The story of Jewel, now a multi-platinum singer, begins when her boss at the time wanted to sleep with her: “I ended up homeless because my boss propositioned me and when I wouldn’t sleep with him he didn’t give me my paycheck,” she said. She couldn’t afford rent and she had to live in her car for a month. But that’s not it… “I thought ‘Well, I’ll live in my car for a minute… get back on my feet,’ but I had bad kidneys and I never could hold down another job because I got sick so often.” “I didn’t have insurance and ended up almost dying in the parking lot of an emergency room because they wouldn’t admit me because I didn’t have insurance.”
Steve Harvey, the comedian that we all enjoy watching was once homeless. Steve needed some time to fully dedicate to his dream of becoming a comedian. He started working on his career when he was 30 years old, but he also split up with his wife at the same time. He had to give 75% of his paycheck to her for child support, and that’s how he end up living in his 1976 Ford Tempo for three full years. The day when he performed on Showtime at the Apollo changed his life! He’s been on TV ever since is now considered to have a net worth of $100 million.
One of the best comedians of this generation developed a sense of humor during a period of tough financial times in his life. Jim Carrey is always in the mood, and he’s always positive. But at one point in his life he was living in a VW bus with his family, and later moved into a tent on his older sister's lawn.