Celebs Who Left Hollywood For God

Sherri Shepherd

The current co-host of The View has been pretty open about her faith on the show, and on the impact it has had on her life. She said she moved closer to God as her mom was dying, after she started getting evicted and was dealing with a stalker ex-boyfriend. Once she did, she admits that the “vulgar” stand-up she used to do had to go, and she lost some fans in the process of coming into her own:

“It was dirty. I thought I had to be Eddie Murphy. And it was working. It was very dirty, vulgar and blue. I had a following. I had a huge gay following because I did all the clubs in West Hollywood. All the gay pride parades and festivals. When you go into those kind of clubs, all male clubs, it kind of lends itself to being blue. I would get on stage and do an hour. Oh man, I was so blue. But I got a big following. It was very hard to let all that material go because I lost a lot of my following.”