A-list celebrities who were homeless before they made it big

Numerous celebrities did not have a spot to name house before reaching worldwide fame and a lifetime of luxurious. 

With the lavish lives of right this moment’s largest celebs, it’s arduous to think about them dwelling any in a different way. 

There are many A-listers who were homeless in some unspecified time in the future of their lives before getting their big break. Below are a couple of of those stars who have publicly spoken about being homeless before finding massive success.

Did you realize stars comparable to Jim Carrey, Jennifer Lopez and Chris Pratt were all homeless for a time of their lives? (Kevin Winter/Getty Images; Stephane Cardinale/Corbis/Corbis through Getty Images; Gilbert Flores/Variety through Getty Images)

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1. Jim Carrey
2. Tiffany Haddish
3. Sylvester Stallone
4. Jennifer Lopez
5. Chris Pratt
6. Steve Harvey
7. Kelsey Grammer
8. Halle Berry
9. Shania Twain
10. Hilary Swank
11. Kelly Clarkson

1. Jim Carrey

Before Jim Carrey became an actor incomes hundreds of thousands of {dollars} for every movie he stars in, he was only a child pressured to develop up shortly when his father misplaced his job. 

“When my father lost his job, I was pissed,” Carrey mentioned in a 2020 interview with Howard Stern. 

His father’s job loss pressured the household into homelessness. 

Before Jim Carrey’s film profession took off, he and his household were homeless. (BBC Films)

“One time, for a while, we pitched a tent on my sister’s lawn in the country,” Carrey mentioned in the course of the interview. “For a while, we went to campsites around Ontario, and we’d use the facilities there.”

When he was 15 years outdated, Carrey and the remainder of his household labored as janitors and safety guards to assist make ends meet. 

Stern proclaimed that Carry’s story was a tragic one, however the comedic actor did not agree. 

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“I don’t think so,” Carrey mentioned, including that he has “a very positive attitude about those sort of things.”

2. Tiffany Haddish 

Now, Tiffany Haddish is a well-known comic, however previous to this, she lived in a automotive, homeless shelters, showered at gyms and even crashed weddings for meals and drinks. 

In a June 2024 interview on “The Howard Stern Show,” Haddish was requested about her time being homeless. Haddish shared that she was homeless 3 times in her life. 

“I think the lesson in that was to not be afraid to ask for help,” Haddish mentioned, sharing that she lived in her automotive and in addition stayed in a homeless shelter “a few times.” 

Tiffany Haddish spent nights in homeless shelters before changing into well-known. (Emma McIntyre/Getty Images for SiriusXM)

She even crashed weddings whereas she was homeless to eat and revel in a couple of drinks. 

“I’ve crashed weddings before, given a speech and didn’t know anybody there,” Haddish instructed People in July 2023. “That’s when I was homeless and hungry.”

“I would have two or three drinks, and then I would grab the microphone and be like, ‘I just want to say that you are the most beautiful couple,’” she mentioned. “Everybody would be looking at me like, ‘Who is this Black girl at our wedding?’”

During this tough time in her life, Kevin Hart was somebody who helped her get her footing within the leisure house.

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In an interview on SiriusXM’s “This Life of Mine with James Corden” in May 2024, Haddish highlighted her friendship with Hart and the monetary assist he offered her.  

“We were doing these sketch shows at the Laugh Factory and Kevin was coming up there. It was like every Wednesday night, I would show up late. I didn’t want nobody to see my car,” Haddish mentioned on the present. 

“I would park a little further away, or I would pull up and let the valet take the car, but I would pull up late so nobody would see it. One day, I pulled up and Kevin pulled up just in front of me, and I was like, ‘Damn. Maybe I should pull up,’ and he’s like looking at me. He’s like, ‘Haddish, what’s all this stuff in your car? What’s going on? You homeless or something?’ I’m like, ‘Ah, I’m just in between houses right now,'” Haddish continued. 

“I finally told him what was up, and he’s like, ‘You’re a pretty girl. You shouldn’t be living in your car. This [is] dangerous,'” Haddish added. 

