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Famous People Who Became HomelessNot all success stories have happy endings.Sometimes the rich and famous have inspiring rags-to-riches stories. Other times, these fallen stars lose their way and end up lost, desperate, or homeless.Blame it on drug abuse, chronic illness, poor financial planning, or just bad luck.Here are the heartbreaking stories of stars who had nowhere else to turn but shelters and the streets.Once Lois Lane in the Superman movies, Margot Kidder was found wandering the streets after a long battle with mental illness.Kidder, the actress who played Superman's love interest Lois Lane in the Christopher Reeve-era films, was once a Hollywood star who dated "bigs like Richard Pryor and Canadian Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau."According to Daily Finance, Kidder battled schizophrenia and manic depression and even refused treatment at one time. "[P]lagued by paranoia, [Kidder] slept in cardboard boxes and backyards around Los Angeles in 1996. With her front teeth missing and her hair hacked off, a disheveled Kidder announced to the Glendale, Calif., woman whose yard she occupied, 'I may not look like it, but I'm Margot Kidder.'"Today, the actress lives in Montana and is a grandmother."Sugar Ray" Williams, once an NBA superstar, was found sleeping out of his Buick in 2010.In the late-1970s through the mid-1980s, Williams was captain of the New York Knicks and played for the Boston Celtics' 1985 NBA Finals team.But in 2010, The Boston Globe reported that he was sleeping in the backseat of his 1992 Buick in Pompano Beach, Florida. In an interview with Bob Hohler at the Globe, Williams said that the NBA should take better care of their retired players, as he is only one of many former stars in need of assistance.“When I played the game, they always talked about loyalty to the team,’’ Williams said. “Well, where’s the loyalty and compassion for ex-players who are hurting? We opened the door for these guys whose salaries are through the roof.’’Academy Award winner Bobby Driscoll was famous as a child, but died penniless at 31 in an abandoned building.Robert Cletus "Bobby" Driscoll became famous as a child through movies such as "So Dear To My Heart," "The Window" and "Treasure Island."In 1950, he won an Academy Award for his role in "The Window," but by 1956, he was arrested for marijuana and was reportedly using harder drugs. In 1968, his body was found by two children in an abandoned building in downtown New York.He "died penniless from drug-hardened arteries at age 31."Iran "The Blade" Barkley amassed $5 million from his boxing career before ending up homeless.Mike Lizzi/Wikimedia CommonsIn 2010, the New York Post reported that the former boxing champion was sleeping in a Howard Johnson Express in the Bronx.In the '80s and '90s, Barkley made around $5 million, but eventually lost those earnings. Barkley was then forced to move in with his niece living in the Patterson Houses, a public housing development in the Bronx. When she evicted him, the former boxing star slept in subway cars before ending up at Howard Johnson.After a couple of arrests followed by a hospitalization, actress Natasha Lyonne found herself living on the streets.Getty ImagesIn the '90s, Lyonne was all over the screen in "But I'm a Cheerleader," "Slums of Beverly Hills," and "American Pie."But her promising career was "derailed" after a series of encounters with the law. Sara Vilkomerson at Inside Movies reports:"In 2001, [Lyonne] was arrested for a DUI [and] in 2004, she was charged with mischief, trespass, and harassment of a neighbor (and the neighbor’s dog)." These incidents were followed by a 2005 hospitalization "for a variety of ailments, including a collapsed lung and hepatitis C."She was eventually evicted from a friend's townhouse, and ended up living on the streets.Since then, Lyonne has tried to revitalized her acting career. She currently plays inmate Nicky Nichols on Netflix's "Orange is the New Black." Shortly before that, Lyonne played an alleged rape victim in an episode of "Law and Order: SVU," and appeared in the off-Broadway play "Tigers Be Still."Houston McTear, a two-time Olympic qualifier, slept on Santa Monica Beach for three years.AP ImagesAt one time, McTear was dubbed "the world's fastest human" and tied the world record, running a 100-yard dash in 9.0 seconds while still in high school.He was able to escape poverty in Florida and moved to Los Angeles where he tried his hand in boxing under the coaching of Muhammad Ali and Harold Smith.According to Ron Dicker at Daily Finance, when the club went under McTear lost his support and was also suffering from drug abuse. He ended up sleeping on Santa Monica Beach for years before being rescued by an older woman.In 1993, he married former Swedish sprinter Linda Haglund.Child star Danny Bonaduce suffered from alcohol and drug addictions before becoming homeless as an adult.Anthony Citrano/Wikimedia CommonsThe '70s smash hit "The Partridge Family" made Bonaduce a household name. But the actor later became known for his stints in rehab, which eventually led to his experience with homelessness as an adult.According to Daily Finance, "Bonaduce lived in his car behind Grauman's Chinese Theatre in Hollywood ... [and] said on a radio show he would greet autograph seekers there."He is now a drive-time DJ on WSYP in Philadelphia and has recently remarried, reports AOL TV.Golden-Globe nominated actress Brett Butler battled drug addiction and ended up in a homeless shelter.YouTubeButler found her rise to stardom in the ABC sitcom "Grace Under Fire," but during the show, she battled a recurring drug addiction and spent time in rehab.After Grace was cancelled in 1998, Butler moved out of L.A. and onto a farm in Georgia where she lived with 15 pets. When the money ran out, she turned to a homeless