

"I would have never gone back in to take another look.

Examining his memories with movie and book writers, Gardner said, placed his life on a different scale. Now Gardner's story is about how a life with much larger stakes than any reality show got turned into a book, and then screenplay. But the gist of it was, being homeless is not a game, and if you think it is, I already won, so send me the money! Haven't heard from him again!" And I can't repeat what I said to the guy. He's gonna take some homeless people off the street, give them a job, and the one that does the most with their life is going to get a $300,000 house, $100,000 in cash. In the days just after his story was broadcast on "20/20," Gardner fielded a lot of weird offers related to his rise from homelessness to wealth - including a proposal for a reality show. Then, after getting himself into a training program and proving he could keep company with the best of them, Gardner became a multimillionaire stockbroker. "There's a choice: You eat or you stay in a hotel. Gardner used to be homeless, and on rare occasions, he holed up in a public bathroom with his son. The word "happiness" is deliberately misspelled, just as it was on the wall of a day care center where Gardner once sought care for his own son, Chris Jr., during some of his worst days. 15, and also stars Will Smith's son, Jaden.