Hart then gave Haddish $300 and offered recommendation on construct her profession. 

“He’s like, ‘Get yourself a place to stay and then make a list of goals and start doing something towards those goals every day. Make a list. What you wanna do? Where do you wanna be? What are you trying to do here?,’” Haddish recalled. 

Eventually, Haddish earned her breakout position within the 2017 comedy “Girls Trip.” 

3. Sylvester Stallone

Before displaying Rocky Balboa’s comeback story on the big display, actor Sylvester Stallone skilled a real-life comeback story of his personal. 

During a 2015 press interview with Kjersti Flaa forward of the “Creed” launch, Stallone talked concerning the struggles he endured early in his profession. 

“In New York I used to make $39 a week, and this is in 1972. That’s not much,” Stallone shared. 

Sylvester Stallone struck gold with “Rocky,” however before that, he was sleeping wherever he might discover house. (Elisabetta Villa)

“I had this one coat. That coat literally was my house,” he mentioned. “I would sleep at the bus station, Port Authority bus station or outside the post office in the dead of winter, and boy, it was cold,” Stallone defined. 

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The “Rocky” franchise, which Stallone penned and starred in, put him on the map and obtained him to millionaire standing.

4. Jennifer Lopez

Jennifer Lopez is a global superstar for her work on stage as a pop singer and on display, too.

Disagreements between Lopez and her mother left her out on the streets of the Bronx. 

“My mom and I butted heads,” she instructed W Magazine in 2013. “I did not wish to go to school. I wished to attempt dance full time. So, she and I had a break. I began sleeping on the couch within the dance studio. I used to be homeless, however I instructed her, ‘This is what I have to do.'”

Jennifer Lopez, now a celebrity known around the world, had a rough start breaking into the business. (Hector Vivas)

After just a few months, her career started to take off.

“A few months later, I landed a job dancing in Europe,” she said. “When I got back, I booked ‘In Living Color.’ I turned a Fly Girl and moved to L.A. It all occurred in a 12 months.”

To date, Lopez has created plenty of buzz in Hollywood together with her hit songs like “On the Floor” and “Let’s Get Loud,” film roles in movies comparable to “Second Act” and “Hustlers,” plus her high-profile marriages with males together with Marc Anthony and current spouse Ben Affleck. 

5. Chris Pratt

Chris Pratt, the Marvel star, had many alternative jobs before changing into the well-known actor he’s right this moment. 

Pratt was additionally a stripper when he was 19 years outdated. 

“I was always a very much naked person. I loved to always get naked. I was very free, so I thought, I may as well get paid,” he instructed Buzzfeed in 2013.

Then certainly one of his pals invited him to live in Hawaii, and Pratt took the provide. During his time in Hawaii, he lived on the seashore. 

“I had a friend who was like, ‘Dude, you’ve got to come out here,’” Pratt instructed Entertainment Weekly. “We set up camp on the beach and lived the dream.”

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Chris Pratt hung out in Hawaii before he turned an actor. (Dimitrios Kambouris/Getty Images)

“It’s a pretty awesome place to be homeless,” he instructed The Independent in 2014. “We just drank and smoked weed and worked minimal hours, just enough to cover gas, food and fishing supplies.”

While dwelling in Hawaii, he was a waiter at Bubba Gump Shrimp Company, the place he would finally be found. 

One day, he waited on actress Rae Dawn Chong, who forged him in her horror-comedy quick “Cursed Part 3.”

Since then, Pratt has been a star of many movies and TV exhibits, together with “Parks and Recreation,” the “Jurassic World” franchise and the Marvel franchise as Peter Quill, often known as Star-Lord. 

6. Steve Harvey

Steve Harvey was homeless for 3 years previous to changing into a preferred recreation and discuss present host. 

“One or two gigs fell through, and suddenly I was homeless,” Harvey instructed People in 2013. 

Steve Harvey was homeless for years before making it big in Hollywood. (Ethan Miller/Getty Images)

He lived out of his 1976 Ford Tempo, utilizing lodge, gasoline station and swimming pool showers as a spot to clean up, in line with the outlet.

