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I was a bully, says Vince
26/11/2007 11:52 - (SA)
Los Angeles - Vince Vaughn used to bully the "freaks" at his school.
The Fred Claus star admits he was a trouble-maker in his youth and when he was put in a special class for "problem kids" he took his anger out on his new classmates.
He said: "If I disagreed with something a teacher did, I would always stand my ground and voice my opinion. That led to me being diagnosed as hyperactive. So I'd end up in those special classes with the so-called problem kids.
"At first I was very mean to those kids because I'd always been popular at school and was very big on sports and didn't want to be in groups with them. I thought of them as freaks."
Change of heart
But the actor soon had a change of heart and instead of picking on them he started to look after them like Jack Nicholson's character in the classic film One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest, about a prisoner who feigns mental illness to avoid jail.
He added: "After a while, I was like McMurphy in One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest.
"I looked out for them because I grew to identify with them. They became my friends. Those experiences shaped me a lot." - Bang Showbiz.com
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