You would have thought that Bella Thorne had pulled herself out of poverty after becoming a big Disney star, but what happened was the exact opposite. She was practically homeless and had to rely on someone else to eat.
In an interview with the Los Angeles Times in 2018, Thorne confessed that after “Shake It Up’s” three-year run and the show’s mainstream success, she had nothing to show for it. She was left with $200 but refused to divulge the reason why. “You know where it went,” she noted, with the outlet asserting that her money must have been put into a trust due to the Coogan Law, which mandates parents of underage stars to stash away a considerable chunk of their child’s earnings for later access. At the time, she had no choice but to live with her then-boyfriend Gregg Sulkin, who also helped pay for her meals. “I didn’t think things were going to go down like that,” she added.
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Things would have been easier for Thorne if only she had managed to score other projects, but directors wouldn’t even hire her just because she was a Disney star. “Coming off the Disney channel, there were a lot of casting directors who said, ‘I’m not going to read her,'” she told Forbes. “So I was like, ‘What? Just because I was on the Disney Channel?’ So there were quite a few auditions where I showed up, at 15 1/2, and was like, ‘You have to read me. I’m here. Please let me do the first scene and I’ll show you that it’s worth seeing the second scene.'”
