35 Times Celebrities Predicted Their Future And Totally Turn It Into Reality

Margot Nolan
Jun 10, 2022
Jun 10, 2022

Most individuals are clueless about what will happen in the future, but certain people have been known to foretell the future, and it's always intriguing to see whether or not they are correct.
However, there have been cases where celebrities' prophecies of the future have come true. It's incredible how these celebs predicted their destiny years ago. While it may seem unusual, Lil Nas X, Demi Lovato, and Megan Thee Stallion all made predictions that turned out to be correct in the end.
We've completed a list of superstars who predicted their own success. So, continue with us to find out what they "dreamed" of, and how hard they worked to accomplish it.

#1 Since Marvel notoriously keeps things under wraps, Teyonah Parris knew she landed a role in a project…but still didn’t know what it was. So she said this to her agent

Source: Disney+

And she ends up playing Monica Rambeau in WandaVision, and the rest is history. Teyonah will reprise the role in 2023’s The Marvels

Source: teyonahparris / Instagram

35 Times Celebrities Predicted Their Future And Totally Turn It Into Reality

#1 Since Marvel notoriously keeps things under wraps, Teyonah Parris knew she landed a role in a project…but still didn’t know what it was. So she said this to her agent

And she ends up playing Monica Rambeau in WandaVision, and the rest is history. Teyonah will reprise the role in 2023’s The Marvels

#2 Brie Larson tweeted this to a fan about the Oscars in 2015

And this was her at the 2016 Oscars, with her award for the role of Ma in Room

#3 Demi tweeted this in 2009

Just a few years later, in 2012, not only did they meet Britney, but they worked with her on X-Factor

#4 Lili Reinhart said “in my dreams” about going to the Met Gala in 2017

Lili has now been to the Met Gala three times — in 2018, 2019, and 2021

#5 Tyler, the Creator gave us this AMAZING display of pettiness and success NINE YEARS IN THE MAKING after he won a Grammy — which someone said he’d never get

#6 In an interview with W Magazine, Jodie Turner-Smith said this about her first celeb crush

Pacey, of course, is Joshua Jackson — he’s now been married to Jodie and they have a daughter together

#7 In 2013, Tom Holland was asked what superhero he would want to play, and he said this

Of course, the reboot of the reboot was fast-tracked, and he started playing the role of Peter Parker/Spider-Man in 2016 — three years later, instead of 10

#8 Tom is particularly good at manifesting things — he also once said that Zendaya was his first celebrity crush

Of course, now they’re a couple

#9 Long before he was Elizabeth Olsen’s husband, musician Robbie Arnett revealed that one of his favorite movies was Martha Marcy May Marlene

To refresh your memory, Elizabeth starred in the film, which was released in 2011

Robbie and Elizabeth started dating in 2017 (six years after Robbie admired her in the movie!) and quietly got married in 2020

#10 Kansas City Chiefs quarterback, Patrick Mahomes, had this delightful tweet in 2013

And here it is coming true before our very eyes in 2020

#11 Back in 2014, NBA star, Giannis Antetokounmpo, tweeted this energy out into the universe…

…and in 2021, he made good on his promise and he won a championship with the Milwaukee Bucks

#12 All the way back in 2011 (over a decade ago!), Ariana Grande tweeted how her dream was to play Glinda in Wicked someday

And just at the end of last year, it was finally announced that she’ll be playing the role in the long-awaited Wicked movie adaptation opposite Cynthia Erivo as Elphaba

#13 And that’s not the first time Ariana flexed her manifestation skills. Recently, she revealed that she called up Nickelodeon when she was only four years old and asked for an audition

Of course, she would eventually become a huge Nickelodeon star — playing Cat Valentine in Victorious and later reprising the role in Sam & Cat

#14 Way back in 2017 (long before she was even on High School Musical: The Musical: The Series yet), Olivia Rodrigo excitedly tweeted from home about it being “Grammy Day”…

…this year, she was a little bit too busy to tweet about watching it from home. Of course, Olivia took home THREE Grammys — Best New Artist, Best Pop Vocal Album, and Best Pop Solo Performance

#15 Simu Liu put this Tweet into the Marvel universe in 2018 about wanting to play Shang-Chi…

And, well, in 2021, the rest is history — not only did he land the role, but Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings was a massive hit

#16 Simu wasn’t the only recent Marvel superhero to show off his ~powers~ of manifestation. Barry Keoghan had a special request back in 2013

And Kumail Nanjiani took a fan photo with Stan Lee himself

Of course, both Barry and Kumail would go on to star in Eternals as Druig and Kingo respectively

#17 Lizzo spoke to ET about manifesting being at the VMAs the year that Missy Elliott got the Vanguard Award…and she was!

