Giancarlo Esposito may be a big star now, but times were so tough in the aughts that he considered committing insurance fraud to help pay the bills.
During a recent interview on of SiriusXM’s Jim & Sam, The Gentleman star recalled a time in 2008 when he was feeling particular desperate about cash flow. “My way out in my brain was, ‘hey, do you get life insurance if someone commits suicide?
Do they get the bread?’ My wife had no idea why I was asking this stuff,” recalled Esposito. “I started scheming. If I got somebody to knock me off, death by misadventure, [my family] would get the insurance.
I had four kids. I wanted them to have a life. It was a hard moment in time. I literally thought of self-annihilation so they could survive.
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