Several of Hollywood’s biggest stars have opened up about their ups and downs growing up in the Mormon church.
Katherine Heigl’s family converted to the religion after her brother, Jason, died in 1986 of injuries suffered in a car accident. “Both my parents felt a great desire for answers, and they found an answer in the Mormon church — or answers they could live with, anyway, because there really are none,” she told Vanity Fair in January 2008. “I give my parents unbelievable credit for pulling it together, and I give the Mormon church a lot of credit for helping them to do that.”
Although the Grey’s Anatomy alum is no longer practicing, her upbringing as a Latter-day Saint influenced her relationship with Josh Kelley, whom she wed in December 2007.
“I … didn’t want to live together before we were married. I still have enough Mormon in me — not a lot, but enough — that I wanted to keep that a little bit sacred,” she told the outlet.
Keep scrolling to see which celebrities grew up in the Mormon church — and what they’ve said about the religion:
