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Hollywood’s worst hangovers have a way of ending up on police body cameras.

Nicki Swift’s rundown of “Celebs With Embarrassing Drinking Stories” doesn’t traffic in rumor — every entry comes with an arrest report, a viral video, or a talk-show confession on record. From Shia LaBeouf getting hauled out of a Broadway theater to Reese Witherspoon arguing with a state trooper in Atlanta, the segment lines up eight A-listers whose nights of drinking turned into headlines they couldn’t spin their way out of.

• Shia LaBeouf was arrested twice for public intoxication — once at Studio 54 during a 2014 performance of “Cabaret,” and again in 2017 in Savannah, Georgia, where his tirade was caught on police body cameras.
• Reese Witherspoon was arrested for disorderly conduct in April 2013 after interfering with her husband Jim Toth’s DUI arrest, later apologizing and admitting she’d had “one drink too many.”
• Josh Brolin was arrested for public intoxication on New Year’s Day 2013 in Santa Monica and checked into rehab later that year.

The Arrests That Made the Blotter

LaBeouf’s history is the most documented on the list. His 2014 Studio 54 arrest happened mid-performance, with police removing him from the audience of “Cabaret” for disorderly conduct. Three years later, Savannah police stopped him for public drunkenness, and the body-cam footage of his profanity-laced meltdown circulated widely once it became public record.

Witherspoon’s Atlanta arrest is the rare case where the star addressed it head-on rather than letting the mugshot do the talking. When a trooper pulled over Toth on suspicion of DUI, Witherspoon got out of the car and pressed him, at one point demanding, “Do you know my name?” She was booked for disorderly conduct alongside her husband and issued a public apology days later, calling the episode embarrassing and out of character.

Brolin’s arrest was more understated by comparison — a New Year’s Day pickup for public intoxication in Santa Monica — but it preceded a stint in rehab that same year, giving the incident more weight than a typical holiday drunk-and-disorderly charge. Fans of stories like this one might also recognize the pattern from The Biggest Celebrity Prison Sentences That Were Cut Short, where legal trouble and celebrity status collide in similarly public fashion.

Viral Moments Without Handcuffs

Not every entry involved a badge and a booking photo. David Hasselhoff’s most infamous drinking story never touched a courtroom — it was a 2007 home video, reportedly shot by his own daughter, showing him lying on the floor severely intoxicated and struggling to eat a Wendy’s cheeseburger. The clip spread long before “going viral” was a common phrase, and it became a punchline that followed Hasselhoff for years.

Christina Aguilera’s turn came in March 2011, when she was arrested for public intoxication in West Hollywood after officers pulled over her boyfriend for DUI and determined she was unable to care for herself. Charlie Sheen’s section covers a longer arc — decades of erratic public behavior, substance-fueled outbursts, and hotel-room-trashing scandals that made him a recurring fixture in exactly this kind of rundown.

Do you know my name?

That line from Witherspoon, shouted at a Georgia state trooper, is the one moment on the list that turned into an actual public apology rather than just a tabloid punchline.

Lohan’s Long Rap Sheet and Lawrence’s Self-Roasts

Lindsay Lohan’s inclusion covers the widest stretch of trouble — multiple DUI arrests, probation violations, and nightclub incidents that defined tabloid coverage of her throughout the 2000s. Unlike most of the list, her drinking story isn’t a single night; it’s a pattern that played out across years of court dates and paparazzi photos.

Jennifer Lawrence closes out the segment on a different note entirely. Rather than mugshots, her drinking stories come straight from her own mouth during talk-show appearances, where she’s recounted getting into a bar fight in Budapest and throwing up at an Oscars afterparty. It’s the one entry built entirely on self-deprecating honesty rather than a police report, and it’s part of why Lawrence’s talk-show circuit reputation lines up with the kind of candid, unfiltered energy covered in pieces like Controversial Celeb Moments In 2021 No One Will Forget.

The Studio 54 arrest still gets replayed more than the Savannah one, mostly because LaBeouf was mid-scene when it happened — you don’t often get police pulling someone out of a live Broadway audience. That single clip probably did more to cement his spot on lists like this one than either arrest report on its own.