drove them to drugs in the first place isn't addressed.

Child stars transitioning out of childhood roles typically have significant personal demons if the transition doesn't go smoothly. It's hard enough to go through puberty and early teen years without having to grow up under a microscope and often also under constant pressure to perform for an audience that is notoriously fickle and demanding.

Add excessive "celebrity worship", oodles of cash earned to spend on having fun, and peer pressure within their little fame bubbles and you've got a tragedy in the making. Show business is a brutal business and everyone has an expiration date unless they can zig and zag to keep their celebrity status with tgeir too often fickle fans.

Drugs are an appealing escape and easily procured.