10 celebrities who did horrible things in the past (With Pictures)

6. Elvis Costello – The Racist

You may remember Elvis Costello for his critically acclaimed albums or for being that musician in Austin Powers who sang and played the piano. What you may not remember was the time he threw racial slurs towards Ray Charles and James Brown.

Costello was huge in Britain during the late 70s and was starting to get a foothold in America before he realised that Americans didn’t warm to casual racism as they once did. During a night out, a totally wasted Costello thought it was a good idea to call Ray Charles a “blind, ignorant ni**er” and James Brown a “jive-ass ni**er”.

Luckily for an incredibly apologetic (and hungover) Costello, Charles was incredibly cool about everything and forgave him by stating “drunken talk isn’t meant to be printed in the paper.”