Danny DeVito and Rhea Perlman decided not to get a divorce despite separating in 2018

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Danny DeVito and Rhea Perlman’s road to stardom was quite similar. Even before the two met and fell for one another, their lives were somewhat similar, and that could have been one of the reasons why they decided to get involved in a romance which lasted for around 40 years.

Both Danny and Rhea grew up in the east cost. He was born in 1944 in Neptune, New Jersey, while Rhea was born in Brooklyn, New York in 1948.

Ever since they were teenagers, they both dreamed of pursuing careers in acting. For Danny, that dream seemed elusive, not because of the lack of talent, but because of his height. He was often teased because of his appearance, but that would turn to be a feature that would add to his uniqueness.

After working at his sister’s hair salon for two years, Danny attended the American Academy of Dramatic Arts in New York where he took makeup classes. However, no matter the type of classes they were taking, each student was expected to perform a monologue, and Danny’s was so great that his teachers made him transfer to studying drama instead. That was the first step towards his bright and successful career.

Danny graduated from the academy in 1966 and moved on to Hollywood to try his luck as an actor. Becoming one didn’t come as smoothly as he expected or hoped for, though.

“I worked as a car parker, and I hung around the Sunset Strip with all the flower children,” he recalled. “I had long hair, and I wore a raincoat and sneakers, and I fit right in. But I wanted to act.”

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Eventually, Danny returned to New York where he worked in plays off-Broadway. During one play in 1970, he met Rhea for the first time. She was also doing plays at the time and was hoping to find her place in the film industry.

Speaking of the time she first laid eyes on Danny DeVito, Rhea shared with the Daily Times, “He sang a song that didn’t make any sense at all. It was like a mating call. I knew I had to meet him if he wasn’t married. So we arranged a date.”

Well, the rest is history.

Just two weeks after their initial encounter, she moved to his Manhattan studio.

“He slept on the floor, and roaches would line up at attention around him. It’s like he was training them,” Rhea told EW about their place. “He made a Super-8 short, following a roach around.”

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At the time they started their relationship, they were both working hard on their careers, and the hard work paid off.

Danny starred in the now iconic film One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest and the legendary TV series Taxi. These films brought him numerous awards and nominations, among which a Golden Globe and an Emmy.

Rhea achieved success too. Staring in the series Cheers as waitress Carla Tortelli, she had her big breakthrough which helped her make a name for herself. She won four Primetime Emmys for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series, received six additional nominations, and five Golden Globe nominations.

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Danny and Rhea got married on January 28, 1982, and welcomed their first child, daughter Lucy DeVito, less than two months later. Their second daughter, Grace DeVito, was born in 1985 and their youngest child, son Jake DeVito, was welcomed into the world in 1987.

In 1996, Danny and Rhea stared together in the iconic film Matilda and started a production company together, Jersey Films, which produced some incredible movies such as Pulp Fiction and Erin Brockovich.

Their marriage seemed picture-perfect, but then in 2012, they announced they were splitting. That wasn’t the end, however. Rumors were that actor Michael Douglas, who is Danny’s friend, made them reconsider their decision. That resulted in the couple getting together again, but in 2018, they split permanently.

The reason behind this decisions remains a mystery as neither Danny nor Rhea ever spoke about it.

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What is interesting is that even though they are no longer together, they never filed for divorce and are still legally married.

During an appearance on Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen in 2019, Rhea said, “You know, we were together for 40 years. Forty years is a long time. You might have to do something else!

“I’m not getting divorced. No, no, no. What for? We do live separately. We see each other a lot too.”

According to the ex-couple, they are better off as friends than as spouses.

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“I don’t know why it’s difficult for other people, but Danny and I have always loved each other, and we have three amazing children together,” she said. “We really agree on almost everything important.”

“[Our relationship] is much better because all of the tense stuff is gone. It’s not in your face; I’m not in his, he’s not in mine.”

Danny shares the same opinion as his ex-wife. Speaking to People, the actor said, “We’re friends. We’re happy. Everybody’s happy.”

Julia Roberts’ daughter Hazel, 16, makes her Red Carpet debut

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Julia Roberts is one of the few celebrities who lead a very normal life. She has been married to cinematographer Daniel Moder for 19 years and the two seem to be very much in love. The pair has three children together, twins Phinnaeus and Hazel, 16, and a son, Henry, 14.

When it comes to their children, both Roberts and Moder try to keep them out of the public eye, and that is why we rarely see the kids attending any public events or sharing photos on the social media.

