15 hated celebs who are now loved by everyone (With Pictures)

11. Robert Downey Jr.

The downfall of Robert Downey Jr. was quite a sad one. Can you even call it a downfall when he pretty much had been battling a drug addiction since his teenage years? Whichever way you look at it, Robert already had a successful acting career, but for one reason or the other, he couldn’t abstain from his battle with substance abuse. It led him to face the judge on multiple occasions; even facing prison time at one point, and it definitely hurt his reputation as an actor — Hollywood was slowly but surely distancing themselves from him because of his bad boy image. Then came along the opportunity to play Tony Stark in Iron Man, and, well, the rest is pretty much history. But it should be noted that Robert now makes up to $30 million per film and charges up to $50 million for every time he reprises the Iron Man role. Wow!!!