Number 7 Jake Lloyd After starring opposite Arnold Schwarzenegger,
in Jingle All the Way, child actor Jake Lloyd rose to worldwide fame after he was chosen by director
George Lucas to play young Anakin Skywalker in Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace. The
1999 movie was one of the most highly-anticipated productions of its time but many felt it hadn’t
lived up to expectations for various reasons, including character and storyline choices. Even
though 8-year-old Lloyd won a Young Artist Award for his performance, a portion of the
harsh criticism was aimed at his acting. He consequently went through a period of severe
emotional turmoil. He was reportedly bullied at school and harassed by the press for his role in
the Phantom Menace to such a degree that he soon decided to retire from acting. In March of 2015,
when Lloyd was in his mid-20s, the police were called to the Indianapolis home of his mother,
Lisa Riley. She alleged that he’d arrived at her residence and verbally berated then
physically assaulted her. Riley declined to press charges, revealing that Lloyd suffered from
paranoid schizophrenia and hadn’t been taking his medication at the time. She would also later state
that the former child actor had a symptom called anosognosia, meaning that he was unaware of his
mental health condition. In June of that same year Lloyd, who went by the surname Broadbent,
was arrested in South Carolina. The sheriff’s office had been alerted to a reckless driver.
Lloyd sped away upon being approached by law enforcement and a chase ensued on Interstate 95.
During the pursuit, Lloyd reportedly drove at upwards of 100 miles. He crashed through
a fence and went off- road, ultimately coming to halt after crashing in some small trees.
Lloyd was charged with reckless driving, driving without a license, and resisting arrest. He wasn’t
released on bail and was eventually transferred to a psychiatric facility. In 2020, his family
announced that he’d moved closer to them and continued receiving treatment for his condition.
Number 6 Haley Joel Osment Haley Joel Osment began his acting career
in the mid-1990s, portraying Forrest Gump’s son in the eponymous film that went on to win six Academy
Awards. He rose to further prominence through the psychological thriller The Sixth Sense, which
earned him an Academy Award nomination of his own, and by starring in Steven Spielberg’s A.I.
Artificial Intelligence. Osment, who was still in his early teens, had become one of Hollywood’s
most recognizable faces. As his once blooming career slowed in its ascension Osment reportedly
began struggling with substance abuse. One of his most notable legal troubles was a car accident in
the summer of 2006, when he was only 18 years old. He lost control of his 1995 Saturn, while
driving through Glendale, California, then struck a mailbox which caused his vehicle to flip over.
He managed to exit the Saturn on his own, after suffering a broken rib and a fractured shoulder
blade. Osment faced several charges that stemmed from him having had a blood alcohol level nearly
twice the legal limit and for being in possession of marijuana. He faced jail time and ultimately
pleaded no contest to driving under the influence of alcohol and misdemeanor drug possession. He
was sentenced to five years’ probation, fined and ordered to undergo 60 hours in an alcohol
rehabilitation and education program. In more recent years, another incident involving Osment
took the form of a public meltdown at a Las Vegas airport, in 2018. The child star, then aged 29,
starting shouting obscenities in the gate agent’s face upon being informed that the flight was full.
He was quoted as threatening “I’ll destroy you!” and also shouting “do you know who
I am”. According to witnesses at the scene, many hadn’t, in fact, recognized Osment. The
authorities were called but it’s unclear what charges, if any, the former child actor faced.
Number 5 Shaun Weiss Although he’s made appearance
on several successful TV series, Shaun Weiss is best known for his role as Greg Goldberg
in The Mighty Ducks movies. The trilogy arguably represented the pinnacle of Weiss’ acting career
but he would subsequently become the focus of media attention through a series of legal
troubles, most noticeably since 2017. In July of that year he was arrested for shoplifting close to
$151 of electronics from a store. He pleaded no contest to petty theft charges and was
sentenced to 150 days in the Los Angeles County Jail. Weiss served less than two weeks and was
released due to overcrowding. Five days after his new found freedom, he was taken into custody for
methamphetamine possession and ordered to spend 90 days in jail. In August of 2018,
Weiss was arrested for public intoxication, with his mugshot showing the toll the addiction had
taken on his body. He looked emaciated and ashen, nearly unrecognizable from the goalie
he’d portrayed in Mighty Ducks. Weiss’ most recent encounter with law enforcement occurred in 2020,
after he’d broken into a man’s house while under the influence of methamphetamine. The actor, then
in his 40s, looked gaunt and disheveled as he was still struggling with substance abuse. According
to updates on his situation, the latter arrest prompted him to get help and, in early 2022,
he celebrated two years of sobriety. Number 4 Devin Ratray
Actor Devin Ratray had started acting professionally at the age of nine and
worked on various movies before landing the role of Buzz McCallister, the older brother of Macaulay
Culkin’s character, Kevin, in the first two movies of the massively popular Home Alone series.
