Dark lives of millionaire Simpsons stars…youth jail & booze battle to Bart actor’s pain over Scientology scandal tragedy

SHE has famously voiced straight-laced Milhouse successful The Simpsons for 35 years - but the young beingness of Pamela Hayden couldn't beryllium further from the nerdy character.

The actress (below), 71, who is retiring from the animated drama this Sunday, revealed she served a stint successful juvenile detention erstwhile she was conscionable a schoolhouse kid.

Now Pamela says it's clip to “hang up my microphone” aft 694 episodes, wherever she voiced Bart's champion friend, Homer’s spiritual neighbour Rod Flanders and the schoolhouse bully Jimbo Jones.

While galore were amazed by her backstory, her difficulties are thing compared to what immoderate of her co-stars person faced.

They see Simpsons co-stars - Hank Azaria and Kelsey Grammer - battling intoxicant problems.

There was besides calamity for Julie Kavner, aka Marge Simpson, whose spouse of 46 years died successful 2022, and different prima whose fiance took his ain beingness termination successful 2009.

While it was each laughs connected surface - (as you tin spot below) - down the scenes a batch of troubles plagued the Simpsons dependable stars. Here we uncover their stories.

Yeardley Smith - aka Lisa Simpson

Two years agone the twice-divorced histrion got hitched to the detective who was tasked with being her bodyguard astatine the unveiling of a Simpsons mural.

Yeardley (below), 60, who met Dan Grice successful 2014 successful Springfield, Oregon, needed extortion due to the fact that she’d been harassed by stalkers successful the past.

It was a blessed ending, for the prima whose beingness has been acold from easy.

For astir a 4th of a period she suffered from bulimia, lone checking herself into a session erstwhile she turned 40 successful a bid to flooded the compulsion to propulsion up her food.

The Lisa Simpson prima said: "I retrieve thinking, 'I can't crook 40 and inactive beryllium bingeing and puking my brains out, I can't.' 

“So I benignant of pulled up my socks and said, 'All right, I request immoderate existent help.'"

Yeardley divided from her 2nd hubby Daniel Erickson successful 2008, pursuing six years of marriage.

She divorced her archetypal hubby Christopher Grove, an histrion successful 1992.

Yeardley is worthy an estimated £96million

Nancy Cartwright - aka Bart Simpson

“Ay, caramba", the pistillate who voices skateboarding rebel Bart, is 1 of Scientology’s astir devoted followers.

Nancy, 67, has been a subordinate of the contentious cult since 1991 and past twelvemonth visited the UK for its yearly get-together successful East Grinstead, Surrey.

She is reported to person donated much than £16million to the secretive organisation, but tin spend to due to the fact that the histrion earns astir £160,000 per Simpsons episode.

Nancy had 2 children, Lucy Mae and Jackson, with her erstwhile hubby Warren Murphy, who she divorced successful 2002 aft 14 years of marriage.

Seven years later, calamity struck erstwhile her operation idiosyncratic fiance Stephen Brackett took his ain life.

This was followed by a ineligible conflict implicit claims that Stephen had “diverted declaration funds” from a occupation helium was moving connected to the Church of Scientology.

Nancy’s niece is Sabrina Carpenter, the popular prima who has topped the charts with Espresso.

Julie Kavner - aka Marge Simpson

For the past 2 years, Julie has been grieving the nonaccomplishment of her hubby David Davis, who died successful November 2022.

They had been unneurotic since 1976, having met portion moving connected a TV bid called Rhoda, which David had helped create.

Julie, 74, said: “He gave maine my career, my bosom and my life.”

But the histrion seldom speaks publically and won’t beryllium photographed portion working.

Her obsession with privateness goes arsenic acold arsenic not inviting friends to her location successful Los Angeles.

Julie told the New York Times: “I person had friends for years who person ne'er seen my house.”

David was aged 86 erstwhile helium passed away.

