9 Celebs Who Have Weird AF Roommate Stories Just Like You Do

Mar. 16, 2025

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MELISSA MCCARTHY’S ROOMMATE WITH A SERIAL KILLER CONNECTION

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McCarthy’s disappointment didn’t end with getting paired with the wrong sister. Soon, her hair band-loving roommate was bringing up John Wayne Gacy, who was convicted of murdering 33 young men in the ’70s.

02of 09NICK ROBINSON’S DRAIN-CLOGGING ROOMMATEVittorio Zunino Celotto/GettyTheLove, Simonstar currently shares a place with one of his friends. “This is my first roommate ever, so it’s been a bit of a learning curve trying to sort of learn the ropes a bit,“he said onJimmy Kimmel Live.“We do share a bathroom — that’s actually been the worst part of all of it,” Robinson continued. “He’s got a large beard, it goes down to like [his stomach] or something. So every morning when I’m waking up and doing my routine I have to just dig this huge lump of hair out of the drain… It’s really gross.”

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NICK ROBINSON’S DRAIN-CLOGGING ROOMMATE

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TheLove, Simonstar currently shares a place with one of his friends. “This is my first roommate ever, so it’s been a bit of a learning curve trying to sort of learn the ropes a bit,“he said onJimmy Kimmel Live.

“We do share a bathroom — that’s actually been the worst part of all of it,” Robinson continued. “He’s got a large beard, it goes down to like [his stomach] or something. So every morning when I’m waking up and doing my routine I have to just dig this huge lump of hair out of the drain… It’s really gross.”

03of 09AUBREY PLAZA’S ‘LITERAL PIRATE’ ROOMMATEAlberto E. Rodriguez/GettyPlaza did her best to explain her baffling former living situation onThe Late Late Show with James Corden. “I was living in Ghana for two months when I was in college doing a documentary film program and my roommate was a straight-up pirate. Like a literal pirate,” she said.“Her name was Jenny — I think. And she had blonde hair. She was like a transfer student, but she was like straight off a boat off the Caribbean,” the actress continued. “She went [to the school] because she thought she was going to like party and you know, get tan, and find like booty. I don’t know how else to explain it to you. She was always looking for treasure and she was always drunk.”

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AUBREY PLAZA’S ‘LITERAL PIRATE’ ROOMMATE

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Plaza did her best to explain her baffling former living situation onThe Late Late Show with James Corden. “I was living in Ghana for two months when I was in college doing a documentary film program and my roommate was a straight-up pirate. Like a literal pirate,” she said.

“Her name was Jenny — I think. And she had blonde hair. She was like a transfer student, but she was like straight off a boat off the Caribbean,” the actress continued. “She went [to the school] because she thought she was going to like party and you know, get tan, and find like booty. I don’t know how else to explain it to you. She was always looking for treasure and she was always drunk.”

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ZACH WOOD’S WEIRD DREAM-SHARING ROOMMATE

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Luckily, the first impression the student gave off wasn’t emblematic of his personality. “But he turned out to be a really nice guy, just spectacularly bad with ice breakers,” Woods added.

05of 09MARGOT ROBBIE’S TOILET PAPER-STEALING ROOMMATESPhillip Faraone/GettyDuring a 2015Tonight Showappearance, Robbie spilled details about sharing a house with five of her friends.“I live with three boys, and I can’t tell you how hard it is to get your hand on toilet paper,” she told host Jimmy Fallon. “They steal it! We’ve got a girls' bathroom and a boys' bathroom, fortunately, but they sneak on up and steal all our toilet paper.”

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MARGOT ROBBIE’S TOILET PAPER-STEALING ROOMMATES

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During a 2015Tonight Showappearance, Robbie spilled details about sharing a house with five of her friends.

“I live with three boys, and I can’t tell you how hard it is to get your hand on toilet paper,” she told host Jimmy Fallon. “They steal it! We’ve got a girls' bathroom and a boys' bathroom, fortunately, but they sneak on up and steal all our toilet paper.”

