*A 57-year-old aspiring actress is generating talk online after posting an emotional video detailing her struggle with being broke. The clip, titled “57 and Broke,” finds Celeste Jona Gay in her car on a dreary February day during her lunch break, speaking to her 42 subscribers on YouTube.
Gay touches on the choices she has made sense arriving in Atlanta to pursue a career as an actress and mistakes she’s made in her journey, CNN is reporting. Despite holding down jobs that paid her “a good salary” and live comfortably, Gay opted to pursue her dreams of being an actress. A dream she has had since the sixth grade after appearing in a play.
“It has been really tough for me because of some decisions that I have made that I regret making,” she said in the video, clearing her throat. “I always talk about Atlanta, and I feel like when I left my corporate job making a good salary and decided to chase a dream, thinking everything would fall into place, things would be in order, my life blew up.”
Soon after she posted her clip, amassed more than half a million views as well as a slew of support, with a noticeable jump in subscribers totaling more than 21,000 subscribers on YouTube.
“It just kind of knocked me over like a tidal wave,” Gay told CNN of the response. “I didn’t think all this was going to happen.”
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