26 stories about normal people who dated or hooked up with celebrities.

The best performers are able to fully transform themselves into whatever role or persona they choose, which means their true personality is often a mystery. Are they truly as charismatic and sparkly as they seem, or is there a rude and less appealing truth off the stage and beyond the lights?

Obviously, celebrities are complex human beings with a million different feelings and moods, and expecting someone to always act above reproach simply because they're famous is both unrealistic and unfair. Still, it's only natural to feel curious about the undocumented nature of a famous person you admire.

Dating someone is one of the most intense and intimate ways to discover someone's true nature - for better or worse. So, when someone has a dating history with a beloved celebrity, it's only natural for curious voyeurs to gather around.

To this very point, in a recent Reddit thread, "normal" people who have dated celebrities or known someone who dated a celebrity shared their stories.

1. Swolecranon has nothing but nice feelings about Leonardo DiCaprio.

Not a romantic date in the least, but I had dinner once at a Japanese restaurant (in a group setting) with Leonardo DiCaprio while he was in Louisiana filming Django Unchained. He wanted to know what college was like and was asking us all about our lives. He also let me try his udon. It was my first ever Instagram post! He really is such a nice guy in the limelight and in real life- it felt like we were hanging out with our friend.