It's an old Hollywood story by now: when you grow up in the spotlight, it can be hard to
adjust once that light starts to fade.
But these once-famous kids had an even harder time than most.
Here are some former child stars who have hit rock bottom...
Aaron Carter
Pop star Aaron Carter opened up about his struggles on Oprah's Where Are They Now, revealing
long battles with depression and alcoholism that he believes began when his parents divorced.
They'd announced their split an hour before he taped his MTV Cribs episode:
"So I had to go and I had to show all the cameras the life that I was losing."
"The depression was brought on because I loved my family being together.
I did not want to see them divorced."
"I started partying [and] getting into a lot of trouble."
Carter went on to compete on Dancing with the Stars in 2009 in an effort to revive his
career, but the reality competition didn't pan out for him.
More alcohol abuse problems followed — and, eventually, a stint in rehab:
"My mother came and picked me up.
She took me down to her house.
The next day I was at Betty Ford Center."
Carter has since focused on releasing new music with more creative control.
But what many viewed as a comeback was derailed yet again in July 2017, when Carter was arrested
on charges of DUI refusal, possession of grass, and possession of other objects.
Three days after the arrest, he told Entertainment Tonight that he has an eating disorder — not
a substance problem.
"I am not a m--- head.
I've never touched it in my life."
Jake Lloyd
Actor Jake Lloyd, who starred as young Anakin Skywalker in Star Wars: The Phantom Menace,
led police on a high-speed car chase in June 2015, when he was 24 years old.
The pursuit ended in a crash and a prison sentence, and the revelation that Lloyd's
troubles ran far deeper than a car chase.
In April 2016, Lloyd's mother told TMZ he was being transferred from jail to a mental
hospital to treat schizophrenia.
She also alleged he'd attacked her weeks before the car chase while off his medication.
Since then, Lloyd's completely dropped out of the public eye — hopefully to focus on
returning to good health.
Shia LaBeouf
Successful from a very young age, Shia LaBeouf landed a starring role on Disney's Even Stevens
when he was just 10 years old.
The actor later matured into movies, headlining the blockbuster Transformers franchise, but
as his fame increased, so did his infamy.
In 2005, he allegedly pulled a knife out during a fight in his apartment complex.
In 2007, he was arrested for trespassing in a drug store.
In 2008, he was involved in a fender bender and refused a Breathalyzer test.
No charges were filed, but his license was suspended.
In 2011, LaBeouf got into a bar brawl when a fellow patron reportedly tried stealing
his hat.
After a relatively quiet two years, LaBeouf was accused in 2013 of plagiarizing elements
of his short film, HowardCantour.com, from cartoonist Daniel Clowes.
LaBeouf apologized in a series of tweets...that were also plagiarized.
Needless to say, things weren't going great for LaBeouf for a while.
After a public drunkenness arrest in 2017, LaBeouf himself seemed to have enough of…
himself.
He apologized for his behavior via Twitter.
"It is a new low.
A low I hope is the bottom.
I have been struggling with addiction publicly for too long, and I am actively taking steps
toward securing my sobriety and hope I can be forgiven for my mistakes."
Jaimee Foxworth
Actress Jaimee Foxworth starred as Judy Winslow on Family Matters — until the show wrote
off her character, with no explanation, four seasons into the series.
By the time she was 19, Foxworth was broke and turned to adult films to make ends meet
— and to support her substance abuse habits.
After leaving the industry, she still suffered from her addictions and joined the cast of Celebrity
Rehab with Dr. Drew.
She reportedly became sober in 2008 when she became pregnant.
"I made a prayer to God and I was like, if you just give me the healthiest son, I would
stop today... and I stopped.
And I haven't had a craving since."
Lalaine Vergara Paras
The child actress who played Hilary Duff's BFF on Lizzie McGuire in the early 2000s was
busted for possession of crystal meth in 2007.
Paras didn't show up for her court appearance in the case, prompting a judge to issue a
$50,000 bench warrant for her arrest, which was recalled when she finally did show up
to court some time later.
She pleaded guilty, went to rehab, and had her record expunged after completing the program.
She told The Huffington Post in November 2015,
"I'm just more on the relaxed side of things.
I hold a job down to pay the bills, and I've been doing all these random little projects."
Mischa Barton
Instead of capitalizing on her star turn in The O.C., Mischa Barton left the show early
in 2006 and embarked on a decade of increasingly bizarre diva behavior.
Following a 2007 DUI, Barton posed for Maxim and teased a pivot to "the big screen"...which
never actually panned out.
She then attracted the wrong kind of attention in 2009 when she had a meltdown at New York
Fashion Week and was subsequently hospitalized for what had been reported as an attempt to
take her own life… which she later explained away by saying that it was actually just exhaustion,
combined with teeth problems:
"I was just overwhelmed.
I had so much work to do and the surgery had gone so badly for me.
And I think I was just starting to feel completely overwhelmed."
In 2016, Barton briefly returned to the mainstream by appearing on Dancing With The Stars, but
she was eliminated in the second round of cuts.
She didn't exactly take her exit gracefully, telling The Ringer she was, quote, "glad to
get kicked off" after not being able to exercise the creative control she was promised.
She went on to say she was, quote, "...so confused by it," and "It was all a popularity
contest.
It was awful."
Barton was hospitalized a second time following a strange incident shared by TMZ in January
2017 in which she was recorded outside her Los Angeles home appearing to be intoxicated
and rambling incoherently.
She voluntarily checked into the hospital for a mental health check and later claimed
she'd been drugged with GHB.
That same year, Barton wrapped up a legal battle she waged with two ex-boyfriends over
their alleged attempts to sell illicitly obtained intimate photos and videos of Barton to various
web outlets.
"And my absolute worst fear was realized when I learned that someone I thought I loved and
trusted was filming my most intimate and private moments."
Orlando Brown
In September 2013, That's So Raven star Orlando Brown was sentenced to 180 days behind bars
for a DUI charge stemming from an arrest in 2011.
Then in 2014, he was charged with public intoxication and disturbing the peace after allegedly threatening
a woman and her child.
After a fight with a girlfriend in January 2016, he was charged with misdemeanor domestic
battery, obstruction of justice, felony drug possession with intent to sell, and having
contraband in jail.
In November 2016, he made vulgar comments about former co-star Raven-Symone, which triggered
a massive backlash on Twitter.
In 2017, he doubled-down on his new tell-all approach to interviews with even more bizarre
revelations about his "past" drug use, a private tape, and even more trash talk about Raven-Symone,
so it would appear that Brown is really not so Raven at all anymore.
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