MY WEALTH AND FAME RING NOW TURNS INTO A SNAKE AT NIGHT.
Anonymous Celebrity Confession
I always loved acting. I even studied drama because I believed this was my calling. But I never got a real break into the industry. People in my community laughed at me. My family was disappointed. Many warned me that the degree I chose would lead nowhere, but I did not listen. When nothing worked out, it became their “we told you so” moment.
One time, my family and I went on vacation to Durban. While at the hotel, I overheard my siblings talking to my mother. They said they were tired of paying for everything for me. They said I needed to man up, find any job, and stop chasing dreams.
Those words broke me.
That same day, I ran away from the hotel and never returned. I disappeared on purpose. I changed how I looked so no one could recognize me. When I saw posters of my family looking for me, I knew I had to stay hidden.
I lived on the streets of Durban for almost two years.
One day, while sitting outside the Florida Road restaurants, a famous person walked toward me and offered me his doggy bag. I was shocked. I got excited and called him by his real name and by the names of the characters he played. He was impressed, but also confused. He asked how I knew so much about him when I clearly had no phone or TV.
I told him my whole story—how I loved acting, how I failed, and how I ended up homeless.
He was deeply touched. He told me that after his parents died, his own family abandoned him too. But he never gave up until he finally got his breakthrough.
He asked me to meet him the next day at the same place. He told me to clean myself up and look presentable because he might know someone who could help me enter the industry.
Instead, he took me to an Indian healer.
The healer performed rituals and gave me a black ring with two red diamonds. He told me to talk to the ring and ask for what I wanted. The celebrity told me to be brave and ask for wealth and fame.
I was warned never to remove the ring. I was also told never to marry, never to be in a relationship, and never to have children. I was told that love and family would become my sacrifices. I had to remain alone.
Three weeks later, doors started opening—big doors.
My family had not seen me for two years. The next time they saw me, I was on television. They had to read the cast list just to be sure it was really me.
They tried to reach out, but I blocked them out of my life. I cannot forgive them. I believe their rejection pushed me into the dark world I now live in.
At night, the ring changes into a snake. It keeps me awake. I no longer sleep. My body is weak, and my health is failing.
I have fame.
But I am not free.
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