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From Hollywood to asking for donations! Brandon “Bug” Hall, the unforgettable Alfalfa from The Little Rascals, is going through a complicated financial situation and decided to turn to his old fans to ask for money.
At 41 years old, the former child star launched a GoFundMe campaign because, as he prepares to welcome his sixth child, he says he can no longer keep up with all the family's expenses.
“I really need help,” he wrote in a request that surprised those who remember him for his famous role in the 1994 film. This is what the former actor said about his financial situation and the vow of poverty he took a few years ago.
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Hall confessed that he had been avoiding asking for money for six years and that he had always considered his departure from Hollywood a personal responsibility. However, he acknowledged that he reached a point where he needed to turn to other people.
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His family's move to a rural property in Arkansas complicated his finances and now he needs to finish conditioning his new home before his sixth child is born.
The former actor set a goal of just $2,000, but his followers responded with donations that far exceeded that amount; so far, the amount raised exceeds $22,000.
In his message, he asked for financial help, although he also said that sharing the campaign or offering prayers for the family would be valuable: “These are difficult times for everyone and I don’t deserve anything more than anyone else,” he wrote, in an attempt to explain why he decided to make his financial need public.
And he added: “I ask for charity, please help in whatever way you can, whether financially, by sharing this, or with prayers and sacrifices for the Hall-Barnett family of the Holy Cross”.
Why did Alfalfa leave Hollywood and is now asking for money?
The story has an even more curious twist: after having been one of the acting promises of the 90s, Hall took a “vow of poverty” with his family with which he decided to move away from the life of luxury and fame.
In an interview with the Daily Mail, he asserted that he had given up a good portion of the money he earned as a child star and that he even donated belongings to charities. His intention, as he explained, was to live with as little dependence on income as possible and accept odd jobs only when he needed to cover an expense.
Since then, the actor and his wife, Jill, have chosen a life very different from that of Hollywood celebrities. The couple has five children and homeschools them, while trying to build a more self-sufficient life in the countryside.
Hall has also expressed religious and conservative opinions that have caused controversy, in addition to criticizing university education and asserting that he did not want to dedicate his life to manufacturing products he considered unnecessary.
“My goal is to lead a life as free as possible from any need for income. If any financial need arises, I will take a job or do an odd job to get money and cover that need,” he said at the time.
[Publicidad]