How This Man Went from Being a Troubled Teen to a Navy SEAL: 'I First Had to Hit Rock Bottom'
After his service as a Navy SEAL, Remi Adeleke had a role in Transformers: The Last Knight
By Caitlin Keating May 17, 2019 04:13 PM
Remi Adeleke’s life is straight out of a Hollywood movie.
Born in Nigeria and living the first few years of his life with extreme wealth, everything took a drastic turn for Adeleke, now 36, when his father died, they lost all of their money, and his mother moved him to the Bronx.
“That’s where my American journey began,†Adeleke tells PEOPLE. “And it didn’t start off well.â€
At 8 years old, he began to steal, and when he went to high school, he began selling drugs and running a fake sneaker business.
https://people.com/human-interest/how-troubled-teen-became-navy-seal-author/
