If you're reading this, then you're probably no stranger to celebrity beef. From name-dropping their exes in hit songs to shading their former friends in hourlong YouTube videos, celebs know how to ensure the person they're having drama with knows exactly how they feel.
However, before there were subtweets and shady Instagram stories, there was still plenty of drama in Hollywood. Sometimes, those feuds blew over in a few months, but other times, they went on for years and years.
Here are 14 celebrity feuds that spanned decades:
1. In 1933, Joan Crawford announced her divorce on the same day that Bette Davis's first major movie, Ex-Lady, was announced, igniting a feud that inspired a TV show.
In 1962, Crawford somehow managed to convince Davis to play her sister in What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?
In 2017, FX turned their ill-fated feud into a show called Feud: Bette and Joan.
2. In 1991, Tyra Banks finally got the opportunity to model in Paris after years of rejections, but the industry instantly pitted her against Naomi Campbell.
In 2005, Campbell made an appearance on The Tyra Banks Show so they could work out their differences.
3. George Takei and William Shatner have been at odds since 1966, when the original Star Trek began.
In 1988, Takei initially refused to reprise his role for Star Trek V because Shatner was directing it. He eventually came on board, but the film disappointed critics.
In 2016, they briefly united for a Star Trek reunion photo.
4. Debbie Reynolds was 17 when she became close friends with Elizabeth Taylor. But after her husband, Mike Todd, died in 1958, Taylor began an affair with Reynolds' husband, Eddie Fisher.
Eventually, Reynolds and Taylor made amends, and in 2001, they costarred in These Old Broads, which was written by Carrie Fisher.
5. In 1999, Sarah Jessica Parker got an executive producer credit and a pay increase to $300,000 for Sex and the City Season 2, and after costar Kim Cattrall tried to negotiate a higher salary for herself, the crew members told Telegraph that the other cast members "wouldn't even sit with [Cattrall] at mealtimes."
Parker denied these reports, and she told Elle, "I don't think anybody wants to believe that I love Kim. I adore her. I wouldn't have done the movie without her."
Cattrall accused Parker of "exploiting [her] tragedy in order to restore [Parker's] ‘nice girl’ persona."
6. In 1999, a friend of 50 Cent stole Ja Rule's chain at gunpoint, and there's been bad blood between the rappers ever since.
In 2002, 50 Cent signed to a new label and released his first hit single, which was inspired by Ja Rule — "Wanksta."
In 2018, Ja Rule tweeted that he "owned [50 Cent's] soul, so in response, 50 Cent bought 200 tickets to his show on Groupon, which he then left empty.
7. After Johnny Carson's retirement in 1992, an "epic late-night war" began when Jay Leno took over The Tonight Show — a role David Letterman had expected was his.
After his retirement, Carson visited Late Night and asked Letterman, "How pissed off are you?”
8. In her memoir, Joan Fontaine alleged that her own birth in 1917 sparked the feud with her sister and fellow actor Olivia de Havilland, who didn't want to share their parents' attention.
In 1939, Fontaine married Brian Aherne, her sister's ex-boyfriend.
In 1941, they were both nominated for Best Actress at the Academy Awards.
However, when their mother died in 1975, Fontaine was out of the country, and she wasn't invited to the memorial service until she threatened to leak the story to the press unless the date was moved to accommodate her.
9. Debra Winger and Shirley MacLaine's feud began on the set of Terms of Endearment in 1983.
The movie earned both actors an Academy Award nomination for Best Actress, which MacLaine won.
10. In the early years of Muhammad Ali's boxing career, he and Joe Frazier were good friends, but while they were planning 1971's, "Fight of the Century" they turned on each other.
In 1974, they appeared on The Dick Cavett Show, where they jokingly accused a presenter of stirring the pot.
In 1975, they headed to the Philippines for their third and final match.
However, before Frazier's death in 2011, the two made amends.
11. Early in her career, Carly Simon dated Warren Beatty, whose cheating was revealed to her by her therapist, so she wrote "You're So Vain" in 1972 and teased the inspiration behind the song for decades.
However, in 2015, she finally revealed that Warren Beatty was indeed part of the inspiration behind the song.
12. In 1998, Brandy and Monica hit the top of the charts with "The Boy Is Mine," but their duet sparked rumors that they were feuding behind-the-scenes.
13. In 1965, Johnny Carson helped turn Joan Rivers into an overnight sensation on The Tonight Show, but when she took a deal to host her own late night show in 1986, he was furious.
Rivers was banned from The Tonight Show, which Jay Leno upheld when he took the reins from Carson.
14. And finally, Stevie Nicks and Lindsey Buckingham joined Fleetwood Mac as a couple in 1975, but she dumped him as soon as they finished recording Rumours — the album that propelled both of them (and their drama) into the spotlight.
In 2018, Nicks said she couldn't work with him anymore after he snickered while she was giving a speech, and he was fired after 43 years with Fleetwood Mac.
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