Unlike other celebrities looking to stay in the limelight, Jewel shied away from the attention, and after her success in the s, she fell out of the spotlight. Jewel Kilcher was born in Utah, but the family moved back to their homestead in Alaska shortly after her birth. Her parents divorced when she was eight, and Jewel moved with her father to a house that had no indoor plumbing and was far from town.
They ate off the land — whatever they could kill or can, and a young Jewel spent much of her time exploring the outdoors. She performed in taverns and bars around town and in Anchorage, often with her father, until she received a scholarship to a Michigan art school. She moved there and learned how to play guitar and write songs. She relocated to California after graduating and played in coffee houses and even had to live in her car for a short time.
Left alone with her father, he became angry and abusive. He would make her practice music for five hours a day. Nobody would invest in me. As a human, as a child. My mum left when I was eight," she told Fox Business Network. And when my mum left, he suddenly found himself a single father and was incredibly anxious, and turned to drinking to try to calm that anxiety, and he became abusive when I was eight.
It was around this time that she also began to be harassed by drunk, much older men, at gigs. On a recent episode of Armchair Expert , she recalled the time a man came out of the restroom and gave her a dime.
After putting herself through Interlochen arts school in Michigan, Jewel moved in with her mother in San Diego. When she was fired from her job for rebuking her boss's advances, she was forced to move into her van.
She lived like that for a year and would often spend her days parked in grocery store carparks, playing music in the back of the van. Then, while she was in hospital with a kidney infection, her van was stolen, and she became homeless. You're an animal.
You're just stuck on survive. Her twelfth studio album notwithstanding, Jewel's been churning out plenty of work in different formats. Though she's not one of Hollywood's most sought-after celebs these days, she's still making an impact in some subtler ways.
Besides, as Jewel says, her career hasn't been about making music. Instead, it's about "solving for pain" in the world, and to that end, her journey is probably going to continue a whole lot longer than her upcoming album release. Lane is a writer who loves entertainment and media and watches as many movies as she reads books.
She loves a good story, even if she has to write it herself. What Happened To Singer Jewel? View this post on Instagram. These are the same tools she uses to help at-risk youth through her charity, and the same tools she is offering online for free. Any singer-songwriter who has achieved critical acclaim knows that they must step into acting at some point. I mean, that's basically the formula nowadays. If you can sing, you can act, right?
Actually, in Jewel's case, she's not half-bad. Since then, she has appeared in various shows as herself and bit character roles. Her most recent acting gig took her to the Hallmark Channel in But wait, there's more!
Jewel's family, including her dad and brother, is regularly featured on the reality series Alaska: The Last Frontier.
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