Make Page Six a Preferred Source Brandon “Bug” Hall said he took a “vow of poverty” after he was arrested in 2020 for allegedly huffing air duster cans.
“I got arrested. I mean, the shame, that was due to me,” he exclusively told Page Six in an interview about his first arrest. (In April 2026, Hall was arrested in Ohio and charged with failure to appear for a court date from December 2024.)
“That was on Father’s Day. My family was out of town. And I was, at that point, I was 12 years sober with one other relapse mixed in there,” the “Little Rascals” star told us.
“I still wasn’t right. I still had self-pity, and I still had resentment to all the things that drive an addict to do what an addict does.”
Hall, now 41, said his arrest had come one day after he finished an executive producer task on a Netflix show he sold.
“That’s kind of a weird thing in an addict’s mind is like, ‘Okay, I accomplished my responsibilities. My family’s out of town.’ So the addict’s brain was like, ‘Now’s your chance,'” he told us.
“So, I relapsed, and it was a horror to my wife. Thanks be to God, my children — don’t have any clue. I mean, they were out of town,” Hall added.
“I was a horror to my parents. It was a horror to everybody. What a disgrace.”
Hall said he “didn’t change much” about his lifestyle after his first relapse but when images of his mugshot spread across media outlets from his second one, it was “soul-crushing.”
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“It’s hard to express how much shame there is. You see it all the time. It never occurred to me how deep and hard that shame is to bear, when the whole world, when every single news outlet suddenly got your mugshot up,” he told Page Six.
After six months of being a “lazy bum” and not being able to get out of bed, Hall said “that’s when the vow of poverty hit.”
“I was reading a lot of the saints and kind of the wild devil-may-care kind of approach that the saints take to their pursuit of God, and I thought, ‘Is there a version of this in the married life that I can apply that would be an adventure worth fighting for? Something that could hold me on track?’ And it has,” the former child star shared.
“So I’m grateful for that. So when people post [the mugshots], there’s always a sting. And I think that’s usually their intention,” he added.
“It’s a good and right sting and I’m grateful for it.”
In 2020, Hall was arrested in Texas that June for allegedly huffing air duster cans.
At the time, a 911 caller claimed Hall may have overdosed after spotting him huffing by a hotel dumpster. When the police arrived, they discovered the “Get a Clue” actor in his hotel room surrounded by cans.
Upon investigation, Hall was arrested for misdemeanor possession for use to inhale or ingest a volatile chemical. The charge was later dismissed.
After the incident, Hall “self-canceled” himself and left Hollywood. He and his wife, Jill DeGroff, and their five children later moved to a small area near Mountain Home, Arkansas.
Hall told Page Six that a “vow of poverty” is when he and his family — whose monthly bills reach around $300 — “use money as little as possible.”
“Anything that can be solved without money, we solve it without money,” he explained. “It’s my responsibility to cut our overhead down to as close to 0 as possible. We have a phone bill. We have a very small electric bill.”
Hall recently made headlines after launching a GoFundMe for financial assistance ahead of welcoming his sixth baby.
The “American Pie Presents: The Book of Love” actor told Page Six that he will not be returning any excess funds donated after his initial $2,000 goal was reached. Hall has raised nearly $30,000.
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