7 celebrities who grew up without parents but managed to achieve great heights

2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55

For most, the words "mom" and "dad" mean a lot. After all, it is in our father's house that we wait out the storms of life, it is there that we find words of understanding and support. Sometimes a belief in talent and success is something that good parents invariably advocate, forcing us to seek new paths to popularity and fame. But our today's heroes are not lucky. Some of them were brought up by relatives, others were completely abandoned by their parents. Nevertheless, their names are known - these people were able to make their way along the narrow path to success, having achieved great heights in creativity.

Yuriy Shatunov

Perhaps this is the most famous story of how a boy from an orphanage became mega-popular, winning the hearts of millions of fans. The future soloist of the group "Laskoviy May" had parents, but his father left the family when the boy was still young, and his mother gradually began to abuse alcohol and simply drank himself to death. At first, Yura wandered among relatives, and then the child who was not needed was sent to the Orphanage. The boy's musical talent manifested itself early: Yura participated in a local amateur ensemble. Once in the House of Culture, he sang the song "White Roses", when the voice of the young singer was heard by the music producer Andrei Razin. He also offered to take patronage over a talented young man. And then, with his light hand, the whole country sang Shatunov's songs.

Mike Tyson

The future undisputed world champion in the heavyweight category among professionals could have finished very badly. His father was a taxi driver who left his wife immediately after the birth of his son. The mother was not upset for long and soon got along with a pimp and became a prostitute. Mike learned the truth about fatherhood only at 38 and exclaimed that it was much more pleasant for him to think that he was the son of a tough pimp - after all, the laws of the jungle reigned in the quarter where Mike lived. Until about 9 years old, the future boxer was a very soft and impressionable child. However, when the leader of the street gang, who mocked him, killed his beloved pigeon, Mike became furious.

He kicked off the offender, and since then he has been respected in the district. Mike learned to climb on pockets, rob shops and inevitably ended up in a special school for juvenile delinquents. There he was noticed by a physical education teacher and, after several years of training, introduced him to the famous coach and manager Kas D'Amato. The 14-year-old boxer shocked him so much that he volunteered to help him in his career. And after the death of Mike's mother from a drug overdose, D'Amato adopted Tyson, putting his soul and all knowledge about sports into his upbringing.

Pierce Brosnan

The actor was born in the small Irish town of Drogheda in 1953. After a year of marriage, the parents separated, and the mother was forced to leave the child to be raised by her grandparents, since in those years society was very unequivocal about single mothers. After the older relatives died, the boy was handed over to the family of his uncle and aunt. So the baby wandered around the homes of loved ones, being in fact a burden. When the boy grew up, he was assigned to the Brothers of Christ school, which was famous for its strict upbringing and labor service. Pierce had to endure a lot, until finally, by the age of 11, his mother did not arrange a personal life and took Pierce into a new family.

Stanislav Sadalsky

Stanislav Yuryevich was born into a highly respected family. His mother was a teacher of geography, and then headed the city department. And my father taught physical education at a financial college. According to Stanislav, dad often put his hand, periodically beating him with his brother and mother. After one of these fights, the mother died, and the father, without much hesitation, passed the boys to the Voronezh boarding school. 12-year-old Stanislav harbored a grudge and never wanted to see his father again. The boy's talent manifested itself in childhood - he participated in all theatrical productions of the boarding school.

At the age of 16, the young man went to Moscow to make his dream come true. But here's the bad luck - the guy was not taken to any theatrical university, citing the wrong bite of the future artist. Sadalsky had to get a job at a factory in order to somehow feed himself, and in his free time to realize his creative needs, participating in a drama club. Only in 1969 he was accepted by GITIS, where the young actor, while still studying, was invited to act in films.

Eddie Murphy

It happens that due to temporary difficulties, children leave their father's house and are handed over to be raised by loved ones. Such an unpleasant period happened in the family of Eddie Murphy. His mother was a telephone operator, and his father worked in the transport police and had an officer's rank. And although his parents divorced when Eddie was four years old, dad supported the former family financially. Several years later, he died tragically, not having lived a few days before the 9-year-old son. Soon, Lillian's mother fell seriously ill and was hospitalized for a long time, and Eddie, along with his older brother, had to move into a foster family. They lived there for almost one year. When the black streak in the life of the family ended, the mother and children were reunited.

John Lennon

This is not to say that the famous musician did not have a mother - there were already two of them, since the baby's attention was constantly shared by his own mother and her sister. By coincidence, John could not live with his mother Julia - she divorced John's father and remarried. The responsibility for upbringing was taken over by his aunt Mimi, in whose family there were no children. Mimi tried to educate the tomboy in the best British traditions and severity, but Julia often spoiled the boy, indulging his whims. It was she who gave him a guitar, to which the aunt grumbled that you could not earn a lot of money with a musical instrument.

Such a duality in assessing behavior depressed the boy, and from an intelligent and quick-witted student he slipped into a class for lagging behind, often sneering and drawing caricatures of teachers. John lost his own mother when he was 18 years old - she was tragically hit by a car. And Lennon was angry with his father, as his father showed up only when the Beatles became popular.

Coco Chanel

Sometimes strength of personality and luck replace parental support. This happened with the legendary style icon Gabrielle Chanel. Her mother was from a poor family and gave birth to babies out of wedlock. After her death, no one needed the children, and Gabrielle and her brothers and sisters were sent to an orphanage at the monastery. It was there that the 11-year-old girl learned to sew perfectly. Later she got a job in a clothing store, and in the evenings she worked part-time in a casino, singing the song "Ko ko ri ko", which is why she got her nickname. There she met the aristocratic officer Etienne Balsan and soon moved to Paris with him. Etienne's connections played into the hands of the enterprising Coco Chanel - she acquired fashionable clients and got the English industrialist Arthur Capel as her lover.