Recently, however, we got to see beautiful Hazel in the company of her father at the Cannes Film Festival in France in July 2021. The two were there for the promotion of the film Flag Day. Moder was the choreographer while actor Sean Penn was the director. And while Penn’s children had roles in the film, Hazel didn’t, but she still went to the event to support her father’s work.


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What caught everyone’s attention was Hazel’s incredible beauty. While some say that she inherited her mother’s nose, many agree that she’s a spitting image of her handsome dad, so it doesn’t come as a surprise that she’s great-looking herself. Hazel has blue eyes and blonde hair.

She was seen wearing a pale yellow long lace dress and black Mary Jane shoes. Her make up was minimal and her hair was scooped back into a ponytail. A real lady!

It was very obvious that Moder felt proud of his girl and spent the entire evening by her side.


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Whether Hazel or her siblings are interested in pursuing careers in the film industry remains a mystery because their parents don’t speak about their children often and tend to keep them out of the limelight, which doesn’t come as a surprise knowing how grounded Roberts is. Despite her enormous fortune, which is estimated to be around $250 million, she has never acted as a diva, but remained humble.

Hazel and her brothers had tiny parts in Robert’s movie Mother’s Day back in 2016.

Speaking of her children, Roberts told Harper’s Bazaar in 2018:

“I don’t think they will ever have a true sense of (my fame). I think I told you once when they were starting to figure it out, it was like, ‘You’re famous?’ And I said, ‘I think a lot of people might have seen the movie that I’m in or might know who I am.'”

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She then spoke of the difficulties children face nowadays and added, “It’s different than when I might have said to my mom, ‘Mom, you don’t know what it’s like to be a teenager today,’ even though she probably did. Danny and I really don’t know what it’s like to be a teenager today. Sometimes my kids ask me things and I just say to them, ‘I’m going to say no, and I’m going to look into it because I don’t even know what we’re talking about.'”

It’s safe to say that Roberts and Moder make an awesome couple and are the perfect parents.

Baby boy found wrapped in his dead mother’s arms is the sole survivor in a plane crash that killed three

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In a plane crash that took place in Ubate, Colombia, on October 13, Tuesday afternoon, three adults lost their lives. The fourth passenger, a baby boy, survived the fatal accident thanks to his mother who used her body as a shield. In those terrifying moments, when she was aware her life may end, all she thought about was how to protect her son.

The HK 2335-G plane was operated by the baby’s father, Fabio Grandas, who was a respected doctor involved in many humanitarian organizations which helped ease the life of hundreds and thousands of people from the remote part of the country. According to a translated report by ABC Aeronautico, the baby’s mother, Mayerly Diaz Rojas, was a lawyer who specialized in telecommunications law. The nanny, Nuris Maza, who accompanied them on the flight, was killed, too.

Fabio was reported to be part of the Civil Air Patrol for several years but wasn’t on a patrol mission at the time of the accident. The ongoing investigation found the engine documentation was up to date and the cause is still to be discovered.

The plane was supposed to land at the Guaymaral airport, before which an emergency was declared.

At the scene, baby Martin was found wrapped in his dead mother’s arms. He was transferred to the Fundacion Santa Fe de Bogota University Hospital and is reported to be stable. The parents left behind two other children who weren’t on the plane.

The statement released by the Colombian Civil Aviation Authority said, “a baby, who was also travelling in the aeroplane, is being attended at this time in an assistance center.”

Over the last few years a number of plane crash accidents have been reported in Columbia, as per Zenger. In an accident in 2016, 71 people were killed.

We are very sorry for the loss and we hope baby Martin will have a great life ahead of him. His mother will be always watching over him from Heaven.

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Richard Gere summoned to court after helping over 100 migrants stranded at sea

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We have always been told that doing good is what makes this world go round, but no one warned us that offering kindness can sometimes put us into trouble.

Actor Richard Gere is just an example of that, but no matter what, he never stops being the change he wants to see in the world.

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The prestigious actor has turned to Buddhism years ago, and even met Dalai Lama, the highest spiritual leader of Tibet, and spoke of the encounter as a once-in-a-lifetime experience. Today, the two are close friends, but Gere can never forget the first time he met His Holiness.

“We started out with a little small talk, and then he said, ‘Oh, so you’re an actor?’” the Pretty Woman star recalled.

