12 Child Stars Who Grew Into Horrible People

This video explores 12 former child stars whose adult lives were marred by arrests, addiction, and scandals, contrasting their early fame with later troubles.

Key Takeaways

Early fame can create pressures that some child stars are ill-equipped to handle, often resulting in destructive adult behavior.
Substance abuse and legal troubles are common themes among former child stars who struggled after their initial success.
Not all child stars maintain their early public image; many face serious personal and legal challenges later in life.
Some former child stars use their experiences to raise awareness and help others avoid similar pitfalls.
The transition from child fame to adult life is often difficult and can lead to significant personal and professional struggles.

What the video covers

Many child stars face immense pressure and money at a young age, often leading to destructive adult behaviors.
Carl Switzer, famous as Alfalfa from Our Gang, struggled with gambling, alcohol, and violent confrontations, dying at 31 after a fatal shooting ruled self-defense.
Todd Bridges, known for Diff'rent Strokes, battled cocaine addiction and was acquitted of attempted murder charges, later becoming an advocate for sobriety.
Robert Iler, AJ Soprano on The Sopranos, was involved in a robbery incident as a teenager and later transitioned from acting to professional poker.
The video highlights the contrast between the innocent images of these child stars and their troubled adult lives involving arrests, lawsuits, and scandals.
It discusses how early fame can lead to bitterness, addiction, and legal troubles when the spotlight fades.
Some former child stars have used their experiences to advocate for recovery and support others facing similar challenges.
The video covers a range of cases, showing varied outcomes from tragic deaths to legal acquittals and career changes.

Chapters

What common issues do former child stars face according to the video?

The video highlights that many former child stars struggle with pressures of fame, leading to substance abuse, legal troubles, and personal challenges in adulthood.

What happened to Carl Switzer after his child acting career?

Carl Switzer struggled with gambling debts and alcohol, became combative, and died at age 31 after a fatal confrontation ruled as self-defense.

How did Todd Bridges' legal troubles conclude?

Todd Bridges was acquitted of attempted murder and assault charges related to a shooting incident, with his defense citing heavy cocaine use impairing intent.

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Growing up famous came with a level of pressure and money that few children were ever really equipped to handle. And for a surprising number of former child stars, that pressure curdled into something far uglier once the cameras finally stopped rolling. Some of them

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turned that early fame into documented arrests, violent altercations, and years of destructive behavior that left real damage on the people around them. Damage some of these families are still dealing with today. Here are 12 former child stars whose adult lives

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ended up defined by documented arrests, lawsuits, and scandal rather than the innocent image that first made them famous.

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Number one, Carl Switzer. Carl Switzer played the mischievous cow Alfalfa in the Our Gang comedy shorts throughout the 1930s. A series later rebroadcast on television as The Little Rascals, appearing in dozens of the beloved short films between 1935 and 1940 and becoming one

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of the most recognizable child faces in American film during that entire stretch of years. As an adult, he struggled to find steady acting work once the novelty of his childhood fame wore off. And he drifted through a series of odd jobs,

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including hunting guide, dog breeder, and bartender. All while running up gambling debts that reportedly followed him for years. He developed a reputation among the people who knew him as combative and quick to pick a fight once he had been drinking. A far cry from the

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harmless troublemaker character audiences remembered him for from his years on screen. Those who worked alongside him in his later odd jobs often described a man who seemed to carry a visible chip on his shoulder about how far his once promising career

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had fallen since childhood. On January 21st, 1959, after a night of heavy drinking, Switzer got into a violent argument with an acquaintance named Moses Stilts over $50 he believed he was owed as a reward for helping recover a lost hunting dog. A

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relatively small sum of money that nonetheless escalated within minutes into a fatal confrontation between the two men. Witnesses at the scene said Switzer struck Stilts with a glass clock during the heated confrontation and was alleged to have threatened him with a

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small hunting knife, at which point Stilts drew a handgun of his own and shot him in the abdomen at close range.

