Bad parents of the stars

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I read Penman's https://fitzcarraldoeditions.com/books/it-gets-me-home-this-curving-track/ long ago and all I remember of it now is that almost everybody he profiled in it had an awful abusive childhood.

It made me curse my doting parents for sparing me the rod that could have turned me into a superstar in life, instead of on dissensus.

Cruise grew up in near poverty and had a Catholic upbringing. He later described his father as "a merchant of chaos",[19] a "bully", and a "coward" who beat his children. He elaborated, "[My father] was the kind of person where, if something goes wrong, they kick you. It was a great lesson in my life—how he'd lull you in, make you feel safe and then, bang! For me, it was like, 'There's something wrong with this guy. Don't trust him. Be careful around him.'

According to Schwarzenegger, his parents were very strict: "Back then in Austria it was a very different world ... if we did something bad or we disobeyed our parents, the rod was not spared."[21] He grew up in a Catholic family.[22] Gustav preferred his elder son, Meinhard, over Arnold.[23] His favoritism was "strong and blatant", which stemmed from unfounded suspicion that Arnold was not his biological child.[24] Schwarzenegger says that his earliest childhood memory is of climbing into his parents' bed during a bad thunder-and-lightning storm and cuddling between his mother and father.[25] He has said, however, that his father had "no patience for listening or understanding your problems".[22] He had a good relationship with his mother, with whom he kept in touch until her death.[26]

Johann realized Ludwig's talent and became his first teacher. Johann was also aware of Leopold Mozart's success traveling with a talented and young Wolfgang, and wished to duplicate their fame and fortune. He was, however, an abusive father according to a number of witnesses. "There were few days when [Ludwig] was not beaten in order to compel him to set himself at the piano", related one childhood friend of Ludwig.[9] A court councilor reported that Johann occasionally locked Ludwig in a cellar.[9] Whenever Ludwig played poorly, Johann would exclaim that it was an embarrassment to the family. Johann would drag young Ludwig out of bed to play piano all night with no sleep. Johann was an alcoholic, a situation that worsened when Maria died in 1787, after which time the family was increasingly dependent on young Ludwig for support. In 1789 the 18-year-old Ludwig obtained an order resulting in one half of Johann's pay being turned over to him for support of the family.

Johann died in 1792, not long after Ludwig moved to Vienna to study with Joseph Haydn. His employer the Elector wrote sardonically to a friend, "The revenues from the liquor excise [tax] have suffered a loss in the death of Beethoven."[10

 

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When [Cary] Grant was nine, his father placed his mother in Glenside Hospital, a mental institution, and told him she had gone away on a "long holiday",[29] later declaring that she had died.[18] Grant grew up resenting his mother, particularly after being told she left the family. After she was institutionalised, Grant and his father moved into Grant's grandmother's home in Bristol.[30] When Grant was ten, his father remarried and started a new family.[20] Grant did not learn that his mother was still alive until he was 31,[31] his father confessing to the lie shortly before his own death.[20]

 

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The WOAT

 

[woops]

It's not all discipline, you also need talent.

and marijuana.