15 Celebrities With Absolutely Wild Lore
In 1997, Guillermo Del Toro’s dad was kidnapped. James Cameron, Guillermo’s friend and fellow director, helped them by paying for a negotiator.
We all have that one friend with absolutely wild lore. Like, they’ll drop the most unbelievable stories about their life out of nowhere.
Here are 15 celebs with absolutely wild lore:
1. Sabrina Carpenter started posting song covers on YouTube at age 9. When she was 11, her cover of “You Raise Me Up” by Josh Groban went so viral in China that she was invited to the Hunan TV Festival, where she made her very first TV appearance.
2. In 1997, Guillermo Del Toro’s dad, Federico Del Toro Torres, was kidnapped. James Cameron, Guillermo’s friend and fellow director, helped them by paying for a negotiator.
3. Christopher Lee’s step-cousin, James Bond author Ian Fleming, reportedly said the actor’s days as a WWII spy inspired him to create the iconic super spy.
5. When Christopher Walken was 16, he worked as a lion tamer with a lioness named Sheba for the summer.
6. Troye Sivan is the only person besides Hugh Jackman to have played Wolverine onscreen.
7. After recording her demo, Kesha broke into Prince’s house by bribing a gardener with $5, sneaking under the fence, and walking inside through an unlocked door. After coming face-to-face with the singer himself, she left her CD then made her escape.
8. As a teenager, Colin Farrell was questioned as a suspect in an attempted murder. The actual perpetrator bore a striking resemblance to him.
9. Jack Black’s mom, Judith Love Cohen, was an accomplished ballerina-turned-engineer. In her obituary, Neil Siegel, Jack’s older half-brother, wrote, “She actually went to her office on the day that Jack was born. When it was time to go to the hospital, she took with her a computer printout of the problem she was working on. Later that day, she called her boss and told him that she had solved the problem. And…oh, yes, the baby was born, too.”
10. In the ’70s, Tippi Hedren visited Hope Village, a California-based refugee camp for Vietnamese people, and the women there loved her manicured nails. Since she was trying to help them find jobs, she flew in her personal manicurist and worked with a local beauty school to teach them the trade. Once they completed their training, Tippi helped them find employment.
11. As a 10-year-old aspiring actor, Rob Lowe boldly knocked on Liza Minnelli’s hotel room door and introduced himself.
12. The Monkees member Michael Nesmith was the son of Bette Nesmith Graham, a single mom and secretary who invented Liquid Paper correction fluid. After getting fired for accidentally signing her employer’s letter with her company’s name, she grew her company into a million-dollar business.
13. When Leslie Mann was 11, she was gifted a unicycle, which she learned to ride. So, rather than bike, she “would unicycle for miles.”
