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'Fame ruined my life'
We will never know how successful River Pheonix could have been had he not tragically lost his life at the tender age of 23. We look at other child stars who have paid a high price for fame and fortune
Never before has a boy wanted more
Jack Wild, who at the age of 16 was nominated for an Oscar for his role as the Artful Dodger in the musical Oliver!, was later to experience the deepest pitfalls of fame.
So disturbed was he by the loss of his childhood, that he sent an open letter to the then 11-year-old Harry Potter star, Daniel Radcliffe, warning him of the potential danger ahead.
'Like other child stars, I paid a high price for my instant success,' he wrote. 'I was suddenly a jet-setter, briefly the toast of Hollywood and London's West End. My immature wishes and naive opinions were treated with respect.
'It was all so flattering and seductive that if you we're not careful, you came to believe you really deserved superstar treatment. That was part of my problem; that and a craving for booze.'
A millionaire at 18, Wild was an alcoholic at 21. Eventually, after years of heavy drinking, smoking and drug abuse he was diagnosed with mouth cancer, and he died in 2006, at the age of 53.
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