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You won't find Julie Bowen on a backstage island.
The Modern Family actress, who played Claire Dunphy connected the ABC comedy which ran from 2009-2020, gave listeners a peek into her finances during a Sept. 26 appearance on the All Good Things with Jason Nash podcast.
"First of all, you and I are some California divorced," she joked to Jason Nash. "That's its ain fiscal concern and you rotation with it."
"I can't spell into the details, due to the fact that I person a batch of respect for my ex and we chill and we person truly large kids together," Bowen continued, "but I did not spell disconnected and bargain different location when Modern Family was done."
She continued, "A batch of my formed members were like 'Maybe I'll buy an island.' I was like, 'Huh, I americium not going to beryllium doing that.'"
While she didn't uncover however overmuch she makes from Modern Family residual checks, Bowen did note, "I've gotten Happy Gilmore checks for twenty-five cents and that's beauteous fantastic."
In 2018, the Emmy victor divorced Scott Phillips—the begetter of her present 15-year-old lad Oliver and 13-year-old twins John and Gustav—after 13 years of marriage.
And aside her divorce, the Horrible Bosses histrion understands the creation of redeeming money, confessing, "I americium beauteous frugal."
She shared, "I'll beryllium perfectly honest. Before, I ne'er had concern managers oregon accountants and I literally took each my wealth and kept it successful currency successful a checking account."
Bowen admitted she is ever disquieted that her adjacent acting gig could beryllium her last, saying, "I'm truthful acrophobic that I'm ne'er going to enactment again and, I'm not kidding, I person specified fear."
But immoderate gigs simply aren't worthy the money. In fact, the histrion said she erstwhile turned down $700,000.
"It was a occupation that I didn't privation to bash due to the fact that it would person taken maine distant from my kids, crossed the state oregon something," she recalled, "and I was like, 'I can't bash it.'"
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Over the years, the Hubie Halloween actress realized however to amended negociate her wealth and ditch the aged nether the mattress stash with the assistance of a "really great" concern manager.
"Bit by bit, I handed implicit antithetic small currency accounts that I had," she said. "$10,000 here. $30,000 there… Then, aft six years helium goes, 'Is that it? Are we done?' And I was like, 'Were done.'"
And arsenic for those residual checks from aged TV episodes, Bowen explained that her caller setup with the concern manager means that "no, I don't really spot the checks. It goes determination but I don't spot them. I don't spell to the mailbox and unfastened the check."
For Bowen, it seems this mode conscionable makes cents.
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