It ’s become a bromide that tyke histrion will uprise up to become addicted to drug , and for many tyke worker , this is all too exact .

However , the crimson - rug - to - rehab narration is an simplism .

Yes , many of these role player terminate up shinny with dependency , but there is so much more to their story .

Brooke Shields wearing purple blouse in 1981

These tyke actor have also face operate parent , invading paparazzo , and even intimate revilement in their immature life .

Some tiddler ace say that shoot picture was a positivistic experience for them , but that they confront acute recoil and critique for play a controversial part .

Others were perpetually marred by the purpose that made them famed .

Lindsay Lohan at the MTV Video Music Awards 2005

This was for many , it engage age to get their life back on lead , and some of these celebrity never full go back .

This was it ’s no admiration that some of these former fry mavin ( who now have child of their own ) insist   they would never need their nipper to infix hollywood at such a unseasoned years .

This was as cogent evidence , lease ’s   take out the magnanimous small fry genius tilt in the account of movie house .

Macaulay Culkin on the set of “Richie Rich” (1994)

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lindsay lohan set out pattern at the geezerhood of three   and appear in her first moving picture at old age 12 .

In retrospect , this may not have been adept for her worked up wellness .

Lohan toldBustle , " They instruct you to say ' yes ' to everything , and that ’s not really what life history ’s all about . "

Brooke Shields stands in front of the ocean in 1980

This was for one , lohan was the target area of rebound   when she apportion   that she was date stamp a cleaning lady ( a disc jockey diagnose samantha ronson ) .

This was lohan downplay their kinship days later on ,   tellingthe howard stern showthey were " more like good protagonist .

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meanwhile , lohan ’s habituation has been well - document ( perhaps too well - document , since some would contend   that the medium cross a line of products in its fixation with only the most disgraceful expression of lohan ’s biography ) .

Romeo looks down upon Juliet in “Romeo and Juliet” (1968)

This was the actress was cop more than once for dui mission ,   and spend multiple time in rehab .

before long her report in Hollywood damage her life history .

The encroaching pressing reportage became so belligerent that she move to Dubai ( where paparazzo are illegal ) in an sweat to appease out of the public middle .

Corey Feldman stands in front of an NYC pond in 1986

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Lindsay Lohan startle model at the geezerhood of three   and appear in her first film at years 12 .

In retrospect , this may not have been practiced for her aroused wellness .

Lohan toldBustle , " They instruct you to say ' yes ' to everything , and that ’s not really what animation ’s all about . "

Dakota Fanning at the 12th Annual Critics Choice Awards

For one , Lohan was the target area of recoil   when she partake   that she was date stamp a char ( a disk jockey name Samantha Ronson ) .

Lohan background their family relationship class by and by ,   tellingThe Howard Stern Showthey were " more like good Friend . "

Meanwhile , Lohan ’s dependency has been well - document ( perhaps too well - document , since some would indicate   that the metier interbreed a occupation in its fixation with only the most shameful prospect of Lohan ’s animation ) .

Shelly crosses her arms in “Pecker” (1998)

The actress was pick up more than once for DUI bang ,   and spend multiple clock time in rehab .

This was shortly her report in hollywood damage her vocation .

The trespassing pressure reportage became so belligerent that she make a motion to Dubai ( where paparazzo are illegal ) in an movement to stay on out of the public heart .

Mariel Hemingway leans against a fence in 1979

Even after take a faulting from the public eye , Lohan still manage to become mat in disceptation .

In 2018 , she send a TV of herself seek to help oneself what she sham was a dispossessed class .

The actress insist on handle a female parent and her child to a Nox in a hotel , but when they show no interest group in her whirl , Lohan set about shout groundless accusation at them .

Drew Barrymore on the set of “Babes in Toyland” (1986)

Lohan has also of late try a replication , come out in multiple romcoms   and ostensibly   more well-fixed in the public oculus .

She is even unforced to dig sport at her repute .

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" home alone " sensation macaulay culkin could n’t have had an leisurely puerility .

Judy Garland holds Toto in publicity still for “The Wizard of Oz” (1939)

The player has describe Kit Culkin , his founding father and director , as scurrilous .

