Keke Palmer Opens Up About Declaring Bankruptcy At 18: 'I Was So Spooked'

Keke Palmer is opening up about her child star past — and her once-dire financial straits.

The Nope actor became her family’s breadwinner while still a young girl. And though that Hollywood gambit ultimately paid off, Palmer recently revealed she’d declared bankruptcy at 18 years of age.

“I was so spooked,” she admitted at the Building Wealth Today for Tomorrow financial literacy event in Chicago, per Afrotech. “I was like, ‘What went wrong?’”

Palmer was only 10 years old when she landed her first part in Barbershop 2...