Aug 18, 2026 · 1 hr 1 min · 11 segments
In this episode of Scrolling: Actress Hayden Panettiere dies of a suspected overdose. Inside her history of familial drama, substance abuse, domestic violence and postpartum depression. Then, it’s Day…
Um, but I wanna get into today's show, and basically how Hollywood is not a safe place for children.
It's really not a safe place for adults either, but it's particularly dangerous for child stars.
We've seen countless child stars end up in abusive relationships with lovers, parents, managers.
They become mentally ill, physically ill, sexually abused, and some turn up dead, and this has been happening for decades.
And I've watched the actors, and actresses, and singers that I grew up watching completely lose it, and it's easier to answer the question, what child stars haven't ended up in a bad place than it is to name the child stars that have.
The child stars that have gotten hooked on drugs or partying is a much longer list.
She starred in The Parent Trap at 11 years old, which put her on the map, and then she was getting booked for multiple successful movies her entire childhood career and into her teens.
She was in Mean Girls, Herbie Fully Loaded, and Confessions of, of a Teenage Drama Queen when she was 17.
I mean, she really hit this stride in her teenage years, but when she was a minor.
Um, by the mid-2000s, she was seen partying alongside Paris Hilton and Britney Spears, and Paris Hilton seems to be okay now, but Britney Spears certainly is not.
She seems to have gotten her act together in recent years, but she had come out and said that being in Hollywood as a teenager was toxic.
So that's one way to get away from the, the nightlife in Hollywood is just to [laughs] move countries and do it all over again somewhere else.
Um, but she is doing a lot of Hallmark movies now, so maybe she's turning a, a more wholesome leaf over.
But I can imagine that you're not often told no when you're famous, and certainly not when you're in every new hot, new movie coming out, and that brings me to Britney Spears, who had her famous crash out in 2007.
Um, but I wanna get into today's show, and basically how Hollywood is not a safe place for children.
It's really not a safe place for adults either, but it's particularly dangerous for child stars.
We've seen countless child stars end up in abusive relationships with lovers, parents, managers.
They become mentally ill, physically ill, sexually abused, and some turn up dead, and this has been happening for decades.
And I've watched the actors, and actresses, and singers that I grew up watching completely lose it, and it's easier to answer the question, what child stars haven't ended up in a bad place than it is to name the child stars that have.
The child stars that have gotten hooked on drugs or partying is a much longer list.
She starred in The Parent Trap at 11 years old, which put her on the map, and then she was getting booked for multiple successful movies her entire childhood career and into her teens.
She was in Mean Girls, Herbie Fully Loaded, and Confessions of, of a Teenage Drama Queen when she was 17.
I mean, she really hit this stride in her teenage years, but when she was a minor.
Um, by the mid-2000s, she was seen partying alongside Paris Hilton and Britney Spears, and Paris Hilton seems to be okay now, but Britney Spears certainly is not.
She seems to have gotten her act together in recent years, but she had come out and said that being in Hollywood as a teenager was toxic.
So that's one way to get away from the, the nightlife in Hollywood is just to [laughs] move countries and do it all over again somewhere else.
Um, but she is doing a lot of Hallmark movies now, so maybe she's turning a, a more wholesome leaf over.
But I can imagine that you're not often told no when you're famous, and certainly not when you're in every new hot, new movie coming out, and that brings me to Britney Spears, who had her famous crash out in 2007.
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Who Gave Her the Drugs?
Young stars can be failed by adults.
When Abuse Becomes Normal
Abuse can become normalized inside celebrity culture.
The Cost of Peaking Early
Fame can distort identity long after success.
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