Ryan Gosling Once Revealed That He Got Suspended From School For Throwing Steak Knives At Other Students In First Grade, And People Are Freaking Out
It is a pretty well known fact that when Ryan Gosling was a child, he was in The Mickey Mouse Club with the likes of Britney Spears, Justin Timberlake, and Christina Aguilera.
The rest, as you probably know, is history, with Ryan ultimately reaching global fame in 2004 thanks to his breakout role in The Notebook.
The screenshot passage details some lesser-known facts about the Hollywood actor’s childhood, reading: “[Ryan] ‘hated’ being a child, was bullied in elementary school, and had no friends until he was ’14 or 15.’”
“In grade one, having been heavily influenced by the action film First Blood, he took steak knives to school and threw them at other children during recess,” it continues. “This incident led to a suspension. He was unable to read.”
Sharing the excerpt, one X user wrote: “What the hell was Ryan Gosling’s childhood,” and the tweet quickly went viral — racking up tens of thousands of likes and retweets as other users reacted to the post.
“Imagine being his classmate thinking he was just some loner loser and one day he fucking brings knives to school and throws them at people… Only for him to turn out to be Ryan Gosling,” somebody wrote.
imagine being his classmate thinking he was just some loner loser and one day he fucking brings knives to school and throws them at people… only for him to turn out to be ryan gosling 😭 https://t.co/SzvcvXxmYe
— gemma (@thwalkingcorpse) January 17, 2024
“I feel like the ‘Rambo fixation that includes throwing knives at other kids’ and ‘has no friends’ might be related,” another joked. One more tweeted: “The ‘he was unable to read’ on top of everything 😭”
And while Wikipedia is sometimes guilty of publishing incorrect information on its site, that is actually not the case with Ryan.
In fact, it was Ryan himself who shared the steak knives story more than a decade ago.
In a 2011 interview with Company magazine, Ryan said that after watching the 1982 movie First Blood for the first time, he convinced himself that he really was Sylvester Stallone’s infamous character, John Rambo.
Ryan also told the National Post this anecdote that same year, adding that he was in Grade 1 at the time — which is six or seven years old. Ryan recalled filling up his Fisher Price magic kit box with the knives to take to school.
As for the other parts of Ryan’s viral Wikipedia bio, it is also true that the Hollywood star “hated” being a child.
