16 Celebs Who Fell Into Poverty And Homelessness

By Qunki Team | celebrity and gossip

10 Randy Quaid

Randy quid has appeared in over 90 films. Quaid received both Golden Globe Awards and Emmy Award nomination for his 2005 portrayal of talent manager. Quaid and his wife allegedly left a Santa Barbara, California hotel with a balance due of approximately $10,000. It seems that they are homeless as they were caught squatting in guest house of a property that they used to own.

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Baby Predicts Death of Parents.. See what happens next

A baby was born and minutes after he began to speak:

I am going to live only 4 days, my Mother will die in 6 days and my Father will die in 15 days.

4 days later the boy died .. . after 6 days the Mother died.

The Father was now going crazy, because the next one would be him.

He sold everything and spent all the money.

15 days later...

the neighbour died.

(Never rush into solving problems)

11 Rocky Lockridge

Rocky Lockridge is an American former professional boxer. He is best known for handling Roger Mayweather his first defeat- a first-round knockout in just 98 seconds- earning him the WBA super featherweight title. He later won the IBF super featherweight title. For the past two decades, Lockridge has suffered drug problems; he became homeless and suffered the stroke that forced him to walk with a cane. He claims that the invention and the help of his sons saved his life. Recently he had a comeback fight against an unknown opponent in an open air venue.

12 Sly Stone

Sly Stone is an American musician, songwriter and record producer, most famous for his role as frontman for Sly and the Family Stone, a band which played a critical role in the development of soul, funk, rock and psychedelic in the 1960s and 70s. He used to own multiple houses throughout the United States but now Sly is living out of a van on the streets of Los Angeles. He made excess spending coupled with a history of drug abuse has forced him out of his homes onto the streets.

Now being homeless he still has courage to come back. Sly has gone record as saying that he doesnt mind his lifestyle as he is still able to continue to write his music. He doesnt think that he will ever want to have another stationary house again preferring to live out of his small camper.

13 Ray Williams

Ray Williams was an American professional Basketball player who played in the National basketball Association from 1977 to 1987. Williams was selected by the New York Knicks in the first round of the 1977 NBA draft. After his retirement, Williams struggled financially, eventually filing for bankruptcy in 1994 which led him to lose his home and family. He decided to apply early for NBA pension of $200,000. After receiving it he moved to Florida, where he fell into victim to a real estate scam which worsened his financial condition.

After he worked various jobs like groundskeeper, bakery worker and maintenance man, among others. During that time he also received grants from NBA Retired Players Association of $10,000, which couldnt help his situation. In July 2010, he was unemployed and homeless, living inside a car in Pompano Beach, Florida.

14 Ted Hawkins

Ted Hawkins was an American singer-songwriter. Hawkins was an enigmatic figure through most of his career; he split his time between his adopted hometown of Venice Beach, California where he was mostly anonymous street performer, unlike Europe and Australia where he and his songs were better known as well received in clubs and small concert halls. Ted Hawkins is not in the list of people among homelessness instead he had a rise and fall throughout. He was born into a very poor family and at age of 12 he used to steal across the country and was jailed. Along the way, he picked up love for music. He struggled a lot and was able to make his first studio album by being discovered by a record producer at Third Street Promenade. Before he died in 1995, he was able to live out his dream of playing around the world.

15 Willie Aames

Willie Aames is an American actor, film and television director, television producer and screenwriter. He is best known for playing Tommy Bradford on the 1970s television series Eight is enough, Buddy Lembeckon the 1980s series Charles in Charge. For some year, Aames has been fighting his alcohol addiction. In 2008 he faced private bankruptcy and working construction jobs after investing in a failed TV show and ongoing drug abuse. He went homeless and sought shelter by sleeping under bushes and in parking garages. But he successfully managed to continue working successfully as director, screenwriter and cruise ship director.

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