Everyone has a story or so Jon Favreau said in Swingers. Celebrities are no different, but some have pasts you may find hard to believe.
In my last pop culture blog, I wrote about celebrities who tried to pass themselves off as Native Americans when they weren’t.
Today, I am going to talk about celebrities that don’t try to hide from their past, but you just might find it interesting.
First of all, there are the preacher’s kids. You might have heard that Katy Perry’s father is a preacher after there was a lot of press about both her parent’s being unhappy about her marriage and subsequent divorce.
Singer Toni Braxton’s father was a Methodist preacher, but he was living a double life. He raised his daughters in a strict household, but he was cating around. When Toni’s mother found out, she divorced him after 33 years of marriage.
Making out better as the children of a preacher were the Jonas Brothers. Their father Paul is a former Assembly of God minister. Denzel Washington’s dad was a Pentecostal preacher. Denzel still donates to the Church of God congregation in Los Angeles.
Comedian Daniel Tosh, also known as Daniel Tosh.0, is also the son of a preacher man. Hum, someone should write a song about that.
And finally, this one might come as a real surprise (I am sure it surprised his dear old dad that first time he saw him in makeup), but Alice Cooper’s dad was a preacher for the Church of Jesus Christ.
It seems like most of the preacher kids turned out okay after all, but some other celebrities had to overcome a heritage that could have been devastating. Both crooner Bobby Darin and Jack Nicholson grew up to find that the women they thought were their sisters were really their mothers and the women they thought of as their mothers were really their grandmothers.
Back in the ‘30s, being pregnant and unmarried was very frowned upon. I suppose that’s what happened to Darin’s sister and she just decided to let her mother raise the baby. Darin learned his sister was actually his mother when he was 32-years-old.
Nicholson’s story is much the same. His sister/mother had married before his birth, but her “husband” was already married. No one’s really sure if that guy was Nicholson’s father or not, but mother/grandmother thought it was best she raise the baby while sister/mother pursued her career in dancing. Nicholson discovered the switcheroo when he was 37-years-old, after both is mother and grandmother had died.