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Six A-listers, six spectacular losses of composure — and Nicki Swift’s cameras caught the aftermath of every one.

Hollywood likes to sell its stars as poised and untouchable, but the real record shows plenty of them losing it in public, on set, or in a hotel lobby. Nicki Swift’s “Stars With Really Bad Tempers” compilation runs down six documented meltdowns involving Naomi Campbell, Christian Bale, Lindsay Lohan, Russell Crowe, Shia LaBeouf, and Taryn Manning. These aren’t rumors — they’re arrest records, leaked audio, and guilty pleas.

• Naomi Campbell pleaded guilty in Toronto in 2000 to assaulting an assistant, part of a longer pattern of alleged phone-throwing incidents involving staff.
• Christian Bale’s July 2008 audio rant at Terminator Salvation director of photography Shane Hurlbut, recorded on the New Mexico set, leaked online and became an instant viral clip.
• Russell Crowe was arrested in June 2005 after throwing a hotel telephone that struck Mercer Hotel clerk Nestor Estrada in the face, later pleading guilty to misdemeanor assault that November.

Naomi Campbell’s Long Rap Sheet

Naomi Campbell’s temper problems didn’t happen once — they piled up over years, mostly involving the people who worked closest to her. In 2000, she pleaded guilty in Toronto to assaulting a personal assistant, one of several incidents that put her staff on the receiving end of her outbursts. The pattern of thrown mobile phones and blowups with assistants became so recurring that it turned into a running headline in tabloids well before the 2010s, the kind of behavior covered in depth in Celebs Who Treat Their Employees Like Trash.

Christian Bale’s Terminator Salvation Meltdown

Nothing on this list traveled further or faster than Christian Bale’s July 2008 audio leak from the New Mexico set of Terminator Salvation. Director of photography Shane Hurlbut accidentally wandered into Bale’s eyeline mid-scene, and Bale unloaded on him in a profanity-heavy tirade that a crew member recorded and leaked. The audio spread across the internet within days, turning a private on-set blowup into one of the most-replayed celebrity meltdowns of its era.

“Give me a fucking reason, man, why you walked on the set… I’m not going to fucking do it!”

Bale later addressed the leak publicly, acknowledging the outburst without much dispute over the substance of it — the tape spoke for itself, and it still gets replayed as the textbook example of a set implosion.

Russell Crowe’s Phone Throw at the Mercer Hotel

Russell Crowe’s temper cost him more than embarrassment. In June 2005, staying at Manhattan’s Mercer Hotel, Crowe grew frustrated trying to place an international call to his wife, Danielle Spencer, in Australia. When front-desk clerk Nestor Estrada couldn’t get the connection through, Crowe threw the hotel phone, hitting Estrada in the face. Police arrested Crowe on felony assault and criminal possession of a weapon charges. He pleaded guilty in November 2005 to misdemeanor third-degree assault, avoided jail time, and separately settled a civil suit brought by Estrada.

Lohan, LaBeouf, and Manning Round Out the List

The compilation also covers Lindsay Lohan’s history of public confrontations and Shia LaBeouf’s string of arrests for drunken disorderly conduct, shouting matches, and bar altercations that piled up over several years. Taryn Manning’s entry is the most specific: she was arrested in New York in 2012 after a physical fight with her makeup artist and longtime friend that stemmed from a dispute over personal debts — the kind of friendship-turned-feud dynamic explored further in Celebs Who Started Out Friends And Ended Up Enemies.

The video’s own timestamps tell you where the real fireworks are — Crowe’s phone throw at 4:03, LaBeouf’s run-ins at 5:18, and Manning’s brawl closing things out at 6:05. Six minutes, six celebrities, zero apologies that actually stuck.