10 Utterly Disturbing Ways That Obsessed Fans Go Too Far

5. Sheer Desperation To Be Close To Their Idols

Then there€™s the obsessed fans that sneak into places where they€™re not supposed to be in order to intrude upon the lifestyles of the rich and famous. In August 2013, a man with an outstanding court order against him for similar intrusions broke into Jennifer Lopez' holiday home, managing to remain unnoticed for nearly a week. in the guest house for six days. Two years earlier, Canadian banshee Celine Dion had something similar happen at her estate in Montreal, when a fan broke into her home and not only raided the larder but ran himself a bath before surrendering to police. Years before that, a female fan was arrested in 1999 after being found, Goldilocks style, asleep in Brad Pitt€™s bed while he was away. Police discovered her curled up and wearing his clothes and shoes€ unlike the fairytale, however, she was carrying a weapon and a book on witchcraft. More recently, when a man glorying in the name of Grezgorz Matlok broke into Madonna€™s home in London by climbing up to her balcony, he barely had enough time to grab a can of Red Bull before her bodyguards made an example of him. Meanwhile, a somewhat optimistic man by the name of Jonathan Whooper attempted to break into Rihanna€™s Los Angeles home several times late last year, claiming that he was her €œfuture husband€. The R&B star managed to obtain a restraining order against Whooper without any trouble; she also made short legal work of Robert Melanson, who trespassed on her property by climing to the roof, and in doing so violated his probation. She€™s placed that home on the market since then. A manic fan of Latin heartthrob Ricky Martin actually went full Tooms and crawled through the ventilation system of a hotel to meet him. The man dropped into Martin€™s hotel room to be confronted with a naked pop star, who was so impressed with the effort taken that he agreed to pose for a picture and sign autographs €“ presumably after putting some clothes on. American Idol winner Scotty McCreery was equally self-possessed after finding a female fan practically living in the dumpster outside his home. He saw her peering through a tiny gap in the bin, and agreed to pose for a picture with her inside the trash can. Just like Oscar the Grouch. It€™s not just teen pop stars that get this treatment, either. Steve Hogarth, singer in cult rock band Marillion, tells a story in his recently published tour diaries of a group of drunk fans who managed to get hold of his hotel room key while on tour, let themselves into his room at night when he was asleep and stood silently at the foot of his bed €“ scaring the crap out of him when he woke up. Despite his vehement exhortations for them to leave him the hell alone, they continued to come into his room at frequent intervals for the rest of the night, like really irritating ghosts.