shelter for cover.A 2011 Hollywood Reporter article said that Butler was attempting to make a career comeback, and is working on "developing a reality TV show about her self-professed psychic abilities and performing at the Downtown Comedy Club in Los Angeles."Actor Willie Aames was making more than a $1m annually, but lost it all and ended up sleeping under bushes and in parking garages.YouTubeWhen the star of "Charles In Charge" and "Eight Is Enough" faced bankruptcy and foreclosure, he resorted to sleeping under bushes and in parking garages.In an interview with Entertainment Tonight, Aames says:"At the very peak [of "Eight Is Enough"] I was making a little over a million dollars a year. Then suddenly there was no job, no bank account, no wife, no child. I never dreamt it could happen that fast. I found myself virtually homeless. I stayed with friends when I could, slept in parking garages or slept in the park. It was shameful. I remember laying underneath the bushes thinking, 'Is this how it turns out? Is this how my life really turns out?'"According to Accounting Today, Aames might be planning a second career as a financial adviser. Currently, he's passed three requisite licensing exams and a training program that will position him to work in the field.Two-time world boxing champion Rocky Lockridge has been living on the streets for a decade.Rocky Lockridge (right) throws a punch YouTube/Star LedgerIn the 1970s and '80s, Lockridge was a world boxing champion, but lost it all when he started losing his winning stride.According to an interview with Todd Schmerler at The Star-Ledger, Lockridge admitted to having a 20-year drug addiction and said that after each fight, he would party for "two weekends," snorting cocaine and drinking "whatever was around."He's been living on the streets of Camden, N.J. for 10 years. Schmerler writes:"Lockridge has no money. His body tilts to one side when he walks, the result of a stroke he says he suffered three years ago. His scraggly, graying beard makes him seem far older than 50."Child star Erin Moran was reportedly kicked out of the trailer she was living in last year.APMoran became a household name at the age of 14 through her role as Joanie Cunningham on ABC's "Happy Days."In 2012, Virginia Skeels at the Daily Mail reported that the 52-year-old was "reportedly being kicked out of the trailer she shared with her husband Steve Fleischmann."Some other Star To Homeless: Amanda BynesAmanda Bynes came to prominence as a child star in the 2000s on Nickelodeon's comedy sketch, The Amanda Show (1999-2002), and later on The WB sitcom, What I Like About You (2002-2006). She also appeared in several movies, such as What a Girl Wants (2003) and Hairspray (2007).Bynes was arrested for DUI in 2012 and later in Ventura County in 2013 for allegedly starting a fire on a private driveway. She was placed on psychiatric hold and her parents filed for conservatorship. After she was released from psychiatric hold, she was spotted in November 2014 sleeping on a sofa at The Beverly Center and later wandering. She accused her parents of refusing to provide her with shelter, but TMZ reported that her parents had wanted her to stay away from WeHo. They obtained a place for her in Glendale, but she refused to stay there.Star To Homeless: Nick StahlNick Stahl, who starred alongside Arnold Schwarzenegger as John Connor in Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines (2003), had started a promising career as a child actor when he co-starred with Mel Gibson in The Man Without a Face (1993). Sadly, substance addiction interfered with his career and, in 2012, his wife announced he was missing.Roseann and Nick had married in June 2009, but due to Stahl’s substance abuse problem they separated in January 2012, and his access to their daughter was restricted. He became homeless after the separation and stayed with a friend. But in May 2012, Roseann reported that Nick had disappeared and admitted he had a history of leaving home to hang out on Skid Row.Star To Homeless: Brett ButlerBrett Butler, a comedian and actress, was the former star of the ABC sitcom Grace Under Fire (1993-1998). She became homeless in 2011 after struggling with substance addiction for many years. Her substance abuse interfered with her performance on Grace Under Fire. Her erratic behavior and unpredictable mood swings forced ABC to cancel her contract and end the show abruptly in 1998. After the show ended, Butler relocated to a farm in Georgia and lived there until she ran out of money and ended up homeless in 2011.She began making career comeback efforts in 2011 soon after she became homeless. She appeared on The Rosie Show in 2012 and on the CBS soap The Young and the Restless. She also secured a recurring role on the FX show Anger Management (2012-2014), alongside Charlie Sheen. She later appeared on The Leftovers in 2015 and How To Get Away With Murder in 2016.Star To Homeless: Natasha LyonneNatasha Lyonnne, who starred in the American Pie movies (1999-2012) and the romantic comedy movies Slums of Beverly Hills (1998) and But I'm a Cheerleader (1999), went missing in the summer of 2005 after she was charged with trespassing and harassment of neighbors. Neighbors said she was behaving erratically and had missed some rent payments before she was evicted by her landlord.She surfaced on the streets of NYC homeless and later reported at Manhattan's Beth Israel Medical Center under a fake name. She received treatment at the hospital for a variety of issues.Thankfully, she has since recovered and revived her acting career. She was nominated for the 2014 Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actress in a Comedy Series for her role as Nicky Nichols on Netflix's Orange Is the New Black.Multiple sources:10 Stars Who Became Homeless (And 10 Homeless People Who Became Stars)11 Famous People Who Became Homeless