People Are Sharing Stories About What Celebs Were Like Before Fame, And I'm Stunned By Some Of These

Recently, I came crossed this Reddit thread asking, "People of Reddit, who knew celebrities earlier they were famous, however antithetic bash they enactment now?" and was truthful fascinated by the submissions. Here's what radical said:

The radical who shared their stories allegedly talk from idiosyncratic encounters. Obviously, we weren't determination erstwhile they happened, truthful consciousness escaped to instrumentality them with a atom of salt.

1. "I went to precocious schoolhouse with Sandra Oh. She was funny, dynamic, smart, outgoing, and precise into drama. In 1 schoolhouse play, she played a mime quality — she didn’t person lines but was inactive a large portion of the action, commenting connected what was going connected done her actions. Anyhow, successful 1 scene, arsenic she was exiting the stage, she banged her caput connected 1 of the props — you could perceive the large bang — but she was a pro and conscionable carried on. It has been large to spot her person specified success, and I emotion that she has kept successful interaction with her adjacent friends from precocious schoolhouse (you tin spot them astatine the awards shows sometimes)."

2. "My grandpa owned a market store successful Miami successful the precocious '70s. Wesley Snipes and his friends were regulars. Once, Wesley near his motorcycle successful beforehand of the store, and it got stolen. So, my grandpa gave him his aged motorcycle that helium kept successful the backmost of the store. My uncle took implicit successful 2001 erstwhile my grandpa died. In 2007, Wesley came backmost to the store portion my uncle and relative were there, asking astir my grandpa. My uncle said they talked for astir an hr astir however my grandpa treated him similar a son. When helium recovered retired my grandpa had passed, helium felt blameworthy that helium hadn’t visited sooner. He embraced my uncle and my cousin, past left. My uncle said helium told him they program to person the gathering repainted portion they were talking. About a week later, a unit of painters arrived and told my uncle they had already been paid to repaint the building. Such a genuine dude."

3. "Jennifer Lawrence. I moved to Louisville successful the mediate of seventh grade. She was my archetypal friend, and the archetypal idiosyncratic I had a sleepover with. We deed it off. She was precise antithetic from me: a cheerleader who came from a batch of wealth, but her household was truly awesome. We were some kinda weird and outgoing, truthful we became bully friends precise fast. Her household owned a workplace that had a children’s summertime camp, and we went to it a mates of times; she had 1 of her day parties there! We hung retired reasonably often until she moved to NYC a twelvemonth and a fractional aft we met."

4. "I worked successful a edifice astir 15 years agone arsenic a manager. Rachel McAdams walked successful for an interview. She was inactive successful acting schoolhouse and serving tables to wage for it. She worked astatine my edifice for the adjacent 2 summers, serving connected our patio. We're inactive friends to this day. She hasn't changed a bit. She inactive bikes to get groceries."

5. My ex-boyfriend’s ma ran a pizza store that P!nk worked astatine arsenic a 16-year-old. I conjecture she would ever beryllium singing randomly astatine work. She’d usage spoons, utensils, thing she could find to usage arsenic a fake microphone. But she wasn't the champion idiosyncratic and would allegedly locomotion retired connected her shifts whenever she wanted without telling anyone. She conscionable didn’t springiness a fuck, adjacent backmost then."

6. "My aunt utilized to enactment with Gordon Ramsay’s mother, but ne'er made the connection. Once, portion they were retired for lunch, helium ended up coming successful to spot his mum, and met my aunt successful the process. She said helium was truthful beauteous and polite!! Plus, my dada has a clump of Gordon’s aged jumpers helium didn’t privation anymore. Not signed oregon thing similar that, it’s conscionable a amusive household communicative now."

7. "I went to assemblage with Joe Keery. He was my assemblage boyfriend’s suitemate and the nicest guy. His hairsbreadth has ever been dreamy and amazing. The past clip I saw him was astatine a viewing of The Hateful Eight aft we graduated, and helium inactive made a constituent to travel implicit and accidental hi!"

8. "A person of excavation was friends with Tom Hanks successful precocious schoolhouse and went to prom with him. He inactive writes her personalized day cards connected 1 of his typewriters."

9. "I went to inferior precocious with Norah Jones. She was the astir sincere and serene person. She was amusive to speech to, and she ne'er gave a hint of who her begetter was. The nighttime she won each those Grammys was precise telling that she hadn't changed a bit."

10. "I went to precocious schoolhouse with Mark Ruffalo. He was nice. He was 'one of those thespians.' Our precocious schoolhouse had an acting radical that challenged the students to get retired of their shells and bash things successful beforehand of strangers, similar introducing themselves arsenic the chaotic fairy of the woods and presenting them with a flower. We didn’t speech much, but arsenic I said, helium was a bully guy."

11. "I went to mediate schoolhouse with Megan Fox for a bit. She rode my bus, and she mostly kept to herself. Most of the guys would combat implicit who was going to beryllium adjacent to her, but she was precise shy and didn't truly person overmuch to say."

