What are the statistics, if any, on the number of Hollywood child stars used and abused by “the industry?”
- Drew Barrymore: became a substance abuser after being introduced to the “scene” as a child by her father John Barrymore, an actor (and alcoholic), and her mother, Jaid, who “took her to nightclubs up to five times a week”
- Amanda Bynes: had a public breakdown in which she alleged, then retracted that her father sexually abused her and that he had her “microchipped”; there are unproven allegations that she was a victim of a Nickelodeon producer
- Miley Cyrus: “I did feel sexualized.”
- Dakota Fanning: At the age of 12, stars in Hounddog, a movie about a minor who becomes “promiscuous” and is eventually raped
- Corey Feldman: “I was molested and passed around.”
- Shirley Temple: tabloid allegations about “the sexual predators who drove her from showbiz”
- Macaulay Culkin: Court TV reports — “Cook: I caught Michael Jackson groping” him as a childThey say a picture is worth a thousand words.
One journalist who worked in Hollywood, Thomas Wictor, says that sex with children in Hollywood — not just in private, but actually in front of “audiences” — is a police-protected open secret.
Skipping ahead a few Tweets, to save you the trouble of scrolling.
Skipping one more Tweet.
Child sex trafficking in Hollywood.
Molesting child stars.
“Nothing to see here; move on.” Right?
It’s part of American culture.
It’s how things are done for fame, power and money.
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Originally posted August 3, 2017 to Medium.com by Dannielle Blumenthal, Ph.D. All opinions are the authors’ own. Cover photo: Google screenshot.
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