Tony Stewart Reveals the Dark, Unknown Side Behind His $90 Million Fortune: “One Year I Had 2 Days Off the Entire Month”

If there is one dream everyone has had growing up, it has to be ‘popularity’. If not anymore, there has been a time when everyone considered the prospect of being famous. The word alone rings happy bells in everyone’s head, along with an image of the preconceived glamor it entails. But Tony Stewart might be one of the few people who really detailed the dark side of that supposed extravagance.

Fame is a thing of dreams and fantasies. Chris Brown even made an entire album on it. Everyone wants to be famous but it’s easy to get lost in the fantasy and completely forget what it actually entails. But Tony Stewart, someone with three cup series titles as a driver and one as an owner, is no stranger to the dark side of fame. In fact, he outrightly spoke against it.

Of course, it comes without a surprise that “There’s a lot that goes with it, there’s a lot of stresses and strains,” as he explained. However, there’s another part of that popularity that shows just how extreme it can really be.

Fame ruined Tony Stewart’s lifestyle

Having established the fact that popularity has some dark side, might not have been that much of a surprise. Because everything has its own pros and cons, especially a few extra plus points of being a NASCAR driver. But putting the dark sides of fame into perspective will make a couple of people reconsider. Stewart dropped some jaws when he opened up about a time when he only had “Two days off the entire month.” And that’s not the end of it.

He further explained what it really took 363 days off of a 365-days-long year as he added, “Two personal days to myself the rest of the time we were testing, doing appearances, Production days, races, testing. It just filled the schedule. 

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Thinking about it hard enough also adds to the surprise, because all the things he did for 363 days are completely unavoidable. Every single driver goes through the same exact process throughout their career. The three-time champ even went ahead to ask people to really reconsider their dreams and hopes for a bit, because it may or may not be worth it.

A warning for anyone wanting to be famous

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Spiderman said it best in 1962, “With great power comes great responsibility,” because everything the Stewart-Haas Racing owner talked about further will make one wish they were nothing more than a little kid, innocently reading a comic book. Because the hall-of-famer essentially reiterated that line from a racer’s perspective saying, “I think the more success you have, the more responsibility that comes with it.

“And there’s always the hidden challenges and things that people don’t see that’s going on behind the scenes, that sometimes take away from the fun of it.”

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In the end, Stewart said it best, “So it’s one of those scenarios where sometimes you have to go, you know, be careful what you wish for. You might get it.” Of course, plenty of people have already reconsidered their stance on popularity. But is it still all worth it?