Kenan Thompson Recalls Losing Nickelodeon Earnings in Accounting Scam, ‘Going from Rags to Riches and Back to Rags’

> “My mom met this dude somewhere through the community — either like church or neighborhood s—, through a book club or something, who claimed to be a good kind of tax accountant, will get you out of your tax problems for the cheap,” he recalled.

> “He was basically a con artist and like ran away with my entire, my biggest earnings up until that point,” Thompson revealed. “By the time that was discovered, that was toward the end of that Nickelodeon tenure and the end of the job-to-job existence I had up until that point, and it was devastating because I discovered it in front of others.”

> Thompson explained he was in the process of buying his first home in Atlanta when he discovered his accountant wasn’t who he thought he was.

> “It’s crazy going from rags to riches and back to rags,” he added. “It’s a mother——.”