February 22, 2018

Psychological trauma and childhood deprivation left a serious imprint on the character of the stars

Success and fame are not always the result of a cloudless happy childhood. Often people become successful not because of, but in spite of. Many "stars" were unhappy in young age. Some of them subsequently tried to forget about it, someone “rewrote” their biography, someone learned important lessons from the difficult experience ..

Coco Chanel

Gabrielle Boner Chanel“lucky” from birth - the mother died during childbirth (according to other sources, this happened when the girl was 11 years old, probably Chanel herself deliberately misled everyone about the year of her birth), and the father did not really need children. However, Gabrielle and her older sister lived with their father for some time. He left them when the future trendsetter was 11 years old.

Relatives sent the girls to the monastery shelter. Their father never visited them there. Chanel was very worried, later she herself created many myths about her childhood - they featured their allegedly adoring father, the mythical aunts in whose house she grew up, and the "blue blood" flowing in her veins.

At the same time, a lifelong famous Coco she avoided specific questions about her childhood, and, as they said, she rebuffed the most persistent journalists with the phrase: “I didn’t herd pigs with you.” Rough, but effective.

Marilyn Monroe

Sex symbol of the twentieth century, incredibly feminine and charming Norma Jean Baker(real name Marilyn Monroe) all my life I tried to forget about my unhappy childhood. She grew up without a father - it seems that even her mother did not really know which of the many gentlemen she was. Norma became the third child of a film editor Gladysbaker. Gladys often experienced nervous breakdowns, as well as financial difficulties, so the children had to grow up in foster families, as well as in shelters.

When little Norma was only two weeks old, her mother gave her to the neighbors. She took the girl back in seven years old. But not for long: two weeks later, another nervous attack followed, Gladys was sent to a hospital, and Norma ended up in the family of her mother's friend. Then there was an orphanage - after my mother's friend got married. Then - the families of distant relatives ... Of course, such a childhood cannot be forgotten. And, of course, homelessness and lack of love had an impact on Marilyn's psyche. Frequent depression, problems with alcohol and drugs are well-known facts. There is a version that the actress committed suicide. She was only 36 years old.

Jack Nicholson

His real parents were a dancer and a musician. Mother, having barely given birth to an heir, immediately handed him over to her parents for upbringing. Jack until the age of 36, he was convinced that his mother and father raised him, not suspecting that they were grandparents, and he considered his real mother to be his older sister. One of the cunning journalists unearthed the truth and immediately trumpeted it in the newspapers. Nicholson was shocked: shortly before the secret of his adoption was revealed, his "mother" - his grandmother, and also his "older sister" - his real mother, died.

It is not known how all these revelations affected the artist's psyche. One thing is known: after sensational investigations, Nicholson's talent takes off to an unprecedented height. He thunders around the world in the cult film One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, then repeats his success in The Shining, based on the novel Stephen King. Roles followed. Joker v " Batman” and the devil in The Witches of Eastwick, as well as other talented works. Some call him a genius, others call him crazy, and others say that Nicholson brilliantly depicts crazy people. The actor has a very bad temper. Many believe that this is a consequence of childhood trauma.

John Lennon

World famous musician, founder of the legendary Beatles John Lennon can not be called an orphan. Although his father abandoned him at an early age, his mother - Julia- was still nearby, although she evaded raising an heir, giving him to her sister - Mimi. Mimi replaced the boy's mother. However, Julia often visited her son, but these visits did not bring anything good: they began to divide John, finding out who he loves more. True, it was Julia who gave the boy his first guitar, gave the first lessons in playing the accordion and banjo. When John turned 18, his mother died - she was hit by a drunk driver in a car.

An unhappy childhood left an indelible mark on the personality of the musician - he was unbalanced all his life and considered himself unhappy, he had fits of uncontrollable rage, during which he beat his first wife, Cynthia, and the second - Yoko Ono.

