15 Famous People With Surprisingly Dark Family Histories

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15 Famous People With Surprisingly Dark Family Histories

Strange things happen to people, especially in their heads. For instance, you're eating breakfast, reading the newspaper, when all of a sudden a piece of bacon falls on the page, and your mind turns to thoughts of bacon, or bacon-flavoured anything, for the rest of the day. You enjoy this list of interesting facts and oddities. You'd like to share them with other people, but they usually just look at you like you're crazy. It's like everyone else in the world is blind to the strange things that happen in their heads. You've decided to start a blog, called Confessions Of A Braindead Person, where you'll record the odd facts that come into your head. Maybe some other people will enjoy these same weird ideas as well. You enjoy this list of interesting facts and oddities. You'd like to share them with other people, but they usually just look at you like you're crazy. It's like everyone else in the world is blind to the strange things that happen in their heads. You've decided to start a blog, called Confessions Of A Braindead Person, where you'll record the odd facts that come into your head. Maybe some other people will enjoy these same weird ideas as well.

Nancy Kerrigan

Nancy Kerrigán CRACKED.COM In 2010, Kerrigan's brother, who had a history of substance abuse and violence, got into a fight with their father that ended with the elder Kerrigan's death from a heart attack and two and a half years in prison for his son. Say what you will about Tonya Harding's family, but none of their fights turned deadly.

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Leighton Meester

Leighton Meester CRACKED.COM Oh, yeah? says Leighton Meester, in our minds, because she was actually born in jail af- ter her parents were convicted of smuggling over 1,200 lbs. of weed from Jamaica. She said her family history made her very nonjudgmental and open-minded, a trait she had to suppress on Gossip Girl.

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Charlize Theron

Charlize Theron CRACKED.COM Theron straight-up witnessed her mom kill her dad. The alcoholic, abusive Mr. Theron had come home in a rage one night when she was 15, shooting through the door of the room where she and her mother had barricaded them- selves until her mother, in a choice of words, ended the threat.

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Joaquin Phoenix

Joaquin Phoenix CRACKED.COM Phoenix, on the other hand, was actually born into a cult after his parents joined the Children of God in 1970. Yes, the pro-incest, pro-pedophilia sex cult. To be fair, it's not like anyone advertises themselves as a sex cult, so as soon as the Phoenixes realized something was off about their new friends, they got out.

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Kelsey Grammer

Kelsey Grammer CRACKED.COM Kelsey Grammer may very well be cursed, and not just to star in increas- ingly convoluted comedies. His fa- ther was killed in a home invasion when Grammer was a child, his little sister was murdered seven years lat- er, and his two half-brothers died in a scuba diving accident five years after that, so you can hardly blame him for lashing out at that asshole dog.

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Woody Harrelson

Woody Harrelsón GRAGKED.COM Harrelson's father, Charles, was not only a hitman, he was so good at it that he pulled in $250,000 for assassinating a judge who was about to preside over the trial of a drug kingpin. It earned him two life sentences (just to make double sure he never ended up back on the streets), and until his death in 2007, his appeals were paid for in part with his son's movie money, which is a further blow to anyone who paid to watch EDtv.

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