Hollywood’s Children: A Roll of the Dice

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There’s a cliché that Hollywood’s child stars exist under a double-edged sword.  Having money and, yes, power at a very young age have been the downfall of many a beautiful, talented kid that happened to be in the right place at the right time (if you get what I’m saying here).

You’d have to be living under a rock to be unaware of the exploits of a Lindsay Lohan or Britney Spears, whose well-publicized struggles with mental illness and addiction have become the butt of a lot of jokes.

But some of the more tragic stories are from stars we forget.

Take Jaimee Foxworth, for example, whose character of Judy Winslow was unceremoniously cut out of Family Matters without …

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Missing Hoarder Found Dead in Her Junk Room

We all probably know some packrats … I know I do (and might be a little bit guilty of being a bit of one). However, I’ve always written it off as kind of a harmless vice, an almost eccentric habit.

Yeah, well, turns out I was wrong. Billie Jean James, a woman from Las Vegas and a known “hoarder,” was missing for four months—that’s 120 days—and nobody could find her despite pretty massive search attempts.

Well, you can probably see where this one’s going …

From AOL News:

Billie Jean, 67, went missing from her home in April, according to a local ABC affiliate. Bill James says he woke up from a nap and could not find his wife anywhere.

He assumed that she had wandered away. She had recently had a mini-stroke that left her disoriented, and he worried that she had suffered another.

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