9 Hollywood Celebrities Who Went Through Many Tragedies

Many envy celebrities, their fame, their fortune and beauty. But if ordinary people knew what many famous people had to go through before achieving fame, envy would quickly disappear. No one would want to be in the shoes of, say, Charlize Theron, who witnessed her mother shoot her alcoholic husband. Or as Oprah Winfrey, who was abused as a child by her own cousins ​​and uncle.

O awesome.club studied the biographies of stars and discovered that the lives of some of them, in fact, could very well be scripted for a drama.

Charlize Theron, 43, is one of Hollywood’s most famous and beautiful actresses, who has also won Oscars, Golden Globes and other awards. But seeing this, you would never have imagined all that she had to endure in her youth. Her father was an alcoholic and often beat his wife, Gerda. And when the future movie star was 15 years old, during a fight, her father started shooting a gun in the air, threatening his wife and Charlize. Gerda’s patience ran out, she took out her own gun and shot her husband. The shooting was declared an act of self-defense, so no charges were brought against the woman.

At age 16, Theron won a modeling contest, signed a one-year contract with an agency, and traveled throughout Europe. She later entered Joffrey’s choreography school as she dreamed of being a ballerina. But at 19, a knee injury ended her dancing career.🇧🇷 After that, Charlize moved to Los Angeles, where she didn’t know anyone, and lived in a cheap hotel for several months, overcome by hunger and lack of money.

One day in 1994, Theron arrived at the bank to cash a check sent by his mother for $500. When an employee refused to pay, Charlize made such a scandal that she could have won an Oscar for it.🇧🇷 But the award awaited her later, while producer John Crossby took notice. He was able to perceive all the talent of the young woman, helped her to enter an acting school and, three years later, participated in the film that gave her worldwide fame (The Devil’s Advocate, with Keanu Reeves and Al Pacino).

the star of the series young witches was born in Florence into an American family, Daniel and Terry. His father ran the Italian headquarters of the Sons of God. He, his wife and children were members of the group, which prohibited any contact with the outside world. There were no newspapers or television and its members had to remain in darkened rooms. The worst thing is that this sect encouraged intimate relationships among its faithful. But when the group’s founder, David Berg, started trying to get the kids involved in this, Rose’s father realized that the time had come to run away, and the farther the better.🇧🇷 This is how this 9-year-old girl, along with her family, arrived in the United States.

There, her parents divorced and Rose stayed with her mother. One day, one of her lovers decided to get rid of the 14-year-old girl and convinced the woman that her daughter was a drug addict🇧🇷 Rose was sent to a clinic, but managed to escape and went to her grandmother’s house.

At age 16, McGowan left her family home and began living with her boyfriend. At this time she worked as a waitress, clerk and cashier. And when her boyfriend died, Rose sometimes needed to sleep on the street🇧🇷

Despite all these problems in life, she enrolled in a Seattle art school at the age of 17. And so she began her successful film career.

True, bad luck returned to the actress’ life in 2007. Rose had a terrible accident and the fragments of the glasses she was wearing ended up in her eyes and hurt her face. Surgeons were able to restore the star’s eyesight and face, but McGowan’s appearance changed forever.

Now, this Canadian-American actor is one of the highest paid comedians in the United States. However, Jim’s youth was very difficult. When he was in school, his family had serious financial problems. When his father Percy, after being fired, got a job as a security guard at a tire factory, the whole family was forced to work there. Jim and his brothers cleaned and mopped the floors and bathrooms. This made the future comedian a reserved child.

And when the parents decided to quit their job, they all ended up living in a trailer🇧🇷 And only when Percy found a new job did they move to Burlington, where they lived for 8 years.

At the same time, Jim’s mother Kathleen was sometimes considered crazy.as she suffered from a kind of neurosis, the hypochondriac syndrome (she attributed the symptoms of various diseases to herself).

When Carrey was 15, his father took him to the Yuk Yuk comedy club in Toronto. But his first performance turned out to be so disastrous that he was booed and almost thrown eggs. The next attempt to showcase his comedic talent was just two years later. It was then that Jim found success: he began to constantly perform in stand upwhile trying to reach the world of television and cinema.

The movie star’s father Ghost across the life left her mother before her daughter was born. When Moore was just 3 months old, her mother married Dan Heins, a newspaper ad salesman, who often changed jobs and lost all his money on gambling. As a result, the family has changed many times. In addition, the mother and stepfather were alcoholics.