Julie considered retiring successful 1992 but The Simpsons wouldn’t beryllium the aforesaid without her gravely voice.

Hank Azaria - aka Barman Moe and Chief Wiggum

The histrion was devastated by the decease of his pal Matthew Perry past twelvemonth - revealing that the Friends’ prima had helped him discontinue booze for good.

Hank, 60, whose roles included Phoebe Buffay's fellow David successful the sitcom, said:  “We were truly much similar brothers for a agelong time.

"We drank a batch together, we laughed a batch together. We were determination for each different successful the aboriginal days of our career.”

It was Matthew who took Hank to Alcoholics Anonymous 18 years agone and helped the Simpsons histrion enactment sober.

He said: “The nighttime I went into AA, Matthew brought maine in. As a sober idiosyncratic helium was truthful caring and giving and omniscient and helium wholly helped maine get sober.”

Hank, who besides worked connected Night astatine the Museum and The Smurfs, was joined to histrion Helen Hunt for a twelvemonth and has a 15-year-old lad called Hal with his 2nd woman Katie Wright

Two years agone helium apologised for the offence helium caused by proving the dependable of Indian migrant Apu connected The Simpsons, pursuing complaints of racial stereotyping of the store worker.

Kelsey Grammer - aka Sideshow Bob

The four-times joined prima has a beingness astir arsenic analyzable arsenic a Simpsons plot.

The 69-year-old histrion is champion known for playing snooty psychiatrist Dr Frasier Crane connected Cheers and Frasier, but besides voiced Bart’s evil nemesis Sideshow Bob.

Kelsey suffered a unspeakable trauma successful 1975 erstwhile helium had to place the assemblage of his murdered 18-year-old sister Karen.

She had been brutally slain by serial slayer Freddie Glenn and 2 different men.

The intelligence wellness issues are believed to person contributed to his conflict with portion and drugs.

Kelsey was caught driving nether the power successful 1987 and a twelvemonth aboriginal was fixed 300 hours of assemblage work for possessing cocaine.

In 1990 helium was jailed for 30 days aft failing to be an intoxicant maltreatment program, which was portion of his probation.

The father-of-seven became sober successful 1996 aft astir dying successful a car crash.

These days helium has recovered God and has been joined to erstwhile hose attendant Katye Walsh, from Bristol, since 2011.

Kelsey is known for his outspoken governmental views, erstwhile saying that helium admired Vladimir Putin and supporting Donald Trump.

Pamela Hayden - aka Milhouse

The 71-year-old histrion is 1 of the archetypal Simpsons formed members - having voiced Bart’s champion pal Milhouse since earlier it was adjacent commissioned arsenic a TV series.

But Pamela has revealed that she had to bounce backmost from a pugnacious commencement successful beingness - she had neglectful parents, was sent to an abusive boarding schoolhouse and ended up successful juvenile detention for stealing.

In past year's documentary Jailhouse to Milhouse, she said: "I lived a truly reckless life, I ne'er thought I'd unrecorded to beryllium 30...

"After I got retired of that spot (jail), the caput head said to my parents, 'She'll ne'er magnitude to anything'."

It made her each the much determined to beryllium a occurrence and done her astir celebrated quality Milhouse, she recovered solace.

Pamela said: "I can’t retrieve however galore times I’ve said, 'Everything’s coming up Milhouse!' But the information is, everything wasn’t ever coming up Pamela.

"Milhouse is ever getting knocked down, but helium keeps getting backmost up, and I emotion that.

"I had immoderate truly pesky years erstwhile I was younger. I consciousness similar Milhouse mirrors that. You can't beryllium disheartened by each obstacle that comes your way. There's a brighter time tomorrow.”

She felt Milhouse's quality to ever bounce back, nary substance however galore mishaps the scriptwriters propulsion astatine him, could beryllium inspirational to others.

Pamela, who lives successful California, besides spoke astir her intelligence wellness issues and struggles with depression, which she brands her "nemesis" successful the doc.