8 Legendary Duos Who Hated Each Other's Guts

5. Meg & Jack White

The contentious relationship between former husband and wife (or supposed brother and sister, if you believed their early gimmick) was all about a lack of communication. Meg and Jack White couldn't get along in the White Stripes because, according, to the frontman, Meg was just too !*$% anti-social. And that drove him nuts.

Even at the height of the band's success, Jack says, despite technically touring and playing alongside another person, he often felt like he was in it alone. Most of that was simply a result of Meg's often crippling anxiety, which caused Jack to resent his bandmate's inability to communicate with him or help shoulder the weight.

"I remember hearing Ringo Starr say, 'I always felt sorry for Elvis, because in the Beatles we had each other to talk about what it felt like. Elvis was by himself.' I was like, 'Sh*t, try being in a two-piece where the other person doesn't talk!'"

Although Jack was always quick to compliment his former wife's drumming ability (even when most of the world was chiding her for playing like a child who'd just gotten a drum set for her birthday), he was equally quick to badger her for staying silent during joint interviews. He would go on to blame her lack of enthusiasm, in part, for the eventual breakup of the band.