Child Star Trailer OV
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00:00Hi, thank you so much for talking.
00:03I'm glad you.
00:04We finally get to do this.
00:06Do you remember this?
00:07Oh, yeah.
00:09Why do I know this dance still?
00:15Everyone wanted to make it in the industry at a young age.
00:18I was seven or eight years old.
00:20First time I was in front of a professional camera, I was 16 months old.
00:23That's just how I grew up.
00:25You were sort of born into it.
00:27It changed my life.
00:28I had so much fun.
00:30You know, we were dating each other.
00:32I secretly was bummed I never got to get slimed.
00:34I knew it.
00:35I was a huge fan of Nickelodeon, like, for that reason.
00:38It was the first time I had ever seen sparkling water.
00:41I was like, these rich people, they're bummed with water.
00:45There were just these intense pressures.
00:47I was struggling.
00:48My first accountant ran away with my biggest earnings up to that point.
00:51There's nothing left for me at the end of the day.
00:55The popular girls signed a suicide petition saying that I should kill myself.
01:00How old were you when you were first given substances?
01:03Ten.
01:04I immediately went right to drugs and alcohol.
01:07When we first got on the phone, you were like, I was on your show.
01:09I don't even remember something that I was on.
01:12There was a sense of walking on eggshells.
01:14I'm genuinely so sorry.
01:16There definitely is not a manual on how to navigate this industry at such a young age.
01:22And it's a whole new world of social media.
01:26It just scares me to hear that these kids are making tens of millions of dollars.
01:31You know, there have to be protections put in place.
01:34If you had to do everything from the very start all over again,
01:40is it worth it?
01:42I wouldn't end up where I am had I not made all the choices leading up to this point.
01:47But it came at a price.