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There’s an old saying that goes, “It takes a village to raise a child.” It’s common for a grandparent to step in and raise a child when the parents can’t. These celebrities can thank their grandparents for having a major hand in raising them.

Jamie Foxx

Jamie Foxx’s birth mother was adopted and shortly after he was born, her parents adopted the future Oscar winner. Foxx credits his grandmother Estelle Talley’s influence on his life with the success he’s achieved in the entertainment world. “My grandmother said, ‘I’m going to give you all the things I wanted to give my children, but they were a little too old to understand,'” Foxx said on Oprah’s Next Chapter. “She says, ‘I’m going to make sure you play the piano because I think that could get you on the other side of the tracks.’”

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