HBO's Showbiz Kids: Evan Rachel Wood, Cameron Boyce and More Reveal the Cost of Child Stardom
made him a household name, but he quickly began to resent his notoriety. "I stopped being a kid who was an actor and I became a child star," he shared. "That fundamentally changed my life."
"I turned into a teen magazine, teenybopper idol. I hated all of that stuff. I didn't like it at all. It was way outside of my comfort zone," he explained, adding, "It created this reality for me where I kind of had to play the role of the young celebrity. The adults in my life who should have been protecting me from that were like, ‘This is the dream!' and kept pushing me into these places where I didn't feel safe and I felt really afraid.
Wilson also confronted her realization that "much older men" were interested in her, sharing, "I remember Googling my own name, which was a terrible thing, and I saw people talking about photoshopped child porn of me. My parents tried to protect me from these dangers but I could sense them, and I knew that there were times when they just weren't going to be able to protect me.
from epilepsy, said he struggled with broadcasting his offscreen life to fans. "You shouldn't have to deal with all of the responsibilities and all of the eyeballs when you're that young," Boyce said. "Everybody has an idea of what they want you to be, and at that age you don't even know what the hell you want to be... It's f--ked up to think about your entire adolescent life is documented for the world to see.
His celebrity status also negatively impacted his family life, explaining, "When it really hit home for me was when my sister would come home from school and talk about how her classmates would naturally associate her with me. I hated that and that killed me. I didn't want her to feel like she was in my shadow or that she was lesser than. There are definitely things that you think back on and you're like that changed the entire fabric of my family and the way that we work as a unit.
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