“He thought about that a second, and then he said, ‘So when you do this acting, and you’re angry, are you really angry? When you’re acting sad, are you really sad? When you cry, are you crying?’

“I gave him some kind of actor answer like it was more effective if you really believed in the emotion that you were portraying. He looked very deeply into my eyes and just started laughing. Hysterically. He was laughing at the idea that I would believe emotions are real, that I would work very hard to believe in anger and hatred and sadness and pain and suffering.”

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His love for the “Roof of the World” affected Gere’s career a great deal and it all started when he decided not to follow his prepared speech during the Academy Awards ceremony in 1993 but used the occasion to protest against China’s occupation of Tibet and its “horrendous, horrendous human rights situation.”

Gil Cates, the Academy Award’s producer, swore to ban the actor from any future Oscar broadcasts.

Gere, however, didn’t care. He believed speaking his mind was more important of all.

Knowing how huge of a market the Chinese TV industry is, Gere missed a huge number of roles in successful movies only because the Chinese banned every project he was part of.

“There are definitely movies that I can’t be in because the Chinese will say, ‘Not with him,’” Gere explained.

“I recently had an episode where someone said they could not finance a film with me because it would upset the Chinese.”

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It was one particular movie, Red Corner, which made Gere fully aware of how important China’s opinion was when it came to making movies.

“Everyone was happy with the film,” the actor spoke of the project.

“I get calls from the heads of the studio. Went on Oprah. Then, out of nowhere, I get calls saying, ‘We don’t want you doing press.’ MGM wanted to make an overall deal with the Chinese. China told them, ‘If you release this film, we’re not buying it.’ And so, they dumped it.”

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In 2019, Gere found himself in the center of attention once again, this time because he tried helping migrants stuck at see. As it turned out, he was on vacation with his family when he learned that more than 100 migrants on board had been left stranded because Italy’s right-leaning Lega party leader, Matteo Salvinien, forbid the ship to disembark, leaving the migrants without food or water for days.

Gere and his son headed to the migrant’s vessel, but their boat wasn’t allowed anywhere near. That, however, didn’t prevent the actor from providing food for the scared and confused people.

Speaking of the event and how he angered the Italian government, Gere told The Guardian:

“We saw more than a hundred people on board. I felt ashamed that we have so much and are not able to embrace these fellow human beings, our brothers and sisters who were starving, traumatized.

“If they were told the boat was going back to Libya, they would jump in the water and drown themselves, and I felt it was our responsibility to bring as much light as we could.”

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Eventually, the migrants got the permission to step foot on the soil of the Italian island of Lampedusa.

Now Gere is about to appear at court to tell what had really happened in a case against Salvinien who’s now accused of “using his position as the interior minister to detain the migrants at sea.”

“It’s very simple, I’ll just tell the truth; I’ll just tell what I experienced. I’m only here to speak for people who don’t have a voice. It’s not about me. I’m completely irrelevant here. I’m honest with you. I can be invisible. All I am is a witness,” Gere said in an interview.

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Salvini was reported to have been extremely mad at the actor for taking a stand against him in the behalf of the Open Arms organization.

“First of all, I don’t know these people. I’ve never met them, but I highly doubt they’ve taken the time to go on a boat and have a human experience and understand the real people they have their influence over,” Gere told The Guardian.

“If they did that, then I think there’s probably another conversation to have. You see, I don’t see myself as a movie star. I’m one of 7 billion human beings on the planet, that’s it, no more. I’m no better or worse than anyone.”

“But in terms of the politics of it, I’m not advocating one way or another, of what the Italian people should do,” Gere added. “That’s completely up to the Italians.”

Whether you like his acting or not, we all have to agree that Richard Gere is one of the few people who are willing to put everything on the line for the sake of those who need his help.

Sam Elliott’s career and his current net worth

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With a long list of movies under his belt, Sam Elliott is definitely one of our favorite onscreen cowboys.

His distinctive deep voice and his mustache added to his appearance which made him one of the sexiest men of Hollywood.

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Elliott was born on August 9, 1944 in Sacramento, California, but his family moved to Portland, Oregon, where he attended high school and university, before dropping out after two years of studies. After that, he attended Clark College in Vancouver, Washington, where he completed a two-year program.

The actor knew that he would become one ever since he was 9 years old. His dad, however, who influenced Elliott to be the man he is today, wasn’t really happy with his son’s profession choice and would often say, “Man, this kid is going to go down the wrong path.”

