Famous People Who Had a Shocking Childhood
Although it is in sometimes hard to envision, there are numerous famous people who were not naturally introduced to popularity, cash and fortune. Most of them have suffered a lot in their lives. These twelve fantastically skilled individuals challenged all the obstacles and reached the point at where they are today.
12. Nicki Minaj
Onika Maraj was raised by her grandma as her parents moved to America with expectations of a superior life. Onika was reunited with her parents at age five when she moved to Queens New York. Not long after moving to the United States, Onika’s dad built up a dependence on drugs. Her recollections of her dad from this time are terrible. She dreaded he would kill her mom, her dad was exceptionally savage both verbally and physically. One night while Onika and her sibling were away, her dad set fire to the house with her mom inside, thankfully she survived.
11. Eminem
Marshall Bruce Mathers III was conceived in Missouri. Abandoned by his dad as a baby, his mom Deborah moved as often as possible striving to discover stable work. Re-housed by the public housing system amongst Missouri and Detroit, he was continually regarded as an outsider. Marshall was also beat up in the school every day. Marshall has various songs about his mom’s poor caring of him, rapping about her doctor prescribed medication and also cursing his dad for abandoning him.
10. Mark Wahlberg
Growing up the youngest of nine brothers and sisters, Mark lived his childhood in South Boston’s Dorchester neighborhood. After his parents separated when he was eleven, he kept moving between the two homes. When he was thirteen, he was trying things with drugs and ended up addicted to cocaine. He had been in a bad position with the Police several times. He likewise had a civil activity recorded against him for tossing rocks and racial slurs at a few African—American children near his home. Mark was additionally accused of a murder attempt of a Vietnamese man when he was just sixteen.
9. Jim Carrey
James Eugene Carrey was conceived in Newmarket, Ontario, Canada. At age twelve, Jim’s folks had turned out to be jobless and were not able accommodate their three children. Accepting an occupation offer in a factory that wished to employ the whole family, the Carrey family moved into a minor building near the manufacturing factory. Disintegrating under the weights of their circumstance, the Carrey family chose to leave the factory and in this manner ended up homeless. Living in a van, sixteen-year-old Jim started performing parody acts at a nearby comic drama club desperately trying to make money to accommodate his family.
8. Oprah Winfrey
Oprah Winfrey was born to teenage parents who soon split up, so she was raised by her grandma. After her grandma passed away, Oprah moved thrice before settling in Milwaukee with her mom. It was at age nine that Oprah was first raped, surprisingly from a male relative of hers. She was raped by various male relatives and Oprah never told anybody. Not knowing how to adapt to these horrible encounters, Oprah returned to medications, sex and liquor in her teenage, and at age fourteen Oprah found she was pregnant. Delivering her child premature, Oprah’s son passed away inside two weeks
7. Drew Barrymore
Being a child star, Drew Barrymore got into some really loathsome habits early, she started smoking cigarettes at just nine years’ age. When she was eleven, she started drinking hard alcohol. As she got more established, the more of a bad girl she became and before long she began smoking marijuana. Later, she began doing cocaine and became an addict. It wasn’t well before her extravagant partying caught the eyes of the general population. Before she was fourteen years of age, Drew went into rehab and even tried to take her life once.
6. Tobey Maguire
Before Tobey Maguire was given a role as the notorious Spider-Man, he was stuck in a flood of some genuine family issues. The initial two years of his life were genuinely unpleasant with his parents not ready to give birth to a child. Growing up, he never truly had a steady place to remain. He couldn’t deal with the way that they were poor. He was desperate to the point that he chose to go and rob the bank that was opposite his home. Since he was unarmed, and was his first offense, he just ended up serving just two years in jail.
5. 50 Cent
Curtis James Jackson III was the son of a fifteen-year-old Sabrina Jackson. Living in the area of Jamaica where his mom would deal cocaine, Curtis was presented to groups and road brutality from a youthful age. Her mom was killed when Curtis was just eight years of age. Curtis was then raised by his grandparents. As a kid, Curtis had bright dreams of turning into a professional boxer. By age twelve, he started selling cocaine himself. By nineteen, he was spending a large portion of his time in prison. Curtis was once shot 9 times in a drive-by assault, hospitalizing him for about 2 weeks.
