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ADAM SILVERA![]()
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ORLANDO BLOOM I was raised by my great-great aunt. I was adopted within our family. My mother had me when she was,...
ERIC DICKERSON I met Gemma, my wife, when she was 12. She had a schoolgirl crush on me and her dad had arranged for...
GARY NUMAN I was 12 years old when I said goodbye to my family and relatives. I never saw my parents again. I l...
ANNE FOX![]()
I had a very distant relationship with my father. It was always just me and my mother. It was a shat...
JOAN LINGARD My mother had a heart attack when she was about 50. My uncle died of a heart attack at 58. Both of m...
JOY BEHAR![]()
My mother passed when I was in the third grade, my father when I was in the seventh, and that's ...
ICE T![]()
While I have felt lonely many times in my life, the oddest feeling of all was after my mother, Lucil...
BILL MURRAY![]()
I first heard it on a demo right before my aunt died. And then she died, and it was the hardest thin...
BRAD PAISLEY My mother Molly had a nervous breakdown after my father Chic died, aged 50. He was a very generous m...
BRIAN COX My dad died when he was 60. I was only 17 and I think, psychologically, that had a huge impact on me...
PAM FERRIS My family was pretty solidly middle-class. We had a furniture store out near Connie Mack Stadium, an...
ROBERT PICARDO![]()
My father died when I was young, and my mother, Ruth, went to work in an office selling theater and ...
ALAN FURST I tried to get my mother to move in with me, but she wanted to stay in her own home. When my mother ...
CAROL REBELLO I tried to get my mother to move in with me, but she wanted to stay in her own home. When my mother ...
CAROL S. REBELLO My mother came from an Irish family of 11 kids and, of course, had a sister who was a nun, so I spen...
ELLEN POMPEO![]()
I came to Harlem from West Virginia when I was three, after my mother died. My father, who was very ...
WALTER DEAN MYERS I had a very bad year in my life. My mother died in February. I was 16 in April and graduated from h...
JAMES ROUSE![]()
When my mother died, my father was in a crisis, my sister was in a crisis, everyone was in a crisis....
STUART ROSE![]()
I don't believe in regretting - one should try to move on. My mum was good at that. She was deep...
ROBERT WINSTON After my father died, I stayed relatively sane for two years, although I did lose my noodle at summe...
LISA MARIE PRESLEY My father died in 1989 before I knew what I was going to do with my life. I had just graduated from ...
PAUL GIAMATTI I said, I dont think so. I had an aunt and uncle here but they died 10 years ago, ... She aske...
KAREN TEMPLETON I lost my mother, who suffered from Alzheimer's disease, and we had to relocate my dad after 58 ...
DOUG DAVIDSON Radio was my life growing up. Then, I started in our family band with my uncle, my father, my aunt a...
MEGHAN TRAINOR My family never took me to church except a couple of times. But when I was 12, I hung out with this ...
BRIAN WELCH The game was over because my dad had died and I didn't have to fight him anymore, ... I could go bac...
MARK STEVENS![]()
I was a vegetarian first. I had high blood pressure at 27, everybody in my family died of cancer, an...
JOHN SALLEY I would have been willing to do anything for my father. I would have moved in with my father to look...
BRUCE PALTROW![]()
When I was 13, I would come visit my aunt and uncle in New York. I decided I wanted to live with the...
PRIYANKA CHOPRA I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ...
KELLY JONES I learned hard lessons in life; I had to because I had so much happen: My mother died my sophomore y...
BERNIE MAC After Chris' funeral I decided to grow my hair. Then a month later my uncle died of cancer. That was...
CHADD LITTLE My sister lives with my family because she has separated from her husband and my older brother had d...
MAHEN SHARMA![]()
My childhood was kind of complicated. I have an older sister, but my father, my mother's husband...
ORLANDO BLOOM![]()
We have a host of English teachers in the family. My mum is an English teacher, and so are my dad, m...
ALEXANDRA ADORNETTO![]()
One thing left me, my dad died before few weeks and with the time will be very far... It will start ...
DEYTH BANGER After my father died when I was seven and my mother entered into an abusive relationship, I shuffled...
RONNIE MUSGROVE My childhood ambition was to be an Olympic swimmer like my aunt, but that died a quick death when I ...
TEDDY SEARS My grandmother died in childbirth, and my great-aunt lived with us. She had bound feet. She never kn...
