The 10 biggest career crashes of 2013
In a year of doozies, one popular television celebrity's missteps took the cake. Corporate sponsors she lost »
1. Paula Deen
(AP Photo/NBC, Peter Kramer)
What happened? While being questioned in a discrimination lawsuit in May, Deen acknowledged that she had used a racial epithet in the past. She testified that she "probably" used the racial slur while talking to her husband about a robbery that occurred at the bank she was working at in 1987. When asked if she had used the racial slur since then, she responded: "I'm sure I have, but it's been a very long time." However, she couldn't remember the other contexts in which she used it. Deen said in the deposition that it may have been "in repeating something that was said to me." Though Deen insisted that she and her family do not tolerate prejudice, companies like Home Depot, Novo Nordisk, Ballantine Books, The Food Network, Smithfield Foods and Wal-Mart, among others, have severed ties with the queen of butter. (The lawsuit was later dismissed.)
2. Rob Ford
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