At the start of his acting career, Elliott only landed minor roles, often as an extra, such as in the movie Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid.

It was during the filming of this movie that he and future wife Katharine Ross first met. At the time, however, he felt like he had no chance with her. “I didn’t dare try to talk to her then. She was the leading lady. I was a shadow on the wall, a glorified extra in a bar scene,” he told AARP in 2015.

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After appearing in a number of movies, including Mission: Impossible, Gunsmoke, Hawaii Five-O, Lifeguard, and Molly and Lawless John, Elliott made a name for himself and attracted fans from all over the world.

He and wife Ross met again on the set of The Legacy in 1987 and fell for one another. At the time, Ross was still married to her fourth husband, but divorced him and married Elliott in 1984. They welcomed a daughter that same year.

In 1985, while the couple was on their honeymoon in Hawaii, Elliott’s agent called him for he role in Mask. Ross called the agent back and told him she would make sure she has her husband back for the audition, according to The New York Times.

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From that moment on, his career took off. Although he’s a versatile actor, he’s somehow always closely related to the Westerns in which he plays roles of both good boys and bad boys. “I think it has something to do with integrity and a man’s word and honor and all that kind of stuff — values, morality, all that kind of stuff that everybody looks kind of down their nose at,” he said according to Biography.

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Speaking of his career and the movies The Big Lebowski, Road House, and Tombstone, he told Vulture in 2015, “That’s the big three. And it’s really because they repeat that shit all the time. None of them had great box office, and I wasn’t so good in any of them. You just can’t escape them. They keep showing up.”

However, after that, he was part of some equally big and successful movies that could be added on his list, like A Star is Born and the series The Ranch.

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The actor, whose career spans over five decades and who is the recipient of several accolades, including a National Board of Review Award, and has been nominated for an Academy Award, two Golden Globe Awards, two Primetime Emmy Awards, and two Screen Actors Guild Awards has a net worth of $10 million. Taking into consideration all his movies and work, many find this surprising.

Daniel Craig: Inside his private marriage with actress Rachel Weisz

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Out of all the movie characters which left an everlasting impact in the history of film, that of James Bond is probably on the pedestal.

The secret agent working for MI6 under the codename 007 has been portrayed by some of the most famous names in Hollywood, Sean Connery, David Niven, George Lazenby, Roger Moore, Timothy Dalton, Pierce Brosnan, and last but not least, Daniel Craig.

When Craig landed the role, he was already a famous name in the industry and seemed like the perfect choice. Well, he indeed was.

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James Bond came to life through the books of novelist Ian Fleming, with the first one, titled Casino Royale, being published in 1953. Ever since, the fascination with the agent has only grew bigger and bigger. The story behind the name of what would become a prestigious role came after Fleming read the ornithological book entitled Birds Of The West Indies whose author’s name was, well, guess what? James Bond.

“I wanted the simplest, dullest, plainest-sounding name I could think of. James Bond seemed perfect,” Flemming explained.

As for Craig, he has always dreamed of becoming an actor.

“There’s an essay that my mother kept that I wrote at school when I was six, saying I wanted to be an actor,” he told Candis Magazine.

“I don’t remember writing it, but I do remember that I had a toy Winchester rifle and that my friends and I used to go out to the sand dunes, and we’d pretend to shoot each other and roll down the hills. I think that early pretending to be dead was the first acting I ever did!”

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He attended drama classes and his love for acting intensified during high school so at the age of 16 he was accepted into the National Youth Theatre and later moved on to study at Guildhall School of Music & Drama.

Being a struggling actor with the NYT, he was working in restaurant kitchens and as a waiter. He performed with NYT on tours to Valencia, Spain, and to Moscow, Russia, under the leadership of director Edward Wilson.

“I had a lot of fortune at the beginning with the National Youth Theater. It was learning the discipline,” Craig recalled when appearing on BAFTA: A Life In Pictures.

“If you were late, you got so much shit. It was truly priceless. I skipped drama school, and the first year was late all the time. I almost got fired three times, I made up a long excuse once, and a teacher said, ‘This is a bit wrong, Daniel.’”

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His career started as early as 1991 when he made debut in The Power of One. What followed were some great pieces who helped him make a name for himself.

When it comes to his private life, he tends to keep it out of the spotlight. What we know of him is that he has one daughter, Ella Craig, with his first wife Fiona Loudon, a Scottish actress, but the marriage didn’t last long. After filming Dream House together with fellow colleague Rachel Weisz they fell for one another. They tied the knot back in 2011 and have been together ever since. Rachel has a son from a previous relationship.

