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<h2>Everyone loves to learn what famous people were like before they had throngs of stressed assistants picking out blue M&amp;M&#39;s from their backstage snack bowls...</h2><p>While some famous people are able to keep in touch with reality and stay grounded in their roots, some people can make alarming transitions. It&#39;s hard to believe that the person screaming at a cocktail server for not remembering to give them five whiskey-spiked cherries for a scotch is the same kid who sat in a fifth grade classroom and struggled with algebra, but fame is complicated.</p><p>Most stories of celebrities before they became famous are just that they were otherwise pretty normal, quiet kids who had a hyper-focused talent or obsession. Sometimes though, your hairdresser&#39;s sister&#39;s uncle has a friend who was Paris Hilton&#39;s dog walker and the happy hour conversation gets a lot spicier. So, when a <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/4mstpl/past_teachers_of_present_celebritiesfamous_people/">Reddit</a> user asked, &quot;Past teachers of present celebrities/famous people - what were they like?&quot; people who shared a classroom with a famous person were ready to reveal the pre-fame gossip.</p><div className="ad-splitter"></div><h2>1.</h2><blockquote> <p>My mother&#39;s best friend taught Matthew McConaughey. She said he was one of her favorite students because he was so sweet. Apparently he came to see her and talk to her class when he first started acting. Seems pretty cool. - FrogCurry</p> </blockquote><h2>2.</h2><blockquote> <p>My English teacher had John Travolta in his basketball team that he coached at the time, he said he was very annoying and he told him that he wouldn&#39;t make it anywhere in life. - sidimazz</p> </blockquote><h2>3.</h2><blockquote> <p>One of my high school teachers had Kristen Bell in her class for a few years. She said that Kristen was a very bright student, always well liked, she had a beautiful singing voice and was the lead in the school plays. One particular memory she had of Kristen was when she was Dorothy in the Wizard of Oz: surprisingly it wasn&#39;t the main cast, but rather the munchkins who stole the show, because they were the varsity football team walking on their knees through the auditorium. Kristen was supposed to sing at her wedding but had to cancel because she had just been hired for a job (which turned out to be Veronica Mars). - lazyfirefly</p> </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div><h2>4.</h2><blockquote> <p>My hair stylist was Mariah Carey&#39;s cosmetology teacher when she attended BOCES vocational school in Greenlawn/Huntington, New York.</p> <p>Said Mariah was a bit of a diva, and was not terribly interested in learning the trade of hair and makeup. Wanted to sing instead. I guess that worked out. - Bugjones</p> </blockquote><h2>5.</h2><blockquote> <p>My 4th grade math teacher also taught LeBron James. She said he was obsessed with basketball. When asked what he was going to be when he grew up he said he was going to be in the NBA. When she told him he needed a back up plan he just looked in to her soul and said &quot;No, I&#39;m going to be in the NBA.&quot; - D_Mes</p> </blockquote><h2>6.</h2><blockquote> <p>My mom taught Kanye West&#39;s Music Theory class in high school. She said he insisted he would one day be a famous rapper, and that he was a decent student but sometimes a bit stubborn. Overall not that noticeable, although he did like free styling. He and some other students threw a little baby shower for my mom while she was pregnant with my sister, which is nice. - onebigcat</p> </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div><h2>7.</h2><blockquote> <p>My Econ teacher taught Michael Phelps. He said that no one knew who Michael was before the Olympics. As soon as he came back though, whenever he was in school, he was really cocky and obnoxious. But since he rarely was in school, he didn&#39;t really have much experience with him after his Freshman year. - umop_episdn_</p> </blockquote><h2>8.</h2><blockquote> <p>A former supervisor of mine went to college with Fred Rogers. She said he was exactly the same guy as he was on Mr. Rogers Neighborhood. - DimplePudding</p> </blockquote><h2>9.</h2><blockquote> <p>Bill Murray went to my high school way before me but there is a story that I would like to believe is real, that he got the record for most amount of detentions (called jugs) for someone who graduated from the school and when a kid broke it years later he took him out to lunch. - LaSerpant</p> </blockquote><h2>10.</h2><blockquote> <p>My best friends mom knew Kurt Cobain before he was famous. He would give her demo tapes to listen to, and she&#39;d give them back to him because (she said) they were awful. She also gave Kurt money to take the city bus because he was a broke, starving artist with literally no money for the bus. - BobbleheadDwight</p> </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div><h2>11.</h2><blockquote> <p>My grandmother was Prince&#39;s high school guidance counselor. Said he was a quiet and sweet kid - Staind075</p> </blockquote><h2>12.</h2><blockquote> <p>My AP Econ teacher said her son was in the same fraternity as Will Ferrell, and apparently whenever they had a party he would disappear for a few minutes and then start streaking. He also said that once a professor gave him a bad grade on a test that would have caused him to re-take the class so he started streaking until the professor changed the grade. - Craw1011</p> </blockquote><h2>13.</h2><blockquote> <p>Went to school with a girl who Rihanna used to babysit in Barbados. She said Rihanna was really sweet to all the kids. - moonhattan</p> </blockquote><h2>14.</h2><blockquote> <p>My old nail lady was good friends with Nicki Minaj&#39;s nail lady. Apparently one time Nicki flipped out in front of her entourage including her nail lady because one of her assistants came back from an errand run without mangos. She couldn&#39;t find any mangos, out of season. Nicki told the assistant to GTFO and not come back until she had some damn mangos. - PM-ME-GIFTCARDS</p> </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div><h2>15.</h2><blockquote> <p>My 5th grade English teacher had Britney Spears in her class. She said she was a sweet girl but kinda bratty from what I can remember. It always bothered her that Britney says she is from Louisiana but spent years in Mccomb, MS as a child, which she never mentions. - thishereismyaccount</p> </blockquote><h2>16.</h2><blockquote> <p>She wasn&#39;t a past teacher of a celeb, but my AP Bio teacher in high school went to the same school as Dennis Leary and he asked her to their senior prom and she turned him down. He brought it up in an interview after he got famous and said that she was right for turning him down because he was a total dork in high school. - vickolms</p> </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div>

16 people share stories of what celebrities were like before they became famous.