Eric Clapton

The mother of the famous rock musician, brilliant composer, vocalist and guitarist was a 16-year-old schoolgirl, and the father was a 24-year-old soldier from Canada, who never saw his son, going first to the war, and then to his homeland before birth Eric Clapton. The boy grew up in the family of his grandmother - mother's mother- and her second husband, for a long time considering them to be their own father and mother, and the real mother as an older sister. Soon the "elder sister" left, having married, and the connection with her was cut off. It is noteworthy that when Eric, who learned the truth about his birth, asked her permission to call her mother (then the boy was nine years old), she refused him. After that, he withdrew into himself.

The boy continued to grow up with his grandmother and step-grandfather, who treated him tenderly. It was they who gave Eric the first guitar - a cheap, unpretentious one, and thus opened the way to the world of music.

Friends said that, despite the complex character and isolation preserved from childhood, the musician always dreamed of a real family - which he lacked so much in childhood. But his relationships with women did not last long, he was inevitably disappointed in the girlfriends whom he initially idolized. Only after 50 years Clapton finally found family happiness with the designer Melia McEnery who is 30 years his junior.

Pierce Brosnan

One of the performers James Bond in the iconic Bond Pierce Brendan Brosnan, also does not like to remember his childhood. His father abandoned them with his mother when Pierce was only a year old. The mother also did not burn with the desire to raise the child: she preferred to give the baby to her parents, and she herself left Ireland for London. Soon, grandparents died, and Pierce ended up in an orphanage - in the so-called "School of the Brothers of Christ", whose teachers used the method of corporal punishment.

When the boy was 10 years old, he was finally taken by his mother, who remarried. Nevertheless, from a young age he had to earn money on his own - he was a barker in the store, and a dishwasher, and a cleaner ... All this tempered his character - later the actor admitted that he owed a lot precisely to the difficulties he went through in the early years of his life.

Mike Tyson

Father Mike Tyson abandoned by his mother when the future boxer was not even a year old. Mike was raised by the street - he hung out with the same neglected boys. As a teenager, he took part in thefts, robbed passers-by with his friends, for which he ended up in a colony.

The decision to improve came to the guy after the colony was visited by the legendary boxer Muhammad Ali. Mike Tyson began to devote all his time to intense training, dreaming of becoming the same famous boxer. Once an experienced coach drew attention to him Cus d'Amato. Impressed by the success of the self-taught, he issued custody of him and took him to his home. Soon success came to the young man in the boxing field. However, street childhood was not in vain. Mike Tyson was sued three times, he had to deal with alcohol and drug addiction, and gambling did not bypass him.

It is believed that the famous successful person- is the one who was "born in a shirt." But still, sometimes luck is late and sticks to a person far from birth. We offer you a selection of 10 talented and famous people whose early years cannot be called cloudless, because they passed without their mothers and fathers.

Steve Jobs

One of the most successful and wealthy people on Earth, Steve Jobs was an unwanted child. His unmarried mother gave birth to a boy and immediately gave it up for adoption.

She wanted the adoptive parents to necessarily have higher education, but the couple who wanted to take the baby - Clara's accountant and Paul Jobs's mechanic - did not have university degrees. The unlucky mother nevertheless agreed to hand over the child to them, but only when they signed a written commitment to pay for his college education.

Stephen grew up as a smart boy and from childhood was fascinated by technology and electronics. He really went to college, but after the first semester he dropped out: he did not like that his parents paid for his studies with great difficulty, and he did not see much point in this. Soon he became interested in computers, and this hobby turned out to be fatal.

Jack Nicholson

Jack, or fully John Joseph Nicholson, was born in New York in 1937 to singer June Nicholson and musician Don Rose. From infancy, the boy was raised by his grandparents, and he grew up in the belief that they are his parents.

Only in 1974, when the actor had already become famous, did the sly reporter manage to unearth the family secret that Jack's "older sister" was actually his own mother.

But too late: by that time, June had suddenly died of cancer, and her grandmother-mother was also no longer in the world. In general, Jack had a fairly prosperous childhood, and his school passion for theater and cinema successfully developed into a profession.