WENDI DENG MURDOCH My father, Cecil Banks Mullis, and mother, formerly Bernice Alberta Barker, grew up in rural North C...
KARY MULLIS My mother got to read the book in print ... before she died and she was pleased with it.
KARLA REINHARD![]()
I guess the most seminal moment going early way back was my father died when I was 3 years old. I wa...
RAM SHRIRAM My father died when I was 7. I was his favorite child, and he was my beloved father. I brought him a...
P. L. TRAVERS![]()
My mother died when I was young, and I was filming all the time. I was all over the place. Acting wa...
MARA WILSON After my parents died, people were always asking me, 'Where are the dancers? I had no idea they danc...
JOAN BLEDSOE My mother desperately wanted children. She had a child that was stillborn - something I learned when...
STANLEY HAUERWAS What I saw when I was a child was my father who was a pilot, and because of circumstances was thrown...
RAHUL GANDHI His dad died when my dad was in his second year on a football scholarship at the University of Wisco...
GLORIA LEE Three days after my brother died, my father was in the hospital. He just did not want to live anymor...
MARC FORSTER![]()
My last vivid boyhood fright from books came when I was 15; I was visiting my uncle and aunt in Gree...
JOHN UPDIKE My parents separated when I was 2, and my dad always lived in Chicago and my mother in L.A. I'd ...
F. GARY GRAY I was 9 when I shot my first turkey on our farm in Missouri. It was my dad, brother, grandfather and...
PAUL MILLER![]()
My father invented a cure for which there was no disease and unfortunately my mother caught it and d...
VICTOR BORGE My mother was a dramatic and egocentric person, and she died before my father, who died of Alzheimer...
SUE MILLER Actually I was born in 1940 in Blackpool because my family lived in Manchester but Manchester was be...
JOHN MAHONEY The two saddest moments of my life were when my mother died and when I was told I couldn't play ...
ART DONOVAN After my mother died, I found, a little book of hers which recorded everything I had ever done, how ...
CONRAD VEIDT This Place saw My best days, My Happiest, My Wife having blessed me with Your Brother Woodhouse... I...
JOHN AUDUBON![]()
Since my brother died in 1982, my parents and I had formed a shaky tripod of a family; now that I...
ANN HOOD I always wanted to be a surgeon, because I had a lot of admiration for my father, who is also a surg...
MAGDI YACOUB When I was 19 years old, both of my parents died in the same year; my mom of cancer and my dad in a ...
ANDY ANDREWS My mother died young. A lot of people wanted us to be adopted out, but before she died, my mother as...
EMMA BIEL When my dad died at 15 [of a heart attack], ... one of the sacred places I could go was with a ball,...
JIM CALHOUN![]()
When I was 14, my mother died. My father, who had always had ulcers, came apart. He had a series of ...
BONNIE BEDELIA![]()
When my dad died, it was like everything felt really shaky, you know? And trying to be the best I co...
SARAH DESSEN That was getting close to happening when Julie Harris had a stroke, and then my mother got ill and e...
LUKE YANKEE![]()
Mom was so funny and loving to us kids. She was our first audience. When my dad died, I was suddenly...
BILLY CRYSTAL![]()
My dad died right after performing at the Friars' roast for Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz. I have ...
ALBERT BROOKS Every night I was in the hospital, my family read it to me. My Aunt June started crying when she hea...
JUSTIN WERNKE I played the piano as a boy for six years, from the time I was six to 12 years old. My piano lessons...
JOHN GOKONGWEI I gave him this story about my aunt and uncle (Anna and Vinnie) who had a little cafe in the Federal...
ARTIE PASQUALE![]()
The only real experiences I've had with therapists were the ones who were working with me and my...
KEVIN SPACEY![]()
My parents were practicing Jews. My mother grew up in an orthodox synagogue, and after my grandfathe...
JUDITH BUTLER![]()
My experience in Iraq made me realize, and during the recovery, that I could have died. And I just h...
TAMMY DUCKWORTH I'll never forget that first race. I was nervous and really shaking. Racing is something I always wa...
JUSTIN ROSENBOHM![]()
Growing up in Ireland, when my family received important news, good or bad, we would boil water and ...
ROMA DOWNEY When I was 15, I begged my grandfather to give me this guitar he'd always had in the back of his...
VALERIE JUNE![]()
When I was young, I watched my mom and dad build everything that matters: a family, a business and a...
