CNN entertainment | Tyler Perry, who was once homeless, is now a billionaire, Forbes says

(CNN) – Tyler Perry enjoys how people sometimes explain his success.

“I love when people say you come from ‘humble beginnings,’ ” he recently told Forbes. “[It] means you were poor as hell.”

Things have certainly changed.

Raised in poverty in New Orleans, Perry dropped out of high school and went through a period of homelessness as he struggled as a playwright.  —more—