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"Instead of being there when he was sick, I was working. No amount of money could have fixed my father’s health, but I could have just spent that time with him."
The singer—who uses she/they pronouns—revealed in an interview with Alternative Press that she regrets making her documentaries. "Honestly, I'm really sick of watching myself, and I think other people probably are too," Lovato said. "And if they aren't, then they can watch my music videos."
Throughout her 20s, she released three documentaries—2012's 'Stay Strong,' 2017's 'Simply Complicated,' and '2021's 'Dancing with the Devil'—covering her struggles with mental health and substance abuse, all the way up to her near-fatal overdose and subsequent road to recovery. "I wish I would have waited until I had my s–t figured out more because now it's cemented. Sobriety is what works for me and nothing else," Lovato told the outlet. She's referring to her self-determined "California sober" state in the last documentary which allowed her to drink in moderation and smoke weed, which changed in December 2021 when she decided to go fully sober and entered treatment.
Though Lovato won't be making any more documentaries, she's still releasing music and is open to other storytelling avenues. "My story's not done, so I want to be able to say by the time I've written a book, ‘OK, this is me grown up.'"
Actress-turned-director Elizabeth Banks has some regrets about 2019's reboot of 'Charlie's Angels,' which flopped at the box office. “I wish that the movie had not been presented as just for girls, because I didn’t make it just for girls,” Banks told The New York Times. “There was a disconnect on the marketing side of it for me.”
Banks criticized the way her film was given meaning she'd never intended, and all because she's a woman. “When women do things in Hollywood it becomes this story," she said. "There was a story around ‘Charlie’s Angels’ that I was creating some feminist manifesto. I was just making an action movie.” She added that though she'd love to direct 'Mission Impossible,' the only reason she was able to direct an action movie was "because it starred women and I’m a female director, and that is the confine right now in Hollywood.”
One of Steven Spielberg's most famous films is now one of his biggest regrets. During an interview with the BBC’s Desert Island Discs, the famed director was asked how he would feel being on a desert island surrounded by shark-infested waters, which he used as an opportunity to instead address the negative impact of 'Jaws' on the world's perception of sharks.
“That’s one of the things I still fear—not to get eaten by a shark, but that sharks are somehow mad at me for the feeding frenzy of crazy sport fishermen that happened after 1975, which I truly, and to this day, regret the decimation of the shark population because of the book and the film,” Spielberg explained. “I really, truly regret that.”
Peter Benchley, who wrote the 1974 book upon which Spielberg’s film was based, also previously publicly apologized for his role in the sudden spike in fishermen setting out to catch trophy sharks, which George Burgess, director of the Florida Program for Shark Research, told the BBC was like “a collective testosterone rush” that “swept through the East Coast of the US” and caused a huge decline in the shark population.
In hindsight she says she "did a lot of really, really stupid things and it was because it was my way of crying for help [...] being disrespectful to my mother, which to me is one of my biggest resentments because I love my mum; my mum’s my best friend. I hate the fact that I hurt her and my father."
It is often said that what you regret most at the end of your life are the things you didn't do. However, the celebrities in this gallery may disagree. Despite the fact that they seem to have reached their goals and made all the right choices, even they struggle with regrets.
Drake doesn't have many regrets, but speaking with Lil Yachty for the premiere episode of FUTUREMOOD’s 'Moody Conversations' series, he revealed two of them. The first was saying he expected to retire by 35 (he's 36) back when he was in his 20s. “I think that and sometimes when I’ve said girls names in songs those are the two things that I look back on and I’m like, ‘maybe I could have done without sh—ing on people for age or disrupting somebody’s life.”
At one point Yachty said he thought Drake was “just making girls’ names up” in all those songs, but Drake confirmed that they were all real, like in 2013’s track 'From Time' on which he rattles off names like Porsche, Summer, Bria and Courtney, Billboard reports. “The lyrics are never with ill intent,” he explained. But he added that someone explained to him once that it’s not necessarily what he says on his records, but the fact that he saying anything at all.
“In the sense that, ‘you don’t know what it does to me,'” he said of the unintended consequences. “‘You don’t know who my boyfriend is at the time,’ or ‘you don’t know what my family knows and doesn’t know. And for you to express any discontent for me in a song and call me by name then all of a sudden I’m left to pick up the pieces of my own life that I’ve tried to build up for myself.'” Drake said he's tried to stop name-calling in his songs but it's hard because he tries to be honest in his music.
Celebrity regrets range from the unfortunate, to the ridiculous, to the truly heartbreaking. Curious? Click on and discover your favorite celebrities' biggest personal regrets.
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It is often said that what you regret most at the end of your life are the things you didn't do. However, the celebrities in this gallery may disagree. Despite the fact that they seem to have reached their goals and made all the right choices, even they struggle with regrets.
Drake doesn't have many regrets, but speaking with Lil Yachty for the premiere episode of FUTUREMOOD’s 'Moody Conversations' series, he revealed two of them. The first was saying he expected to retire by 35 (he's 36) back when he was in his 20s. “I think that and sometimes when I’ve said girls names in songs those are the two things that I look back on and I’m like, ‘maybe I could have done without sh—ing on people for age or disrupting somebody’s life.”
At one point Yachty said he thought Drake was “just making girls’ names up” in all those songs, but Drake confirmed that they were all real, like in 2013’s track 'From Time' on which he rattles off names like Porsche, Summer, Bria and Courtney, Billboard reports. “The lyrics are never with ill intent,” he explained. But he added that someone explained to him once that it’s not necessarily what he says on his records, but the fact that he saying anything at all.
“In the sense that, ‘you don’t know what it does to me,'” he said of the unintended consequences. “‘You don’t know who my boyfriend is at the time,’ or ‘you don’t know what my family knows and doesn’t know. And for you to express any discontent for me in a song and call me by name then all of a sudden I’m left to pick up the pieces of my own life that I’ve tried to build up for myself.'” Drake said he's tried to stop name-calling in his songs but it's hard because he tries to be honest in his music.
Celebrity regrets range from the unfortunate, to the ridiculous, to the truly heartbreaking. Curious? Click on and discover your favorite celebrities' biggest personal regrets.