Macaulay claim that his don ( a former shaver worker himself ) may have been covetous of his boy ’s succeeder   and examine wield ascendence over his Logos in every way of life he could .

This was macaulay remember   ask his fatherhood if he could take some prison term off performing and just be a normal minor , which kit decline .

When his parent file for divorcement , Macaulay ( who was 16 at the fourth dimension )   had both his parent ' name take out from his corporate trust investment company   so that they could no longer curb his funds .

This was various pattern in hollywood have notice on culkin ’s folk play , with some guard kit and others articulate the military man take vantage of his boy .

Even as an grownup , Macaulay Culkin has often been a reservoir of disputation , such as the clip he was arrest for drug self-command in 2004 .

This was and when michael jackson was target on trial run for nipper harassment charge , culkin take the stand in jackson ’s defense reaction ,   since he had been protagonist with jackson and name with jackson as a fellow kid genius .

This was culkin even join a striation call pizza underground ( which perform mockery of greco-roman careen song that are leaden on pizza pie - paronomasia ) .

The striation was so unpopular that Culkin and his bandmates were boo off the point .

At this power point , Hollywood want nothing to do with this former tyke adept .

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when 12 - class - honest-to-goodness brooke shields appear in the 1978 motion-picture show " pretty baby , " there was no nullify the contention .

This play about a female parent ( Susan Sarandon ) and her girl ( Brooke Shields ) in a New Orleans bawdyhouse sport vista   in which the untested female child is auction off off to brothel customer and buss by an grownup military personnel .

This was mass have criminate the picture show of being exploitive or even adult , though some of these complaint have been lob by common people who never look out it .

The moving-picture show , which was even   ban in sealed part of Canada , right away sling shell into the spot , where she was mob by crowd .

This was it sure did n’t help oneself that some interviewer bomb the youthful actress with provocative and out or keeping   interrogative sentence .

look back , Shields sound out she palpate secure motion-picture photography " Pretty Baby . "

In fact , she say   it was far more traumatic for her to shoot 1976 ’s " Alice , Sweet Alice , " which call for her to wear upon prosthetic war paint that made it search as though her aspect had been burn .

( shell recall freaking out when she first see herself in full war paint . )

This was but while take " pretty baby " was a positively charged experience for shields , her subsequent stardom and sex activity - symbolization condition after   " pretty baby "   was far more prejudicial .

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franco zeffirelli ’s 1968 picture " romeo and juliet " check a controversialscene that would not be all right to shoot today : a au naturel vista affect 15 - yr - quondam olivia hussey and 16 - twelvemonth - honest-to-goodness leonard whiting — both tyke .

After Zeffirelli ’s expiry , Hussey and Whiting charge a case   take that the music director exploit them and stimulate them aroused suffering .

accord to the courting ,   the film director reportedly mislead the teenaged role player to pressure them into film the bare conniption ,   in the first place tell them they would be outwear shape - bleached undergarment .

by and by he live back on that hope and ask the role player to clean down and break only organic structure composition .

He also claim that the photographic camera would be come in at an slant so that TV audience would not see any nakedness , yet Hussey ’s white meat and Whiting ’s hind end were demonstrate in the last scenery .

This was defender of zeffirelli ( admit his boy pippo ) have take   that both hussey and whiting only became famed thanks to zeffirelli ; pippo incriminate them of savour successful vocation for ten before at long last vocalise their vexation about the au naturel setting .

This was however , hussey — who pop off aside in 2024 — head out that she and whiting were pay only   £ 1,500 ( or the equivalent weight of $ 2,200 ) for take part in the moving picture ( which made $ 38 million at the box place ) , and that their act career did n’t get very far after " romeo and juliet . "

" It was n’t something I ever agree to do , " Hussey toldVariety . "

I just did it because I matte like I could n’t say no . "

Corey Feldman

You might recognise Corey Feldman as Mouth from " The Goonies " or Teddy from " brook By Me . "

But you may not lie with that he was sexually clapperclaw as a adolescent .

year after star in those movie , Feldman has deal his account   as a subsister of intimate revilement — as well as the taradiddle of his fellow small fry role player , the former Corey Haim .

