Shocking Celebrity Confessions In Songs

Who needs a tell all book or interview when you can find the most shocking celebrity confessions in songs? Pay attention to the lyrics, and artists will dish on everything from drug use to cheating, and who they’ve bedded.

Nicki Minaj set the Internet ablaze with the recent release of “All Things Go” when she addressed losing a child 16 years ago. It’s not the first time Nicki has used the cathartic power of her pen. Depending on your level of shock value, it may not even be the most startling confession on this list. Nevertheless, hit the jump as we chronicle some of the deeds celebs have confessed to in their own words via song.

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It turns out rapper, writer, producer and record executive Jermaine Durpi had a bunch of skeletons in his closet. Listeners didn’t find this out until Usher dropped Confessions in 2004, when Dupri revealed the lyrics about having a lovechild while creeping were true tales he penned for Usher.

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All it took was one infamous lyric and nobody could look at Uncle Joey from Full House the same. On 1991’s “You Oughta Know,” Alanis Morisette confessed to providing dome to a former lover in a movie theater. She later revealed that lover was former Full House actor/comedian Davie Coulier.

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She never said his name, but if you connect the dots, the person whom Taylor Swift is referring to in “Forever & Always” is most likely Joe Jonas. However, the big reveal came when she was doing press and held up a Jonas doll and referenced being dumped over the phone in a 27-second call when she was 18.

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True to the song’s title, Eminem aired out his grievances with his mother Debbie Mathers by calling her a drug addict and saying she suffered from Münchausen’s Syndrome on “Cleanin’ Out My Closet.”

When Cash Money Records was enjoying its first major wave of success, B.G. served as the label’s ultimate redemption story. With the 1999 song “Made Man,” B.G. detailed how he overcame a heroin addiction.

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We don’t get this version of Jay Z anymore. But Jay detailed feuding with his mom and his stepfather before getting locked up on drug charges and eventually having to beg for bail money on “Soon You’ll Understand.”

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In her Life Is But A Dream documentary, Beyonce talked openly about her miscarriage, hearing her lost child’s heartbeat, and how she got closure by writing a difficult song about the event. It’s entirely possible that “Heartbeat” is that song.

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Marvin Gaye mostly wrote “Flyin’ High (In The Friendly Sky)” in the third person referencing the many Vietnam veterans who became heroin addicts. But given that his final autopsy found traces of both cocaine and PCP in his system, it’s not difficult to infer some personal experience also went into penning the lyrics.

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If you paid attention to the lyrics of “Forrest Gump,” there was really no need for Frank Ocean to come out by addressing a romantic encounter with another man. Everything was more or less spelled out in the song.

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Tori Amos began her career with deeply personal revelations by releasing the single “Me And A Gun.” In the song, Amos recounts how she was raped at knifepoint after performing at a bar.

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On the song “Clique,” Kanye West confessed he was already lusting for Kim Kardashian during her 72-day marriage to former Brooklyn Net Kris Humpries. West and Humpries took a few shots at each other, so really listeners were the winners here.

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Granted, we all knew what a notorious stage dad Joe Jackson was to Michael Jackson. But on the song “Childhood,” the King of Pop detailed his eccentricities and essentially asked for a pass since he was just trying to relive the childhood he never had.

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If the lyrics of “Cry Me A River” are to be taken at face value, then one Justin Timberlake is admitting to being played by his ex flame Britney Spears. As legend has it, Brit Brit cheated on Justin with their mutual friend Wade J. Robinson, who later admitted the infidelity to Timberlake. Obviously it makes for a good video.

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Courtney Love has never been one to pull punches. So while the deeper significance of Hole’s “Teenage Whore” is about being empowered, there’s also some thinly veiled references to Love’s days as an exotic dancer and her fractured relationship with her mother.

So far Nicki Minaj is making good on the claim that The Pinkprint will be her most personal album to date. When the song “All Things Go” was released, Nicki revealed losing a child 16 years ago saying, “My child with Aaron would’ve been 16 any minute.”