Hosea Chanchez‘s introduction to Los Angeles was a series of unfortunate events. At 17, he dropped out of school and drove across the country with his cousin in his Mitsubishi Eclipse, expecting to stay with a family member and pursue his dream of being a working actor.
His housing plans fell through, but his relative organized for him to temporarily crash with a friend.“I ended up staying one night with this young lady, and I had no idea that she was on drugs and was dating her drug dealer,” he said during this week’s “Renaissance Man.”If it sounds ominous, it was.
Hosea, fresh off a life-changing road trip filled with Biggie Smalls, Snoop Dogg, Tupac and Brandy tunes, unpacked his belongings into the house.“And the next day the drug dealer boyfriend kicked the door down, stole all my stuff.
And I mean everything but the red Dirt Devil vacuum cleaner. He stole all of my stuff and forbid me to come back to the house … And the rest of the cash that I had — I think I had about $1,200 — she stole,” he said.
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