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Michael Jackson revealed that his father, Jo, would regularly pressure him and his brothers to work longer and harder, even using physical violence as punishment.“When he’d come to see me, I’d get sick,” the King of Poptold Oprahin a 1992 interview. “I’d start to regurgitate.”Whenever the talented group would miss a step or note during rehearsals, Jo would strike them with an electrical cord or the buckle end of a belt.“None of us can remember him holding us or cuddling us or telling us, ‘I love you,’” Jermaine Jackson said of her abusive father in a memoir.But his father didn’t only exercise physical violence on his sons. He also sexually abused his daughters.The eldest daughters of the Jackson clan, Rebbie and La Toya,accused Joof sexual abuse, saying their mother, Katherine, was complicit in the assaults.“When your father gets out of bed with your mother and gets into bed with his daughter, and you hear the mother saying, ‘No, Joe, not tonight. Let her rest. Leave her alone, she’s tired,’ that makes you crazy,” La Toya wrote in a 1991 memoir.
WhileMacaulay Culkin’s Home Alone family was loving—though somewhat absent-minded— the reality at home was much different.The actor’s father was extremely controlling and had him on a busy working schedule, neglecting his desire to play and make friends with his peers.At age 11, when Macaulay hosted Saturday Night Live, his dad, Kit—whom he describedas a “crazy person”— forbade the use of cue cards and forced him to memorize every single line, something that seemed excessive even to adult hosts of the show.According to Macaulay, his violent dad was“jealous” of himbecause “everything he tried to do in his life, I excelled at before I was 10 years old.”The child star’s strained relationship with his parents led him to pursue legal action, taking them to court to ensure they didn’t control his $17 million fortune. Since then, he and his father have been estranged.“I learned how to read court papers at 14,” the actor, now 43 and a father of two, said in 2006.
Before she blew out three candles, Judy Garland’s mother had already found her a job:she would singand dance with her oldest sisters before movie screenings at her family-owned theater.Judy’s mother, a vaudeville performer, moved the family to California when Judy was 4, a decision that had profoundly negative effects on her mental wellbeing.“From the day we arrived in Lancaster, all the wonderful carefree fun and joy in my family began to vanish,” the Minnesota-born star said.“Suddenly, Mother decided we had to be stars. She started to drag us to any place someone important might see us.”As a result of the pressure to entertain audiences, Garland said the only time she felt “wanted” as a kid was when she was performing.
When he turned 18 years old, Gary Coleman found his accounts nearly empty, leading him to sue his parents and ex-manager.Gary accused his parents of misappropriating the multi-million dollar fortune he had generated while working as a child actor on the popular sitcom Diff’rent Strokes.While Garywas awarded$1.3 million, the late actor filed for bankruptcy in 1999, ten years after the trial, after a series of bad investments, legal fees, and medical bills for his lifelong kidney condition.He passed away in 2010 at 42 years of age after falling down the stairs at his Santaquin home and hitting his head, possibly after a seizure. At the time, he had not spoken to his parents in 20 years.
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Lindsay can trace her claim to fame to when she was as young as 3 years old and signed to the prestigious modeling agency Ford Models. Of course, her breakout role came in 1998, when she played Hallie and Annie, the charismatic matchmaking twins from The Parent Trap.For the Freaky Friday actress, spending her days on the Disney film’s set served as a way to escape the troubled life at home.Her violent father, Michael, hadmultiple run-inswith the law during Lindsay’s childhood.“He’s put [me] and my mother and my mom’s parents through so much hell,” the NY-born actress toldVanity Fairin 2010 of her father.“From the death threats to throwing shoes at my grandfather’s head and giving him a concussion to threatening to kill my mother in front of my little brother Dakota.”The trauma she experienced as a young girl, Lindsay said, forced her to “grow up really fast.”“My mom would try to shield me from that as much as possible, but I chose to get in the middle [of her parents] my entire life.”
Ariel Winter didn’t grow up dreaming of becoming an actress. That was more her mother’s wish. Given that she couldn’t accomplish that goal herself, she imposed that fate onto her daughter.Unfortunately, living the dream involved strict control over what she ate and who she hung out with. Food was “very, very restricted” from the time she began acting, and her education was neglected, Ariel told theHollywood Reporter.Ariel also recalls being sexualized from age 7 and being dressed in “the smallest miniskirts, sailor suits, low-cut things, the shortest dresses you’ve ever seen.“If there was going to be a nude scene when I was that age, my mother would have a thousand percent said yes,” the Modern Family actress revealed.The traumatizing childhood resulted in Ariellegally emancipating herselffrom her mother and moving in with her sister, Shanelle Gray, when she was 14, a decision that also helped her reconnect with her father.
You may recognize Barton for playing troubled teenager Marissa Cooper in The OC, but her career goes back to acting in Notting Hill and The Sixth Sense, released in 1999 when she was a little girl.In 2015, the British-born actresssued her motherand former manager, Nuala Barton, claiming she bullied her, withheld earnings without her knowledge, and threw her out of her own $7.8 million Beverly Hills mansion that she convinced her to purchase.The legal document describes “a greedy stage mother posing as a talent manager who, instead of acting in the best interest of her daughter/client, schemed to defraud her unsuspecting victim.”The actress’s mother allegedly controlled her finances, providing Mischa with a “sporadic” allowance “at her sole discretion.”She’s also thought to have lied to the actress about her earnings for the 2013 horror film The Hoarder, and she forged her daughter’s signature on documents “so that she could pocket the difference without Barton’s knowledge.”
After receiving reports on her poor attitude on the set of Gossip Girl, Taylor Momsen immediately blamed her parents, who signed her up for Ford Modeling when she was only two years old.“No 2-year-old wants to be working, but I had no choice,” the then-17-year-old actress, who played Jenny Humphrey,told Revolver magazineat the time.“My whole life, I was in and out of school,” Taylor continued. “I didn’t have friends. I was working constantly, and I didn’t have a real life.“Many years before appearing on the teen drama series, 7-year-old Taylor portrayed Cindy Lou in How the Grinch Stole Christmas.
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