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A child star’s arc is rarely a bright one. Thrust into the public eye at a formative age, sometimes by parents who are less concerned with their kid’s wellbeing than they are the size of their paychecks, an actor can succumb to all the tropes of drugs, excess, and mental breakdowns by the time are old enough to drive. For the ones who miraculously make it out (relatively) unscathed, we imagine their lives can still be pretty weird as hell.