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Zooey Deschanel Was Bullied in School: Which Bullied Celebrity Got the Biggest Last Laugh?

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SLIDESHOW: Which Bullied Celeb Got the Last Laugh?

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Zooey Deschanel

Her Fox show "New Girl" is a hit, but Zooey wasn't quite as popular back in school. "Girls spit in my face, people were so mean to me, I'd cry every day," she tells Allure.
  1. Zooey Deschanel

    Zooey Deschanel

    Her Fox show "New Girl" is a hit, but Zooey wasn't quite as popular back in school. "Girls spit in my face, people were so mean to me, I'd cry every day," she tells Allure.

  2. Tom Cruise

    Tom Cruise

    "Your heart's pounding, you sweat, and you feel like you're going to vomit," Cruise said of being bullied. "I never liked hitting someone, but I know if I don't hit that guy hard he's going to pick on me all year."

  3. Madonna

    Madonna

    "In high school I wasn't a hippie or a stoner, so I ended up being the weirdo. I was interested in classical ballet and music, so the kids were quite mean if you were different," she told Vanity Fair.

  4. Lady Gaga

    Lady Gaga

    Gaga told Rolling Stone she was “teased for being ugly, having a big nose, being annoying." She also told Ellen DeGeneres: “I didn't fit in at high school, I wanted to be like Boy George and I felt like a freak."

  5. Sandra Bullock

    Sandra Bullock

    "I looked like a clown compared to the cool way the other students looked and dressed. So I got my ass whooped a little bit,” Bullock said, according to Contact Music.

  6. Taylor Swift

    Taylor Swift

    "Junior high was actually sort of hard because I got dumped by this group of popular girls," Swift told Teen Vogue. "They didn't think I was cool or pretty enough, so they stopped talking to me."

  7. Eminem

    Eminem

    Eminem’s mom reportedly sued the Detroit school system, stating that bullying caused her son to have "nightmares and anti-social behavior."

  8. Chris Colfer

    Chris Colfer

    Colfer's character is teased on "Glee," but in real life, he was “a walking punching bag" who was "teased every day from elementary school until high school,” People reported.

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She's become synonymous with the word "adorkable," but "New Girl" star Zooey Deschanel wasn't quite as popular back in her school days. "Girls spit in my face, people were so mean to me, I'd cry every day," she tells Allure.

Even today, the 32-year-old "it" girl says she avoids gossip websites like Gawker. "I actually think the writing is really funny, but there is a chance that somebody is undercutting me," she tells the mag.

Deschanel isn't the only popular star who has proven that success is the best revenge. "Your heart's pounding, you sweat, and you feel like you're going to vomit," Tom Cruise said of being bullied. Lady Gaga told Rolling Stone she was “teased for being ugly, having a big nose, being annoying."

Taylor Swift was also a target for "Mean" girls. "Junior high was actually sort of hard because I got dumped by this group of popular girls," Swift told Teen Vogue. "They didn't think I was cool or pretty enough, so they stopped talking to me."

From Deschanel to Swift to Madonna, click through our slideshow and let us know: Which bullied celebrity got the biggest last laugh?
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  • Jesterz 2012/01/18 17:47:44
    Zooey Deschanel
    Jesterz
    +18
    Anyone who got bullied in school and became successful at what they do came out a winner... The majority are not stars or celebrities, but each and everyone of them got the last laugh as a human being...

    I chose Zooey cuz i like her a lot! ;o)

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  • Sinister Ken Doll™ 2012/01/19 03:52:39
    Lady Gaga
    Sinister Ken Doll™
    +3
    she totally rocks :D
  • tatilee(: 2012/01/19 03:34:57
    Madonna
    tatilee(:
    +1
    Umm duh! She is Madonna! It's always the theatre/ choir lnerds that end up on top
  • Rob 2012/01/19 03:20:33
    Zooey Deschanel
    Rob
    +3
    Everyone gets bullied. I was bullied. However, over the years since, I have remedied that in myself and I am now not someone to f**k with. If I knew who bullied Zooey, I would teach that person a lesson in manners.
  • ♥əmma~*In Padfoot I trust*~♥ 2012/01/19 02:54:29
    Chris Colfer
    ♥əmma~*In Padfoot I trust*~♥
    +2
    Going through your entire childhood without friends sounds heartbreaking. Thank God that kid was able to pull through and offer us what he can. His voice, his acting skills, his children's series, his screenplays...not to mention his message!

    Yay Chris!
  • steven 2012/01/19 02:47:40
    Zooey Deschanel
    steven
    +1
    If you mean literal laughs, I think Zooey wins. I do think Sandra Bullock has amazing comedic skills and timing, however. She's hot and sexy, but Zooey is indeed adorable. (I wonder if she would let me adopt her.)
  • Julia Anne 2012/01/19 02:40:43
    Taylor Swift
    Julia Anne
    +3
    Same situation happened to me to. Popular girls!!! where do I begin????? Whatever you do don't seek revenge because it never works. No matter how badly you want to take them down....Don't!!!! if your like me; your most likely to spend most of your elementary school life in the office. Five years of my life I'm getting back.