Everyone loves to learn what famous people were like before they had throngs of stressed assistants picking out blue M&amp;M&#39;s from their backstage snack bowls...While some famous people are able to keep in touch with reality and stay grounded in their roots, some people can make alarming transitions. It&#39;s hard to believe that the person screaming at a cocktail server for not remembering to give them five whiskey-spiked cherries for a scotch is the same kid who sat in a fifth grade classroom and struggled with algebra, but fame is complicated.Most stories of celebrities before they became famous are just that they were otherwise pretty normal, quiet kids who had a hyper-focused talent or obsession. Sometimes though, your hairdresser&#39;s sister&#39;s uncle has a friend who was Paris Hilton&#39;s dog walker and the happy hour conversation gets a lot spicier. So, when a Reddit user asked, &quot;Past teachers of present celebrities/famous people - what were they like?&quot; people who shared a classroom with a famous person were ready to reveal the pre-fame gossip.1. My mother&#39;s best friend taught Matthew McConaughey. She said he was one of her favorite students because he was so sweet. Apparently he came to see her and talk to her class when he first started acting. Seems pretty cool. - FrogCurry 2. My English teacher had John Travolta in his basketball team that he coached at the time, he said he was very annoying and he told him that he wouldn&#39;t make it anywhere in life. - sidimazz 3. One of my high school teachers had Kristen Bell in her class for a few years. She said that Kristen was a very bright student, always well liked, she had a beautiful singing voice and was the lead in the school plays. One particular memory she had of Kristen was when she was Dorothy in the Wizard of Oz: surprisingly it wasn&#39;t the main cast, but rather the munchkins who stole the show, because they were the varsity football team walking on their knees through the auditorium. Kristen was supposed to sing at her wedding but had to cancel because she had just been hired for a job (which turned out to be Veronica Mars). - lazyfirefly 4. My hair stylist was Mariah Carey&#39;s cosmetology teacher when she attended BOCES vocational school in Greenlawn/Huntington, New York. Said Mariah was a bit of a diva, and was not terribly interested in learning the trade of hair and makeup. Wanted to sing instead. I guess that worked out. - Bugjones 5. My 4th grade math teacher also taught LeBron James. She said he was obsessed with basketball. When asked what he was going to be when he grew up he said he was going to be in the NBA. When she told him he needed a back up plan he just looked in to her soul and said &quot;No, I&#39;m going to be in the NBA.&quot; - D_Mes 6. My mom taught Kanye West&#39;s Music Theory class in high school. She said he insisted he would one day be a famous rapper, and that he was a decent student but sometimes a bit stubborn. Overall not that noticeable, although he did like free styling. He and some other students threw a little baby shower for my mom while she was pregnant with my sister, which is nice. - onebigcat 7. My Econ teacher taught Michael Phelps. He said that no one knew who Michael was before the Olympics. As soon as he came back though, whenever he was in school, he was really cocky and obnoxious. But since he rarely was in school, he didn&#39;t really have much experience with him after his Freshman year. - umop_episdn_ 8. A former supervisor of mine went to college with Fred Rogers. She said he was exactly the same guy as he was on Mr. Rogers Neighborhood. - DimplePudding 9. Bill Murray went to my high school way before me but there is a story that I would like to believe is real, that he got the record for most amount of detentions (called jugs) for someone who graduated from the school and when a kid broke it years later he took him out to lunch. - LaSerpant 10. My best friends mom knew Kurt Cobain before he was famous. He would give her demo tapes to listen to, and she&#39;d give them back to him because (she said) they were awful. She also gave Kurt money to take the city bus because he was a broke, starving artist with literally no money for the bus. - BobbleheadDwight 11. My grandmother was Prince&#39;s high school guidance counselor. Said he was a quiet and sweet kid - Staind075 12. My AP Econ teacher said her son was in the same fraternity as Will Ferrell, and apparently whenever they had a party he would disappear for a few minutes and then start streaking. He also said that once a professor gave him a bad grade on a test that would have caused him to re-take the class so he started streaking until the professor changed the grade. - Craw1011 13. Went to school with a girl who Rihanna used to babysit in Barbados. She said Rihanna was really sweet to all the kids. - moonhattan 14. My old nail lady was good friends with Nicki Minaj&#39;s nail lady. Apparently one time Nicki flipped out in front of her entourage including her nail lady because one of her assistants came back from an errand run without mangos. She couldn&#39;t find any mangos, out of season. Nicki told the assistant to GTFO and not come back until she had some damn mangos. - PM-ME-GIFTCARDS 15. My 5th grade English teacher had Britney Spears in her class. She said she was a sweet girl but kinda bratty from what I can remember. It always bothered her that Britney says she is from Louisiana but spent years in Mccomb, MS as a child, which she never mentions. - thishereismyaccount 16. She wasn&#39;t a past teacher of a celeb, but my AP Bio teacher in high school went to the same school as Dennis Leary and he asked her to their senior prom and she turned him down. He brought it up in an interview after he got famous and said that she was right for turning him down because he was a total dork in high school. - vickolms 

Everyone loves to learn what famous people were like before they had throngs of stressed assistants picking out blue M&amp;M&#39;s from their backstage snack bowls...  While some famous people are able to keep in touch with reality and...