Who is someone that we praise, but was actually a horrible person?

Chris Gardner, the man who Will Smith played in The Pursuit of Happiness,

is considered to be an amazing success story, an inspiration, and a great father.

He actually cheated on his wife with a dental student and got her pregnant.

He then started dating, said dental student, and reportedly beat her.

He was even taken in by police because of a domestic abuse charge.

Dr. Seuss was having an affair with a woman while his wife had cancer.

His wife killed herself because of it.

Charles Dickens dumped his wife of 10 kids and 22 years for an 18-year-old mistress. When she called him out on it,

he publicly called her a fat jackass. I'll just repost my answer to a question similar to this

that was posted a while back. James Cameron. His movies are great, but he's such a butt. There's a

reason why the crews to your movies are constantly

revolting against you. He's been married five times. His marriage to Linda Hamilton ended after

just eight months because he was caught cheating with Susie Amis, who played Rose's granddaughter

in the Titanic. He called agnosticism cowardly atheism. Orson Scott Kerr described him as

selfish and cruel while working on the novelization

to the abyss. After working with Cameron on Titanic, Kate Winslet decided she would not work

with him again unless she's earned a lot of money. She said that Cameron is a nightmare to work with.

Studios have come to fear his habit of straying way over schedule and over budget. He is

notorious on set for his uncompromising and dictatorial manner, as well as his flaming temper. Sam

Worthington said Cameron would use a nail gun to nail the crew's cell phones to a wall in

retaliation for unwanted ringing during production of Avatar. The first editor of The Terminator

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