12. "I went to schoolhouse with Rupert Grint. I was into acting, too, truthful we had done a fewer schoolhouse plays together. He was truly nice, precise chill, and a bully laugh. I haven't seen him since schoolhouse days, but helium kept coming to classes whenever helium wasn't filming, and helium was ever blessed to chat astir the Harry Potter movies. Sometimes, he'd request a small interruption from truthful galore radical wanting to talk, and would travel and bent retired successful the library, and honestly, you'd ne'er cognize helium was successful the biggest movie bid astatine the time."

13. "A co-worker of excavation met Daisy Ridley portion connected a backpacking travel and got to cognize each different beauteous good portion traveling together. She told my co-worker that she wanted to go an actress. It looks similar that panned retired beauteous well. They said Daisy was an perfectly beauteous individual."

14. "I unrecorded successful the municipality wherever Dolly Parton grew up, and practically everyone supra the property of 50 who grew up present claims to either beryllium a distant comparative of Dolly’s oregon to cognize her successful immoderate way. Everyone has their communicative of the clip they met Dolly. It’s beauteous obvious, but careless of who you speech to, Dolly has ever been saccharine and generous, and everything has simply grown exponentially owed to her fame. Examples see the millions of books she gives retired for escaped to children astir the globe each month, oregon the $10,000 successful currency she gave to galore of my adjacent friends aft their houses burned successful a occurrence a mates of years back. Thousands of radical are employed present and enactment for 1 of the businesses she owns, and it’s a tad unusual to spot erstwhile you locomotion in, but the birthing halfway astatine the section infirmary is funded by and named aft her. I honestly can’t deliberation of 1 idiosyncratic I cognize who doesn’t similar her. Dolly’s bosom has lone gotten bigger due to the fact that of fame."

15. "My dada went to schoolhouse with Steve Irwin, reckons helium was precisely the aforesaid arsenic a young fella. He would beryllium distant from schoolhouse each the clip connected trips to rescue and rehome crocs each implicit Australia."

16. "My gramps taught Jack Nicholson successful precocious schoolhouse mathematics class. He said helium was rebellious but wasn't excessively atrocious astatine math."

17. "I knew Robert Pattinson astir 15 years ago. He's a bully guy, friendly, and a batch of amusive to beryllium with. He lived by himself successful the centre of Soho, London, successful a tiny one-bed level that I deliberation helium felt was the romanticist imaginativeness of a starving creator — oregon astatine slightest wanted to. He had a weird side. He'd accidental random and depraved things. He was obsessed with Jack Nicholson. He ne'er truly gave a fuck, helium had confidence, and helium was ever himself. He knew helium could deliberately beryllium contradictory, and helium utilized that arsenic a property trait. But helium was a bully guy."

18. "My coworker's dada grew up with Queen Latifah successful North Jersey. His full household loves her due to the fact that they were astir to suffer their house, truthful she paid it disconnected for them. They’ve ne'er said a atrocious happening astir her."

19. "My grandma and mum were truly bully friends with George Michael and Andrew Ridgeley from Wham! They got invited to concerts and got to beryllium successful peculiar seats. And a fewer years ago, my household and I stayed astatine Andrew's impermanent location successful Cornwall for a weekend. But helium stayed truly adjacent to my grandparents and mum. And Andrew Ridgeley was precise benignant to my household erstwhile we met him."

20. "My mum knew Mel B from her precocious school. Apparently, she ever copied different people's homework."

21. "Kesha was a full nerd. She got a 1600 connected her SATs. She was quiet, a spot of a societal outcast. She was nice, though. You could archer she cared astir others and wouldn't ever wounded a flea."

22. "My member utilized to play hoops with a clump of radical successful precocious school, among those who would sometimes articulation successful was Pete Davidson. My member said helium got ripped connected a ton, and nary 1 truly liked him. But that mightiness conscionable beryllium due to the fact that helium wasn't large astatine basketball."

23. "My eighth-grade subject teacher dated Bill Nye. She broke up with him because, apparently, helium didn’t similar kids."

24. "I went to precocious schoolhouse with Post Malone. We graduated the aforesaid year. He ever wore a suit to people and was that nerdy, dedicated kid. I'm gladsome to spot however his beingness turned out. I hoped for the champion for him, and present I perceive to him each the time, haha."

25. "I knew Cillain Murphy backmost successful secondary school. He was a fewer years older than me. Dude was ace quiet, but truly damn friendly. I retrieve erstwhile helium was formed successful 28 Days Later, and radical were beauteous hype for him, but a bully fewer radical didn't deliberation overmuch of it. Once the movie came out, though, a batch of radical changed their tune erstwhile they could spot him really enactment amazingly."

26. "My champion friend's relative is Tyler Posey. She said helium was a sweetheart earlier his Teen Wolf days, and helium inactive is now."

27. "My ma knew Seal mode backmost erstwhile helium was inactive trying to beryllium an architect, and she says helium was ever truly nice. They didn’t enactment successful touch, but she said helium went retired of his mode to foster genuine connections with radical earlier and aft his euphony started to summation traction. He ever had prima quality. Everyone would beryllium drawn to him, and he’d prosecute with everyone successful a mode that truly stuck. She ever mentions that helium was conscionable a truly sincere, profoundly felt person."

28. Lastly, "My bio teacher was friends with Rainn Wilson. They utilized to drawback java often astir the clip The Office started. From what she described, Rainn seems similar a beauteous down-to-earth guy."

Responses person been edited for length/clarity.

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