Former Child Stars Who Went Off The Deep End

10. Brian Bonsall

Child star Brian Bonsall, who appeared in Family Ties (1982-89) and Blank Check (1994), got into some trouble as an adult. According to the Daily Camera, he was accused of throwing alcohol in his then-girlfriend’s face and throwing her on a bed when she tried leaving their apartment in 2007. In 2010, Bonsall, then 28, pleaded guilty to felony menacing and third degree assault after he attacked a friend with a broken stool. Bonsall has reportedly suffered from mental illness, as well as addictions to alcohol and painkillers, but after receiving treatment, he has stayed out of the news.

11. Tatum O’Neal

Tatum O’Neal became the youngest Academy Award winner in history at just 10 years old for Paper Moon (1973), in which she starred opposite her father, Ryan O’Neal. According to her own 2004 memoir (via the Daily Beast), she suffered emotional and physical abuse from her father and began smoking marijuana two years after her Oscar win. Cocaine abuse, Quaaludes, and hard partying followed. Tatum claimed her dad abandoned her at 15 when he married actress Farrah Fawcett, and that by 16, she’d been molested by two men (one of whom she claimed was a good friend of Ryan’s) and two women. Her father denied all of the allegations. By age 18, Tatum claimed she was using cocaine to stay thin, and in 1995, when her marriage to tennis pro John McEnroe collapsed, she got hooked on heroin. In June 2008, she was arrested for allegedly trying to buy crack cocaine in New York City. She later pleaded guilty to disorderly conduct and was sentenced to treatment.

In 2015, Tatum penned a piece for Harper’s Bazaar, discussing sobriety and her evolving sexual identity. “Now I’ve had a number of years of being present and clear, and that has changed everything in my life,” she said. “It’s changed my relationships with my children, my relationship with work, my relationships with people, my relationship with myself. Now I’m clean and aware and alive and interested in the world, saying, ‘Dating women is exciting to me, and this is turning me on.'”

12. Jeremy Jackson

Baywatch (1989-2001) star Jeremy Jackson played surfer kid Hobie Buchannon on the series from 1991 to 1999. He was 9 years old when he started working on the show, but says he left to cope with an addiction to methamphetamines, ecstasy, marijuana, and GHB. In 2011, he appeared on Celebrity Rehab with Dr. Drew to recover from an addiction to steroids. In early 2015, he was accused of allegedly trying to murder his then-wife, fitness model Loni Willison, and he was booted from Celebrity Big Brother for allegedly groping a co-star in a drunken stupor and exposing her breasts. In April 2015, Jackson was accused of allegedly stabbing a man at a party, but no charges were filed. Six months later, he was accused of allegedly stabbing a woman multiple times. Upon his release from jail in October 2015, he went to rehab.