Marilyn Monroe

Cult actress, singer, model and sex symbol of the 50s Norma Jean Baker, aka the unforgettable Marilyn Monroe, was born in 1926 in Los Angeles. Her mother was an assembler from one of the Hollywood film studios, and her father is not known for certain, since her mother divorced her husband more than a year before the birth of her daughter and was in several romantic relationships.

Unfortunately, the girl's mother had financial problems and a not very healthy psyche, and therefore, Norma Jean spent most of her childhood, starting from the age of 2 weeks, in shelters and foster families. When, at the age of 11, the mother nevertheless took the girl into her new family, Norma Jean encountered sexual harassment stepfather and ran away to a great aunt.

However, even there she suffered from the obsessive harassment of one of her aunt's sons, and therefore was sent to live with an elderly friend. At the age of 16, to avoid another orphanage, Norma Jean hastily married and dropped out of school, worked in an aircraft factory during World War II, and after that began her career as a model and actress.

Coco Chanel

Legendary woman, style icon Gabrielle Bonheur Chanel was born in France in 1883 as the second child of unmarried parents. Her mother died in childbirth, and her single father didn't really need children.

When Gabrielle was 11 years old, he left them, and Coco never saw her father again. Relatives took care of the sisters for some time, and then they were sent to an orphanage at the monastery. Because of the hatred of the shelter form, Coco had a dream - to dress women beautifully.

After moving to Paris, Coco Chanel first sang in a cabaret, where she got her nickname, and then worked in a lingerie store until she managed to open her own hat shop and later a famous fashion house.

Truman Capote

Truman Garcia Capote, American writer and playwright, whose fame was brought by the novel In Cold Blood, the novella Breakfast at Tiffany's (the main role in the film adaptation was played by the legendary Audrey Hepburn) and more than 20 other filmed works, was born in 1924 and bore the name Truman Strekfus Persons.

When he was four, his parents divorced, but the child did not stay with his mother, but was sent to her relatives. Suffering from loneliness, the boy independently learned to read and write, began to compose the first stories.

When he was nine, his mother married textile broker Joseph Capote, who treated her child well and adopted him, but soon his stepfather was accused of embezzlement, and the family plunged into poverty.

Eric Clapton

The famous British rock musician Eric Clapton was born in 1945 as the fruit of love between a 16-year-old schoolgirl and a 24-year-old Canadian soldier. Even before the birth of his son, his father was sent to war, and then returned to his native Canada and never came again.

Eric grew up with his grandmother and her second husband, his mother's stepfather, sincerely considering them his parents, and his mother - an older sister. When he was still a baby, the "sister" married another Canadian soldier, moved to West Germany, and the connection between them broke off.

Eric Clapton dedicated the song Tears In Heaven to his dead son

At the age of thirteen, the "parents" gave the boy his first guitar, a little later he became interested in the blues and has not parted with music since then.

Pierce Brosnan

Pierce Brendan Brosnan, who plays James Bond, was born in Ireland in 1953. A year later, his father left the family, and Pierce got to know him again only after he had matured and become famous. The mother also did not want to raise her own son: she moved to live and work in London, and left the boy in the care of her parents.

When grandparents passed away, Pierce Brosnan was entrusted to his uncle and aunt, but they did not want to mess with someone else's offspring and sent him to the "Christ Brothers School", where corporal punishment was actively used. And only when the child was 10 years old, his mother remarried and took him to her place in London.

Growing up, the young man began to earn money as a tout in a department store, a janitor and a dishwasher, and at the same time he was approaching his dream - he studied at the London School of Drama.

Mike Tyson

The father left the future boxer with his mother when Mike was not even a year old. Mike Tyson was difficult child and spent most of his time with the same street boys as himself. Teenagers traded in petty robbery and theft, and Tyson eventually ended up in a children's colony.

