The Shocking Childhoods Of Famous Celebrities

#1 DREW BERRYMORE

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Berrymore was born in California to parents John and Jaid Berrymore, both of them were actors. Her parental grandparents and great grandparents were also actors.

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Drew herself made her first debut when she was eleven months old in tv commercial of dog food. Then later on, she appeared on E.T. which really kick started her carrier.Her parents divorced when she was nine years old when she was filming "IRRECONCILABLE DIFFERENCES".

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Not so long after that, she began smoking and drinking by the time she was eleven. Then she landed on marijuana and cocaine because of that she had to go Rehab by the time she was fourteen.

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She tried to commit suicide the same year and was sent to an institute for mental illness for eighteen months. Berrymore's drug abuse and reckless behaviour continued till mid 90's.

#6 EMINEM

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Marshall Bruce Mathers III, before he became the rapper EMINEM, was born in ST Joseph Missouri. After his father abandoned him and his mother, She moved around looking for stable work.

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They lived in Missouri, Detroit and Michigan forcing young marshall to attend several schools, where he was constantly bullied.They continue moving to different housing system through the years.

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He quickly began to resent his mother for her prescription, drug abuse, lack of parental care and paranoid personality.

#10 MARK WAHLBERG

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Wahlberg was the youngest of the nine siblings. He grew up in South Boston Dorchester's neighbourhood. After his parents divorced when he was nine years old he spent his time moving between the two homes.By the time he was thirteen he got into drugs and became addicted to cocaine

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He was also well known by the Boston Police Department and had been in trouble nearly twenty-five times.Civil action was filed against him for throwing rocks and saying racial comments on African-American kids in his neighbourhood.

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He was also charged with the attempted murder of a Vietnamese man when he was sixteen years old. He was sentenced two years in Suffolk county deer island house of corrections.

#14 JIM CARREY

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Carrey was born in Newmarket, Ontario in 1962, Jim Carrey was youngest of four kids in a middle-class family.His father lost his job when Carrey was twelve years old and the family fell on hard times.

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When a factory offered a job to the whole family they moved into a tiny building near the factory. Carrey himself worked eight hours shift as a Janitor. When they were no longer to stand the strain they left.

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With no jobs, the family became homeless and started to live in a VW van. At sixteen Carrey began to perform at local comedy clubs in order to support his family.

#18 NICKI MINAJ

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Born Onika Maraj in 1982, in Trinidad. Singer Nicki Minaj grew up with her grandmother while her parents moved to America to find a better home. When she five years old she moved to Queens to live with her parents.

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Not long after that her father developed crack cocaine addiction and became physically and emotionally violent. Minaj used to be so terrified that her father would kill her mother anytime.

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That fear came true when she and her brother were away at friend's house, her father set fire at their home with her mother still inside. Thankfully her mother escaped the fire unharmed.

#22 OPRAH WINFREY

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Oprah Winfrey was born to teenage parents in Mississippi during 1950's. Her parents separated and she was practically raised by her grandmother. When she was nine years old her grandmother fell ill, she was raped by a male family member while he was babysitting her.

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Over the years she was raped and molested by several male relatives and turned towards drug and alcohol in early age. After seeing her behaviour and not able to return into her senses again her mother sent her to live with her father in Nashville Tennesse. Where she found she was pregnant but her baby couldn't survive.

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After reading Maya Angelou's book at age sixteen, she determined to turn her life back around and went back to school. She now known as the "Queen Of All Media" and is ranked one of the richest African-Americans in the 20th century.