“It was so disheartening,” Harvey mentioned. “A week is really the maximum you can do. This was three years. It was rock bottom. But even in my darkest days I had faith it would turn around.”

7. Kelsey Grammer

In a 2019 episode of “In Depth with Graham Bensinger,” Kelsey Grammer spoke about being homeless whereas attending the Juilliard School on a scholarship. 

The summer time before heading off to highschool, Grammer took two jobs to avoid wasting up sufficient cash to get him by the 12 months. 

Kelsey Grammer spent some heat nights sleeping in a New York City park throughout his school years. (Donald Kravitz/Getty Images)

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He labored at a lodge at evening and did work on a building website in the course of the day. Grammer mentioned he made $700 by the tip of the summer time.

For a couple of weeks, whereas the climate was nonetheless heat, Grammer mentioned he slept within the park. 

“I could sneak behind a certain bush and cover myself with newspaper, and I was fine,” Grammer mentioned within the interview, including that he showered at Juilliard.

Today, Grammer is understood for enjoying Dr. Frasier Crane in “Cheers” and the spin-off present “Frasier.” 

8. Halle Berry

Halle Berry hung out dwelling in a homeless shelter early on in her profession. 

Upon attending to New York City, Berry shortly ran out of funds to get her by. 

Halle Berry lived in a homeless shelter before changing into well-known. (Denise Truscello/Getty Images for Pendulum)

“I mean three months later, I was out of my cash,” Berry mentioned, per People in 2017. “I called my mother and asked her to send me some money, and she said no, and that subsequently led to a year of not speaking to her because I was so upset that she wouldn’t help me.”

“But again, that’s probably one of the best things she did for me,” Berry added. “She said ‘If you want to be there, then you be there, you work it out,’ and I had to work it out,” the actress added. 

9. Shania Twain

Shania Twain did not have a simple street to changing into the nation artist she is right this moment. 

In her 2011 memoir, “From This Moment On,” Twain wrote about spending time in a homeless shelter together with her mom and siblings early in her life. 

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Shania Twain opened up about her childhood within the 2011 memoir “From This Moment On.” (Lester Cohen/Getty Images for The Recording Academy)

“Mom got out of the car to use a pay phone while we sat and waited in the car, returning a few minutes later with a piece of paper on which she’d scribbled the address of a homeless shelter. That night, we slept in a crowded, sweltering place on cot-like beds spread out along the walls of a series of spacious, open rooms designed for large groups,” Twain wrote in her memoir, per Time.

Twain went on to be a five-time Grammy winner. 

10. Hilary Swank

Before changing into well-known, Hilary Swank and her mom lived out of their automotive. 

“In L.A., my mother and I first lived in her Oldsmobile Cutlass Supreme on quiet residential streets,” she mentioned throughout a February 2024 interview with the Wall Street Journal. “When we weren’t sleeping in the car, we stayed at the house of a new friend my age whose family had just moved out and were trying to sell their home. We slept on an air mattress.”

Hilary Swank says before shifting to Los Angeles, she lived in a trailer park in Bellingham, Washington. (Michael Loccisano/Getty Images)

Swank earned her first main position within the 1992 movie “Buffy the Vampire Slayer.” The actress went on to win two Oscars for the films “Boys Don’t Cry” and “Million Dollar Baby.”

11. Kelly Clarkson

After Kelly Clarkson gained “American Idol” in 2002, her entire life modified, however the singer absolutely got here from humble beginnings. 

On a December 2023 episode of her personal discuss present, she spoke about briefly dwelling in her automotive before auditioning for the singing competitors present. 

Before auditioning for “American Idol,” Kelly Clarkson spent a short while dwelling in her automotive. (Weiss Eubanks/SYNDICATION through Getty Images)

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“I actually moved out to L.A. with some random person I did not know,” Clarkson instructed Kevin Bacon, who was a visitor on her present. She then revealed that the dwelling association did not final lengthy as the home caught fireplace. 

“It burned down, so yeah,” she mentioned. “Then I slept in my car for a few days and then tried out for a show called ‘American Idol,’ so it all worked out.”