The visit of the legendary Muhammad Ali changed everything: Tyson decided to become a boxer and began to exercise. He was noticed by coach Cus d'Amato, who settled the boy with him and took custody of him. Over the years, Tyson has become one of the most titled boxers in the world.

A difficult childhood was not in vain - Mike Tyson has three previous convictions and years of struggle with drug, alcohol and gambling addictions. He is one of the most famous athletes who is in trouble with the law.

John Lennon

Strictly speaking, an orphan John Lennon failed to overcome childhood trauma

Lennon painfully loved his mother, dedicated songs to her. About the song Julia, co-written with Paul McCartney, he said that it merged the images of Yoko Ono and Julia Lennon. At the same time, it is known that the musician, in fits of rage, beat both Yoko and his first wife, Cynthia.

Jamie Fox

Oscar winner for his performance as blind bluesman Ray Charles, actor Jamie Foxx grew up without parents. The seven-month-old baby was given to his parents by his mother Louise, and Jamie grew up in a Baptist family with his grandparents. At the same time, these people were not his blood relatives - the couple once adopted Louise Annette.

Jamie Foxx knew his biological parents, but they never took part in his upbringing. In an interview, Fox emphasized that he did not hold a grudge against his mother and father and always tried to keep his heart open.

Despite this, he repeatedly wondered what a baby could do to his mother so that she would leave him. Childhood trauma, we note, did not become an obstacle in his life - Fox went to the goal for many years and as a result became a famous actor, the owner of his own star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.

The road to fame is not without difficulties - whether you were born into a wealthy family or were forced to achieve everything on your own. The public is not interested in who your mom and dad are, the main thing is talent and charisma. We invite you to read about the stars who became famous, despite the glory of their parents.
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Unfortunately in modern world parental example increasingly has a detrimental effect on the personality of the child.
Author wrote: I child psychologist, and at times I get terribly confused. My the main problem- the parents of my little clients, who disfigure them themselves. I don’t know if it’s personally “lucky” for me, or in fact, almost half of the children who are referred to a psychologist by doctors or teachers with suspicion of various disorders (this is how most clients come to me) have the same diagnosis: surrounding adults - idiots.

Case #1

A 4-year-old boy behaves aggressively, throws himself at other children on the playground and offends his younger sister. Already after 10 minutes of communication with his mother and stepfather, everything becomes clear. In the family, even adults do not know the words "excuse me", "please" and "thank you". It is customary for them to communicate with the help of an ora at each other and threats “I’ll hurt you right now.” The most affectionate thing that I said to the child: “Shut up, you bastard!”. And in general, it seems to the child’s stepfather (an aging gopnik who is over 40 according to his passport, and 13–14 years old in his mind) to teach the kid to answer any words of his grandmother: “Shut up, old bitch!” - great witty joke. In general, the boy does not have any disorders, he just looks like his parents.

Case #2

6-year-old girl Sasha speaks of herself in the masculine gender and tries to convince everyone that she is a boy, Sanya. Gender identity disorder? Don't give a damn. It’s just that dad and mom wanted a second son, and from infancy they tell their daughter what a pity that she was not born a boy. To any manifestation of weakness they say: “What are you like a girl ?!” (hey, garage, your child is actually a girl!), and a request to buy beautiful shoes perceived as a sign that the daughter will grow up to be a prostitute - she already knows this word very well. At the same time, the girls rush about with their older brother like with a written bag: he is a boy. Sasha, of course, has two options: either forever recognize himself as a second-class person, or try to somehow become a first-class person. She chose the latter option. And this is completely normal for a person with a healthy psyche. It's not normal - to spoil a smart and precocious girl's head like that even before school!

