‘Moana 2’ star was raised on food stamps before Disney success

Auli’i Cravalho, the dependable down Disney’s Moana character, didn’t person the easiest commencement successful life.

In a caller interrogation with People magazine, the 24-year-old opened up astir landing the relation that changed her life.

"I truly get to person that afloat decennary look backmost astatine conscionable however overmuch maturation I've gone through," she told the outlet.

"Moana" prima Auli'i Cravalho survived disconnected nutrient stamps and lived with her ma successful a one-bedroom flat earlier landing her breakout role. (Kate Green/Getty Images)

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Before she voiced the pb quality successful 2016’s "Moana," Cravalho and her ma were connected nutrient stamps and sharing a one-bedroom flat successful Mililani connected Oahu.

"We lived successful a one-bedroom flat successful Mililani erstwhile I was cast. I slept successful the bedroom, my ma slept connected the couch. She gave maine everything," the "Mean Girls" prima said.

 Auli'i Cravalho voiced the pb quality successful 2016’s "Moana" and its sequel. (Kate Green; © 2024 Disney)

Cravalho grew up connected The Big Island and Oahu, and aft the occurrence of the archetypal "Moana," bought her mother, Puanani, a house.

Cravalho says her ma "gave maine everything." (Paul Hiffmeyer/Disney Parks via Getty Images)

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"I bought my mommy a house. She's happily retired," she told People.

"Your parents springiness you truthful much," she continued. "Kids consciousness a small indebted, I'm going to beryllium honest! But we consciousness truthful grateful for our parents’ sacrifices."

"We lived successful a one-bedroom flat successful Mililani erstwhile I was cast. I slept successful the bedroom, my ma slept connected the couch. She gave maine everything."

Cravalho said her parents, who divorced erstwhile she was young, kept her grounded from the start of her career.

"My parents were like, ‘Listen, if ["Moana"] doesn't spell anywhere, you request to decorativeness precocious school. You request to bash the dishes. You request to hole your bed. Don't fto it get to your head,’" she said.

Cravalho starred with Dwayne Johnson successful some "Moana" animated films. (Barry King/WireImage)

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In a caller interrogation with The New York Times, Cravalho said that she was instantly associated with the character.

"My sanction was nary longer Auli’i — everyone called maine Moana up and down the hall, including immoderate of my teachers!" she told the outlet erstwhile asked what she remembered astir the time she got the news.

"I perfectly beryllium the commencement of my vocation to Moana, and I person done roles present that person stretched maine arsenic an histrion and made maine turn arsenic a person," she added. "But I besides find myself profoundly connected inactive to Moana successful that I miss my household each the clip erstwhile I’m gone."

Cravalho said that everyone she knew started calling her "Moana" erstwhile she landed the portion astatine 14. (© 2024 Disney)

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Cravalho besides reflected connected being a "Disney kid," with People, saying, "I deliberation truthful overmuch of it is giving each of your vigor to a task and past having thing successful reserve for yourself."

She admitted she could beryllium stubborn astir doing homework and says her ma "was the 1 to discipline."

Cravalho said being a "Disney kid" requires "giving each of your vigor to a task and past having thing successful reserve for yourself." (Alberto E. Rodriguez/Getty Images for Disney)

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"She was the 1 to truly enactment maine close past and there… That was immoderate pugnacious parenting successful allowing maine to turn arsenic a human, but besides looking maine successful the oculus and saying, ‘You request to beryllium benignant and you request to beryllium benignant to me.’ It was astatine those moments that I realized, ‘Okay, I can't springiness each of myself.’"