A former child star, best known for playing Alfalfa in the 1994 Little Rascals movie, is boasting that his GoFundMe windfall is all part of "God's plan."
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41-year-old Brandon "Bug" Hall recently opened a GoFundMe, pleading to fans to help him financially after purchasing an over 80-acre plot of land in rural Arkansas. Despite publicly declaring he'd taken a vow of poverty and planned to live with his family off the grid utilizing minimal finances, the former actor cited his upcoming sixth child as a reason he needed fans to help him with covering bills he'd fallen behind on.
"It's now six years since I self-cancelled, and I have avoided doing one of these in all that time," Hall, who also appeared in The Big Green and Honey, We Shrunk Ourselves as a child star, wrote on his GoFundMe, which opened asking for a mere $2,000. "I always said this was my choice, and so I didn't want to offload the glorious burden of it unless there was no other choice. Well here we are."
"We're all overjoyed to be where we are, and we're even enjoying roughing it, but baby six is less than a month away. I really need some help," the self-described "radical Catholic extremist" who abandoned Hollywood circa 2020 added in his plea for funds.
Despite the modest initial goal of $2,000, the Little Rascal's star's GoFundMe has ballooned to over $29,000 in just days.
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While Hall claims he had every intention of shutting the GoFundMe down after reaching his goal, he told Page Six that the fundraising website (and God) had other ideas. He told the outlet that the fundraising website locked his campaign as it investigated after mass allegations from onlookers that Hall was abusing the platform for asking for donations after publicly declaring a vow of poverty.
By Hall's logic, it was essentially God's will that he couldn't access the GoFundMe post to turn it off while the investigation was underway and donations had already exceeded $2,000.
"God's will is always something that befuddles me," Hall told Page Six on Nov. 9. "I told everyone that once it reached $2,000, I was going to shut it down," he explained. He added that if the Trust and Safety investigation "hadn't happened, I would have been out of this whole thing at $2,000 and been happy."
"I wasn't going to get greedy and say I needed money for a tractor, a sawmill, or all the other things I need to get started," he continued, seemingly admitting he hadn't planned out his move to the sprawling 82-acre property very well.
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He also rejected the claim that his vow of poverty means he won't work or shouldn't accept help. Hall says it's a "lay vow," not a rejection of money, and that his family keeps monthly expenses to about $300.
"I seek an income or a paying job whenever there's an immediate financial need that can't be met another way," he told Page Six, once again sounding a bit like he hadn't planned this out all that well.
The former child actor also remained defiant about returning any of the funds beyond his $2,000 goal.
"I'm absolutely going to accept this as a gift from God and as a blessing from all the people who, for whatever reason, wanted to bless me," he told the outlet.
"This money is life-changing money for the vast majority of Americans," Hall added. "With the life I've chosen, it's life-changing for me, too."
The fundraiser follows Hall's reported April arrest in Ohio for missing a December 31, 2024, court date tied to a traffic citation for driving without liability insurance.
Meanwhile, as of this writing, the GoFundMe has raised $29,304 across 547 donations.