Case #3

The first-grader is constantly trying to get into other children's shorts, attaches himself from behind, imitating sexual intercourse, and persuades the girls to dance a striptease. The alarm was sounded by the parents of the girl whom he offered for a chocolate bar, I quote, "to suck his pussy." Increased interest in this topic in such early age can be a symptom of several big problems. Either the child was corrupted, or he has a serious hormonal failure (an adult hormonal set in the child's body), or some problems with the cerebral cortex. However, it turns out that just the father of the child considers it completely normal to watch porn on the computer in the presence of his son: “What's wrong? He's small, he doesn't understand anything. And if he understands, let him grow up as a peasant, gee-gee-gee.

Case #4

A 10-year-old girl literally hates all boys and any hint of intersexual relations. A neighbor on the desk, who said that she was beautiful, ran into a fury and broke his nose. We find out that the whole situation arose because of the girl's mother. This is a single mother. A woman with a stormy but not very happy personal life. A series of "new dads", some of which did not last even three months (and one of them also beat the girl), and "we are like girlfriends, I tell her everything, everything." That is, the mother made her daughter a confidant. From early childhood, a child is aware of which of his mother's uncles has problems with potency, who has a jealous wife who watches over her mother at work at the entrance, who is “measuring, she didn’t even buy a ring”, from whom she had three abortions, and so on. Mom sincerely believes that she is preparing the girl for adulthood. The girl thinks adulthood- it's just endless showdowns with someone's wives, abortions and non-members, and I saw all this in a coffin (and in this case it's hard not to understand her).

Case #5

10 year old boy. Rare case. The mother brought the child with a request: “Do something! He annoys his father." In general, the search for a “magic button” that can be pressed to make the child comfortable is a favorite topic of parents who bring children themselves. In general, the situation is almost classic: dad from time to time finds new love and goes to her, then mother wins him back with borscht and silk robes. For some time the family is idyll, and then everything repeats itself. The gaps are getting shorter, and the child generally “spoils everything” - he treats his dad like a dad, and not like an eastern padishah. Recently - just think! - asked a parent suffering from a hangover to help him solve the problem. The boy was swearing and got such a slap on the back of the head that he flew off to the wall. Answer: “Better, damn it, write out healing pendels to dad!” Of course, this does not fit into the framework of professional ethics, but this is perhaps the main thing that comes to mind in this case.

I am 20 years old. I feel lonely among a bunch of people. I am sociable, I easily enter into a conversation, but I can’t let anyone into my soul. I have a particular relationship with friendship. It seems to me that there are no such wise people who can listen to me, understand, instruct.
But most importantly, I have no feelings for my parents. It's like strangers. I don't even hang out with them.
As a child, I grew up without parents. Without parents with living parents. This also happens. My father has been drinking for as long as I can remember. There were constant conflicts, screams, scandals. At the age of 4, my mother took me to the village to my grandparents - she decided to protect me from my father's drunken antics. So from the age of 4 I began to live with my grandparents. It seems to me that already at the age of 4 I hated my father. And he adored his mother. Only she came to me from the city once a month. The day of her arrival was a holiday, and the day of departure - grief and tears. Then I went there in the village in the 1st grade. My grandmother raised me in strictness: no companies, no girls, while you are studying. She constantly scolded her mother for living with an alcoholic. Because of this, I screamed and cried, I did not understand why my grandmother scolded my mother.
At school I behaved well, studied well. But I didn't have those kind of friends. Where everyone went, I did not go there. My mother promised to take me to her place in the 5th grade, send me to study in a school in the city, she said, they say, my grandmother is already old, it’s hard for her. How I did not want to leave school and leave the village! In general, this did not happen. My mother did not take me anywhere, and I stayed to live and study with my grandmother.
There was everything. Sometimes parents were needed, but they were not there. Attachment to mother persisted until adolescence. Then something happened and my mother lost some value in my life. Her arrival was no longer a holiday. I was on my own. What he wanted, he did. It was like he lived in his own world. Achievement has dropped markedly. And my grandmother was no longer the one to keep me in line. If in primary school she checked homework, then in the middle classes no longer. For her, the main thing was that I was full and not noisy. And I didn't make any noise. I didn’t drink, I didn’t smoke and I didn’t hang around at night - there was no company. Of course, I managed to make 2 friends. They were no different from me, only if they grew up in a normal family and had access to the world (tinkered with motorcycles, mobile phones). Thus passed adolescence.
In a conversation with others, I never said that my father drank, that I lived without parents and that I had few friends. I always wanted to show that my family is the same as others.
Then the mother divorced the father because of his drunkenness. He asked on his knees not to leave him, that he would stop drinking. He still stopped drinking and his mother stayed with him, even though they were already divorced. Father became like a man, began to work. I didn’t think of moving to the city (they didn’t invite me), I firmly decided to finish 11 classes in the countryside. When I was 17, my father left my mother for a mistress. It didn't upset me at all.
Grandmother died and mother went to live with grandfather (her father). And I graduated from high school and went to the city to enter the institute.
Now I live alone. And for some reason right now I began to understand how hard it is. Recently, in a conversation with someone, as a child, I mentioned something about my parents, so to speak, I lied from the series “my parents and I ...”, and immediately thought about why I was talking about a carefree childhood, trying to look the same as everyone else ... After all, right now it's hard. Now I could apply what my parents could give me if I lived with them, otherwise I have to figure everything out myself. I never blamed my parents, and I treat them neither well nor badly - in any way. Only now there was and is not any connection and warmth with them, however, as with other people. They trust me, and I don't trust anyone. Recently I thought that all the problems come from childhood and that right now I want a big friendly family.