MIKE PENCE![]()
And if my aunt had balls she'd be my uncle.
TIFFANIE DEBARTOLO My mother died of cystic fibrosis before I knew her. I was two years old, and I don't remember h...
JOHN LLOYD YOUNG![]()
I lost my dad two years ago to cancer, and before he died, I asked him to write 'Daddy's Lit...
PRIYANKA CHOPRA My whole life changed after I drowned and died in the flood.
KERRY ALAN DENNEY![]()
I grew up in a big Irish, Catholic family. My dad was a pretty rough guy. So one of my brothers left...
GERRY COONEY I lived with my mother all my life until she died, and I don't really think I knew her, because ...
HARRIET WALTER I have an uncle who lived to 101, and my father died at 95, so I have a second career ahead of me.
ALAN GERRY It was really surreal. I had some family members there. I felt like I got the monkey off my back and...
ALAINA HARTMAN I think I was always Shannon before the cancer and after. But I think it makes me live life a lot di...
SHANNON DAVIS So many people got us through the loss, ... Certainly beginning with family on all sides, tremendous...
MARY BONO I was born in West Plains, and we lived here till I was one. Then my dad needed to get a job, so we ...
DANIEL WOODRELL [At age 14, he became a ward of the local Childrens Aid group.] My aunt died when I was away at a ca...
CHUCK ALLEN![]()
When my father died, I had a real experience with Christ, a real conversion with Christ and I had it...
T. D. JAKES I was just being obedient to what my parents saw in me. I was more interested in the things the wome...
GLADYS KNIGHT![]()
My dad was in the army. World War II. He got his college education from the army. After World War II...
AL PACINO I went to St. Mary's School and to St. James High School. We left just before my senior year and mov...
ANNIE HERRING I went to St. Mary's School and to St. James High School. We left just before my senior year and mov...
ANNIE WARD HERRING![]()
You see, my mother was a district nurse until she died when I was 14, and we used to move from time ...
PAUL MCCARTNEY I was No. 6 in the pecking order and was constantly being scolded, so I got fed up and resigned. My ...
VINCENT LO![]()
I was always going to church with my mom, dad and sister. I was literally raised under the godly inf...
BOBBY BOWDEN
ADAM SILVERA
My mother's husband died when I was 4, and I thought he was my dad until I was 15 and found out that... ORLANDO BLOOM I was raised by my great-great aunt. I was adopted within our family. My mother had me when she was,...
ERIC DICKERSON I met Gemma, my wife, when she was 12. She had a schoolgirl crush on me and her dad had arranged for...
GARY NUMAN I was 12 years old when I said goodbye to my family and relatives. I never saw my parents again. I l...
ANNE FOX
I had a very distant relationship with my father. It was always just me and my mother. It was a shat... JOAN LINGARD My mother had a heart attack when she was about 50. My uncle died of a heart attack at 58. Both of m...
JOY BEHAR
My mother passed when I was in the third grade, my father when I was in the seventh, and that's ... ICE T
While I have felt lonely many times in my life, the oddest feeling of all was after my mother, Lucil... BILL MURRAY
I first heard it on a demo right before my aunt died. And then she died, and it was the hardest thin... BRAD PAISLEY My mother Molly had a nervous breakdown after my father Chic died, aged 50. He was a very generous m...
BRIAN COX My dad died when he was 60. I was only 17 and I think, psychologically, that had a huge impact on me...
PAM FERRIS My family was pretty solidly middle-class. We had a furniture store out near Connie Mack Stadium, an...
ROBERT PICARDO
My father died when I was young, and my mother, Ruth, went to work in an office selling theater and ... ALAN FURST I tried to get my mother to move in with me, but she wanted to stay in her own home. When my mother ...
CAROL REBELLO I tried to get my mother to move in with me, but she wanted to stay in her own home. When my mother ...
CAROL S. REBELLO My mother came from an Irish family of 11 kids and, of course, had a sister who was a nun, so I spen...
ELLEN POMPEO
I came to Harlem from West Virginia when I was three, after my mother died. My father, who was very ... WALTER DEAN MYERS I had a very bad year in my life. My mother died in February. I was 16 in April and graduated from h...