“We did it privately. And I’ve got a lot of people to thank for that. But that was the point. We did it for private reasons,” Craig told GQ about his wedding.

“Because we didn’t want it f***ed up because that would be sharing a secret. And the whole point is that it was a secret. A secret is a secret in my mind.”

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She on the other hand also spoke of her marriage and she always does it with a dose of pride in her voice.

“I never thought I would get married,” she shared with Evening Standard.

“It was not an ambition of mine. It was the opposite. I couldn’t relate to romantic comedies – marriage seems to be the whole point of them. Then it just happened, happily, at a more mature moment.”

Neither, however, share any details about their relationship and believe that’s the key to success.

“He’s just too famous. It would be a betrayal. You have to protect your marriage,” Rachel told Entertainment Online.

“When you’re young, you tell your girlfriends everything. One of the great pleasures of not being an adolescent is that you don’t have to share everything. When you’re married, that door closes. The audience goes, and you’re in your own life.”

“Daniel and I are really similar. We’re just really crap at talking about our private lives,” she added.

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Casino Royale turned to be one of the highest-grossing Bond films to date, making over $600 million worldwide.

What followed after Casino Royale were Quantum of Solace, Skyfall, Spectre, and No Time to Die.

Craig’s net worth is estimated at $160 million, but besides being that rich, he’s not planning on leaving any money to her daughter.

“Isn’t there an old adage that if you die a rich person, you’ve failed?” Craig said, as quoted by The Times.

“I think Andrew Carnegie gave away what in today’s money would be about $11 billion, which shows how rich he was because I’ll bet he kept some of it, too.

“I don’t want to leave great sums to the next generation. I think inheritance is quite distasteful. My philosophy is get rid of it or give it away before you go.”

Ella is famous in her own right. She’s a model and is involved with several charities.

Cher’s son Chaz Bono shares his mom’s concerns and feelings over his transition from female to male

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From Chasity to Chaz, Cher and Sonny Bono’s son has been through a lot during his transition from female to male. The fact that his parents were internationally known celebrities had Chaz in the spotlight and everyone was familiar with the cute little girl with blonde curly hair and ponytails.

Chasity would usually appear at the end of her parents’ show The Sonny and Cher Comedy Hour while the two sang “I Got You Babe.”

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As years passed by, Chasity could feel she was in the wrong body and came out as a lesbian in 1995 before she decided to transition to a man and undergo a surgery in 2008.

Cher had a hard time coping with Chasity’s decision because she felt she would lose her daughter. However, as time passed by, she accepted the reality. Speaking to PrideSource, Cher admitted it wasn’t easy for her as a mother and said, “I didn’t go through it that easily. Both times. When I found out Chaz was gay, I didn’t go through it that easily.”

Then the transitioning took place and it made things even more worrying for the singer. “When I found out Chaz was [transitioning]… we talked about it a lot, actually. But then Chaz didn’t mention it anymore, so I kind of forgot. And what I think is, there’s such a fear of losing the child you love, and what will replace that child.”

But Chaz knew he was different. “…as a child, I always felt there was something different about me. I’d look at other girls my age and feel perplexed by their obvious interest in the latest fashion, which boy in class was the cutest, and who looked the most like cover girl Christie Brinkley. When I was 13, I finally found a name for exactly how I was different. I realized I was gay,” he wrote in his book Family Outing: A Guide to the Coming Out Process for Gays, Lesbians, and Their Families.

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Fans from all over the world were closely following the relationship between Cher and Chaz who were not on good terms during the first year of Chaz’s transition, and Chaz’s life journey. Finally, at the 2011 Sundance Film Festival, people could see the documentary Becoming Chaz which was very emotional and had a scene where Cher speaks of hearing her child’s new voice for the first time.

“My mother went through a kind of mourning period. It was difficult for her, and we didn’t see each other for about the first year of my transition,” Chaz told SBS Australia.

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Chaz pursued a career in the film industry and appeared in five episodes of American Horror Story: Roanoke and play Reverend Rydale on The Bold and the Beautiful.

After the transition, Chaz knew it was the time for him to turn to a healthier lifestyle. So, when he became part of the show Dancing with the Stars, he changed his diet which now contains mostly veggies, fruits, meat, and nuts and managed to lose around 85lbs.