Many famous people in childhood, for one reason or another, were left without parents and were raised by foster families. Among them you can meet famous composers, writers, politicians, musicians, actors, directors, athletes, entrepreneurs...

Johann Sebastian Bach was the youngest, eighth child in the family. When Johann Sebastian was 9 years old, his mother died, and a year later his father died. The boy moved to live and study music with his older brother.

Jean Jacques Rousseau never saw his mother - she died in childbirth. At the age of 11, the boy actually lost his father: he went to another city and remarried, and Jean-Jacques was left in Geneva and sent to a boarding school.

Edgar Allan Poe born in 1809, his parents, actors of a traveling troupe, died when the boy was only two years old. The boy was adopted and adopted by a wealthy merchant from Virginia, John Allan.

Lev Tolstoy lost his mother, before even reaching two years old - she died of puerperal fever when the younger sister of the future writer was born. A distant relative, T. A. Ergolskaya, took up the upbringing of orphaned children. In 1837, the family moved to Moscow, as Tolstoy's older brother had to prepare for university entrance. Soon, his father, Nikolai Ilyich, suddenly died, and the three younger children again settled in Yasnaya Polyana under the supervision of Yergolskaya and his paternal aunt, Countess A. M. Osten-Saken, who was appointed guardian of the children.

Among those who remained orphans in childhood were several heads of state. For example, the President of Yugoslavia Josip Broz Tito, Presidents of the United States Andrew Jackson and Gerald Ford Emperor of the Central African Empire Bokassa, as well as Eleanor Roosevelt who was the first lady of the United States and authored the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.

Former South African President Nelson Mandela at the age of nine, he lost his father, who died of tuberculosis, and Jongintaba Dalindiebo, regent of the Tembu people, became his official guardian.

was adopted roman emperor august(his adoptive father was Gaius Julius Caesar), as well as Nero Claudius Drusus, the famous Roman commander.

Among the well-known cultural figures, there are also many people who were brought up in foster families.

Parents John Lennon divorced when the boy was very young. When Julia Lennon found another man, four-year-old John was taken in by his maternal aunt Mimi Smith and her husband George Smith, who had no children of their own. John subsequently became close to his mother, who had two children with her second husband.

One of the greatest musicians of the rock and roll era, James Brown, after the divorce of his parents, he was brought up by his aunt in Atlanta. The boy grew up in poverty, earned a living by petty theft, at the age of 16 he was sentenced to eight years in prison for participating in a robbery.

mother Eric Clapton was a 16-year-old girl, and the father was a 24-year-old soldier from Montreal, who had never even seen his son. Little Eric lived with his grandmother and her second husband. Clapton grew up and over the years thought his mother was his sister and his parents were his grandparents. Years later, his mother married another Canadian soldier and moved to Germany, leaving young Eric with his grandparents in Surrey.

