Everybody Can’t Handle The Spotlight: Celebrities Whose Fame Literally Drove Them Crazy
Martin Lawrence
On a pleasant May afternoon in 1996, Martin Lawrence stepped into heavy traffic on a Los Angeles avenue to wave his hands, curse at cars, and scream “Fight the establishment!” – with a pistol nestled in his pocket. When the police arrived, Martin attempted to fight them off but was eventually overpowered and taken to the crazy ward of a local hospital. It was at this point, that we knew Martin had officially lost his damn mind.
Initially, the incident was explained as some kind of seizure, but when that explanation didn’t work, Martin’s publicist insisted that a doctor had determined “complete exhaustion and dehydration” to be the cause of the deranged incident. But when it came to Martin’s arrest for punching a man in a nightclub, probation for attempting to board a plane with a loaded handgun, and many accusations of threatening women, I’m not sure exhaustion and dehydration were so easily rattled off as excuses.