4. Kelsey Grammer
Kelsey Grammer does the voice of the famous Sideshow Bob from The Simpsons. All for the duration of his life, he had to go through passing of close relatives beginning when he was just eleven. His granddad was his essential overseer and had passed away. Soon after that, Kelsey had to see his dad being killed by somebody setting his car ablaze while he was inside. Death would keep on running uncontrolled in his family, taking his sister next in a severe murder. Later on from that point forward, two of his stepbrothers met their death in a scuba jumping incident.
3. Robert Downey Jr.
Robert Downey Jr. grew up like any child of a spoiled star. Roberts’ dad, who happened to be a producer and actor, brought his child into the world of drugs that he was in. His dad, dependent on a various drug, encouraged his child Robert to smoke marijuana when he was six years of age. This harmed Robert incredibly, causing immense measures of trauma and issues for him with respect to his dad. This additionally made Robert deal with drug addiction problems for as long as he can remember, relapsing various times along the way. He was additionally jailed for ownership of heroin and cocaine.
2. Keanu Reeves
Keanu Reeves is one of numerous Hollywood performers that had a rougher childhood. Naturally brought up in poverty, his mom was a showgirl and his dad abandoned him when he was just a child. His whole youth was very hard, moving from place to place. He never graduated secondary school because of him exchanging between five different schools all through his four years. He found it difficult to deal with his partner at the time having a stillbirth and a few months later his girlfriend died in a tragic car accident, leaving Keanu shattered.
1. Kevin Spacey
Although it is in sometimes hard to envision, there are numerous famous people who were not naturally introduced to popularity, cash and fortune. Most of them have suffered a lot in their lives. These twelve fantastically skilled individuals challenged all the obstacles and reached the point at where they are today.
12. Nicki Minaj
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Onika Maraj was raised by her grandma as her parents moved to America with expectations of a superior life. Onika was reunited with her parents at age five when she moved to Queens New York. Not long after moving to the United States, Onika’s dad built up a dependence on drugs. Her recollections of her dad from this time are terrible.
She dreaded he would kill her mom, her dad was exceptionally savage both verbally and physically. One night while Onika and her sibling were away, her dad set fire to the house with her mom inside, thankfully she survived.
11. Eminem
Marshall Bruce Mathers III was conceived in Missouri. Abandoned by his dad as a baby, his mom Deborah moved as often as possible striving to discover stable work. Re-housed by the public housing system amongst Missouri and Detroit, he was continually regarded as an outsider. Marshall was also beat up in the school every day. Marshall has various songs about his mom’s poor caring of him, rapping about her doctor prescribed medication and also cursing his dad for abandoning him.
10. Mark Wahlberg
Growing up the youngest of nine brothers and sisters, Mark lived his childhood in South Boston’s Dorchester neighborhood. After his parents separated when he was eleven, he kept moving between the two homes. When he was thirteen, he was trying things with drugs and ended up addicted to cocaine. He had been in a bad position with the Police several times.
He likewise had a civil activity recorded against him for tossing rocks and racial slurs at a few African—American children near his home. Mark was additionally accused of a murder attempt of a Vietnamese man when he was just sixteen.
9. Jim Carrey
James Eugene Carrey was conceived in Newmarket, Ontario, Canada. At age twelve, Jim’s folks had turned out to be jobless and were not able accommodate their three children. Accepting an occupation offer in a factory that wished to employ the whole family, the Carrey family moved into a minor building near the manufacturing factory.
Disintegrating under the weights of their circumstance, the Carrey family chose to leave the factory and in this manner ended up homeless. Living in a van, sixteen-year-old Jim started performing parody acts at a nearby comic drama club desperately trying to make money to accommodate his family.
