Ex Child Star Mara Wilson Explains Why Celebs Like Amanda Bynes, Lindsay Lohan ‘Go Crazy’
May 14 2019, Updated 5:03 p.m. ET
It takes a former child star to know – and understand – a former child star’s meltdown!
Mara Wilson, who made a name for herself when she was just a kid starring in movies such as Matilda, Nine Months and Mrs. Doubtfire, gives an insider’s view into why child stars like Lindsay Lohan, Amanda Bynes and Miley Cyrus rebel later in life, ‘go crazy,’ and often end up surrounded by scandal – and Breaking Celebrity News has the details.
“Not many child stars make it out of Hollywood alive or sane, and at any given time there are at least three former ones having very public breakdowns,” Wilson, 25, explains in an extensive essay on Cracked, offering up 7 Reasons Child Stars Go Crazy, which includes their parents not being willing or being unable to help them, getting used to love and attention and then losing it, sexual exploitation, not being able to rebel, having no alternatives in life other than performing and not being able to escape their child star identity.
"Adults know that infatuation is fleeting, but kids don't understand this,” Wilson, 25, who recently quit acting, explains.
“A year in a kid's life seems like an eternity, and they think anything happening now will happen forever. Years of adulation and money and things quick