Christian Slater On Finishing High School… Finally!
Christian Slater is known for playing some pretty messed up roles (J.D. in Heathers - the role that made my 17 year old self totally fall in love with him - and Robert Boyd in Very Bad Things) and his off-screen life has been equally messed up. Arrested numerous times, with a jail sentence under his belt, in and out of rehab and sentenced to anti-domestic violence classes, he’s been a typical Hollywood bad boy.
But a few years ago he took a good hard look at his life and decided to make some changes. He made a list of things to accomplish and change. He got sober, for one. He also decided to finish high school. Slater recently sat down with Parade Magazine and talked about it - and it wasn’t easy for him.
“I had to go to a high school classroom with a bunch of kids getting their GED,” Slater says. “It was a three-day test. I did very well on the reading portions of it. I was very proud of that.”
Math was another story. “That was never a good subject for me,” he says. “I hated math. So I hired a tutor. I studied all the things that might come up on the test.” But the powers that be had apparently updated the exam, and the mathematics section had changed significantly. “So I had studied all the wrong material,” Slater tells me. “Now they hand me this test, and it’s got graphs and things like that. I thought, ‘Oh, God…’ I really thought I totally blew it, that I was going to have to take this test again, and how embarrassing that would be!” He laughs. “But it ended up that I squeaked by. That was a good moment.”
I know a lot of child stars (Christian started working when he was 10) often get so busy that they don’t ever bother to finish high school, and I think it’s great that Christian finally did. I think it also shows people that it’s never too late - so if you haven’t finished high school, go do it!
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He was one of my fav up and comer in the 80’s, starring in Heathers, Young Guns II, and Pump Up the Volume. I’m glad that he’s in a new show on NBC, My Own Worst Enemy.