    All because lost my mind on these girls who were literally mocking me and Bi**hing at everything I did. So being me i thought of some type of pay back..and got burned in the end. Your probably wondering what I did. I shoved the biggest Bi**h of all in a locker, and locked it. Well that was lessons learned.
  • AdeenMc... Julia Anne 2012/01/19 15:58:13
    AdeenMckenzie-kennedy
    Yeah I went through the same thing you and Taylor Swift went through in high school. I am 16 and a high scool sophomore. Girls would make fun of me, pick on me and avoid me like the plague last year at my Catholic school. I didn't fit in with the popular people there. I was different because I would keep to myself and write stories Guys always made fun of me. I hated that school, I hated the kids and everything so I went to public school. And everyone is much nicer to me at my public school.
  • Julia Anne AdeenMc... 2012/01/19 20:53:18
    Julia Anne
    That's good to hear. My mom won't let me go to a public school. I don't see any reason not to go to one. Oh well....my loss :)...I been to Catholic schools all my life!!! Doesn't mean you have to become a bitter person....Anyways what I've learned is nice-ness kills!!!! It's the number 1 rule of getting thought bad days. Mean people can't help it. It's in there blood.
  • KristinnC: 2012/01/19 02:38:42
    Eminem
    KristinnC:
    +3
    i think eminem because it was so terrible what happened to him:( !
  • Haley Smith 2012/01/19 02:35:19
    Zooey Deschanel
    Haley Smith
    +2
    Zooey got the biggest laugh because she gets to act like a total dork on TV and people think she's adorable!
    I really don't want her and Ben to get a divorce! :(
  • MJ 2012/01/19 02:26:16
    Zooey Deschanel
    MJ
    +1
    I wouldn't say she got the last laugh, but she's got an amazing jazzy singing voice and she's a pretty awesome actress. Plus, she's absolutely beautiful!
  • kawaiigurl1234 2012/01/19 02:25:04
    Lady Gaga
    kawaiigurl1234
    +3
    hahahahahah
  • Katerina 2012/01/19 02:20:51
    Madonna
    Katerina
    +3
    I chose Madonna,but I think what happened to Christina Aguilera was terrible and she sure can laugh now.. or the Kaulitz twins... their stepfather had to meet them from school with a baseball bat and a dog to keep people from trying to beat them up on the way home... and now look who's laughing ... Christina Aguilera
    Bill and Tom Kaulitz on the plane
  • BattleB... Katerina 2012/01/19 02:53:23
    BattleBunnys
    If only Bill still looked like that :-/
  • Katerina BattleB... 2012/01/19 04:32:54
    Katerina
    +1
    Well.. all he needs to do is shave that stupid beard and we got our boy back ;)
    Underneath it all he's still the same.
  • BattleB... Katerina 2012/01/19 21:04:48
    BattleBunnys
    Nah, he cut his hair and dyed it blonde. Not my flavor of guy ;o. Nor is the beard. D:
  • Katerina BattleB... 2012/01/19 21:15:01
    Katerina
    He will come back to us.. one day......... I hope
    I know that he went blonde.. but unlike the beard I'm somehow able to tolerate it.. but I don't condone it. I bet it doesn't look half as bad without the beard xD
    Anyway he can do what he likes... I want the music.. it's been WAY overdue.
  • BattleB... Katerina 2012/01/19 21:16:53
    BattleBunnys
    I stopped listening since the last album...I preferred the more rock Tokio Hotel.... Plus.... my musical taste has slightly changed since the new album *shurgs* i still have my THTVs :)
  • Katerina BattleB... 2012/01/20 12:01:17
    Katerina
    I did as well... but because I don't only listen to rock I liked their last album too..(which still was rock + synth btw) lol I actually have the most random music collection xD From Rammstein to classical music like Bach and Vivaldi .. From Tokio Hotel to Christina Aguilera ... from Michael Jackson to Depeche Mode .. from KINO to Linda.... From Gorillas to all things MOTOWN.. lol I don't listen to any particular style of music... if I like it I like it if I don't then I'm sorry to say I don't.. as simple as that.. with Tokio Hotel the last album wasn't what I expected,but that doesn't mean that I didn't like it. Kind of interesting what direction they will take on their new record. Though.. I do wish that they would go back to their old sound.. in my opinion it suits
    them best.
  • BattleB... Katerina 2012/01/20 14:46:20
    BattleBunnys
    I completely agree.... lol I went from Tokio Hotel to Escape the Fate to I am Ghost to Bullet...... I listen to classical too, but I keep those worlds separate. I'm predominantly a rock girl, but when I study, needs something soothing, or just want to; I'll listen to classical (mainly Beethoven.)
  • Katerina BattleB... 2012/01/20 22:21:57
    Katerina
    Ha ha... I listen to all of those and more on every day basis.. so it's not like I was into rock and then it changed to classical... I just don't have a musical genre preference. Like you said that you keep them separate ..well I don't :D I love Beethoven too and Tchaikovsky and Rossini.. too many to list them all :) Classical music, now that's what I call staying power in the music industry :P hundreds years later and people still know and enjoy it.
  • wqerwqerwe 2012/01/19 02:16:28
    Eminem
    wqerwqerwe
    +2
    He came from a really bad situation.
  • Angela Chambers 2012/01/19 02:14:59
    Eminem
    Angela Chambers
    +2
    He had it worse than all of them.
  • frerard... Angela ... 2012/01/19 04:53:00
    frerardforever
    +1
    yeah I know. these kids got bullied by their peers while living in nice homes (as far as I know), but Eminem grew up without a dad, moving place to place, getting beat up, and he lived in the roughest part of Detroit. :/
  • rhaver1 2012/01/19 02:13:15
    Eminem
    rhaver1
    +3
    A dork like that growing up where he did? He must be the biggest last laugh candidate. On a side note, "New Girl" really needs to drop that "heeeyy girlllll" song from their intro. It's so annoying I even cut the show from my Tivo. I liked the show, and will still occasionally catch the show, but that song is NAILS ON AN EFFING CHALKBOARD..... and for you kids currently in school.... a chalkboard is something that teachers used to use before smart boards.... you kids in Pennsylvania know what I'm talking about.
  • Mia 2012/01/19 01:56:10
    Eminem
    Mia
    +2
    If it caused him to have nightmares and anti-social behavior, I reckon it was pretty bad.
  • 2585661 2012/01/19 01:21:39
    Madonna
    2585661
    +1
    Lady Gaga told Rolling Stone she was “teased for being ugly, having a big nose, being annoying." When did that change????
  • Bob DiN 2585661 2012/01/19 14:40:49
    Bob DiN
    When she became rich and famous.
  • Camaro1991 2012/01/19 01:05:21
    Taylor Swift
    Camaro1991
    +4
    I have a strange respect for her because she overcame bullying. Her music still sucks though.
  • breawycker 2012/01/19 00:58:43
    Zooey Deschanel
    breawycker
    +1
    Or Taylor Swift
  • Mocha_Cupcake 2012/01/19 00:57:51
    Eminem
    Mocha_Cupcake
    +1
    He's had the hardest life out of any of them.
  • kaka702 2012/01/19 00:53:28
    Eminem
    kaka702
    +3
    Eminem, had the toughest life out of all of this people, if you know his life story you will know why. I don't know why he is almost at the bottom... becuase he raps? lol
  • ShamWOW!! 2012/01/19 00:48:15
    Madonna
    ShamWOW!!
    +1
    Just because she's probably the most popular of these.
  • Keen Tojones 2012/01/19 00:40:14
    Madonna
    Keen Tojones
    +1
    I see Madonna quite differently. I see her music quite differently. Something just clicked. I think I understand her now.
  • onegoodreasonxx 2012/01/19 00:32:53
    Tom Cruise
    onegoodreasonxx
    Ha. Losers.
  • Utall 2012/01/19 00:32:37
    Eminem
    Utall
    +3
    this article is funny.

