People Who Knew Celebrities Before They Were Famous Are Revealing What They Used To Be Like, And Holy Crap

A portion back, we shared stories from radical who knew celebrities before they got famous. Then, a clump of readers submitted their ain stories. Here's what they 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.

Some responses are besides from this thread. 

1. "My aunt went to assemblage with Hillary Clinton. She told maine that adjacent backmost then, Hillary had a spot of a secretive 'She’s hiding something,' beingness astir her. She lived connected the different broadside of campus, kept to her ain business, and a batch of radical weren’t precise adjacent to her."

2. "Adam Jones and Tom Morello. We went to precocious schoolhouse together, and Adam Jones was successful my creation class. A precise quiet, shy, and precise bully guy, and a large artist. His artwork was a small macabre but ever brilliant. Tom Morello utilized to halt by aft our creation people to conscionable up with Adam. They ever carried their guitars astir with them. Brilliant musicians and good, bully guys."

3. "My gramps worked astatine a tiny gospel signaling workplace successful Georgia, and earlier helium was famous, Elvis Presley came successful and recorded a gospel song. He said that helium was precise respectful and astir shy."

4. "Jessica and Ashlee Simpson. We attended the aforesaid church. Their father, Joe, was my child’s younker pastor. Jessica would occasionally sing a solo during a Sunday work oregon for peculiar occasions. She was highly talented, and it wasn’t astonishing erstwhile she was signed to a grounds label. She brought Nick Lachey to religion 1 Sunday portion she was successful municipality visiting, which caused rather a disturbance with the teenagers."

5. "My sister's champion person went to schoolhouse with Robert Downey Jr. Evidently, helium got into a batch of fights successful the halls, and helium had lit parties erstwhile his parents weren't home. That Gen X beingness is wild!"

6. "I went to schoolhouse with Nelly Furtado. In simple school, she was a truly large ukulele subordinate and sang successful the choir. Somewhere, I person a VHS portion of her playing the narrator successful the inferior mentation of Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat that we did successful simple school. In inferior high, she excelled astatine the trombone successful set and was connected the creation team. She was a chill kid and not ace rude. She was besides beauteous articulate."

7. "I grew up with Bruce Willis successful New Jersey. He ever hung retired astatine the YMCA, wherever helium was the ping pong champ. Lots of bully memories with Bruce. Sad present with his existent situation."

8. "Ryan Reynolds. Still the biggest dork successful town. Hasn't truly changed that much, actually, but that drinks are connected him, and I'm reasonably definite helium could benchpress maine now."

9. "My small sister is friends with Lorde. I've lone had a fewer conversations with her earlier she got ace famous, and she was ever kinda edgy and afloat of creativity. Nice to spot her euphony reflects her, too."

10. "I went to schoolhouse with Eva Longoria. She was a inferior during my freshman twelvemonth of precocious school. She was our drum large that twelvemonth and played the clarinet. Being 2 years older and successful band, we had overlapping person groups. I often saw her successful the hallways. She was bully erstwhile she ne'er punished our set conception due to the fact that we got confused by her marching commands. I’m blessed she’s successful. It’s chaotic that I went to schoolhouse with a personage from today!"

11. "When I was a kid, I grew up with Caitlyn Taylor Love from the Disney Channel amusement I’m In the Band. I ne'er truly watched it due to the fact that of the mode she acted increasing up. My dada is friends with her uncle. She was precise stuck-up. She was 1 of the 'popular' kids astatine simple school. Her parent would brag astir however Caitlyn was going connected America’s Got Talent. I retrieve everyone was waiting to spot her execute connected TV, but her enactment didn’t air, and they got her hometown wrong. Her household moved to Hollywood afterward, but she ended up getting into drugs, and her parents got divorced. My dada saw her a mates of years ago, singing astatine a section bar."

12. "I attended precocious schoolhouse with Faith Ford. She was arsenic saccharine and down-to-earth arsenic you would ideate her to be, overmuch similar the characters she’s often portrayed."

13. "Angie Harmon was a mates of years older than america and a immense B. She threw a tuna food sandwich astatine my person during luncheon due to the fact that she was blistery for her boyfriend! Stephanie March was successful our grade, and she was precise sweet, incredibly smart… and the biggest undercover hottie of the century! "

14. "My great-grandparents were precise adjacent with Neil Armstrong due to the fact that my great-grandfather worked astatine NASA with him. My great-grandmother told maine she specifically remembers playing footsie with him nether the array astatine meal 1 night. I conscionable privation my great-grandpa hadn’t died erstwhile I was truthful young and that helium could’ve introduced me!"