JAMES ROUSE
When my mother died, my father was in a crisis, my sister was in a crisis, everyone was in a crisis.... STUART ROSE
I don't believe in regretting - one should try to move on. My mum was good at that. She was deep... ROBERT WINSTON After my father died, I stayed relatively sane for two years, although I did lose my noodle at summe...
LISA MARIE PRESLEY My father died in 1989 before I knew what I was going to do with my life. I had just graduated from ...
PAUL GIAMATTI I said, I dont think so. I had an aunt and uncle here but they died 10 years ago, ... She aske...
KAREN TEMPLETON I lost my mother, who suffered from Alzheimer's disease, and we had to relocate my dad after 58 ...
DOUG DAVIDSON Radio was my life growing up. Then, I started in our family band with my uncle, my father, my aunt a...
MEGHAN TRAINOR My family never took me to church except a couple of times. But when I was 12, I hung out with this ...
BRIAN WELCH The game was over because my dad had died and I didn't have to fight him anymore, ... I could go bac...
MARK STEVENS
I was a vegetarian first. I had high blood pressure at 27, everybody in my family died of cancer, an... JOHN SALLEY I would have been willing to do anything for my father. I would have moved in with my father to look...
BRUCE PALTROW
When I was 13, I would come visit my aunt and uncle in New York. I decided I wanted to live with the... PRIYANKA CHOPRA I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ...
KELLY JONES I learned hard lessons in life; I had to because I had so much happen: My mother died my sophomore y...
BERNIE MAC After Chris' funeral I decided to grow my hair. Then a month later my uncle died of cancer. That was...
CHADD LITTLE My sister lives with my family because she has separated from her husband and my older brother had d...
MAHEN SHARMA
My childhood was kind of complicated. I have an older sister, but my father, my mother's husband... ORLANDO BLOOM
We have a host of English teachers in the family. My mum is an English teacher, and so are my dad, m... ALEXANDRA ADORNETTO
One thing left me, my dad died before few weeks and with the time will be very far... It will start ... DEYTH BANGER After my father died when I was seven and my mother entered into an abusive relationship, I shuffled...
RONNIE MUSGROVE My childhood ambition was to be an Olympic swimmer like my aunt, but that died a quick death when I ...
TEDDY SEARS My grandmother died in childbirth, and my great-aunt lived with us. She had bound feet. She never kn...
WENDI DENG MURDOCH My father, Cecil Banks Mullis, and mother, formerly Bernice Alberta Barker, grew up in rural North C...
KARY MULLIS My mother got to read the book in print ... before she died and she was pleased with it.
KARLA REINHARD
I guess the most seminal moment going early way back was my father died when I was 3 years old. I wa... RAM SHRIRAM My father died when I was 7. I was his favorite child, and he was my beloved father. I brought him a...
P. L. TRAVERS
My mother died when I was young, and I was filming all the time. I was all over the place. Acting wa... MARA WILSON After my parents died, people were always asking me, 'Where are the dancers? I had no idea they danc...
JOAN BLEDSOE My mother desperately wanted children. She had a child that was stillborn - something I learned when...
STANLEY HAUERWAS What I saw when I was a child was my father who was a pilot, and because of circumstances was thrown...
RAHUL GANDHI His dad died when my dad was in his second year on a football scholarship at the University of Wisco...
GLORIA LEE Three days after my brother died, my father was in the hospital. He just did not want to live anymor...
MARC FORSTER
My last vivid boyhood fright from books came when I was 15; I was visiting my uncle and aunt in Gree... JOHN UPDIKE My parents separated when I was 2, and my dad always lived in Chicago and my mother in L.A. I'd ...
F. GARY GRAY I was 9 when I shot my first turkey on our farm in Missouri. It was my dad, brother, grandfather and...
PAUL MILLER
My father invented a cure for which there was no disease and unfortunately my mother caught it and d... VICTOR BORGE My mother was a dramatic and egocentric person, and she died before my father, who died of Alzheimer...
SUE MILLER Actually I was born in 1940 in Blackpool because my family lived in Manchester but Manchester was be...
JOHN MAHONEY The two saddest moments of my life were when my mother died and when I was told I couldn't play ...
ART DONOVAN After my mother died, I found, a little book of hers which recorded everything I had ever done, how ...
CONRAD VEIDT This Place saw My best days, My Happiest, My Wife having blessed me with Your Brother Woodhouse... I...