    such a disgrace.
  • ♥PrettyLittleLiarsLover♥ 2012/01/19 00:24:28
    Taylor Swift
    ♥PrettyLittleLiarsLover♥
    +2
    OMG I KNEW ABOUT TAYLOR BUT EMINEM? OMG? WOW I THINK EMINEM ZOOEY CHRIS AND TAYLOR BUT MOST I THINK JUSTIN BIEBER CUZ HE'S REALLY FAMOUS RIGHT NOW YOU HAVE TO ADMIT LOVE HIM OR HATE HIM HE IS VERY FAMOUS! Justin bieber bullied Justin bieber bullied
  • [Katsu]™ ♥Pretty... 2012/01/19 01:20:31
    [Katsu]™
    +7
    What does him being famous have to do with anything? Justin was hardly teased at all. If anything it was for being an obnoxious idiot. He always had friends, yet at the same time nobody liked him to begin with. Because he was just that. An idiot.
  • ♥Pretty... [Katsu]™ 2012/01/20 02:34:57
    ♥PrettyLittleLiarsLover♥
    +1
    No, he was bullied for being good at sports no one liked him cuz of tht! he had only 2 friends and he was bullied for being short and was called names!
  • [Katsu]™ ♥Pretty... 2012/01/20 03:38:20
    [Katsu]™
    +2
    Oh yeah? Like I said, hardly. Plus he was a brat. Don't believe everything you hear on the internet, and don't even try to exaggerate with me either. I live closer to Stratford than you could even imagine, and all I'm going to say about that is you really get to hear things when someone so close becomes so famous, whether you've actually met them before or not.

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