Mike dirnt, formerly known as Micheal Pritchard, lived in poverty. Born to a heroin-addicted mother and a white father. When Dirnt was seven, his adoptive parents divorced,and Dirnt bounced between the two until finally settling with his adoptive mother and older sister. That, too, was short lived, and soon Dirnt struck out on his own, working, among a handful of jobs, at Rod`s Hichory Pit where billies mom was a waitress. Dirnt rented a room on the side of Billie`s house at one point. Mike married his girlfriend Anastasia in August of 1996, they now have a daughter named Estelle-Desiree born in April 1997. Mike was born on May 4, 1972. The pressures of being in Green Day have become too much for Mike and Anastasia`s marriage to withstand and they are now separated. Mike says he is still very good friends with her and calls his daughter his "hero".