parents getting very scary writes Court TV.com
We dont just mean weirdos like Michael Lohan, who is currently in a state prison writing songs and drawing cartoons about his love for estranged daughter Lindsay. Or Joe Simpson, who is prone to wax about Jessicas breasts and, according to Radar magazine, recently shot “racy and “private pictures of his daughters for sale to the highest bidder.
We mean celebs who appear to have little idea on how to actually raise children, making inappropriate comments, putting their offspring at risk or just plain seem dangerous the moment their nannies take a coffee break and they have to parent themselves.
1. Michael Jackson
Where oh where do we start The King of Pop, who brother Jermaine insists “bought his kids, reached new levels of idiotic notoriety when he dangled young son Prince from a Berlin hotel balcony, later claiming he was justcaught in the moment. Adding insult to parental lunacy, Jackson has kept his two other young children veiled like Burka-encrusted midgets, to reportedly “protect them from the public.
2. Courtney Love
Courtney earns “questionable mothering status for admitting to Vanity Fair that she used heroin while pregnant with daughter Frances Bean. The report led the Los Angeles County Department of Childrens Services to temporarily remove the child to the home of Loves sister. The bizarre rocker has since denied shooting up, telling author Michael Azerrad “they took our baby away, and there was nothing wrong with her.
3. Kate Moss
As the supermodel chatted lovingly of her young daughter Lila Grace, it would have been a nice maternal momentexcept that she was snorting lines of cocaine with boyfriend Pete Doherty at the time. Forced into rehab, the beauty with the runny nose reportedly missed her childs next birthday party because she was in a rehab center trying to overcome her addictions to drugs, partying and sex.
4. Woody Allen
Mia Farrow simply wasnt enough to quench this directors wandering eye, which soon landed on her adopted daughter Soon-Yi Previn, who was 21 years-old at the time. The actress found out about the affair when she visited Allen at his apartment and found nude photos of Previn. While Allen has always denied he was the step-father of his future bride, his actions were still extremely bizarre.
5. Chevy Chase
In an interview with Maxim magazine the “National Lampoon star recounted his favorite parenting memory, which seemed far more disturbing than it did amusing: “My youngest, whos 17, seems to be identical to the way I was in my perception of the world I mean, I can remember the first time I called her a whore. We just laughed for half an hour.
6. Donald Trump
While visiting the menopause crew on “The View, the smug tycoon was asked how hed respond if daughter Ivanka, 24, posed for Playboy. Trump said the decision would be “disappointing but “it would depend on whats inside the magazine. Adding fuel to the fire, he admitted that he thought his daughter “does have a very nice figure. Ive said if Ivanka werent my daughter, perhaps Id be dating her.
7. Michael Douglas
During a vacation in Spain, the Hollywood icon was stung on his back by a jellyfish. Did he call a doctor or visit the hospital Nope. Instead, he had his five year-old son Dylan urinate on the injury, according to The World Entertainment Network. “I turned to Dylan and went, Son, youre just going to have to pee-pee on Daddys back, said Douglas. “Theres sort of a remedy that weve all heard. He did a brief pause and went, Excuse me Let me get some more water to drink. I dont get these chances very often!
8. Melanie Griffith
The paparazzi captured the actress, with a cig hanging out of her mouth, lighting up her 17-year-old daughters cigarette in Los Angeles this summer. Griffith embodies the Hollywood adage, “the family that lights up together, ultimately battles lung cancer together.
Um, yeah okay. But the breast- ogling Papa Joe Simpson shoulda still topped that list- or at least figured in it. And where was the baby -on- lap-driving Britney Spears and Nicole I think its fine to leave my two children with TomKat and whatever goes on behind their mansions closed doors full-time Kidman, eh eh Hang on, the more I consider it, the more I realise that most celebrities make pretty creepy parents
