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Some celebrities make it because they have “stage parents” who push them, but not these stars. Nope: these stars had such bad relationships with their moms and dads that they emancipated themselves before they were even 18.
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Michelle Williams
Williams plays a girl who’s left her parents on “Dawson’s Creek” and in real life she left them when she was 15. Williams emancipated herself to escape the command of child labor laws.
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Drew Barrymore
The “Blended” star emancipated herself from her parents when she was only 15 years old and has barely spoken to her mother all of her life.
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Macaulay Culkin
Culkin is more comfortable being home alone than it may seem. The actor emancipated himself when he was just 14, and hasn’t spoken to his father since.
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Alicia Silverstone
Silverstone got emancipated at the age of 15 so that she could legally work on the film “The Crush.”
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Juliette Lewis
The rocker and actress emancipated herself so she could become a legal “adult” and no longer let child labor laws hold her back in her acting career.
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Jena Malone
The actress who appeared in “Contact” emancipated herself from her parents when she was just 16.
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Jaime Pressly
The “My Name is Earl” actress got emancipated at the age of 15 so she could travel to Japan by herself for a modeling gig.
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Aaron Carter
Carter filed for emancipation from his mother at the age of 16 when he found out she’d stolen $100,000 from him.
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Corey Feldman
The “Stand By Me” star got emancipated at the age of 15 so that he could control his own finances.
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Rose McGowan
The “Charmed” actress got emancipated at just 15 years old. She eventually got engaged to Marilyn Manson so maybe there were some daddy issues that resulted.
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Eliza Dushku
Dushku couldn’t have famously appeared on “Buffy the Vampire Slayer” if she hadn’t been emancipated as a teen.
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Courtney Love
Love lived in foster homes for several years as a child before she was finally emancipated at 16. She has no relationship with either parent.
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Ariel Winter
The “Modern Family” actress is under the legal guardianship of her sister. Winter’s mother was allegedly abusive.
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Dominique Moceanu
The Olympic gymnast got emancipated at 17 so that she could gain control of her finances.
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Frances Bean Cobain
Like mother like daughter, Cobain is emancipated from her mother Courtney Love. Cobain even had a restraining order against her mother at one point.