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Switzer died from the wound just hours later at age 31. And the shooting was ultimately ruled a justifiable homicide committed in self-defense once investigators reviewed the physical evidence at the scene, closing the case without any criminal charges ever being

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filed against Stilts for the killing. The man once beloved for playing an impish little troublemaker on screen had by the account of nearly everyone who knew him at the end of his life become someone genuinely dangerous to be around

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once he had been drinking and felt he had been wronged. In between his Our Gang years and his death, Switzer had picked up small, largely forgettable parts here and there, including a brief appearance in Frank Capra's It's a Wonderful Life, but

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nothing that ever came close to reviving the level of fame he had once known as a child star. Friends and former colleagues later said the wide gap between his early childhood success and his adult obscurity left him visibly

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bitter about how his career had turned out over the years. A resentment that seemed to surface most sharply whenever alcohol was involved in an evening out.

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His death was covered extensively in newspapers across the country at the time given his enduring fame as Alfalfa, with several papers noting the stark contrast between the beloved child character audiences remembered so fondly and the troubled combative adult he had

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actually become by the time of his death at just 31 years old. Number two, Todd Bridges.

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Todd Bridges became a household name playing Willis Jackson on the sitcom Diff'rent Strokes starting in 1978, appearing alongside fellow child stars Gary Coleman and Dana Plato and becoming one of the most successful and widely recognized child actors of his entire

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era of American television. By the late 1980s, years after Diff'rent Strokes had already ended its run, Bridges was caught in a serious cocaine addiction that consumed much of his time, money, and judgment. And in February 1989, he was accused of shooting a Texas drug

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dealer named Kenneth Clay eight times inside a South Central Los Angeles drug house following an argument that broke out during a days-long binge.

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Clay, who survived the shooting despite his injuries, testified that Bridges stood over him and fired repeatedly at close range, while Bridges himself claimed he had no clear memory of the shooting at all due to how heavily he had been using drugs

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in the days beforehand. The trial drew significant national media attention given how far the entire case seemed to depart from the wholesome family sitcom that had made Bridges a household name barely a decade earlier, with reporters frequently noting the contrast between

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the courtroom proceedings and his childhood image. His attorney at the time, Johnny Cochran, who would go on to become one of the most famous defense lawyers in the country, argued that Bridges had been far too impaired by cocaine at the

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time to have formed any real intent to kill anyone. Bridges was acquitted of attempted murder in November 1989 after his attorney argued that years of heavy cocaine use had erased any capacity for intent at the moment of the shooting.

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And in a second trial in August 1990, following a separate week-long proceeding before a different jury, he was also found not guilty of assault charges stemming from the very same incident. Whatever the jury ultimately concluded about intent, Bridges himself

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has since spoken openly in interviews and his own memoir titled Killing Willis about how far his addiction had pulled him from the wholesome image he had built as a child star just a few years earlier. He has since gotten sober and

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become an outspoken advocate against drug abuse, appearing regularly on talk shows and at recovery events to use his own well-documented rock bottom as a cautionary example for other former child performers navigating the same kind of pressures he once faced himself

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decades earlier. Work that he has said gives some purpose to an otherwise painful chapter of his life.

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Number three, Robert Iler. Robert Iler was cast as Tony Soprano's son, AJ Soprano, on HBO's acclaimed drama, The Sopranos, beginning in 1999 at just 14 years old, playing the role across the show's entire six-season run through 2007 and

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appearing alongside some of the most acclaimed actors working in television at the time. Unlike most of the names on this list, AJ was never really the character audiences fell in love with, and critics and fans alike have spent years singling him out

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as one of the most annoying, entitled figures on the entire show. A whiny underachiever who consistently took the easy way out of every problem placed in front of him rather than growing into the kind of character viewers wanted to

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root for. In July 2001, during a break between seasons, the 16-year-old Iler and three friends confronted two teenage tourists after midnight in a park on Manhattan's Upper East Side and demanded money, ultimately taking around $40 off the pair in an incident police charged

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as second-degree robbery along with a separate charge of marijuana possession found on him at the time of his arrest.

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He faced up to 15 years in prison had he been convicted as an adult on the original robbery charge. But Iler was granted youthful offender status given his age and lack of any prior record.

