"It Breaks My Heart": 32 Popular Kids Who Threw Everything Away

Kid had a full ride to college to play soccer and was nationally ranked at his position. He got drunk the week before leaving for college, drove and crashed into a telephone pole. He was ejected from the car and was airlifted to the hospital. Survived but never fully recovered from his injuries, lost his scholarship and never went to college.

She was stunning. She eventually hooked up with some gazillionairre and moved to Miami. She had the life. Then she got older and gained some weight and it was all over. Last I heard she was back home living with her mom.

Keep thinking and behaving as they’re the main character. now they can’t stay in one job for 3 months.

Became a raging alcoholic after he moved to NYC to become a model. He was beautiful.

The senior class president of the class ahead of me died on the last day of classes in an accident at the local (illegal) swimming hole. Held onto a rope swing a second too long, hit the rocks and went under.

Became a foreign exchange student in his senior year. By the time he came back he was a baby daddy to one of his classmates in that other country.

Got into an argument with his girlfriend while going 120 mph in his truck, hit a boat that was on a trailer backing out of a driveway.


7 days before his 18th birthday, his girlfriend was ~8 months pregnant too.

Did not take his diabetes seriously and sadly passed away in his early twenties.

Did steroids and had a heart attack while working out and passed away.

Not the most popular kid in school but probably the most famous one now: a classmate of mine OD’d in the bathroom of her daughter’s hospital room while said daughter was undergoing surgery. Made national news.

Got pregnant unplanned.

The popular kid from my school won four Superbowl rings. He lived two houses away from me.