15. "My grandma and her siblings hung retired with Stevie Wonder. They each utilized to beryllium and perceive to the Temptations rehearse successful Detroit."

16. "My gramps was a signifier histrion successful the '70s, and Liam Neeson was 1 of his colleagues. Liam utilized to babysit my dada and his sisters sometimes erstwhile my grandpa was out."

17. "Amber Heard lived successful our gathering with her woman Tasya van Ree. Tasya did NOT similar my younger member and me, but Amber was ever truly friendly. She adjacent babysat america a fewer times. Amber besides had this tiny canine named Pistol, who utilized to pursuit maine down the block."

18. "My parents were truly bully friends with Tonya Harding and Jeff Gillooly, and my dada ended up being the champion antheral successful Tonya and Jeff's wedding."

19. "My ma utilized to enactment with Nelly and his ma astatine McDonald's erstwhile helium was a teenager. She was a displacement manager and has truthful galore hilarious and embarrassing stories astir him."

20. "My ma utilized to babysit Kenny G! She said helium liked to tally astir naked."

21. "Kendrick Lamar grew up successful my vicinity successful West Compton. He inactive brings each his puerility friends to his shows and supports the up-and-coming section artists. He besides comes done the hood with nary security, often giving retired shoes and whatnot to the kids. Real humble guy."

22. "I went to mediate and precocious schoolhouse with Natalie Portman. Nothing changed. If you didn't cognize she was famous, you wouldn't cognize it from however she acted. She kept the aforesaid friends, the aforesaid boyfriend, and stayed the aforesaid tiny, reserved astute girl. She was conscionable successful people less."

23. "Chris Evans lived down the thoroughfare from maine and was my babysitter. His ma directed the plays astatine my town's precocious school. I haven't seen him since I was little, but erstwhile helium was successful precocious school, helium was conscionable a mean dude. Nothing astir him screamed, 'I'm gonna beryllium celebrated 1 day.' It was conscionable sorta, 'I'm bully astatine this acting thing, and it conscionable truthful happens that radical who are bully astatine acting get famous.'"

24. "I was friends with Amy Winehouse earlier she made it big. She adjacent dated a bully person of mine. She was fun, afloat of life, and wholly hyperactive. She (obviously) had an astonishing voice, but I ever rolled my eyes erstwhile she talked astir being a singer. Shows however overmuch I know. We mislaid interaction erstwhile her vocation took off. And the mentation of her astatine the extremity was wholly unrecognizable from the Amy I knew."

25. "I grew up down the roadworthy from Betsy Brandt. She is the nicest idiosyncratic you could ever meet."

26. "My sister dated Sebastian Stan successful precocious school, I utilized to play Starcraft with him, and we played varsity shot together. He's ever been a rad dude, and we ever knew he'd marque it successful amusement business. Unreal to spot him successful The Covenant and Captain America.

27. "I knew Chloë Grace Moretz. Her household lived successful my hometown until she was astir 8. They were precise affluent and lived successful astir apt the biggest location successful town. She was champion friends with a miss who went to my ballet schoolhouse and hung astir determination a bully bit. She was shy and quiet, but ever precise polite. Weirdly enough, her person who went to my ballet schoolhouse was prettier and much outgoing and tried to get into acting first. We each thought she'd beryllium the 1 to get famous."

28. "My ma utilized to cognize Jim Carrey earlier helium was a big, celebrated actor. She's told maine a fewer stories, but apparently, helium was conscionable arsenic comic and chaotic (in a bully way) backmost past arsenic helium is successful his movies today. She spent a Halloween with him and a clump of friends, answering the doorway for trick-or-treaters. Apparently, each clip he'd travel to the door, he'd be idiosyncratic wholly different. Just enactment wholly similar idiosyncratic else, wholly improv disconnected the apical of his head. The kids were amused, but they conscionable wanted candy; the parents would travel backmost a mates of times passim the nighttime conscionable to spot what this feline would travel up with next."

29. Lastly, "My dada went to precocious schoolhouse with Edward Norton. Said helium was the sweetest kid, but a small spot nerdy. Apparently, helium was a slayer astatine trivia. Years later, my grandma asked my dada what occupation she thought Ed had ended up at. Dad guessed a U.S. ambassador oregon an enforcement astatine a company, but she whipped retired the section paper nonfiction astir his latest movie. Both were wholly shocked, thought he'd marque much usage of the brains."

Responses person been edited for length/clarity.

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