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And he ultimately pleaded guilty to a reduced misdemeanor charge of petty larceny in exchange for three years of probation with his full record sealed as part of the agreement. After The Sopranos ended in 2007, Iler largely stepped away from acting and relocated

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to Las Vegas to pursue professional poker instead. A career shift that meant most of the public conversation

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character had always been to begin with. Number four, Tatum O'Neal. Tatum O'Neal won an Academy Award at the age of 10 for her performance in Paper Moon in 1973, acting alongside her own father, Ryan O'Neal, in the black and white period

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comedy, making her the youngest competitive Oscar winner in the entire history of the ceremony, a record that still stands to this day. Her adult life told a very different story than that early triumph, marked by a long and

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destructive addiction to heroin that had first taken hold years earlier during her 20s and then resurfaced with a vengeance once her marriage to tennis star John McEnroe finally ended in the mid 1990s after more than a decade together. She has since written about

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how the pressures of fame arriving so early in her life left her without the ordinary tools most people develop gradually over time to cope with adult stress, grief, and disappointment.

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According to O'Neal's own memoir, that addiction left her in no condition to care for her own children, and it led directly to McEnroe gaining full custody of their three children in 1998, a loss she has since described in

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multiple interviews as one of the single most painful consequences of her drug use and the choices that came with it. A full decade later, in June 2008, O'Neal was arrested outside her own Manhattan apartment building for allegedly buying

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crack cocaine from a street dealer just a few blocks from where she actually lived at the time, with police reportedly finding both crack and powder cocaine along with a used crackpipe in her possession once she was searched.

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She has spoken candidly in interviews and in her memoir since then about how her own addiction rather than any single scandal or headline was what genuinely cost her a functioning relationship with her own children during those difficult years of their lives. Her relationship

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with her father, actor Ryan O'Neal, was famously strained for decades as well, marked by public disputes, competing memoirs, and long stretches without speaking to one another at all. And the two did not fully reconcile until shortly before his death in December

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2023, after years of on andoff arangement. Number five, Edward Furlong. Edward Furlong was cast as young John Connor in Terminator 2, Judgement Day in 1991 at just 13 years old, discovered at a Boys and Girls Club in Pasadena, and

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delivering one of the most acclaimed child performances of the entire decade. One that turned him into a global name almost overnight and earned him a nomination for a major acting award. His adult life became defined by a repeated

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well doumented pattern of domestic violence allegations that stretched across more than one relationship over the course of several years starting with a restraining order filed by his estranged wife Raphael Caneland that led to his arrest and three years of

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probation in 2010 alone. Between October 2012 and May 2013, Furlong was arrested multiple times for allegedly grabbing and assaulting his then girlfriend, including one widely reported incident at Los Angeles International Airport where officers responded to a domestic disturbance call

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as the couple was traveling, resulting in repeated violations of protective orders probation and jail time over that entire stretch of months.

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In March 2013, he was sentenced to 180 days in jail for violating both his probation and the restraining order, a term he served in full. And after yet another arrest that May, this time for an alleged assault against the same

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girlfriend, he accepted a plea deal requiring five years of probation, mandatory drug rehabilitation, and 52 weeks of domestic violence counseling as a condition of staying out of prison. The pattern stretched across several years and multiple separate victims accounts, making it one of the

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most extensively documented cases of repeated domestic abuse among any former child actor covered by the entertainment press during that stretch of the 2010s.

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Court filings from the period describe a cycle of arrests, brief reconciliations, and further violations that repeated itself several times before the final plea deal finally brought the case to a close in 2013, closing out one of the more troubling and drawn out adult

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chapters of any actor who first found fame as a child performer. His once promising film career, which had included prominent roles through the 1990s in films well beyond just the Terminator franchise, slowed dramatically during this same period of

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repeated arrests and jail stints, with the ongoing legal troubles overshadowing whatever smaller direct to video acting work he was still able to find in the years that followed his early success as a teenager. Number six, Rick Schroeder.

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Rick Schroeder, credited as Ricky Schroeder at the time, became a star playing Ricky Stratton on the sitcom Silver Spoons beginning in 1982, having already won a claim and a Golden Globe Award at just nine years old for his

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role as a child actor in the film The Champ a few years before that. Decades later, in the span of just one single month in 2019, Schroeder was arrested twice on suspicion of domestic violence.

