Pro football Hall of Famer Deion Sanders live-tweeted his family drama this week, detailing an alleged assault by his estranged wife and a friend at his home—and he even went so far as to tweet photos of his two young sons filling out police reports. From Amy and Mitch Winehouse to Courtney Love and Frances Bean Cobain, see other stars who’ve broadcasted their family feuds in 140 characters.
The NFL Hall of Famer made a social media record of domestic mayhem after he was allegedly attacked by his estranged wife, Pilar, at his home near Dallas. Though it was his wife who ended up being transported to the hospital, Sanders tweeted that his kids “just witnessed their mother and a friend jump me in my room.” Sanders claims he struck back in self-defense. “Pray for me and my kids!” Sanders thumbed to his hundreds of thousands of followers. “She’s going to jail n I’m pressing charges!”
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Going through an extremely messy divorce didn’t stop actor Kelsey Grammer from taking to Twitter to weigh in delicately on the ongoing battle. He confirmed the divorce from wife Camille but also took the high road and asked those taking to Twitter to treat Camille fairly. “To my twitter friends,” he tweeted. “I once again ask that all tweets about Camille be kind and mindful of the fact that she is the mother of my children.” Camille took a similar road a few months later, congratulating her ex on his new twins and tweeting, “There is no need to hold on to any negativity.”
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Charlie Sheen’s divorce from Brooke Mueller resulted in a nasty custody battle over their two sons. But the dispute almost seemed like it would be resolved in March 2011, when the pair reached an agreement. The first condition of the agreement was that it not be discussed with the media, so of course, Sheen took to Twitter just hours after the deal was reached. “Not sure what all the legal noise is about,” he tweeted. “Just verbally reached a deal with B. [Mueller] no court mon. yay …” The tweet was soon removed from Sheen’s Twitter account, but the deal was still called off.
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Reality star Tila Tequila is known to use Twitter for shameless publicity stunts, like when she fell and “dented” her head “like that actress that died cuz she hit her head.” So many were skeptical when she began tweeting about her possible miscarriage of the unborn baby many were already skeptical about. One morning in February 2010, she tweeted, “I just woke up in the middle of the night cuz im having these intense sharp pains in my belly.” Shortly thereafter, she tweeted, “Something is definitely wrong. The hospital gave me a list of symptoms & this is definitely one of them.” She soon resolved just to sleep it off.
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At first, Kim Kardashian and Kris Humphries were pretty tight-lipped about the demise of their 72-day marriage, and appeared to be trying to refrain from badmouthing each other. But that didn’t stop their families from getting in on the tweeting action. In November, Kris’s sister Kaela tweeted a line from a Drake song: “She look like a star, but only on camera. Don’t listen to the lies, I swear their all lies.” Kim’s sister Khloe also involved herself in the Twitter war, writing, “I hate two faced people. It’s so hard to decide which face to slap first. Both will get a whopping though. LOL.” Of course, now all bets were off. During an episode of Kourtney & Kim Take New York in January, Kris tweeted, “I can’t wait for the truth to come out! People will be surprised or maybe they won’t.”
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Plenty of proud fathers like to show off their kids’ accomplishments—but when Mitch Winehouse chose to show off his daughter’s Amy’s awards, photos, magazine covers, and platinum discs in the televised documentary My Daughter Amy, as well as discussing her addiction to drugs and alcohol, she was less than pleased. She moaned over the “embarrassing” situation via Twitter, writing, “WHY don’t my dad WRITE a SONG when somethin bothers him instead of goin on national TV? an you thought YOUR parents were embarassing.”
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Michael Lohan has never been on anyone’s Dad of the Year list, but he seemed to hit a new low when he tweeted in 2010 that his daughter Lindsay had HIV. “It’s time you learned the truth. The truth about [name deleted] engaging in an affair with my then-17 year old daughter,” the tweet read. “the truth about my daughter living with HIV for the rest of her life as a result of the decisions she has made.” The tweets were promptly deleted and Michael claimed they were the work of hackers. Lindsay had a few choice words of her own to tweet in response: “He just wants money—and he’s using me, my name, my status, my mother, brothers and sister for the cash to pay for [another] wedding.” The offending tweet, however, turned out to be a PhotoShopped hoax, courtesy of the “anarchic gossip comment board” Oh No They Didn’t.
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If there’s one thing that gets a Kardashian girl riled up, it’s a threat to take away her claim to the Kardashian name. Khloe Kardashian took to Twitter earlier this year to blast allegations in Star magazine by two of her father’s ex-wives, who said that while Robert Kardashian was alive, he freely admitted that Khloe was not his biological daughter. Khloe shot back: “The audacity you have to mention my father’s name like this! Should be ashamed of urself! I let a lot of things slide but this one is really low … YOU ARE DISGUSTING! (yes you know who YOU are).” The allegations seem to have touched a nerve: on an episode of Keeping Up With the Kardashians, Khloe has questioned who her real parents are.
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Courtney Love is considered something of a pioneer in the field of celebrity Twitter slandering. We’d be here all day if we listed the targets of her 140-character rages, but her most recent tirade involved her own daughter, Frances Bean Cobain. Love launched into an infuriated rant against Dave Grohl, her late husband’s Nirvana bandmate, accusing him of putting the moves on and possibly sleeping with 19-year-old Frances. “I hear from frannies roommate that @davegrohl hit on frances, and that she was curious, I’m not mad at her, him i am about to shoot, dead,” Love tweeted. Appalled at her mother’s rant, Frances replied in a statement: “While I’m generally silent on the affairs of my biological mother, her recent tirade has taken a gross turn. I have never been approached by Dave Grohl in more than a platonic way. I’m in a monogamous relationship and very happy.” She also added dryly, “Twitter should ban my mother.” Eventually, Love took to Twitter again to issue her own version of an apology, writing, “Bean, sorry I believed the gossip.. Mommy loves you.”
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