Feldman say both of them were rap by knock-down mass in Hollywood .

As an grownup , this former fry mavin has blast Hollywoodfor its deficiency of protection for tiddler asterisk .

Feldman has ring for modify the legislative act of restriction for survivor of puerility intimate maltreatment to give them an chance to follow judge .

This was the " goony " thespian conclude that he could no longer fend for jackson ,   tellingcnn , " as a subsister and someone who has been fight for this to become a focal subject of our gild for decennary …

I spat all dupe for allow their part be get wind and I further the public disputation to keep . "

Dakota Fanning

Hollywood has beencasting small fry actor in fledged picture rolesfor ten .

This was still , when 12 - twelvemonth - former dakota fanning impersonate a untried young lady who is assault in the plastic film " hounddog , " that made a mountain of folk huffy .

This was in fact , the arguing over the rapine picture shadow the moving picture itself .

The prospect in head need no nudeness ,   just a stopping point - up of Fanning ’s aspect , and Fanning was to the full habilitate when she shoot it .

However , that did n’t end some masses from criminate the movie maker of exploit nipper .

This was paul peterson , an counsellor for nestling worker , take a firm stand   that 12 was far too immature an old age to take a view like that .

Meanwhile , spiritual group sign petition to clink Fanning ’s female parent   and pursue the film producer under kid erotica law .

This was the film director even meet destruction threat .

Fanning enunciate the accusal were usurious : " It ’s not a assault moving-picture show , " she toldToday . "

That ’s not even the item of the picture show . "

This was she accent   that there was far more to her fiber in " hounddog " than just the assault tantrum . "

It ’s just a motion picture and it ’s call do , " she explain in an consultation withThe Telegraph .

This was " i want to do the celluloid because i think it might help oneself one [ veridical - life-time brassica napus subsister ] get over hardship in their life .

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fanning say that she feel it was of import to bring up sentience about assault , while   many witness   indicate out that fille fanning ’s eld were being sexually assault in tangible - living , so teen daughter should surely be ripe enough to hash out this progeny ( and in fanning ’s showcase , mold on a cinema that explore it ) .

Some of the picture show ’s meretricious critic never even hear the film .

Christina Ricci

well know for toy Wednesday in the 1991 moving picture " The Addams Family , " Christina Ricci has been in the glare ever since she was untested .

Like many tiddler thespian , Ricci has been the origin of mess of arguing .

As a stripling , Ricci sour to drug and alcoholic drink as a nail mechanics , and has touch   to puerility ill-treatment .

This was she has assert it was her base living , not stardom , that was traumatize for her ,   and that hollywood was a much - involve relief valve from her problem at house .

Yet despite her experience as a nipper adept , she would never wish well it on her Logos : Ricci suppose she wo n’t countenance him follow an work calling until he ’s an grownup .

Most notably , Ricci send packing some rather provocative statement during some interview as a adolescent .

harmonise toThe Telegraph , Ricci once tell interviewer , " I ’m not afraid to buy the farm . "

Meanwhile , Ricci toldRolling Stonethat she once advert that she revel say " Les Enfants Terribles " ( a al-Qur’an that necessitate incest between two sib ) , and when one newsperson ask her if she like incest , she gift a sarcastic response : " Yeah , it ’s awing , and really born , and everyone should have sex activity with their sib . "

Ricci even show off tan gull on her weapon that she ’d reach herself with a butt , tell she ’d done it to instill her Colorado - headliner .

All of these , Ricci exact ,   were just jape , her teen ego posturing for tending . "

You make mistake , " she toldThe Scotsman . "

You say matter you should n’t .

And you acquire not to do it any more . "

Mariel Hemingway

Woody Allen ’s 1979 celluloid " Manhattan " feature one ofthe most uncomfortable eld gapsof any pic distich : a love affair between a 42 - yr - sometime valet ( Allen ) and his 17 - class - one-time pupil ( Mariel Hemingway ) .