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First on April 2 and again on May 1. Both times reportedly involving physical altercations at his own home that neighbors or family members had called police about. On both occasions, the Los Angeles County District Attorney's Office reviewed the evidence gathered by

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responding police officers and ultimately declined to file any charges against him, citing insufficient evidence to proceed with a criminal prosecution either time around.

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Schroeder's partner at the time publicly stated in interviews given shortly after the arrests that the allegations had been blown out of proportion by the media. While the police reports and 911 calls from both separate incidents nevertheless became part of the

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permanent public record, regardless of how the case itself was ultimately resolved by prosecutors. By that point, Schroeder had already built a long second career playing detective Danny Sorenson on the police drama Nipped Blue during the late 1990s and had also become known more broadly

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for his outspoken political commentary on social media in the years since, which meant these arrests drew far more national attention than a purely private domestic dispute might otherwise have received from the entertainment press covering him. whether Schroeder was

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genuinely guilty of the abuse he was twice accused of within that single month, or whether two separate arrests without a single resulting charge actually tell a more complicated story about what happened behind closed doors in that house is something people who

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followed the case closely still disagree about to this very day. Supporters point to the lack of any charges across two separate arrests as proof there was nothing there to prosecute, while critics note that domestic violence cases often go unfiled for reasons that

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have nothing to do with whether the underlying abuse actually happened. So, let us know what you think in the comments below.

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Number seven, Lindsay Lohan. Lindseay Lohan became one of the biggest child stars of her generation, starring in a dual role in the remake of The Parent Trap in 1998 at age 11. An early performance that critics praised at the

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time, followed by a long string of hit films throughout her teenage years, including Freaky Friday, Confessions of a Teenage Drama Queen, and the enormously popular Mean Girls in 2004.

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In November 2012, Lohan was arrested on a misdemeanor assault charge after allegedly punching a woman named Tiffany Mitchell, who worked professionally as a psychic based in Palm Beach, Florida during a chaotic late night altercation at the Manhattan nightclub Avenue.

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Witnesses said the fight began after Mitchell approached Lohan inside the crowded club, offering her a free reading, leading to a heated exchange of insults between the two women that escalated further once Mitchell's friend got involved and began shouting back at

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Lohan directly, ending with Lohan reportedly striking Mitchell in the face hard enough to leave a visible mark that was documented by police at the scene.

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New York prosecutors ultimately declined to pursue charges against Lohan, citing insufficient evidence to prove the case beyond a reasonable doubt in front of a jury. Though the arrest itself still generated heavy tabloid headlines for days afterward, regardless of how the

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case was resolved. The nightclub incident was just one entry in a long list of arrests and legal troubles, including multiple duet cases dating back to 2007.

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a 2011 theft case involving a necklace she was accused of taking without paying from a Los Angeles jewelry store and repeated probation violations across several of these overlapping cases that ended up defining Lohan's 20s far more than any of the acclaimed films that had

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made her famous as a child star. She spent time in and out of court ordered rehabilitation programs throughout that same stretch of years, cycling through multiple facilities in both California and New York while missing scheduled court dates on more than one occasion

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with judges repeatedly warning her in open court that further violations could finally mean actual jail time rather than yet another chance at probation.

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Number eight, Amanda Bines. Amanda Bines built her early career as a beloved teen star on Nickelodeon's sketch show All That and her own spin-off series The Amanda Show. Both of which made her one of the network's biggest young personalities before

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transitioning into a run of successful film comedies aimed squarely at teenage audiences throughout the early 2000s, including What a Girl Wants and She's the Man. Her adult years were marked by a string of dangerous and destructive incidents, including an April 2012 Dwey

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arrest in West Hollywood in which she allegedly attempted to pass a police car in the middle of the night and sideswiped it in the process along with two separate hitand-run collisions later that same year. both of which she left

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without stopping or providing any information to the other drivers involved at the scene, leaving them to file police reports without ever knowing exactly who had hit them. In May 2013, she was arrested in Manhattan after police said she threw a bong out of her

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36th floor apartment window down onto a busy street below, facing charges of criminal possession of marijuana, attempted tampering with evidence, and reckless endangerment for the falling object that could easily have struck and seriously injured a pedestrian walking below at the time. Then just months

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after pleading no contest to an earlier DIY charge in early 2014 and receiving 3 years of probation along with a mandatory alcohol education class. She was arrested for driving under the influence a second time that September while still serving out that very same

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probation, a violation that carried the very real risk of actual jail time given her prior record with the court.

