Celebrities Who Have Admitted to Being Superstitious, From Taylor Swift to Paris Hilton and More

Ariana Grande

Ariana used to eat chocolate donuts before auditions for good luck, according to Teen Vogue. What a delicious tradition!

Cameron Diaz

Cameron Diaz often wears a “lucky necklace” because she believes it has anti-aging properties, according to Ranker. She also told Cosmpolitan in January 2000, “I knock on wood all day long … constantly. But I’ve also flown on Friday the 13th in a storm with a black cat on my lap, so I’m not that superstitious.” You can’t have it both ways, girl.

Chris Martin

Chris Martin told The Independent in September 2012, “There are about 18 things I have to do before I can go out to perform – most of them are too ridiculous to repeat.” The Coldplay frontman added, “One is I have to brush my teeth before I go on stage, otherwise I just don’t feel smart enough.”

Colin Farrell

In 2011, Colin Farrell offered a £16,000 reward for the return of a “lucky belt” that was given to him by his father, Eamonn. “The thing is literally coming apart at the seams,” a friend said about it. “The belt has undergone numerous alterations, like having extra holes punched in it and extra leather added since he has gone through so many weight changes.”

The actor also revealed in 2004 that he always wears the same boxer shorts when he begins shooting a film, Elle reported. They are “covered with shamrocks, and the waistband says, ‘The luck of the Irish.'” So on-brand, Colin.

Emma Roberts

“Don’t walk under ladders,” InStyle once quoted Emma Roberts. “My mom just walked under one yesterday and I was like, ‘Oh my God, I can’t believe you just did that!’ I’ve never walked under a ladder, ever.”

Heidi Klum

During an appearance on the Tonight Show with Jay Leno in 1998, Heidi Klum admitted she keeps a bag of her own baby teeth with her all the time. Uh, what?

“I carry around a little bag of my teeth,” she said at the time. “We don’t have a tooth fairy (in Germany), so I put them in a little bag. Little ones, big ones. Those were like, wisdom ones … I don’t know if it’s good luck, it’s just a crazy thing that I do.”

James McAvoy

James McAvoy says “white rabbit” to the first person he sees each month, Teen Vogue reported.

However, he once played Macbeth, and he didn’t seem concerned with the theater tradition of not saying that name out loud for fear of bad luck befalling the company. “We say Macbeth in the theatre,” he said at the time, according to the Aberdeen and Aberdeenshire Press and Journal. “It’s about a man who disdains his fortune and says, ‘Damn you fate, I’m not going to die today,’ and so from that moment on, he’s sort of outside of fate … You feel like you can’t play him unless you go, ‘C’mon, Macbeth’!”

Jennifer Aniston

Every time she enters a plane, Jennifer Aniston does so with her right foot first and after tapping the outside of the plane, the Daily Mail reported.

Keith Richards

Rocker Keith Richards likes having shepherd’s pie while on tour, but he has to be the first person to break the crust, according to Rolling Stone.

One time, when he discovered that the shepherd’s pie he was going to eat had already been broken into, Keith wouldn’t go onstage until he got another one. Fellow band member Mick Jagger was angry, but the concert was delayed until Keith got a new pie. “It’s now famous, my rule on the road,” he wrote. “Nobody touches the shepherd’s pie till I’ve been in there. Don’t bust my crust, baby.”

Kesha

OK, so this is more about believing in the supernatural than being superstitious, but it’s spooky either way. Kesha admitted during an interview with Ryan Seacrest that she believes she’s been intimate with a ghost. She explained what her song “Supernatural” is about and said, “It’s about experiences with the supernatural … but in a sexy way. I had a couple of experiences with the supernatural. I don’t know his name! He was a ghost! I’m very open to it.”

Kim Kardashian

Kim Kardashian believes her dad and her husband Kanye West’s mother watch over them from the afterlife — as birds. She once said in a photoshoot for CR Fashion Book, “I believe there are signs from the spirit world all around us. When my dad was sick with cancer, we were laying out by his pool and I said, ‘If you die, you have to come back in the form of a bird.’ We were driving on the freeway right before his funeral and this huge flock of birds flew over the 101. Everyone stopped because it was so crazy looking. I was like, ‘There you are.'”

She added, “Yesterday Kanye took a picture of the two black crows that are always at our house and always together. We always say that they are our parents hanging out together at our house.”

Lady Gaga

Turns out, Lady Gaga is a little superstitious about sex. “I have this weird thing that if I sleep with someone they’re going to take my creativity from me through my vagina,” she told Vanity Fair in 2010.

Lindsay Lohan

While promoting the movie Just My Luck, Lindsay Lohan said she has a lucky bracelet. “This bracelet that I have on is a good luck charm,” she said in May 2006. She said she got it from “Kaviar and Kind on Sunset Boulevard; you can actually see it on the cover of W magazine … Everyone, I get good luck charms. Bree [Turner] got me a really nice ring that I still have, I got her a good luck charm.”

Megan Fox

In an interview with Conan O’Brien in 2009, Megan Fox said she listens to Britney Spears music while flying. “I know for a fact it’s not in my destiny to die listening to a Britney Spears album,” she explained. “So I always put that on in my [headphones] when I’m flying because I know it won’t crash if I’ve got Britney on,”

Missy Elliott

Missy Elliott once told Rolling Stone that she will never allow a black cat to cross her path. “If you believe a black cat is bad luck, people think you’re crazy, but plenty of times if I see a black cat down my street, I turn around and go the other way. Even if I’m late. I’ll be late for the airport and be in a limo, and if I see a black cat, I’ll be like, ‘Sir, you have to turn around and go down the next street.'”

Paris Hilton

Paris Hilton once said that she will, “Knock on wood if someone says something that I don’t want to happen,” according to InStyle. “Or I always make a wish at 11:11.”

Patrick Dempsey

“I love my Puma racing shoes. I have to have red shoes no matter what,” Patrick Dempsey told InStyle. “They’re my lucky racing shoes.”

Serena Williams

Serena Williams has said she has “too many superstitious rituals” when it comes to her sport, according to the Daily Mail. “It’s like I have to do it and if I don’t then I’ll lose. And I’m not losing because I didn’t play well, I lost because I didn’t tie my shoe the right way and it’s totally ridiculous because I have to use the same shower, I have to use the same sandals, I have to travel with the same bags.” She also bounces the tennis ball five times before her first serve, Elle reported.

Taylor Swift

It’s pretty obvious Taylor Swift has an affinity for the number 13. “The significance of the number 13 on my hand … I paint this on my hand before every show because 13 is my lucky number; for a lot of reasons,” she explained to MTV in May 2009.

“It’s really weird … I was born on the 13th,” she continued. “I turned 13 on Friday the 13th. My first album went gold in 13 weeks. My first #1 song had a 13-second intro. Every time I’ve won an award I’ve been seated in either the 13th seat, the 13th row, the 13th section or row M, which is the 13th letter … Basically, whenever a 13 comes up in my life, it’s a good thing.”

Victoria Beckham

Victoria Beckham has a thing for crystals! She told Us Weekly in February 2011, “I’m a very spiritual person. I travel with my crystals. I’ve got all different colors. It’s just something that I’m into. I am quite a superstitious person. I don’t walk under a ladder. If I see a magpie, I salute.”