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18 Former Celeb BFFs Who Called It Quits
Hollywood is like high school, but with way more Manolos and 10 times the drama. Like looking back at your teenage days, there's a ton of celebrity history to reminisce about. For instance, remember the good ol' days when Katy Perry and Rihanna were inseparable, and entertained us all with their adorable award show antics? How about the glorious Disney dynasty friendship between Demi Lovato and Selena Gomez? While those days might be long gone, we can still wax nostalgic over pictures of the best former BFFs of all time.
Editor's Note: A previous version of this article mistakenly stated that Chelsea Handler and Jennifer Aniston are no longer friends.
Lauren Conrad & Heidi Montag
The Hills brought them together, and Spencer Pratt (and his crystals) drove them apart as we all watched through our TV screens.
Taylor Swift & Selena Gomez
While they used to be inseparable, these former besties were driven apart by the post-pubescent blob of human indecency that is Gomez’s on-again, off-again boyfriend Justin Bieber. Update: They were pretty chummy at the 2015 VMAs and Gomez was in the “Bad Blood” video, so these two seem to be a-OK.
Rachel Zoe & Brad Goreski
Although they started off as an unstoppable pair on The Rachel Zoe Project, Goreski’s choice to start a solo career in 2010 left Zoe burned.
Paris Hilton & Kim Kardashian
Before Kim K took over the world with her many duckfaces and khaotic family life, she was just Hilton’s lackey. When Kardashian rose to fame, Hilton’s jealousy supposedly couldn’t take the heat.
Katy Perry & Rihanna
For a while, they found friendship in a hopeless place, but Rihanna’s makeups and breakups with the abusive Chris Brown reportedly put too much strain on their bond. RIP, all those duets that could have been. </3
Michael Jackson & Sir Paul McCartney
These two music legends made sweet, sweet music together, and reportedly had a close friendship. But when Jackson went behind McCartney’s back to buy the rights to many Beatles songs, which McCartney himself had tried (and failed) to do, they had a hard time staying chummy.
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Taylor Swift & Katy Perry
T. Swift was not too happy with Perry’s choice to date her ex-flame, John Mayer, and the ensuing drama between them all but snuffed out the friendship.
Teresa Giudice & Jacqueline Laurita
No strangers to drama, these RHONJ cast members memorably cut ties once and for all when fights onscreen became an every-other-week occurrence.
Paris Hilton & Nicole Richie
The Simple Life stars were undeniably hilarious together, but things got so bad that Richie didn’t bother inviting Hilton to her 2010 wedding to Joel Madden, according to a report from Us Weekly.
Gwyneth Paltrow & Madonna
This uber-blonde friendship started all the way back in 1999, but in 2010, the duo reportedly had a falling out, though details never really surfaced.
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Jill Zarin & Bethenny Frankel
The Real Housewives of New York pals had a close friendship, things got tense in Season 3 of RHONY and things haven’t really been repaired since then.
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Demi Lovato & Selena Gomez
Lovato said during a taping of Watch What Happens Live! that her longtime friendship with Gomez ended due to them growing apart and changing, but plenty of reports, including one by Radar Online, speculate that it had something to do with Justin Bieber drama and partying.
Corey Haim & Corey Feldman
The two ’80s stars grew up as close as can be, but Haim’s reported drug use eventually caused the friendship to suffer.
Gwyneth Paltrow & Winona Ryder
Their epic ’90s style wasn’t enough to keep Ryder from cutting Paltrow out of her life when the Goop creator reportedly “stole” the role of Viola in Shakespeare In Love. The Oscar Paltrow ended up winning for it probably didn’t help, either.
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NeNe Leakes & Kim Zolciak
When Leakes took some jabs at Zolciak’s attempted musical career, their once-great bond on Real Housewives of Atlanta dissolved.
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Sir Elton John & George Michael
The iconic Brits were close until Michael’s reported drug use in the ’80s drove them apart.
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Kim Cattrall & Sarah Jessica Parker
Samantha and Carrie aren’t friends? Say it isn’t so! Unfortunately the pair reportedly ended up getting on each others’ nerves, and allegedly wouldn’t speak to each other in between scenes.