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During this same period, Bines also launched an unprovoked and deeply personal attack on singer Rihanna over Twitter, mocking her in a series of public posts about the domestic violence she had survived at the hands of Chris Brown just a few years earlier. comments that

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drew widespread public backlash almost immediately from fans and fellow celebrities alike along with a pointed and widely shared response from Rihanna herself defending her own experience and calling out the sheer cruelty of the remarks directed at her. Taken together,

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the reckless driving, the repeated DUIs, and the public cruelty directed at another young woman who had survived real domestic violence painted a portrait of binds sharply at odds with the wholesome girl. Nextdoor image that had defined her entire childhood career

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on Nickelodeon and in her early film roles. Her family ultimately placed her under a court supervised conservatorship in 2013 that ended up lasting nearly a full decade before it was finally terminated in 2022, taking away control over her own finances and personal

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decisions for that entire span of years. A legal arrangement she had effectively lost the ability to fight in the wake of this same string of highly public incidents. She later attempted a quieter return to public life by enrolling in

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fashion school and pursuing a design career away from acting entirely. Though her renewed presence on social media in the years that followed continued to draw scrutiny from fans and entertainment outlets over her sometimes erratic public statements.

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Number nine, Drake Bell. Drake Bell became a fixture of Nickelodeon in the early 2000s, first appearing on the Amanda Show before headlining his own hit series Drake and Josh from 2004 to 2007 alongside co-star Josh Pek, a show that built him a loyal

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following, though never quite the outsized universal teen idol status enjoyed by some of his pop music contemporaries during that same stretch of years.

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In 2017, Bell performed a concert in Cleveland, Ohio, where he engaged in what investigators later described as inappropriate sexually charged conversations with a 15-year-old fan over social media both before and after the show. Contact that continued for a

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period of time before it eventually came to the attention of local authorities. Cleveland police opened an investigation into the messages. And in 2020, Bell was formally charged with attempted child endangerment, a felony, along with a misdemeanor charge of disseminating

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matter harmful to juveniles for the sexual content of the exchanges themselves. In June 2021, Bel pleaded guilty to both charges. And the following month, he was sentenced to two years of probation along with 200 hours of community service, avoiding jail time, but leaving

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behind a permanent criminal record tied directly to his conduct toward a minor fan. Bel later said in a public statement that he had exchanged reckless and irresponsible messages with a fan he did not initially realize was underage and that he cut off contact once he

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learned her real age. Though prosecutors maintained that the surrounding messages themselves were what made the conduct criminal in the first place. The case drew far less mainstream tabloid attention than similar scandals involving bigger pop stars of the same era. in part because

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Bell's fame had always been more of a cult. Nickelodeon's specific following rather than the kind of blanket celebrity that surrounded some of his peers. But the felony guilty plea itself remains one of the more serious and legally conclusive outcomes of any

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former. Child Star covered anywhere on this list, closing out a case that left him permanently linked to conduct with a minor rather than to the sitcom that had first made him famous with a much younger, far more forgiving audience.

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Number 10, Dustin Diamond. Dustin Diamond became famous playing the lovable nerd Screech on Saved by the Bell starting in 1989, appearing in nearly every episode of the original series and one of the most recognizable faces on children's television throughout the entire run of

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the show and its various spin-offs across the following decade. On Christmas Day in 2014, Diamond was involved in a chaotic bar fight in Port Washington, Wisconsin, during which he pulled out a folding knife he later testified was meant only to ward off a

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growing crowd, including a man who had reportedly punched his girlfriend earlier in the fight and ended up stabbing a bystander in the confusion that followed as the situation spiraled out of control inside the crowded bar.