To make matters worse, the future movie star wore orthopedic braces as a child and, suffering from strabismus, needed thick glasses. So she had to endure the constant mockery of your classmates🇧🇷 Fortunately, her mother managed to save money for the operation to fix this problem.

After the birth of her brother, family life became unbearable and the girl often ran away from home🇧🇷 When she was 15, her mother and stepfather divorced and two years later he committed suicide. At age 16, Demi left her home irrevocably. Already at 17, he managed to win the heart of popular rock musician Freddy Moore, who left his wife and two children and married her. It was Freddy who opened the doors to the world of cinema for him.

By the way, her mother continued to struggle with alcoholism for the rest of her life, and was arrested several times for drunk driving. And that was in the years when Moore was already a famous actress. In the end, her mother was diagnosed with cancer, which led to her death a few months later.

American actor and producer Michael Douglas, 74, also suffered a lot during his life, both physically and mentally. For example, in 1980 he had an accident at a ski resort🇧🇷 Due to the long treatment, he had to give up his acting career for three years.

In 2003-2004, Douglas and his wife Catherine Zeta-Jones were stalked by a woman named Donette Knight. She was in love with the actor and was sending threatening letters to his wife.🇧🇷 Already in court, Catherine said the contents of these writings shocked her so much that she nearly had a nervous breakdown.

In 2010, a New York court sentenced Douglas’ son from first marriage Cameron to 5 years in prison for drug trafficking.

In that same year, the actor was diagnosed with laryngeal cancer🇧🇷 He linked his illness to stress, alcohol abuse and heavy smoking. Fortunately, in less than a year Michael was able to make a full recovery.

In 2013, the actor said he planned to divorce Catherine Zeta-Jones, with whom he had lived for over 13 years. Among the reasons for this decision he cited the fatigue of a depression that was triggered by Catherine’s illness. Recall that the actress in 2011 was treated for a bipolar affective disorder and, two years later, for a bipolar disorder of the second type. However, already at the end of that year, the actors reconciled and returned to live together.

A well-known television presenter, actress and producer, Oprah Winfrey is often considered the most influential celebrity on the planet. She is also the first multimillionaire woman of African origin in history. But her childhood seems like a thriller terrible. Her mother worked as a domestic and didn’t have enough time to educate her daughter. Therefore, Oprah spent the first 6 years of her life in a very remote rural area with her grandmother.🇧🇷 Afterwards, her mother took her away and together they moved to the former ghetto area of ​​Milwaukee.

When Oprah was 9 years old, she was frequently harassed by her cousins, uncle and his girlfriend.

At the age of 14, due to problems in her relationship with her mother, the young woman ran away from home. Later, became pregnant and prematurely gave birth to a child who eventually died🇧🇷 After that, the worried mother sent Oprah to live with her father. He didn’t skimp on a good education for his daughter, and at age 17, she gained a competence in eloquence and began studying at the University of Tennessee, where she studied Communication. At the same age, she got a job as a reporter on the CBS television channel, when she started her career as the most famous television presenter.

Woody was born into a poor family who lived only on his mother’s salary, who worked as a secretary. When the future actor was just 3 years old, his parents divorced. Four years later, his father, Charles, was eventually arrested for murder.🇧🇷 Upon his release, Charles returned to his old ways involved in shady matters associated with drug trafficking. And in 1979, when Woody was 18, his father was arrested again: this time for the murder of a district judge. He was sentenced to two life sentences.

At first, the actor had no contact with his father, but after a few years he began to visit him in prison. In 2007, Charles Harrelson was found dead in his cell without any signs of violence.

The childhood and youth of one of the great actors in the history of cinema seem quite ordinary, except for the fact that he was very interested in jazz and music-playing machines. In his youth, he worked a lot as a regular employee at the MGM studio. There, he was seen by producer Joe Pasternak, who encouraged him to become an actor.

In 1974, Nicholson, who was already 37 years old, became a famous actor. And precisely that year he discovered a mystery that left him in a state of profound shock. A Time reporter, who managed to dig up information that everyone who knew her had hidden from him, told him the whole truth: her “big sister” June was actually her mother🇧🇷 Another of Nicholson’s sisters, Lorraine, confirmed the reporter’s words. But she, like all other family members, had no idea who her father was…