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Almost all of us watched Happy Days on TV. We all knew "Jonie" aka Erin Moran.
When Erin died suddenly this past week we all thought the same thing, DRUGS.
In reality, Erin died of cancer but her story is still a very cautious tale of what it is like to be a child star in Hollywood. After Happy Days Erin experienced a very bumpy road. Ending up living in a small trailer with her husband and her mother-in-law at the time of her death.
Tonight we welcome Paul Peterson http://www.paulpetersen.com/ Mr. Peterson knows all too well how the Hollywood machine can chew people up and spit them out. Mr. Peterson starred in the Donna Reed show as Jeff Stone.
Be sure and check out Mr. Peterson's charity organization called "A Minor Consideration".
Because of people like Paul Peterson, the days of parents taking their child's hard-earned acting money and blowing it are gone. If you live in California that is. If a child works in another state the parents can be total jerks and steal all their money.
Let me toss some names out to you:
Gary Coleman -sued his parents
Cory Feldman -sued his father
Judith Barsi -killed by her father
Brad Renfro -heroin overdose
Dana Plato - died from drug overdose
All of the Cowsills singing group - Made over 20 million dollars never saw a cent. Suspect father took all the money
The list goes on and on.
Paul Peterson is part of a group called "Minor Consideration" which he will tell us about during the show.
You are going to get a lot of behinds the scenes looks at what the Hollywood life is like for our most vulnerable people, children.
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