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14 Celebs Whose Families Either Cut Them Off Or Risked Everything To Support Them

Gwyneth Paltrow said, "I would scrounge quarters to buy Starbucks — and walk there to save gas. I remember once asking my dad for money, like, 'Please, I'm really stuck. Can you help?' And he said, 'You're more than welcome to come over for dinner.' That was it."

So I got an apartment with a roommate; I worked as a hostess at a restaurant; I would scrounge quarters to buy Starbucks — and walk there to save gas. It took five years before his music career took off, and artists like Janis Joplin and Johnny Cash were collaborating with him. I mean, when you've been thrown out of Nero's Cactus Canyon steakhouse — and I had been — how are you ever gonna get on the Grand Ole Opry?

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