Rebecca Ferguson said she had to payrent to her mother at the age of 13. The 34-year-old actress' parents divorced when she was three, and she lived between their houses in Sweden, but when she landed her first job, on a soap opera, as a teenager, she was told to "give back" to their family and feels grateful for having to do that. She recalled her mother said: "You're going to pay rent now, because you're a working woman who is earning more than me so you give back to the family." Of that experience, Rebecca said: "I learnt then the value of making money for myself." After the show ended a year later, Rebecca struggled to find where she fitted in because she'd given up school for her work. She told Vogue magazine: "I remember thinking, I'm just not a part of that world anymore. I wasn't going to university, I couldn't, because I'd left school early. "By 16, I'd left home too. My ...
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