He continued working steadily in the years that followed, before he was arrested on
domestic violence charges, on December the 8th of 2021. Ratray, aged 44, was featured as one of the
attractions at a convention in Oklahoma City. He’d reportedly gotten angry at his girlfriend, whose
identity wasn’t immediately released, for not charging two female fans for his autograph. Ratray
had reportedly been drinking heavily and, when the couple returned to their room at the Hyatt
Place Oklahoma City, he reportedly attacked his girlfriend. He pushed her onto the bed then placed
one hand on her mouth and the other on her throat. He began choking her and allegedly said “This is
how you die”. The woman bit his hand and broke free, at which point Ratray punched her in the
face repeatedly. The police were called and the victim was found to have sustained bruising and
marks under both eyes, scrapes above her lip and a chest bruise. Ratray, who denied ever attacking
her, was taken into custody on charges of battery by strangulation, a felony, as well as misdemeanor
domestic assault and battery. Number 3 Amanda Bynes
Amanda Bynes began acting professionally at the age of 7, making stage appearances in several
musicals, before she was cast by Nickelodeon on its sketch comedy series All That, from 1996
to 2000. She went on to star in a spinoff series called The Amanda Show, before mainly focusing on
a rather short-lived feature movie career. While still predominantly recognized as a former child
actor, Bynes began struggling with substance abuse and drawing media attention through controversies
and legal troubles. In 2012, a few years after she’d stopped appearing in movies and on TV,
she was charged with driving under the influence, in West Hollywood. In 2013
she was charged with reckless endangerment and marijuana possession after being found smoking in
the lobby of her Manhattan apartment building. The former charge stemmed from her allegedly
throwing a bong out the window of her 36th floor apartment, but the case was ultimately dismissed.
Her family’s concerns for her wellbeing increased in 2013 after Bynes was arrested in Ventura
County, California, for starting a small fire in a stranger’s driveway. She was hospitalized for
72 hours, under a mental evaluation hold, and her mother was subsequently granted a conservatorship
of her affairs. In 2014, Bynes accused her father of abuse on Twitter. The latter maintained his
innocence, and the former child star subsequently stated that her father hadn’t directly abused her,
offering a peculiar reasoning by saying "the microchip in my brain made me say those things but
he's the one that ordered them to microchip me". Not long afterwards, she announced that she’d been
diagnosed with bipolar disorder. Bynes later apologized to her family for the tweets and,
in 2018, told the media that, with the help of her parents, she was 4 years sober.
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comments section below. Number 2 Orlando Brown
In spite of his attempts at cultivating a career in the music industry, Orlando Brown remained best
known for his work as a child actor in the 1990s and 2000s. He appeared on the Jamie Foxx Show,
Family Matters and The Proud Family as well as on Disney Channel’s “That’s So Raven”. In February
of 2016, Brown was arrested after he’d hit his then-girlfriend in the parking lot of a police
station. Officers took him into custody and found methamphetamine on him, which consequently led to
Brown being charged with drug possession with intent to sell in addition to domestic battery,
for attacking his girlfriend. The former child actor, then in his late 20s, failed to
appear in court and a warrant was issued for his arrest. Police eventually took him into custody,
in January of 2018, after responding to reports of a domestic disturbance at a residence in Barstow,
California. The row involved Brown, his girlfriend and the woman’s mother. He was
taken into custody on additional charges of drug possession and domestic battery and, once again,
missed his court date. On April the 13th, bounty hunters apprehended him in Las Vegas, where they
found him hiding in a homeowner’s closet. Number 1 Danny Bonaduce
Danny Bonaduce became famous, in the 1970s, as a child actor co-starring in the hit TV sitcom The
Partridge Family. After the show, Bonaduce went on to have a moderately successful career in film,
radio and television, while also taking part in celebrity boxing events and professional wrestling
bouts. Known for his choleric personality, Bonaduce had several run-ins with law enforcement
in the early 1990s. He was arrested while trying to buy cocaine in Daytona Beach, Florida,
on March the 9th of 1990. In a dark ironic twist it emerged that Bonaduce was there hosting an
event for Drug Abuse Resistance Education, or DARE, a program aimed at educating children on
the dangers of drugs. A little over a year later, in March of 1991, he was arrested for assaulting
and robbing Darius Barney, a transvestite escort. The incident took place in Phoenix, Arizona,
and Barney reportedly suffered cuts and a broken nose. Bonaduce pleaded guilty to reduced charges
and his punishment included paying his victim’s medical bills. In October of 2007, at the Fox
Reality Awards, there was an altercation between Bonaduce and Survivor contestant
Johnny Fairplay. They were both on stage and Fairplay had reportedly jumped on the
former child star to hug him. Bonaduce, a black belt in the Korean martial art of Tang Soo Do,
subsequently claimed that he didn’t like Fairplay’s hands being so close to his throat.
He adjusted his balance and threw the Survivor contestant over his head. Because he was holding
a microphone at the time, Fairplay was unable to brace and landed face-first. He staggered
off the stage and was later reported to have lost some teeth in addition to suffering a broken toe.
Fairplay pressed charges and a felony battery investigation was opened but ultimately dropped
by the L.A. District Attorney's Office, which concluded that Bonaduce had acted in self-defense.
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