The next time some self-righteous conservative complains about Hollywood celebrities having no clue what it is to be poor/working class and to struggle to make ends meet, remind them of these 10 examples:
- Jim Carrey’s family lost their house and ended up living in a van when he was a teenager; he quit school at 15 to help his family and worked as a janitor for a while.
- Daniel Craig was once homeless and slept on park benches in London.
- Tom Cruise’s mom worked four jobs (4!) to provide for Cruise and his 3 siblings.
- Leo DiCaprio grew up in a drug infested and prostitution riddled part of Hollywood and was homeless for a bit.
- Celine Dion’s father had to support Celine and her thirteen (13!) siblings on a salary of a little more than $600/mo.
- Shia LaBeouf is the child of “artists who never found an audience for their artwork. And so I lived in poverty”.
- Leighton Meester was born while her mother was doing time in a federal jail in Texas for her involvement in a drug ring.
- Demi Moore lived in a trailer park until she turned 16 and left home.
- Sarah Jessica Parker was on welfare as a kid.
- Hillary Swank grew up in a trailer park and later lived in a car with her mom.
