Robert Redford was one of Hollywood's brightest stars for decades before his death at 89 – but RadarOnline.com can reveal behind the golden boy image was a troubled youth who numbed himself with drink while trying to survive as a penniless art student in Europe.

Redford, the Oscar -winning actor and director whose career spanned more than six decades with films such as Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid , The Sting, and All the President’s Men , left the United States in 1956 after barely scraping through his first year of college. Article continues below advertisement

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He arrived in Paris to study painting, co

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