#18 All the way back in 1998, Alex Rodriguez was asked, “What would a dream date with Alex Rodriguez be?” He said:

Of course, they eventually did get together and even got engaged — though they called off their engagement in 2021

#19 Bel-Air star, Coco Jones, shared a photo with “sweet fans” way back in 2014 — little did she know one of those fans was Olly Sholotan, who would eventually play Carlton Banks opposite her Hilary

Olly went from fan to costar

#20 In a 2018 interview, Katherine Schwarzenegger was asked to choose between Chris Pratt, Chris Evans, or Chris Hemsworth. When she first said Chris Evans, she quickly changed her answer to this…

…a year later, in 2019, they announced their engagement

#21 In 2014, Joe Manganiello was asked by People about his ideal woman, and he said Sofía Vergara…

…fast-forward to now, and the pair have been married since 2015

#22 Back in 2009, Christina Perri posed in front of her car, which had an “I Heart Edward Cullen Sticker” on it

Of course, she would eventually write a little song called “A Thousand Years” for the Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn — Part 1 soundtrack. The song has been certified nine times platinum

#23 Lil Nas X shared this incredible video in 2019

…and then shared this follow up exactly a year later

#24 In a 2013 “25 Things You Don’t Know About Me” interview with US Weekly, Questlove shared his goal of playing a corpse on Law & Order: SVU

Just a few months later, in February 2014, his dream came true! Ice-T shared this iconic photo of him on set

#25 That’s not the first thing Olivia has manifested…she recently shared an adorable throwback pic of herself on “tour” with a very iconic ’00s setlist

…and she just kicked off her sold-out Sour tour, with venues slightly bigger than her living room

#26 Megan Thee Stallion tweeted about needing a team back in 2014…

…needless to say, it’s a GOOD thing she got that team because the three-time Grammy award winner’s career more than just “took off.” Here she is just this past weekend at Coachella

#27 Dan Levy jokingly tweeted after a fan shared a funny pic of his Schitt’s Creek character, David

Lo and behold, it absolutely DID win him an Emmy — plus two more Emmys for writing and directing

#28 Emma Roberts shared this pic from when she was 7, with the caption, “Never underestimate your power to manifest your dreams, ladies…”

Of course, she eventually appeared in Scream 4 in 2011

#29 Brooklyn Nine-Nine star, Melissa Fumero, had a crush on the guy in Mariah Carey’s 1997 “Honey” music video back when she was 13 or 14…

…that guy happens to be David Fumero, whom she married in 2007! They dated for two months before Melissa even realized that he was her dream guy from the video

#30 Demi Lovato tweeted about singing the national anthem at a Super Bowl one day all the way back in 2010

And here they are, singing the national anthem at the Super Bowl in 2020

#31 In her audition for Disney Channel, Selena Gomez joked about how she and her friend would always play around with glow sticks and draw the iconic Mickey Mouse logo

This, came true many times over

#32 Way back in 2017, Rachel Zegler tweeted about wanting to be a real Disney princess after playing Ariel in her high school production of The Little Mermaid

Turns out, dreams do come true — Rachel was recently cast as Snow White in the upcoming live-action Disney movie

#33 Beanie Feldstein went to her third birthday party dressed up as Fanny Brice — the subject of the musical Funny Girl

And in 2021 it was announced that Beanie would be playing Fanny ON BROADWAY, to which she said, "Sometimes dreams actually do come true"

#34 Halsey tweeted about wanting to date Evan Peters back in 2013

Halsey and Evan did end up dating for some time back in 2019 before splitting in March 2020

#35 Back in 2020, Jordan Fisher tweeted about wanting to sing along with the cast of High School Musical: The Musical: The Series

And the rest was history when Jordan appeared in Season 2 as Gina’s brother, Jamie

#36 In a 2009 clip from the Parks and Recreation Season 2 DVD set, Chris Pratt said the following about Jurassic Park 4

Of course, he went on to star in 2015’s Jurassic World (aka the fourth Jurassic Park movie) and its sequel Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom in 2018