Celebs who used to be roommates – Living with a roommate is a young adult’s rite of passage. Whether it’s a dorm at college or in a crummy basement apartment while everyone involved struggles to make rent each month, it doesn’t matter. It’s a cathartic experience. Sometimes, roommates get along like two peas in a pod, other times they fight like they’re two contestants on The Bachelor.
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Having roommates teaches young adults important coping skills, whether they like it or not. It doesn’t take long to find out if you’re the type of person who’s going to leave passive aggressive notes about the mysterious salad dressing thief or if you’ll be confronting your roommate head on about their significant other who is hanging around ALL THE FREAKING TIME!
When people find they have enough money to live on their own, they generally take the leap into a place of their own, solo. In the world of unpaid, or poorly paid, internships and a volatile job market young adults may find themselves bunking with a roommate or two longer than they originally anticipated.
This is no different for an aspiring actor – auditioning constantly, waiting tables, and hoping for their big break. Many celebrities have lived alongside other former nobodies (soon to be somebodies) when they were young, broke, and just as poor as the rest of us! These 12 stars destined for greatness used to be bunkmates, whether they liked it or not!
12. Robin Williams and Christopher Reeve
It sounds like the set up to a joke: Remember when Superman was roommates with Aladdin’s Genie?, but this rooming situation really happened. In 1973, Christopher Reeve and Robin Williams were two of the select 20 students accepted into an elite theatre program at the Juilliard School in New York. The two became very close after becoming roommates, forming a lifelong friendship and brotherly bond. In Reeve’s autobiography Still Me, he shared how Williams was always able to make him laugh, even during very difficult times. In fact, following his tragic 1995 horseback riding accident, where Reeve was left paralyzed, his first laugh came care of his old roommate. Williams provided comic relief to his sick friend in the over-the-top way for which the Patch Adams star was best known. Williams came to visit Reeve dressed in a scrub hat, surgical gown, and glasses, posing as a Russian doctor who announced he was a proctologist and was there to perform a rectal exam.
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