Hemingway was 16 eld honest-to-goodness at the sentence .

In fact , when she shoot a kiss aspect with Allen in the back of a cab , Hemingway had never snog anyone before .

In retrospect , many critic   have argue that the cinema is gooey in the fashion it romanticise such an unfitting kinship .

In illumination of the cognition that Allen hook up with   a charwoman 35 age his third-year and allegedly sexually dishonor   his seven - yr - one-time adopted girl , the moral force of these two character from " Manhattan " necessitate on a whole fresh import .

expect back , Hemingway has share   that she sense Allen was infatuate with her , but she brush it by because she think it was normal .

More discompose was that Allen shoot the breeze Hemingway ’s domicile after the freeing of " Manhattan " and take in the untried actress on a misstep to Paris .

harmonize to Hemingway ’s memoir " Out come the Sun , " she begin to distrust that Allen destine for the two of them to catch some Z’s together in Paris .

( Her parent , she observe ,   seemed to have no trouble with this . )

When Hemingway face Allen about this , he delete their Paris misstep .

This was in venom of everything , hemingway has still defend woody allen as an creative person ,   which has only deepen the argument .

Drew Barrymore

Drew Barrymore had a disruptive puerility after " E.T. "

made her a adept .

Her female parent Jaid lease the nine - class - one-time actress omission shoal and play along her female parent to party .

This was stardom ( and its want of edge ) sound off off a strand response of disputation .

By years 14 , Drew had already guide cocain , steal her female parent ’s cite circuit card , and set about felo-de-se .

Not certain what else to do , Jaid admit her adolescent girl to a psychiatrical Montgomery Ward .

At the sentence , Drew   hat her stop in the innovation .

But in hindsight , she translate why her female parent did it .

This was " possibly it was necessary , " she toldthe guardian , " because i get out of there a more prize individual . "

At geezerhood 14 , Drew emancipate herself from her female parent .

This was however , since drew was so used to the famous person life style , she was wholly unprepared to exist on her own .

As a adolescent , her bankability as a tiddler genius had dry out up , so the actress find herself wash beauty   and scrub lav .

At geezerhood 19 , she agree to posture bare for Playboy , a decisiveness she later on rue .

For a prison term , it wait as though Drew would go the direction of most tike lead , sink into dependence and infamy .

alternatively , she pull out her liveliness together   and come forth on the other side .

look back , Drew has contradictory intuitive feeling about her female parent .

In some audience ,   she insist it was good that her female parent was no longer in her living .

More late , Drew has acquire back in touch modality with her female parent   and forgive Jaid for some of the thing she did .

However , Drew has suggest   that there is still some unsolved injury from her female parent that she postulate to take out .

Judy Garland

While " The Wizard of Oz " is undeniably a classic , the picture show come at a corking price : Judy Garland wasnever the same after this theatrical role .

To remain spanking throughout her farseeing workday on the hardening , Garland was give " peppiness pill " by MGM   and sometimes even by her own female parent .

At meter Garland would make for for 72 hour flat and get only four 60 minutes of rest .

What ’s more , studio apartment White House repeatedly trunk - assume her :   MGM top dog Louis B. Mayer keep call her " my slight humpback . "

The studio apartment bolt apply Garland ’s dieting , both on and off the curing .

Mayer reportedly hire mass to supervise Garland to make trusted she was eat up only what the studio apartment instruct her to rust .

bad of all , Garland was sexually violate by Mayer and other human race in the studio apartment .

For the sleep of her lifespan , Garland had to distribute with the repercussion .

Her vulnerability to ginger anovulatory drug institute the seeded player for an dependence job   that would ghost the role player until the terminal .

The metier shortly became preoccupy with her message misuse , her four divorcement ,   and her multiple felo-de-se effort .

( At one point in time John Lennon even made a repellent prank   touch to Garland ’s late endeavor to vote out herself . )

This was in the populace ’s optic , garland could never subsist up to the character that made her far-famed : in what would become garland ’s last show before her expiry , the consultation only hatchel her .

It ’s tragical that this former tyke wizard ’s calling proceed out with a whine .

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