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Pop star Demi Lovato is asking her fellow former child stars a tough question: Is the price of fame worth your childhood? In “Child Star,” which debuted Tuesday on Hulu, Lovato interviews fellow celebrities who grew up in the limelight about the highs and lows of fame at a young age. Drew Barrymore, Christina Ricci, Kenan Thompson, JoJo Siwa, Alyson Stoner and Raven-Symoné all open up to Lovato about how their early fame has affected them as adults.
She described child acting as an isolating experience because she didn’t feel like she could talk about her work with other kids. She also said the amount of work child actors get can depend on how “easy” children and their parents appear. “The idea of agency … it didn’t even occur to me,” she said. Ricci said she turned to drugs and alcohol as a teenager because she felt she needed substances to be happy.
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