16 Celebs Who Owned Their Awkward Moments

Ariana Grande almost got hit by a Victoria’s Secret Angel wing during the brand’s annual fashion show. Ari commented on the moment that turned into a meme, tweeting, “a Victoria's Secret angel accidentally smacked me in the face with her wings and it was awesome #goals#bangbangintomyface.”

Demi Lovato originally was not a big fan of the “Poot” meme. In the Demi Lovato fandom, we all know the legend of Poot — an unflattering photo of Demi that one fan fic writer turned into Demi’s long lost sister who lives in [their] basement. While Demi was initially against the whole “Poot” thing, they later embraced it and even posted their own Poot meme on Twitter.

The Chainsmokers misspelled the word “Pittsburgh” during their tour. When they omitted the letter ‘h’ from the word “Pittsburgh” in an enormous banner they unveiled during a tour stop that took place in the Pennsylvania city. After being lobbed with criticism and jokes on Twitter, the EDM duo poked fun at their mistake, tweeting, “Well at least we got another chance this week in Clevlande.”

McKayla Maroney’s “not impressed face” instantly became a meme. 2012 Olympic gymnast McKayla Maroney should have won gold on vault. But when she wound up with silver, it was the “not impressed face” seen ‘round the world — but instead of explaining herself too much, the gymnast went with it and even posed with Barack Obama, both of them copping the “not impressed” looks.

Justin Bieber fell through an onstage trapdoor! Fortunately, JB was OK. "Good thing I'm like a cat and I landed on my feet," the singer said. "Oh my lord. That scared the f**k outta me."

When John Travolta pronounced Idina Menzel's name wrong at the 2014 Oscars it was a bit awkward. Luckily they both took it light heartedly and the next year they presented the award together to poke fun at the mishap, Travolta even let her pronounce her own name this time!

That time Paris Hilton turned her community service obligation into a meme. When Paris Hilton was required to perform community service in 2010, there was a photo snapped of her painting over graffiti on a wall. Seven years later, Paris turned the whole thing into a meme and captioned the photo: “Them: You just can’t erase people from your life. Me: [photo of her painting the wall].” MEME QUEEN.

Jennifer Lawrence fell up the stairs to accept her Oscar — and played it off in the most JLaw way. JLaw took a tumble back in 2013 while on her way up to the Oscars stage when accepting her Best Actress award for her work in "Silver Linings Playbook". When asked about the fall in the press room moments later she said, “What do you mean, ‘What happened?’ Look at my dress! I tried to walk up stairs in this dress, that’s what happened. I think I just stepped on the fabric and they waxed the stairs.”

At the Brit Awards in 2015 Madonna suffered a cape malfunction when performing, she fell backwards when a dancer pulled the cape back but she fortunately got right back up and continued the performance. Madonna explained after that her cape was too tight and that is what caused the fall but that everyone was fine!

Ashlee Simpson got caught lip-syncing on “SNL,” and did an Irish jig. The singer faced the most embarrassing moment of her career when she was caught lip-syncing on “SNL,” after a technical error caused the wrong vocals to play during her second song. At the time, she did the only thing she could do: A jig. After initially blaming her backing band, Ashlee ultimately copped to the mistake. “I’ll hold my head high and say I think it was silly of me to do it, silly of me to blame the band, I was just so f**king embarrassed,” she wrote on her now-defunct website. “But I don’t think it did me much harm, and people will see that soon.”

Zac Efron dropped a condom on the red carpet of 'The Lorax' premiere. The actor made headlines when he dropped a condom at the premiere of his 2012 film 'The Lorax,' and he addressed the embarrassing moment with Matt Lauer on “TODAY,” saying. “I never really had a pocket checking policy going onto the red carpet before, but now we fully instated one.”

Meghan Trainor fell down during a televised performance of her single “Me Too” while appearing on “The Tonight Show With Jimmy Fallon.” She later acknowledged the tumble, tweeting, “Might have fell down... but I KILLLED that sh*t hahaha #keepinitreal.”

Adele joked about her sound issues during the 2016 Grammys. ”I woke up the next morning to people in England being like, ‘We still love you, don’t worry,'” Adele recalled to Ellen DeGeneres. "And I was like, 'I didn't ask you if you still loved me, but thanks!’”

Jordin Sparks slipped and fell during a performance on the “American Idol” Tour. “I was singing during the American Idol tour, and there was this part where I was crossing to the opposite side of the stage. All of a sudden, I ended up slipping in my high heels and fell down hard!” she recalled (via Seventeen). I stayed there for a second, swaying on my butt, and kept singing, just hoping I could play it off!”

Zendaya ripped her pants mid-photo shoot. “My pants ripped once when I was doing a ‘Shake It Up!’ photo shoot and I was doing one of these jumping poses. I did one and felt a slight breeze in my backside. It was a teeny rip, so I was like, ‘Know what? We’re fine. Nobody’s gonna see it. We’re in the back. Whatever,’” she recalled (via Seventeen). “I did another picture and my jeans ripped in half! There were two separate pant legs!”

Chrissy Teigen called out her own wardrobe malfunction on instagram and poked fun at herself on Instagram after she wore a dress with a particularly high slit to the 2016 American Music Awards. The dress became a meme almost instantly, and Chrissy let fans know she was in on the joke early on by reposting a hilarious “Family Guy” comparison created by Instagram user @qween.memes.