15 Movie Stars With Disturbing Pasts
10. Keanu Reeves
His mother was a showgirl and his father abandoned him when he was just a toddler.
Later, Keanu changed five different high schools in just four years, which resulted in him never finishing high school.
Life didn’t treat him nice after he became a success, either.
Back in 1993, he lost his best friend River Phoenix to a drug overdose, but that wasn’t all. Keanu had to face another loss in January 2000, when he and his girlfriend at the time, Jennifer Syme, had a stillborn daughter, Ava.
There’s more. Merely one year has passed when Jennifer lost control of her car, crashed and died instantly in a devastating automobile accident.
“Grief changes shape, but it never ends,” Reeves told Parade once. “People have a misconception that you can deal with it and say, ‘It’s gone, and I’m better.’ They’re wrong.”
“When the people you love are gone, you’re alone, I miss being a part of their lives and them being part of mine. I wonder what the present would be like if they were here – what we might have done together. I miss all the great things that will never be.”
