Chris Pratt Says He Blew Through First Big Acting Paycheck of $75,000: 'Never Had Any Money Growing Up'

Pratt appeared on SiriusXM’s 'Sway In The Morning' and revealed he didn't know how to handle money when he found success in Hollywood

Chris Pratt is opening up about the first time he received a large sum of money for his work in Hollywood.

Speaking on SiriusXM’s Sway In The Morning in a video posted on Saturday, May 25, Pratt, 44, revealed that he blew all of his first acting paycheck because he didn't know how to handle the money.

Asked if his humble beginnings led to him struggling with how to spend money, The Garfield Movie star revealed it was the opposite for him.

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“Oh, no. No, no. I was under the impression that I would never run out of money,” the former waiter said before laughing. “The first paycheck I got, I was like ‘Are you serious?’ I had lived on very little money for a long time, so the first big job I got… was a TV movie. I got paid $75,000.”

The star then sang his own rendition of George Michael’s song “Careless Whisper.”

“I was like, ‘I’m never gonna wait again. F--- you, b----, I am leaving,” he sang. “And about two months later, I was like, ‘Where’d that money go?!”

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Pratt revealed that he spent the money by going on vacation to different parts of the world like Hawaii and Australia.

“I was like, ‘Well, I’m gonna probably invest. I’m probably gonna get a yacht.’”

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Pratt explained that he was never taught financial literacy when he was young and therefore didn’t know how to handle or manage money.

“It took a good amount of time for me to kind of stop and say, ‘All right, I gotta get wise about this. I have to think about, ‘What am I gonna do? How am I gonna get to the point to where if I stop working one day, I’ll still be okay? My family will be okay,'" he continued.

He added that coming up with a financial plan later in his life was “one of the steps of me growing up.”

The Jurassic World star also said that while the moments in his career where he felt like he had “made it'' included getting his SAG card and a Carl’s Jr. TV commercial, buying his mother Kathy Pratt a house after appearing on the TV series Everwood was his greatest "I made it" moment.

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