Michael Weatherly had a Connecticut childhood in a family whose pockets run deep. “My father was the importer of the Swiss army knife from 1973 about to the late ’80s,” he revealed on “The Late Show with Stephen Colbert.” In another life, Weatherly would have followed in his businessman dad’s footsteps.
At a young age, he established that he could make a profit by reselling the knives. “I caught on to this idea that I could actually get that knife which was retailing for like $50 for $7,” Weatherly narrated, as Colbert listened in amusement. His target market during that phase — students — landed him in trouble, but Weatherly was in for an unexpected surprise when his school principal wanted to buy the rare product.
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Not that Weatherly’s childhood was always a smooth sail. In his early teens, his mother had him attend Camp Challenge to expose him to a life he wasn’t accustomed to. He described the life-changing experience to the Chicago Tribune. “I had to canoe, fight, build my own ax, learn to read a topographic map, compass and we had something called ’24-hour survival,’ where they left us in the woods alone for 24 hours and you had to find food, build a lean-to,” he said.
