Bobby Driscoll. Was once a rising child actor, and the voice of Peter Pan in the 1953 Disney movie. But when he started puberty Disney dropped him, and he struggled to get any work in film and TV because of his acne. He ended up alone and penniless, and was buried in an unmarked grave.

Amy Winehouse. Her struggles did not deserve the treatment she got. She shouldnt have been forced to perform at any point in her career, they should have gotten her the help she needed instead of forcing her to carry on regardless and it shouldnt have ruined her

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To those referencing rehab, you know theres other ways to help too right? Limiting her access to finding it, programmes outside of rehab, therapy, generally just support and care for the individual, which none of them did because they didnt care about her as a person, just what she could do for them.

Anne Hathaway. The whole Hathahate era felt like people projecting “try hard” vibes onto someone who was basically just… earnest and talented, with zero actual scandals.

A bunch of the child actors who later “went off the rails.” Lindsey Lohan is recovering but her and Amanda Bynes I think were two terrible victims of Hollywood, its pressures, and it’s exploitations. I feel terrible for where Amanda Bynes has ended up.

ETA: a lot of those child celebrity’s families also played a huge role in those problems. Really just tragic all around.

Pee Wee Herman was NOT the worst thing in Hollywood back in the early 90s. media tried to paint him as the worst kind of deviant. he was a Saint by comparison.

Janet Jackson had her clothes ripped off of her on live TV and she was the only one to get any backlash from the incident, so much that it basically sunk her entire career after that. I still don't know how Justin Timberlake never got any heat for that move.

Probably a controversial opinion but Colin Kapernick. He wanted to protest brutality against black people so he took a knee during the national anthem. IMO kneeling is still a show of respect and a very mild form of protest yet his career was shortened by several years and he got blacklisted by every NFL team.

Dudley Moore was portrayed as being a drunk in his last years due to an MS like illness that wasn’t really made public until after he had passed.

Cliff Robertson (uncle Ben in the Sam Raimi Spiderman). He uncovered that David Begelman was embezzling money from actors working at Columbia pictures. He was blacklisted for decades.

Topher Grace had a bad reputation for being difficult and aloof on That 70s Show. Turns out he was the only one who wasn't a trash human.

Eartha Kitt was blacklisted for years for criticizing the Vietnam War and the Johnson administration at the White House

She did make a comeback years later but she had to pursue a career in Europe I think while the government kept surveillance on her.

I never understood why Rosanna Arquette didn’t become a bigger star. She was everywhere in the 80’s and 90s, was beautiful, a great actress, and had the Arquette name on top of it all.

Then when the MeToo movement happened, she came forward about how Harvey Weinstein blacklisted her after she refused to comply with his disgusting ‘advances’. Then it all made sense. He ruined her reputation in Hollywood and it very much unfairly impacted her career. I’m glad to see her doing more acting these days but I don’t think she ever fully recovered from that.