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" &amp;quot;I grew up without a mom.&amp;quot; --Chad Michael Murray   &amp;quot;My mom abandoned me and my four brothers when I was 10,&amp;quot; says Chad Michael Murray. &amp;quot;She put me on the bus for school one morning, saying she was going out of town for a couple of weeks, [but] she didn&amp;#039;t come back till I was 18. My father raised five kids and [he] was there for me every day.&amp;quot;   Life without his mom was so stressful for Chad that he withdrew from family and friends and even developed a medical condition that required an operation when he was 15. &amp;quot;I had no stuff, no money, no friends. I was basically a hermit. I only went to school because I had to,&amp;quot; he says.   When his mom returned, their relationship was extremely awkward. &amp;quot;I answered the door and it was really uncomfortable,&amp;quot; he remembers. Chad admits there&amp;#039;s still distance between them, but the experience has made him a strong and confident adult, and he grew even closer to his dad. &amp;quot;I idolize my father,&amp;quot; he says.   NEXT...GOOD CHARLOTTE&amp;#039;S BENJI MADDEN... &amp;quot;I wanted to kill myself&amp;quot; BENJI MADDEN - GOOD CHARLOTTE   Christmas Eve 1995 was a night Benji, lead guitarist for the hot band Good Charlotte, will never forget. That&amp;#039;s because it was the night his dad walked out and never came back. Soon Benji, his twin bro Joel, their sibs and mom were evicted from their house and left temporarily homeless. They lived with relatives for a while until the family could find a place of their own. Making matters worse, Benji&amp;#039;s mom suffers from Lupus, a stress-related disorder, and she often was hospitalized. To help out, the twins worked just about any job they could get. It was definitely a low period and Benji admits he considered suicide. &amp;quot;I did come to certain points of my life where I thought that [suicide] was an option,&amp;quot; he says. Instead of giving up, though, Benji faced his problems through his music. &amp;quot;Growing up definitely sucked,&amp;quot; he says. &amp;quot;But if it wasn&amp;#039;t for all that stuff, we wouldn&amp;#039;t have started our band.&amp;quot;   Many of Good Charlotte&amp;#039;s songs are about real-life problems. Check out the lyrics from the band&amp;#039;s hit &amp;quot;Hold On&amp;quot;: &amp;quot;But we all bleed the same way as you do, and we all have the same things to go through. Hold on if you feel like letting go. Hold on, it gets better than you know.&amp;quot; The group wrote the song in response to fans who, like Benji, had thought about suicide. &amp;quot;We want to give those fans hope, just to let them know it&amp;#039;s never worth taking your own life,&amp;quot; he says.   NEXT...ORLANDO BLOOM &amp;quot;I broke my back&amp;quot;  ORLANDO BLOOM  Orlando has always been attracted to thrilling adventures, but when he was attending the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in England, he fell from a window and broke his back. &amp;quot;In the hospital, I was told that I was going to be in a wheelchair and for four days they thought I&amp;#039;d never walk again,&amp;quot; he says. Orlando kept the faith, though. &amp;quot;I knew I had to stay positive [and] it paid off because 12 days later I walked out of the hospital. It was something of a miracle,&amp;quot; he says.   Orlando still looks for thrills-snowboarding, surfing, bungee jumping and skydiving-he&amp;#039;s just a little more cautious now. &amp;quot;I&amp;#039;ve realized I&amp;#039;m not invincible,&amp;quot; he admits. &amp;quot;That&amp;#039;s what breaking your back does, it makes you grow up and reassess life.&amp;quot; "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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