Bug (real name Brandon Hall) and his wife Jill married in 2017 and had their eldest daughter while living in Los Angeles before moving across the country. As the Get a Clue actor explained, he felt the need to “self-cancel” after he was arrested for huffing air duster cans in Texas in 2020, telling the Daily Mail he faced no charges.
Bug said he had been sober for 15 years before the event, but suffered multiple relapses, which he told the outlet “got brushed to the side” while he was working in Hollywood. And looking back on it now, he’s grateful for the arrest.
“I loved making movies. I loved writing, producing, acting,” he explained. “So God had to shake me up a little harder, I suppose.”
Ultimately, he decided it was best to leave Hollywood because he didn’t want to continue living a life of “manipulation.”
“I didn't want to go work some job that was basically meaningless,” he said, “making widgets to entertain people or distract people.”
For now, his focus is on his home and his family, as he and his wife Jill homeschool their children and plan to “strongly discourage them” from going to college, telling the Mail he believes formal school is “nonsense.”
Instead, he said his 8-year-old daughter wants to start a convent on the family’s Arkansas land, while another daughter wants her father to build a house for herself and her future husband.
As Bug had previously explained in an April 2025 YouTube video titled “Into the Unknown,” he and his wife were raising their five children in a “radical Catholic extremist life.”
“I really do think that radical Catholic extremists,” he said in the video, “raising those radical Catholic extremists is the only way to combat our age.”
The Honey, We Shrunk Ourselves! actor also expanded on his vow of poverty in the video, saying that his material possessions were ultimately “just a big pile of nothing.”
“It really wasn't all that great of a sacrifice compared to what our Lord had planned to give me in return," he added. "The fruits of that decision to live this radical lifestyle.”
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