Will Ferrell Recalls Being ‘So Embarrassed’ by His Real Name Growing Up: ‘It Wasn’t My Choice’

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1. > Ferrell described having to wait through the first week of school before his teachers would remember he went by Will as “excruciating to me.” “It wasn’t my choice,” he said, when Applegate asked about his disdain for the name John. “My parents named [me] John but they called me Will. I grew up as Will, but on a rule sheet, my legal name is John Ferrell.”

2. My mom had a classmate named Sterling Silver back in high school. Poor bastard.

3. I’m the same. My parents called me by my middle name. My joke became “Only the government calls me by my first name.”

4. That’s a peak first world white guy problem.

   ‘wahh I want people to call me Will, not John’

5. I went to school with Roland Butter and Rosie Bottom.