8. Oprah Winfrey
Oprah Winfrey was born to teenage parents who soon split up, so she was raised by her grandma. After her grandma passed away, Oprah moved thrice before settling in Milwaukee with her mom. It was at age nine that Oprah was first raped, surprisingly from a male relative of hers. She was raped by various male relatives and Oprah never told anybody.
Not knowing how to adapt to these horrible encounters, Oprah returned to medications, sex and liquor in her teenage, and at age fourteen Oprah found she was pregnant. Delivering her child premature, Oprah’s son passed away inside two weeks
7. Drew Barrymore
Being a child star, Drew Barrymore got into some really loathsome habits early, she started smoking cigarettes at just nine years’ age. When she was eleven, she started drinking hard alcohol. As she got more established, the more of a bad girl she became and before long she began smoking marijuana. Later, she began doing cocaine and became an addict.
It wasn’t well before her extravagant partying caught the eyes of the general population. Before she was fourteen years of age, Drew went into rehab and even tried to take her life once.
6. Tobey Maguire
Before Tobey Maguire was given a role as the notorious Spider-Man, he was stuck in a flood of some genuine family issues. The initial two years of his life were genuinely unpleasant with his parents not ready to give birth to a child. Growing up, he never truly had a steady place to remain. He couldn’t deal with the way that they were poor.
He was desperate to the point that he chose to go and rob the bank that was opposite his home. Since he was unarmed, and was his first offense, he just ended up serving just two years in jail.
5. 50 Cent
Curtis James Jackson III was the son of a fifteen-year-old Sabrina Jackson. Living in the area of Jamaica where his mom would deal cocaine, Curtis was presented to groups and road brutality from a youthful age. Her mom was killed when Curtis was just eight years of age. Curtis was then raised by his grandparents.
As a kid, Curtis had bright dreams of turning into a professional boxer. By age twelve, he started selling cocaine himself. By nineteen, he was spending a large portion of his time in prison. Curtis was once shot 9 times in a drive-by assault, hospitalizing him for about 2 weeks.
4. Kelsey Grammer
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Kelsey Grammer does the voice of the famous Sideshow Bob from The Simpsons. All for the duration of his life, he had to go through passing of close relatives beginning when he was just eleven. His granddad was his essential overseer and had passed away. Soon after that, Kelsey had to see his dad being killed by somebody setting his car ablaze while he was inside.
Death would keep on running uncontrolled in his family, taking his sister next in a severe murder. Later on from that point forward, two of his stepbrothers met their death in a scuba jumping incident.
3. Robert Downey Jr.
Robert Downey Jr. grew up like any child of a spoiled star. Roberts’ dad, who happened to be a producer and actor, brought his child into the world of drugs that he was in. His dad, dependent on a various drug, encouraged his child Robert to smoke marijuana when he was six years of age. This harmed Robert incredibly, causing immense measures of trauma and issues for him with respect to his dad. This additionally made Robert deal with drug addiction problems for as long as he can remember, relapsing various times along the way. He was additionally jailed for ownership of heroin and cocaine.
2. Keanu Reeves
Keanu Reeves is one of numerous Hollywood performers that had a rougher childhood. Naturally brought up in poverty, his mom was a showgirl and his dad abandoned him when he was just a child. His whole youth was very hard, moving from place to place.
He never graduated secondary school because of him exchanging between five different schools all through his four years. He found it difficult to deal with his partner at the time having a stillbirth and a few months later his girlfriend died in a tragic car accident, leaving Keanu shattered.
1. Kevin Spacey
Kevin Spacey is a man who is generally known for incredibly depicting complete psychopaths in movies. Kevin’s elder brother has revealed some insight onto him and his sibling’s horrible childhood with a twisted father. Randall portrays their dad as a twisted person, who was intensely into Nazi belief system. Both him and Kevin were as far as anyone knows seriously beaten by their dad, manhandled sexually, and cursed at. Randall asserted that he would’ve killed himself, however he knew if he did that his sibling would confront a similar destiny. Strangely, Kevin Spacey denies all of these.