from having to navigate through immense grief and tragedy in his personal life to infuriating all of China and getting his movies banned here are Keanu Reeves most controversial moments the A-list celebrity that's known in Hollywood for his kindness has been through his fair share of problems and it seems that's the very thing that's made him so humble in life believe it or not the actor's life isn't as perfect as it's shown on screen he's had to navigate through grief and tragedy in his personal life the biggest of them all was losing his girlfriend Jennifer syme
and their child the two of them met during an after party for his rock band dog star and according to Keanu it was love at first sight things seemed to move pretty fast for the two and she became pregnant with his first child just months into dating but as all good things come to an end this relationship didn't last either it wasn't just a normal breakup though eight months into the pregnancy Jennifer went into labor on Christmas Eve in 1999 and when the baby finally arrived the actor was informed that his daughter was stillborn like
any parents the couple was crushed by the news and they just couldn't recover from it the depression and loss led to them splitting up but their story doesn't end here it gets worse even after everything they remained friends and rumors had it that they might get back together but again fate was just not on their side Jennifer got drunk at a party and on her way back she had a high-speed accident she drove straight into a couple of parked cars and since she'd forgotten to strap her seat belt on the poor actress lost her life
on the spot in 2001. it was bad news after bad news for Reeves he was already struggling with the loss of their child and losing the love of his life couldn't have been easy if you're wondering how can anyone handle all this tragedy an Insider revealed to mirror that the actor was shattered and just lost himself it took a lot of time for him to recover but he's never truly gotten over at all it's this inspiration behind the famous character John Wick whose anger came from having lost his wife due to an illness the actor
said that he could instantly connect with the character because of his pain and that it didn't matter how much time goes by because one can never Escape grief and loss given how sweet he is with everyone around him it's heartbreaking to know that he's been through hell even before this the actor had to cope with the death of his sister and best friend his sister had cancer and Reeves was her sole caretaker during this entire Journey she passed away right before the death of his child and even before that his best friend River Phoenix also
died because of a drug overdose needless to say the actor isn't a stranger to pain and it seemed to have followed him around for quite some time it's no wonder that he's very closed off and private about his life these tragic events happened at a time when he started getting recognized for his acting and could have possibly impacted his success I mean even in his professional life he often comes Under Fire the guy received a lot of backlash for playing John Wick he was blamed for promoting violent behavior and being one of the leading causes
of school shootings in the U.S the public criticized him saying it was like he was telling young people that it was okay to act out in anger if you feel pain rather than processing it in healthier ways also contrary to popular belief not all his movies have been successful most of them have failed immediately after their release a lot of the criticism about his acting revolves around the words flat Stony and unexpressive his record of unsuccessful movies has surpassed the few he got lucky with I'm sure the fans don't even know some of the movies
he's been in there was one named even cowgirls get the blues and yes it was just as awful as the title as far out magazine put it one of the major reasons behind the Matrix star not being known for his bad acting abilities is that people love him as a person he's had his fair share of criticism though even from other celebrities one of them being Matthew Perry remember Chandler from friends yeah that guy he recently wrote A Memoir friends lovers and the big terrible thing and in it he decided to mock the actor Perry
compared him with other actors like Heath Ledger and River Phoenix calling them original thinkers and asking why it was that Legends like them passed away while the Matrix star still walks Among Us ouch Matthew received a lot of backlash from the public for these comments I mean everybody adores Reeves what was the guy even thinking according to Insider a close Source said that even the John Wick actor was shocked and thought that the comment was out of left field all of this led to Perry sending out a public apology he did an interview with deadline
saying that he wasn't prejudiced towards the actor and that it was a very random thing he claimed that since the actor lived on his street he was the first name to pop into his mind and while that sounds very much like an excuse he did remove the comments from the Memoirs published after this incident but that's not the worst of it a woman once claimed that he fathered four of her children in 2020 Karen Sala filed a lawsuit against the actor which mentioned that they had four children together and she wanted him to financially support
them the women asked for three million dollars for a guy who had a terrible experience with children it doesn't even make sense that he'd have even one let alone four naturally Reeves denied her claims mentioning that he'd never even seen the woman before but he still had to take a DNA test as his lawyers advised him to do so guess what it turned out that she was lying what was shocking was that even though the test came out in favor of the actor she still kept on insisting that he was the father she even said
that she had an affair with him even when she was married not only that she said the two of them moved in together as well as for Reeves he described the entire episode as a horrible experience eventually the judge dismissed her case as she had no evidence to support her claims at all it seems Reeves might be a magnet for problems because guess what he infuriated all of China and got his movies banned while his silence keeps him out of the public eye it's also gotten the actor into a lot of trouble as well he
decided to take part in the 35th annual Tibet House U.S benefit concert an event that was arranged to gather money to preserve Tibetan culture turns out there's more to it Tibet and China don't get along well because the Dalai Lama has always promoted The Narrative that Tibet needs to be free from Chinese rule China on the other hand has actively denied the idea claiming that it's their land so for anyone that doesn't agree or even remotely shows their support for the other side the Chinese public takes it very personally and that's exactly what got Reeves
in the mess even though he didn't say a thing about it in public him being part of the concert was enough to push them over the edge and they removed all his movies from the major streaming Platforms in China this included The Matrix John Wick smeed and many other hits what's even more bizarre was that they even removed him from their search engines like he didn't even exist damn guess the Chinese aren't joking around Matrix Resurrection was set to release in the country at the time as well but the Chinese nationalists started a campaign to
boycott the movie and many people decided not to go to the cinema to watch it it affected the success of the movie as China is a huge market for Hollywood films and you can't claim to be successful without being big in the country the actor should have been careful because the history of celebrities who decided to speak against China hasn't exactly been pretty Brad Pitt got banned for 20 years only because he decided to star in Seven Years in Tibet oh and I bet you didn't know that Reeves even has Chinese lineage I mean one
would think he'd be more sensitive to the country's issues but that's not the case so there you have it from infuriating all of China and getting his movies banned to having to navigate through immense grief and tragedy in his personal life those were Keanu Reeves most controversial moments
