Posted 55 minutes agoSubscribe to BuzzFeed Daily NewsletterCaret Down27 Celebs Who Spent A Little Too Much Time In La La Land And Lost Touch With RealityYou'll never guess who thought they were more famous than Kim Kardashian.by Hannah MarderBuzzFeed StaffFacebookPinterestLink 1. In 2016, years after her time on Teen Mom ended, for which she is best known, Farrah Abraham suggested she was more famous than Kim Kardashian. "I've been beating out Kim on a lot of things," she said on the Nik Richie Podcast. "I think I've surpassed her in some aspects. Then again, I conduct myself and my brand in a different way in my life, in a very different journey. So I think I'm doing very well, and if not, better." She also said, "I'm not self-absorbed. Now I do acting and I'm doing films and stuff, and people say I'm so selfless, and that's why I'm so good at acting. They can't even believe it." Jon Kopaloff / Getty Images for Debbie Durkin's ECOLUXE Lounge 2. Controversial director Lars von Trier once told a press conference, "I am the best director in the world." This came after the polarized reception of his film Antichrist. He also suggested that other directors feel the same. When asked to state other filmmakers he liked, he said, "All the others are overrated, so that's quite simple." Emma McIntyre / Getty Images 3. Tom Cruise isn't delusional when it comes to his star power, but the power of Scientology. He once said of the religion, "We are the authorities on getting people off drugs, we are the authorities on the mind, we are the authorities on improving conditions...we can rehabilitate criminals...we can bring peace and unite communities." This came from a weird promotional video he made for Scientology in 2004, which leaked in 2008. He also made this baffling claim about car crashes. On Demand Entertainment / Via youtube.com The Church of Scientology claimed the video was a pirated and edited version of a three-hour event. 4. People were not thrilled when they woke up and discovered U2's newest album, Songs of Innocence, had been downloaded onto their Apple devices without them having actually chosen to download it. The moment was quickly mocked and memed to the point where lead singer Bono had to apologize for being so delulu he thought everyone wanted (or at least wouldn't mind) the band's newest album. "I'm sorry about that. I had this beautiful idea... might have gotten carried away with it ourselves. Artists are prone to that kind of thing. A drop of megalomania, a touch of generosity, a dash of self-promotion and deep fear that these songs that we poured our life into over the last few years might not be heard. There's a lot of noise out there. I guess we got a little noisy ourselves to get through it," Bono told fans. Rocco Spaziani/Archivio Spaziani/Mondadori Portfolio via Getty Images He later called it "vaunting ambition" and "overreach," and compared it to delivering milk to people who didn't want it. He said they initially thought, "What was the worst that could happen? It would be like junk mail. Wouldn't it? Like taking our bottle of milk and leaving it on the doorstep of every house in the neighbourhood." However, he acknowledged that wasn't quite what happened: "On 9 September 2014, we didn't just put our bottle of milk at the door but in every fridge in every house in town. In some cases we poured it on to the good people's cornflakes. And some people like to pour their own milk. And others are lactose intolerant." 5. Kanye has always had a God complex. In 2013, he said, "I am the number one most impactful artist of our generation. I am Shakespeare in the flesh." Also in 2013, he compared himself to Picasso, Michelangelo, Basquiat, Walt Disney, and Steve Jobs, and in 2016, audio surfaced of him backstage at SNL saying he was more influential than Stanley Kubrick, Picasso, and the Apostle Paul. He also cast himself as God or a god-like figure through his music, even before The Life of Paolo. Matt Winkelmeyer / Getty Images for The Recording Academy 6. Jay-Z is also guilty of comparing himself to God, but it's not quite as bad. Still, his nickname HOVA is a reference to Jehovah, or God. He explained to NPR that the nickname started after a friend called his rapping a religious experience. "One time, I was recording in the studio and I wasn't writing, and one of my friends was like, man, this is like, how you doing that, man? God must really love you. It's like a religious experience, man. And then he was like, J-hova. And then, you know, it started out as a joke, and then it just stuck." His song "Izzo (H.O.V.A.)" also includes a lyric about being the "eighth wonder of the world." Gilbert Flores/Variety via Getty Images 7. Speaking of Jay-Z...after activist Harry Belafonte said high-profile artists like Jay-Z had "turned their back on social responsibility," Jay-Z defended himself by suggesting he was a symbol. "I'm offended by that because, first of all, and this is going to sound arrogant, but my
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27 Celebs Who Spent A Little Too Much Time In La La Land And Lost Touch With Reality
August 5, 2025
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