Celebrities cry too: Hollywood stars who have experienced tragic losses

Celebrities also cry: Hollywood stars who have experienced tragic losses

Money and fame cannot be a reliable shield for celebrities from life's difficulties. Wday reports on stars who are world-famous, but whose lives are full of difficulties.

**Keanu Reeves**

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The actor began dating Jennifer Syme in 1998. A year later, his girlfriend was expecting a child, but their daughter Ava Archer Syme-Reeves was stillborn. Reeves and Jennifer, unable to bear such a tragedy together, decided to divorce. In 2001, Syme, who was under the influence of drugs, died in a car accident. Five years later, the actor says: “I missed them because they were a part of my life and I was a part of theirs. I wonder what our lives would be like if they were alive, what we would be doing? I missed things that would never happen.” The losses in Reeves’s life affected his career. The actor’s offers of roles became fewer. But the years of peace gave way to successful projects. The actor managed to overcome past sorrows and resume his career.

**Charlize Theron**

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Looking at this beautiful and successful woman, it’s hard to believe that she too had a hard time. Charlize grew up in South Africa. Her father, an alcoholic and abusive man, once came home drunk with his brother and threatened to kill Charlize and her mother, Gerda. The girl witnessed her mother shooting her father and wounding her brother. The court found the incident to be self-defense and acquitted her mother of murder. The actress said in an interview with ABC News: “I saw what happened. If my daughter were in the same situation now, I would do the same thing as my mother. I think it took me a long time to get over this situation, because you never imagine that this could happen to you. Usually people think that it could happen to someone else, but not to themselves.”

**Jim Carrey**

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It is not known what happened in Jim's life in the early 2000s, which is why his career began to go in the wrong direction, as it did in the 90s. Perhaps the internal conflict is related to Jim's desire to become a serious dramatic actor. In one of the interviews, the actor said that his dream is to win an Oscar, but how can he get the coveted statuette if he only causes laughter when he appears on the screen? However, Jim did not receive an award for dramas. The biggest blow in the actor's life came in 2015, when his ex-girlfriend Cathriona White took a large dose of strong-acting drugs and committed suicide. As it turned out, the girl decided to kill herself under the influence of a letter from her mother, in which she reproached her daughter for not being able to build a relationship with the Hollywood star Jim. According to Jim, he is still deeply depressed because of what happened. “I always considered her a strong woman and was sure that she would survive our separation, but I have no doubt that I dealt her a hard blow,” says the actor.

**Rose McGowan**

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The actress spent her childhood in Italy in a sect called “Children of God”. Rose was 10 years old when her parents left Italy and moved to the United States. However, this did not make her life easier, four years later Rose was in a drug treatment clinic. As the actress later said, she was not a drug addict, but her mother believed one of her lovers who claimed that her daughter was a drug addict. Rose ran away from the clinic to her grandmother, and then from there she ran away with a young man who died soon after. At the same time, the actress’s bad luck did not leave her - in 2007 she got into a car accident, a broken glass from a pair of glasses damaged her eye and part of her face. Even after several cosmetic surgeries, her face did not return to its former form.

**Shanaya Twain**

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The singer, whose fortune is estimated at $ 400 million, grew up in a small Canadian town called Timmons in a family so poor that they never had money for food. At the age of 21, her parents died in a car accident, and the burden of caring for her sister and two brothers fell entirely on her shoulders. She managed to cope and 10 years later, in 1997, she recorded the album Come On Over, which became one of the best-selling albums in the history of American music. The time that marked her life was in 2008 when another unexpected event happened: her marriage to producer Matt Lang broke up after 14 years of marriage. As it turned out, Matt cheated on his wife with her friend Mary Ann Thibaud. If luck does not help, misfortune helps - Shania herself married Mary Ann's ex-husband Frederick.

**Michael Douglas**

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This actor has always had enough difficulties. It is enough to recall that at the age of 36 he had a skiing accident that forced him to suspend his career for three years. However, Michael recovered and at the age of 40 he starred in his main films, including "Wall Street" and "Basic Instinct". A few years ago, Douglas faced another serious problem - he was diagnosed with laryngeal cancer. However, in 2011, the actor announced that he had managed to overcome the disease. But the main source of his misfortunes and disappointments are close people. Michael's son Cameron from his first marriage was imprisoned for drug trafficking.

“Of course, I was disappointed in my son. But I was more upset with the system, if a person stumbles, they are punished excessively. This happened to my son, he spent two years in solitary confinement,” the actor says in an interview.

He also had various conflicts in his family life with actress Catherine Zeta-Jones. In August 2013, Michael announced that they were separating. The reason for this was his wife's prolonged depression. However, a few months later it became known that Michael and Catherine were living together again.

**Liam Neeson**

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Losing a loved one is always a strong blow, and it is very difficult to overcome its consequences. Liam was married to a beautiful actress who bore him two sons, but their happiness together lasted only 15 years. In 2009, Natasha Richardson fell while skiing and suffered a serious head injury. At first, Natasha told her husband that nothing terrible had happened. However, the resulting brain hematoma ultimately led to the actress's death.

**Woody Harrelson**

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How hard is it to grow up knowing that your father is a murderer? Woody Harrelson's parents divorced when the future actor was only three years old, and his father, Charles, is still serving a life sentence for two murders. Woody did not contact his father from 1968 to 1981, but eventually began to visit him in prison. He even filed an appeal for his father's early release, but failed.

**Jack Nicholson**

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This actor, who is not suspected of any difficulties (he seems to be happy with everything in the world), experienced a deep shock in his life. Jack was 37 years old at the time, when in 1974 he unexpectedly found out that his sister June was actually his mother. Dancer and actress June hid the fact that she was his mother from her son, because she believed that having children would reduce his chances of a successful career in Hollywood. Jack was raised by his grandparents, whom he considered his father and mother. By that time, it was too late to condemn the real mother, because June died of cancer in 1963, but did not become a famous actress.