Marilyn Monroe abandoned by her psychotic widow mother, and the future sex symbol spent most of her childhood with distant relatives and in orphanages.

When the future movie star Ingrid Bergman was 3 years old, her mother died, and 10 years later her father also died. Then an aunt took up the upbringing of a 13-year-old girl, but six months later she also passed into another world. Then Ingrid moved in with her uncle Otto Bergman, who had five children.

mother Jack Nicholson was a dancer and singer, June Francis Nicholson, who secretly gave birth to him at the age of 19. After the boy was born, he was taken care of by his grandparents, John Joseph Nicholson and Ethel May Nicholson. Jack grew up believing that his grandparents were his mother and father. Only in 1974, a Time magazine reporter, who found out the information hidden by everyone, revealed the truth to the actor: his older sister June is actually his mother. It was too late then: June died of cancer in 1963, and Ethel died seven years later in 1970.

Star of "Goodfellas" Ray Liotta was adopted at the age of 6 months. More than 40 years later, Ray hired a private investigator to track down his birth mother.

Future cult French director François Truffaut was the illegitimate child of Jeanine de Montferrand, he did not know his real father - Roland Levy (Jew), who was a dentist. Roland Truffaut, whom his mother married, recognized François as foster child and gave him his last name. From birth, Truffaut lived in the care of various nannies and his grandmother, who instilled in him her love of books and music. He lived with his grandmother until her death, when he was 10 years old, after which he was reunited with his mother and stepfather for the first time.

Mother died when Coco Chanel she was barely twelve, later her father left her with four siblings; Chanel's children were then in the care of relatives and spent some time in an orphanage.

Pierce Brosnan was born on May 16, 1953 in the Irish city of Drogheda. A year after the birth of his son, the father left the family, and the mother left the boy in the care of his grandmother. At the age of 11, he and his mother moved to London.

Father Eddie Murphy died when he was still a child. After his death, his mother fell ill, and the brothers had to live with a foster family for a year. Eddie and his brother later grew up together in Roosevelt, New York with their mother and stepfather Vernon Lynch, an ice cream foreman.

Mother Ella Fitzgerald died of a heart attack when she was 14 years old. Due to disagreements with her stepfather, Ella moved to live with her aunt Virginia Henry and began working as a caretaker in a brothel, where she came into contact with the life of a mafia and gamblers. After the police and child welfare services took care of the underage girl, she was placed in an orphanage in the Bronx, later transferred to a boarding school for girls in the Hudson, but Ella soon escaped from there and remained homeless for some time.

The childhood of the famous boxer Mike Tyson it was very hard. Luckily, celebrity coach Cus d'Amato spotted him. D'Amato settled Tyson at home and even formalized custody of him - Mike did not remember his real father, and his mother was a drug addict and soon died. Almost no one survived from Mike's children's company - his friends went to prison or died, including before his eyes.

Steve Jobs, CEO of Apple and Pixar, was born to an unmarried student couple. The relatives of the Syrian and Catholic lovers so strongly objected to their relationship that the child was given up for adoption. Paul and Clara Jobs, who adopted the child, could not have their own children. Steve's biological mother wanted his adoptive parents to have higher education, and after learning that Clara did not graduate from college, and Paul only studied at high school, signed the adoption papers only after they made a written commitment to pay for Stephen's college education. Two years later, the Jobs "got" Steve a sister - they adopted a girl named Patty. Jobs always considered Paul and Clara to be father and mother, he was very annoyed if someone called them foster parents: "They are 100% my real parents." According to the rules of legal adoption, the biological parents did not know anything about the whereabouts of their son, and Steve met with his birth mother and younger sister only after 31 years.