”I would have never been able to do it before,’ he told Oprah Winfrey some years ago. ‘I was too disconnected from my body, and to, you know – the dysphoria around, that I had with my body was too much to be able to have cared enough about to do anything like that.” 

Cher is now a proud mother and praises her son for choosing a healthy lifestyle. ”He did it all by himself. He made up his own mind and he did it. And it was like what — 85, 90 pounds. Wow! … I do not know if I’d have that courage.” Cher said.

We are very glad the relationship between Cher and Chaz is stronger than ever.

Stevie Wonder opens up about his life and how he lost his sight

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The life story of Stevie Wonder, the prodigy kid who took the world by storm and is up until this day known as one of the most prominent musicians who have ever walked this Earth, is profound and inspiring to say the least.

This incredible man has never considered his blindness a disadvantage and has accomplished the greatest things in life.

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Born Steveland Judkins or Steveland Morris on May 13, 1950, in Saginaw, Michigan, Wonder, who got the name because of the wonders he could do with the instruments from very early age, wasn’t born blind. He was, however, born prematurely and had to be placed in an incubator at 6-weeks-old. Sadly, because of a doctor’s fault, he was given too much oxygen which destroyed his sight.

He was diagnosed with Retinopathy of Prematurity, which means that the growth of the eyes is aborted, causing the retinas to detach and leading to blindness.

Speaking to Oprah back in 2004, Wonder explained that he wasn’t mad at the doctor who gave him too much oxygen. He even said how he had once visited the hospital where he was born and was given an award.

“I don’t regret what happened because it made me who I am. But I’d love to see,” Wonder said.

Life with a disability has been challenging, especially when he was young.

Wonder recalled his mother cried a lot because of his condition, so when he was just five, he told her: “Don’t worry about me being blind, because I’m happy.”

“I said something like that. It bothered me that my mother was crying all the time. She thought God might be punishing her for something. She lived during a time when things were particularly difficult for a woman in her circumstances,” Wonder told Oprah.

“I used to say that if something happened to my mother, I wanted to die with her. That’s because I loved her so much. I want to live so I can carry out the essence of what she has shown me: kindness and goodness.”

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He recalled he was a curious child who was never afraid to try new things, including climbing trees.

“We had these woodsheds in the backyard, and we played a game where we’d jump from the top of the woodshed into the alley. Who could jump the farthest? The kids were like, ‘Go, Steve, go!’ but I guess I missed the moment when my brother Larry whispered, ‘Momma’s home.’ So I’m on top of the shed saying, ‘Are you ready? Here we go!’ And I jumped right into my mother’s arms,” he shared.

He started playing the harmonica and the drums from very early age, and he later discovered the piano.

At only 11 years old, Wonder released his debut album The Jazz Soul of Little Stevie, an instrumental, under producer and label founder Berry Gordy Jr.

Speaking of the time Berry Gordy Jr. discovered him and got fascinated with his musical abilities, Wonder explained how the deal could have failed, but luckily, that didn’t happen.

“It was a difficult point. The people there were excited about me being with them, but the lawyer my mother used was not that impressed with Motown,” Wonder recalled.

“There was some negotiating, and some guy there said to my mom, ‘Let me tell you like this: Stevie can either sign this contract, or he can spend the rest of his life selling pencils.’”

“My mother said, ‘I don’t give a damn what you say. My son will never sell pencils ever in his life.’ And the deal was off. I think Berry Gordy finally talked with my mom about the “misunderstanding,” and they worked it out.”

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Many of Stevie Wonder’s songs are No.1 hits which have topped the charts all over the world. Among the songs he made, and which are touching the heart and soul, are Superstition, I Was Made to Love Her, Yesterme Yesteryou Yesterday, My Cherie Amour, For Once In My Life and Sir Duke.

When it comes to the future, Wonder is planning on moving to Ghana indefinitely in an attempt to protect his grand children and great-grandchildren from the racial injustice in America.

“I wanna see this nation smile again. And I want to see it before I leave to travel to move to Ghana, because I’m going to do that,” he told Oprah, as quoted by People.

“I am [relocating permanently], because I don’t want to see my children’s children’s children have to say, ‘Oh, please like me. Please respect me, please know that I am important, please value me.’ What kinda [life is that]?”

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Wonder’s extraordinary life and career is the perfect example that no disability can stand on our way if we put our mind into accomplishing what truly makes us happy. Thank you Stevie Wonder for the joy you are giving to us with your incredible talent and music.

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