by Brian GalindoBuzzFeedBuzzFeed StaffSenior Editor, Nostalgia Nerd Sometimes celebrities tank their own careers through their own choices, and when that happens, the fallout makes sense. But, of course, not every public downfall is that simple. Over the years, some stars have watched their reputations spiral because of rumors, media frenzies, bad timing, or narratives that took on a life of their own. In a few cases, the backlash stuck so hard that their careers never fully bounced back. Kevork Djansezian / Getty Images Recently, redditor Zxqao was curious about famous people who have faced that latter when they asked: "What celebrity has had their reputation unfairly ruined and has never recovered from it till this day?" BuzzFeed / Via giphy.com Unsurprisingly, lots of people had opinions on this, and the thread got over 7K replies. Below are the top and most often repeated celebrities that commentators thought got their reputations unfairly ruined: 1. "Cliff Robertson (Uncle Ben in the Sam Raimi Spider-Man). He uncovered that David Begelman was embezzling money from actors working at Columbia Pictures. He was blacklisted for decades." (C)Columbia Pictures/Courtesy Everett Collection -greenwood90 2. "Topher Grace had a bad reputation for being difficult and aloof on That '70s Show. Turns out he was the only one who wasn't a trash human." Spencer Weiner / Los Angeles Times via Getty Images -ineverbot 3. "I never understood why Rosanna Arquette didn't become a bigger star. She was everywhere in the '80s and '90s, was beautiful, a great actress, and had the Arquette name on top of it all. Then, when the MeToo movement happened, she came forward about how Harvey Weinstein blacklisted her after she refused to comply with his disgusting 'advances'. Then it all made sense. He ruined her reputation in Hollywood, and it very much unfairly impacted her career. I'm glad to see her doing more acting these days, but I don't think she ever fully recovered from that." Frazer Harrison / Getty Images -arabesuku 4. "Eartha Kitt was blacklisted for years for criticizing the Vietnam War and the Johnson administration at the White House. She did make a comeback years later, but she had to pursue a career in Europe, I think, while the government kept surveillance on her." Anthony Barboza / Getty Images -xperimentsix2six 5. "Mira Sorvino was blacklisted after a smear campaign by Harvey Weinstein when she refused to sleep with him. Her career was never able to recover from it." Bob Riha Jr / Getty Images 6. "Ashley Judd, in particular, was blocked from receiving a role in The Lord of the Rings by Weinstein. Peter Jackson said that he'd been considering Judd for a role, but Weinstein intervened and told him that she was 'a nightmare to work with.' Being naive about Hollywood, Jackson believed him, and only realized what happened years later, after all the accusations came out." Astrid Stawiarz / Getty Images for Tribeca Film Festival -CaptainFartHole 7. "Definitely Brendan Fraser. He was blacklisted by Hollywood bigwigs for accusing the president of the HFPA of SA in 2003. It wasn't until The Whale (2022) that the tide turned, and he was recognized for his work and for having been victimized twice." Mike Coppola / Getty Images -NoDoOversInLife 8. "A lot of people still believe Macaulay Culkin was a person addicted to drugs who was on the verge of death in his teens and twenties...but he says he never actually had a problem and any drug use was regular recreational use (like any other teenager.) It was just tabloids creating a story based on pictures of him looking skinny and disheveled. He's been in the public eye more lately, and you always see comments about how it's 'great to see him healthy and sober.' It is great to see him showing up in movies and TV again, but that doesn't mean he was ever actually a drug addict." Amy Sussman / Getty Images -wtb2612 9. "Pee-wee Herman (Paul Reubens). I'm glad he was back on track before he passed. He really was a bright spot on Saturday mornings." Kevin Winter / Getty Images -Sensitive-Elk7093 10. "Katherine Heigl got a reputation for being difficult because she talked about 17-hour work days on set and called one of her movies 'a little sexist,' so basically, she told the truth." NBC / Nathan Congleton/NBC via Getty Images -Ill-Explanation-5059 11. "Chingy. Way before social media took off, a picture of him with a trans woman hit the blogs. Transphobia was huge in the Black community then. He did not know she was trans, and they desecrated him. She finally came out and said Chingy didn't know her, but damage was done." Gregory Bojorquez / Getty Images -Zoranealsequence 12. "The Chicks were politically canceled long before that became the term for it, and never fully recovered." Al Bello / Getty Images -SnipinSexton 13. "Janet Jackson had her clothes ripped off of her on live TV, and she was the only one to get any backlash from the incident, so much that it basically sunk her entire career