Sydney Sweeney grew up on a rural lake in a town on the border of Washington State and Idaho. “I grew up on the water,” she gushed to Women’s Health in November 2023. Sadly, her childhood wasn’t exactly as charming as some might imagine — namely when it came to her family’s finances. Once Sweeney’s parents made the decision to uproot the family to Los Angeles to allow her to chase her acting dreams, all bets were off. “I watched my parents lose a lot. We filed for bankruptcy, and they lost their house back home on the lake,” Sweeney recalled. According to Sweeney, in addition to taking acting gigs that paid very little, she also babysat, cleaned toilets, and even had a surprising job working as a Universal Studios tour guide to help her parents make ends meet.
Sadly, it appears that some of those feelings of financial instability and scarcity have spilled over into Sweeney’s adult life. She made headlines in 2022 when she publicly lamented about not being able to take a six-month break from acting for fear of going broke. “I don’t have someone supporting me, I don’t have anyone I can turn to to pay my bills or call for help,” she confessed during her candid 2022 interview with The Hollywood Reporter.
