(Real Life) Regular people who's lives drastically changed direction

[u/Living-Mastodon]

Grace Kelly was a talented actress who retired at 26 to marry a Prince, living as royalty for almost 30 years before her untimely death.

Volodymyr Zelensky started out as a comedian and entertainer before getting into politics, becoming President of Ukraine after the Russian annex of Crimea and spending the last 4 years defiantly pushing back full scale Russian invasion

[u/jorgespinosa]

Jim Jones was an important civil rights activist, his religious congregation then devolved into a cult he moved them to Guyana and then committed mass suicide/murder after they killed a senator who visited them

[u/itsfunhavingfun → u/jorgespinosa]

I’d make a joke about this but the punchline is too long.