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He was originally charged with two felony counts related to the stabbing, including one specifically for the concealed weapon itself, though a jury sitting through the trial ultimately convicted him only of misdemeanor charges of carrying a concealed weapon and disorderly conduct, finding him not

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guilty of the more serious felony count that had been filed against him at the outset of the case. In June 2015, Diamond was sentenced to four months in jail along with 15 months of probation and in order to pay more than $1,000 in

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restitution to the man he had accidentally stabbed during the chaos of the fight. A sentence the presiding judge described as entirely appropriate given the very real danger that particular weapon had posed to everyone else inside the crowded bar. That

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Christmas night, the incident followed years of Diamond publicly feuding with his former castmates and profiting off increasingly lurid, widely disputed claims about them in interviews and a tell all book he published years earlier. a pattern that had already

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strained his reputation with fans and colleagues alike well before the stabbing made national headlines and permanently cemented his image as one of the more troubled names to come out of the beloved show. He also appeared in a widely mocked low-budget sex tape

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marketed under the Saved by the Bell name in 2006. A project many of his former castmates publicly condemned at the time as a cheap and embarrassing attempt to cash in on the show's lasting legacy for a quick payday rather than any kind of

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legitimate creative project on its own merits. Number 11, Kim Richards. Kim Richards began her career as a child actress in the early 1970s, starring in Disney's family adventure film Escape to Witch Mountain alongside her on-screen brother and appearing regularly across

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television throughout that same decade before later resurfacing in the public eye as a cast member on the reality series The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills several decades afterward. In April 2015, Richards was arrested at the Beverly Hills Hotel on charges of public

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intoxication, resisting arrest, and battery on a peace officer after hotel staff called police to report her as belligerent, slurring her words, and wreaking heavily of alcohol at the time, with the confrontation escalating further once officers arrived on the scene and

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attempted to take her into custody. Just a few months later in August 2015, she was arrested again after allegedly shoplifting roughly $600 in merchandise from a Target store in Van NY. An incident captured in fullontore surveillance footage that was later

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reported on widely across entertainment news outlets, tabloids, and morning talk shows, all eager to cover the latest chapter of her ongoing public struggles.

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Richards ultimately pleaded no contest to resisting arrest stemming from the hotel incident and separately to petty theft stemming from the shoplifting arrest.

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Receiving probation, community service hours, and dozens of mandatory Alcoholics Anonymous meetings that were ordered by the court as part of both separate cases combined into her overall sentence. [snorts] The two arrests within the same calendar year turned her long private struggle

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with alcohol into a very public one, playing out in police reports and widely circulated mug shots rather than on the reality show that had made her a household name all over again decades after her childhood career had first

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ended. Richards, whose sister Kathy Hilton and niece Paris Hilton are both well-known figures in their own right, had already been the subject of tense, heated confrontations with her Real Housewives castmates broadcast on camera in the years leading up to both arrests,

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several of which touched directly on her ongoing struggles with sobriety and led other cast members to publicly express real concern for her well-being on national television long before either of those two arrests actually happened.

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Number 12, Aaron Carter. Aaron Carter became a teen pop star in his own right in the late 1990s with hits like [snorts] I Want Candy and his own album Aaron's Party, riding the same wave of pop fame as his older brother

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Nick Carter of the Backstreet Boys. Though Aaron's own career and public image were always treated by critics and casual fans alike as the smaller, less polished act, living in his famous brother's shadow rather than a beloved star in his own right.

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By the late 2010s, years after his music career had faded from the mainstream, Aaron's behavior toward his own family became increasingly alarming. And in September 2019, his brother Nick saw it and was granted a restraining order against him, telling the court that

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Aaron had confessed to harboring violent thoughts about killing Nick's pregnant wife and their unborn child. Their twin sister, Angel Carter, filed for a restraining order of her own around the same time, alleging that Aaron had threatened during an unsettling phone

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call to send people after her. allegations Aaron publicly denied on social media while insisting he wished no harm on anyone in his family. A judge ultimately granted Nick's request, issuing a one-year restraining order that also barred Aaron from owning

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firearms and required him to surrender any weapons already in his possession at the time of the ruling. Aaron continued to have public erratic outbursts on social media and in interviews in the years that followed, feuding openly and repeatedly with nearly every member of

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his surviving family, while his own health and finances visibly deteriorated in front of an audience that had largely moved on from his music career by that point. Subscribe for more of these deep dives into the former child stars whose

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adult lives took a much darker turn than anyone watching them grow up on screen ever could have expected. And tell us in the comments which of these 12 stories surprised you the most or which one you think deserves a second look.

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