Childhood Fame = Adult Pain
Actress Jamie Lee Curtis thinks the early fame that Michael Jackson accrued would be the reason for his early death. Childhood fame is often the catalyst that starts a long road of adulthood problems, namely drug abuse. One India has this article where she talks about her struggles with drug abuse, and she links Jackson’s problems with Propofol to his childhood in the spotlight.
In a blog on the HuffingtonPost website, she states: “The explanation is that this moment (the Pepsi ad accident) was the drug start point that eventually took over his life. I don’t believe it. The pain he suffered was from his birth, from his being and becoming the commodity that then made him the omnipotent King of the Pop-Goes-The-Weasel-Jacko-In-The-Neverland-Box that destroyed him,” she added.
Like the late King
of Pop, Curtis was pushed into the world of show business at a young age, as the child star daughter of screen icon Tony Curtis – and she blames the early exposure to fame for her addiction to painkillers.
The actress states: “Few children, put into the intense focus of their precious youth being marketed for other’s pleasure, come out unscathed and with any sense of mental balance. Rarely are the parents really held accountable for the fragile, destroyed youths as many of the young people get the f**k away as fast as their agents and lawyers get them… but the imprint is there, it cannot be undone without a painful process of self discovery and as we know… pain needs to be killed… not tolerated and examined.”
The pressure of fame really is too much for a child. In truth, it is often too much to handle for adults. But for children the high pressure lifestyle hurts their development and gives them a warped sense of their own self worth. And as they move into adulthood, these child stars often feel the need to turn to various vices. Parents really should think twice before allowing their child to suffer the fate of fame.