Most of his fans will tell you how Jim lived during his short but great career in a cheap hotel on La Cienega Boulevard in Los Angeles, but not many know that before Morrison made it big he used to be homeless and slept in just about anyplace you can literally imagine. Rumors has it that he even spent quite a few nights under the pier at Venice Beach. Back in the early ’90s, however, when she and her mother moved to Los Angeles and before Hillary started her acting career, they had to sleep in the car. Two failed marriages, a few bad relationships, and a suicide attempt might sound bad enough but Halle spent some time being homeless at the beginning of her acting career as well. However, Halle confessed during an interview with Reader’s Digest that this experience made her stronger and taught her how to live through any situation, even if that meant she had to spend a few nights in a public shelter. However, way before Shania conquered the charts, she struggled with a series of problems including poverty, domestic violence and homelessness. She stayed in various shelters in Toronto and slept on buses while at twenty-two she had to raise and provide for her younger siblings after their parents died in a tragic car accident. Back in the late ’80s though, life wasn’t anything like it is now for Steve and after a bad marriage and an even worse divorce he found himself homeless; sleeping in hotels or in his 1976 Ford Tempo depending on his budget. But no one can describe better what Steve Harvey went through back then than he can himself: However, before her hit singles dominated the charts and brought her millions in record sales, Clarkson spent a lot of time trying hard and being homeless. Shortly after moving to Los Angeles her new apartment burnt down and the singer; who was unemployed and broke at the time, had to live in her car or at shelters before she auditioned for American Idol. However, Carmen has not always lived a glamorous lifestyle. Thanks to her then boyfriend’s thievery; Carmen spent a couple of years homeless and in Los Angeles’ shelters before finally getting a shot at becoming Baywatch’s new hot babe. Digging into his past, we discovered that his lyrics where inspired by the rough time he experienced before he made it in the music business. When Beck first moved to New York City; poverty, homelessness, and lack of food were daily routines for Beck months before he released the gold hit “Loser,” which became a smash hit on MTV and literally saved the singer from further misery. Even though we’re not really sure what motivated Charlie to target Axl like that, the great vocalist didn’t sweat the statement, and how could he since being homeless isn’t something new to him. When he first moved to California and before he made it big, the famous rock star slept on his friends’ floor. With an estimated net worth of $150 million we honestly can’t see how Charlie’s prediction can ever become true. But then again, you never know. For the next two years the family would wander from shelter to shelter until they managed to get a new place to live a normal life again Against all odds Sly managed to become one of the most commercially successful action movie stars of all time and a pop icon of our era despite the fact that as a young man he had to spend about three weeks sleeping at the Port Authority bus station. It was then when he came across an ad for an adult film that was paying about $100 a day and the rest is history. What if we told you that the co-founder, former chairman, and CEO of Apple Inc. was once broke and homeless? According to his own claims the father of the IPhone didn’t have a dorm room as a student and had to sleep on the floor in friends’ rooms. He also returned Coke bottles for the nickel deposits to buy food, while he would walk seven miles across town every Sunday night to get one good meal a week at the Hare Krishna temple. Way before J.Lo became a fashion icon and a role model for girls around the world, she was sleeping on a sofa in her dance studio because her mom, Guadalupe Rodriguez, didn’t always agree with her career choices and the arguments between them often forced Lopez to find shelter where she worked. Her mom wanted Jennifer to go to college while the famous star wanted to pursue a dancing career. Who said mama is always right? The youngest child in his family, when he was only fifteen his father lost his job, and everything in the Carrey family’s life quickly spiraled out of control and they lost their apartment. The family then moved into their van where they spent a significant amount of time until they rented a new place and Jim left school to work as a janitor to support his family. He had it pretty hard and almost forty years ago when the media guru was landing in Los Angeles he used his 1973 Chevy pickup as his home. We don’t even want to imagine what he had to go through for several months before he finally got his break and started writing jokes for Jimmy Walker, which was the stepping stone to the incredible career that followed.