JOHN AUDUBON
Since my brother died in 1982, my parents and I had formed a shaky tripod of a family; now that I... ANN HOOD I always wanted to be a surgeon, because I had a lot of admiration for my father, who is also a surg...
MAGDI YACOUB When I was 19 years old, both of my parents died in the same year; my mom of cancer and my dad in a ...
ANDY ANDREWS My mother died young. A lot of people wanted us to be adopted out, but before she died, my mother as...
EMMA BIEL When my dad died at 15 [of a heart attack], ... one of the sacred places I could go was with a ball,...
JIM CALHOUN
When I was 14, my mother died. My father, who had always had ulcers, came apart. He had a series of ... BONNIE BEDELIA
When my dad died, it was like everything felt really shaky, you know? And trying to be the best I co... SARAH DESSEN That was getting close to happening when Julie Harris had a stroke, and then my mother got ill and e...
LUKE YANKEE
Mom was so funny and loving to us kids. She was our first audience. When my dad died, I was suddenly... BILLY CRYSTAL
My dad died right after performing at the Friars' roast for Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz. I have ... ALBERT BROOKS Every night I was in the hospital, my family read it to me. My Aunt June started crying when she hea...
JUSTIN WERNKE I played the piano as a boy for six years, from the time I was six to 12 years old. My piano lessons...
JOHN GOKONGWEI I gave him this story about my aunt and uncle (Anna and Vinnie) who had a little cafe in the Federal...
ARTIE PASQUALE
The only real experiences I've had with therapists were the ones who were working with me and my... KEVIN SPACEY
My parents were practicing Jews. My mother grew up in an orthodox synagogue, and after my grandfathe... JUDITH BUTLER
My experience in Iraq made me realize, and during the recovery, that I could have died. And I just h... TAMMY DUCKWORTH I'll never forget that first race. I was nervous and really shaking. Racing is something I always wa...
JUSTIN ROSENBOHM
Growing up in Ireland, when my family received important news, good or bad, we would boil water and ... ROMA DOWNEY When I was 15, I begged my grandfather to give me this guitar he'd always had in the back of his...
VALERIE JUNE
When I was young, I watched my mom and dad build everything that matters: a family, a business and a... MIKE PENCE
And if my aunt had balls she'd be my uncle. TIFFANIE DEBARTOLO My mother died of cystic fibrosis before I knew her. I was two years old, and I don't remember h...
JOHN LLOYD YOUNG
I lost my dad two years ago to cancer, and before he died, I asked him to write 'Daddy's Lit... PRIYANKA CHOPRA My whole life changed after I drowned and died in the flood.
KERRY ALAN DENNEY
I grew up in a big Irish, Catholic family. My dad was a pretty rough guy. So one of my brothers left... GERRY COONEY I lived with my mother all my life until she died, and I don't really think I knew her, because ...
HARRIET WALTER I have an uncle who lived to 101, and my father died at 95, so I have a second career ahead of me.
ALAN GERRY It was really surreal. I had some family members there. I felt like I got the monkey off my back and...
ALAINA HARTMAN I think I was always Shannon before the cancer and after. But I think it makes me live life a lot di...
SHANNON DAVIS So many people got us through the loss, ... Certainly beginning with family on all sides, tremendous...
MARY BONO I was born in West Plains, and we lived here till I was one. Then my dad needed to get a job, so we ...
DANIEL WOODRELL [At age 14, he became a ward of the local Childrens Aid group.] My aunt died when I was away at a ca...
CHUCK ALLEN
When my father died, I had a real experience with Christ, a real conversion with Christ and I had it... T. D. JAKES I was just being obedient to what my parents saw in me. I was more interested in the things the wome...
GLADYS KNIGHT
My dad was in the army. World War II. He got his college education from the army. After World War II... AL PACINO I went to St. Mary's School and to St. James High School. We left just before my senior year and mov...
ANNIE HERRING I went to St. Mary's School and to St. James High School. We left just before my senior year and mov...
ANNIE WARD HERRING
You see, my mother was a district nurse until she died when I was 14, and we used to move from time ... PAUL MCCARTNEY I was No. 6 in the pecking order and was constantly being scolded, so I got fed up and resigned. My ...
VINCENT LO
I was always going to church with my mom, dad and sister. I was literally raised under the godly inf... BOBBY BOWDEN
Remember the great film with Bette Davis, All About Eve? There's a scene after the scheming Eve stea... 
We don't know who we are until we see what we can do. 