06of 09JIMMY FALLON’S POSSIBLE VAMPIRE ROOMMATETodd Williamson/Getty Images"I once had a roommate that used to sleep [with] his sheets so tight that I don’t know how he fit in the bed. He somehow slithered into the bed. His feet couldn’t even stick up, it was just tight. And then [his arms would be crossed] like he was a vampire or something,“The Tonight Showhost said while introducing a#WeirdRoommate segment. “I never saw him get in or get out. Maybe he had friends help tuck him in — I don’t know what went down”

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JIMMY FALLON’S POSSIBLE VAMPIRE ROOMMATE

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“I once had a roommate that used to sleep [with] his sheets so tight that I don’t know how he fit in the bed. He somehow slithered into the bed. His feet couldn’t even stick up, it was just tight. And then [his arms would be crossed] like he was a vampire or something,“The Tonight Showhost said while introducing a#WeirdRoommate segment. “I never saw him get in or get out. Maybe he had friends help tuck him in — I don’t know what went down”

07of 09JUSTIN LONG’S RECYCLING-ILLITERATE ROOMMATE (A.K.A JONAH HILL)Frazer Harrison/Getty ImagesLong and fellow actorJonah Hilllived together way back in the day, but had to part ways when they couldn’t stop fighting “like an old married couple.““We fought over recycling,“Long said in 2009. “He would recycle everything. I would find banana peels and shards of glass in the recycling bin. We started getting in little fights like that, he left the bathroom door open, didn’t clean up after himself. Little things like that. It was time for a separation.”

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JUSTIN LONG’S RECYCLING-ILLITERATE ROOMMATE (A.K.A JONAH HILL)

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Long and fellow actorJonah Hilllived together way back in the day, but had to part ways when they couldn’t stop fighting “like an old married couple.”

“We fought over recycling,“Long said in 2009. “He would recycle everything. I would find banana peels and shards of glass in the recycling bin. We started getting in little fights like that, he left the bathroom door open, didn’t clean up after himself. Little things like that. It was time for a separation.”

08of 09TAYLOR SCHILLING’S RULE-CRAZY ROOMMATERodin Eckenroth/GettyTheOrange is the New Blackstar and her best friend once shared a “bitchen,” a small apartment in which their one bed and kitchen were in the same room. During a visit toLate Night with Seth Meyers, she shared the legalese-filled contract he had written up to control their time together.The agreement included rules like, “Both parties must treat the other with courtesy and respect regardless of their state of inebriation, exhaustion or general non-collaborative mood.”

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TAYLOR SCHILLING’S RULE-CRAZY ROOMMATE

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TheOrange is the New Blackstar and her best friend once shared a “bitchen,” a small apartment in which their one bed and kitchen were in the same room. During a visit toLate Night with Seth Meyers, she shared the legalese-filled contract he had written up to control their time together.

The agreement included rules like, “Both parties must treat the other with courtesy and respect regardless of their state of inebriation, exhaustion or general non-collaborative mood.”

09of 09MELISSA BENOISTWASTHE OVERLY EMOTIONAL ROOMMATEFrazer Harrison/Getty"I was 18 and I was being dropped off for college in New York,” theSupergirlstar said about moving away from home for the first time onThe Late Late Show. “Most kids are excited to leave the house, [but] my mom and I kind of had this sobbing saga on the corner of like 55th and 2nd avenue. Like, legitimately wailing together. And I went up to my dorm room and my roommate was really weirded out and we didn’t talk for awhile.”

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MELISSA BENOISTWASTHE OVERLY EMOTIONAL ROOMMATE

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“I was 18 and I was being dropped off for college in New York,” theSupergirlstar said about moving away from home for the first time onThe Late Late Show. “Most kids are excited to leave the house, [but] my mom and I kind of had this sobbing saga on the corner of like 55th and 2nd avenue. Like, legitimately wailing together. And I went up to my dorm room and my roommate was really weirded out and we didn’t talk for awhile.”

source: people.com