The Nutty Professor star Eddie Murphy suffers OCD so crippling the comic gets panicked leaving his germ-free mansion, as detailed in his ex Mel B’s memoir Brutally Honest.
She says every object in the perfectionist performer’s Hollywood palace must be placed in accordance with his wishes, he despises surprises and even has “movie nights” timetabled so he will never break his meticulously-plotted routines.
She also says he barely knows how to cook as he rarely touches food and his own cooker — which is handled by his personal chef and army of domestic staff.
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The extreme extent of his Howard Hughes-style condition can be revealed more than 20 years after he told cops he was “obsessive-compulsive with cleanliness” when he was caught picking up a transsexual hooker while married to first wife Nicole Mitchell Murphy.
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His OCD is the reason his brief 2006 relationship with troubled America’s Got Talent judge Mel B broke down.
Lifting the lid on his illness, the Spice Girl said about his hidden obsessions: “His bathroom is perfect and he lives in a paradise home. He doesn’t like surprises, he doesn’t like disorder — all those seemingly mad, impromptu comedy performances are carefully constructed.”
“There was something about Eddie’s house that was like a gilded cage... he was an anxious germaphobe... a total germ freak,” she added.
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Mel, 43, also revealed Murphy hated when she sent his staff away and made him cook — as he “barely knew how to use” his cooker.
“You had to learn Eddie’s rules… what nights we could spend with his friends, when to cook and when we could watch TV,” she sneered about their relationship, shrouded in mystery until now.
“I had to brainstorm film choices with his friend because I saw it as a test. “\Nothing was really in my control. I knew I could never like this and be part of Eddie’s kingdom... his family, chefs, managers always turning up.”
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Mel said Murphy also hated when she took him out in public for coffee and had to be persuaded to go into a cafe — and had a routine at night of wandering around his mega-mansion ensuring every door and window was locked and double-locked.
Despite the breakdown of their relationship, Mel added in her memoir Brutally Honest that Murphy made a groveling two-hour 2 a.m. call to her mom in Britain before going cold on the singer and claiming he wasn’t the father of their daughter Angel, due to turn 12 this April.
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After making millions starring in 1980s romps including Beverly Hills Cop, Trading Places and Coming To America, Murphy became the butt of jokes after being interrogated by cops for driving around with transsexual prostitute Atisone Seiuli, aka Shalimar.
The incident happened May 2, 1997, when police pulled over the comic at 4.45 driving in his Toyota Land Cruiser along homosexual hooker hotspot Santa Monica Boulevard, West Hollywood.
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Deputies determined no illegal activity had occurred, although Murphy’s passenger — described by officers as a “known transsexual prostitute” — was picked up on an outstanding prostitution warrant.
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Murphy said it was part of his campaign of helping out hookers on the streets by giving them advice and cash.
And he mentioned how he scrubbed the car clean after Seiuli was taken away by police, later saying: “I’m obsessive-compulsive with cleanliness. After I got home, I wiped off the door handle and the stuff that person had touched.”
The extreme extent of his Howard Hughes-style condition can be revealed more than 20 years after he told cops he was “obsessive-compulsive with cleanliness” when he was caught picking up a transsexual hooker while married to first wife Nicole Mitchell Murphy.
His OCD is the reason his brief 2006 relationship with troubled America’s Got Talent judge Mel B broke down.
Lifting the lid on his illness, the Spice Girl said about his hidden obsessions: “His bathroom is perfect and he lives in a paradise home. He doesn’t like surprises, he doesn’t like disorder — all those seemingly mad, impromptu comedy performances are carefully constructed.”
“There was something about Eddie’s house that was like a gilded cage... he was an anxious germaphobe... a total germ freak,” she added.
Photo credit: Andrew H. Walker/Getty Images
Mel, 43, also revealed Murphy hated when she sent his staff away and made him cook — as he “barely knew how to use” his cooker.
“You had to learn Eddie’s rules… what nights we could spend with his friends, when to cook and when we could watch TV,” she sneered about their relationship, shrouded in mystery until now.
“I had to brainstorm film choices with his friend because I saw it as a test. “\Nothing was really in my control. I knew I could never like this and be part of Eddie’s kingdom... his family, chefs, managers always turning up.”
Photo credit: Andrew Toth/FilmMagic
Mel said Murphy also hated when she took him out in public for coffee and had to be persuaded to go into a cafe — and had a routine at night of wandering around his mega-mansion ensuring every door and window was locked and double-locked.
Despite the breakdown of their relationship, Mel added in her memoir Brutally Honest that Murphy made a groveling two-hour 2 a.m. call to her mom in Britain before going cold on the singer and claiming he wasn’t the father of their daughter Angel, due to turn 12 this April.
Photo credit: BG015/Bauergriffin.com / MEGA
After making millions starring in 1980s romps including Beverly Hills Cop, Trading Places and Coming To America, Murphy became the butt of jokes after being interrogated by cops for driving around with transsexual prostitute Atisone Seiuli, aka Shalimar.
The incident happened May 2, 1997, when police pulled over the comic at 4.45 driving in his Toyota Land Cruiser along homosexual hooker hotspot Santa Monica Boulevard, West Hollywood.
Photo credit: BG015/Bauer-Griffin/GC Images
Deputies determined no illegal activity had occurred, although Murphy’s passenger — described by officers as a “known transsexual prostitute” — was picked up on an outstanding prostitution warrant.
Photo credit: BG015/Bauergriffin.com / MEGA
Murphy said it was part of his campaign of helping out hookers on the streets by giving them advice and cash.
And he mentioned how he scrubbed the car clean after Seiuli was taken away by police, later saying: “I’m obsessive-compulsive with cleanliness. After I got home, I wiped off the door handle and the stuff that person had touched.”
Photo credit: SMXRF/Star Max/GC Images
