▲Truth! She admitted on her app, caught by Stylecaster, "I hate the sleeve on a Starbucks cup. I leave the room for someone to take it off for me because I cringe from the sound. It’s like nails on a chalkboard for me. I hate cardboard."

▲Angelina Jolie and Billy Bob Thornton wore vials of each other’s blood around their necks.

▲Katy Perry bought then-partner Russell Brand a US$200,000 ticket to outer space for his 35th birthday.

▲Truth! "We are very excited to have him on board," a rep for the Virgin Galactic, Richard Branson's suborbital spaceflight, told E! News. Unfortunately for the now-split couple, Virgin Galactic is still in test-flight mode.

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Tabloid! Thornton opened up about it in 2014 and said Jolie had bought two lockets, the kind you put photos in, and she thought it would be "romantic" if they poked their fingers and smeared some blood on it. The vial part is an exaggeration that led to a lot of other vampiric speculations.

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Kim Kardashian has someone else remove the cardboard sleeves from her coffee cups.

▲Tabloid! J.Lo debunked the rumor on James Corden's 'Carpool Karaoke.'

▲Megan Fox believes leprechauns exist.

▲Mariah Carey asked for 20 white kittens and 100 white doves as a rider, and would require a new toilet seat whenever she stayed in a hotel.

▲Vogue’s editor-in-chief Anna Wintour briefly dated Bob Marley back in the '70s.

▲Truth! When he arrived in Italy for a charity concert in 2003, he realized he left his favorite hat, a black trilby, back in London, so according to a profile in The Telegraph, he paid an estimated US$1,200 for the hat to be flown to him, on a first class seat on British Airways.

▲U2 lead singer Bono once paid for a first class plane ticket seat for his hat.

▲Truth! Fox said in an interview with Esquire, "I believe in all of these Irish myths, like leprechauns. Not the pot of gold, not the Lucky Charms leprechauns. But maybe was there something in the traditional sense? I believe that this stuff came from somewhere other than people's imaginations."

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Celine Dion once requested a US$2 million humidifier to perform.

▲Tabloid! However, Wintour spoke to James Corden about it and after she admitted she’d never met Marley, Corden asked if she would’ve slept with him if she did meet him. "Absolutely," she said.

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Cameron Diaz only washes her face with Evian water.

▲Tabloid! Star magazine spread the rumor that the famous actress didn't like to use tap water to wash her face and that she would only use Evian. RumorFix managed to talk to Cameron Diaz about it and the actress confirmed that it was untrue.

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Ariana Grande demands to be carried around like a baby by her staff when she doesn’t feel like walking.

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Nicolas Cage spent US$150,000 on a pet octopus.

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Truth! Part of Celine Dion’s three-year, US$100 million deal to perform exclusively at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas included the installation of a US$2 million humidifier on stage to preserve her singing voice in the harsh desert climate.

▲Truth! CNBC confirmed it, though he later had to give up his tentacled companion due to financial problems, as he is certainly no stranger to bad decisions.

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Rihanna hires doppelgängers to test out brow styles.

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Tom Cruise bought a sonogram machine when Katie Holmes was pregnant to watch their daughter every day.

▲Truth! Cruise revealed his purchase, which ranges between US$25,000 and US$200,000, in 2005, and said he would donate the machine to a hospital after the baby is born.

▲Truth! The singer's eyebrow artist Damone Roberts told ET, "So Rihanna’s so fly that she has a lookalike model come by your space and you try out different looks on the eyebrows on the model and you send pictures to Rihanna and she decides whether she wants to do it or not!"

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Truth! As reported in the New York Times, she and her partners spent US$20 million to buy most of Braselton, Georgia, a 2,000-acre town with around 7,500 residents. Her original idea was to make it a tourist destination, but five years later she sold it for US$1 million.

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Actress Kim Basinger bought an entire town in the '80s.

▲Truth! The actress was asked in an interview what she keeps with her at all times and she said: "Sage and the gemstone tiger’s eye. For cleaning demons out of places."

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Evan Rachel Wood always carries sage and the gemstone tiger's eye to ward off demons.

▲Jennifer Lopez insured her butt for US$27 million.

▲Tabloid! In 2014, an anonymous source dropped the rumor, adding, "She says that she doesn’t want her precious feet to hit the floor." For some reason, the rumor stuck, but Grande debunked it, explaining that her Instagram post of her friend carrying her in 2014 started it.

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Tabloid! She remains, however, one of the world’s biggest divas.

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Over the years, tabloids have really run loose with wild speculations about celebrities, so much so that when something comes out about a star that is truly bizarre, we aren't so keen to believe it. In the era of fake news, it can be increasingly difficult to know what's real or not, but the subject material when it comes to the rich and famous is always entertaining nonetheless.

Click through to see some of the wildest celebrity gossip out there, and see if you can judge correctly as to whether it's true or something crafted by tabloids.

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Click through to see some of the wildest celebrity gossip out there, and see if you can judge correctly as to whether it's true or something crafted by tabloids.