Celebrities Who Treat Their Significant Others Like Trash
Hollywood’s biggest love stories have a darker chapter that rarely makes the highlight reel.
Nicki Swift’s video “Celebrities Who Treat Their Significant Others Like Trash” runs through seven cases where the cameras caught something uglier than a red-carpet romance. The rundown moves from controlling marriages and messy divorces to outright criminal allegations, pulling from court records, restraining orders, and the stars’ own public statements. It’s less gossip than a documented pattern — one relationship after another where the public version and the private reality didn’t match.
- Rob Kardashian’s July 2017 social-media tirade against Blac Chyna included explicit revenge-porn photos, prompting Chyna to seek a restraining order.
- Chris Brown’s 2009 felony assault on Rihanna the night before the Grammys was followed by separate restraining orders granted to ex Karrueche Tran in 2017.
- Emma Roberts was arrested in Montreal in July 2013 after a domestic violence incident that left then-boyfriend Evan Peters with a bloody nose and a bite mark.
The Control And The Cover-Up
The video opens on Tom Cruise, spending its first stretch (0:00 to 0:34) on the control that reportedly defined his marriages to Nicole Kidman and Katie Holmes, with the Church of Scientology cited as a heavy influence on both relationships. Holmes’ abrupt 2012 exit from the marriage, engineered with enough secrecy that it earned the nickname “Operation Bombshell” in tabloid coverage at the time, gets treated as the clearest evidence that something about the arrangement wasn’t a normal partnership.
From there the segment jumps to Brad Pitt at the 1:30 mark, tracing his split from Jennifer Aniston to be with Angelina Jolie and then the far messier fallout from his 2016 divorce from Jolie, which included an alleged altercation aboard a private plane serious enough to draw a child services investigation. The video treats it as a cautionary bookend to the Cruise segment — a star whose public image as devoted family man collided hard with what actually happened once the marriage ended.
The Serial Dater And The Revenge Post
Adam Levine gets his turn at 2:44, framed around his own admission that he was a serial dater and self-described player before he abruptly dumped model Nina Agdal to reconcile with and eventually marry Behati Prinsloo. It’s presented as a lighter entry in the lineup — bad behavior toward a partner rather than anything approaching criminal — but the video makes the point that walking away from one relationship to circle back to another isn’t exactly the fairy-tale version fans got sold.
Rob Kardashian’s chapter at 3:34 is the darkest turn in the video. His relationship with Blac Chyna had already been rocky, but it came apart publicly in July 2017 when Kardashian posted explicit photos of Chyna to social media in what’s widely characterized as a revenge-porn attack. Chyna responded by obtaining a restraining order, and the fallout became one of the more talked-about examples the video cites of a partner weaponizing private material after a breakup.
The Physical Altercations
Emma Roberts’ case, covered at 4:54, dates back to a July 2013 arrest in Montreal following a domestic violence incident with then-boyfriend Evan Peters. Peters was left with a bloody nose and a bite mark, and the arrest is treated in the video as proof that mistreatment in Hollywood relationships isn’t always a one-way story.
Chris Brown’s segment at 5:29 covers the most infamous incident on the list: his 2009 felony assault on Rihanna the night before the Grammys, an attack serious enough to end their relationship permanently in the public eye. The video also notes that Brown’s pattern didn’t stop there — his ex Karrueche Tran was granted restraining orders against him in 2017, years after the Rihanna case first made headlines.
Chyna’s restraining order and Tran’s 2017 filing sit less than a decade apart, but the video presents them as the same story repeating with different names attached.
The Divorce That Went Public
Johnny Depp closes out the video at 6:24, built around Amber Heard’s 2016 allegations of domestic abuse and the temporary restraining order she filed during their divorce proceedings. The video treats it as the messiest entry on the list — a case that played out almost entirely in public, with both sides trading accusations through lawyers and the press rather than settling anything quietly.
Taken together, the video’s seven cases stretch from Cruise’s Scientology-linked control in the 1990s and 2000s to Depp’s 2016 divorce fight, showing that the pattern isn’t limited to one era or one kind of celebrity. Readers who want the flip side of this same theme — famous people mistreating the people around them who aren’t romantic partners — can find similar rundowns in Celebs Who Treat Their Employees Like Trash and Reality Stars Who Treat Their Co-Stars Like Trash.
None of the seven relationships in this video ended quietly, and that’s really the throughline: Chyna’s restraining order, Tran’s 2017 filing, Roberts’ 2013 arrest and Heard’s temporary order all became public record precisely because someone refused to let the mistreatment stay private. That’s usually the only thing that moves these stories from tabloid rumor to documented fact — a court filing with a real date attached to it.








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