Stories of teen stars in Hollywood facing abuse in their initial years aren’t anything new to headlines. As seen recently, Dan Schneider faced allegations from young stars on Nickelodeon regarding his unseemly behavior with the cast. Now, Molly Ringwald has come forward to expose ‘predators; who exploited her in Hollywood.
Ringwald, who was one of the central characters in ‘The Breakfast Club‘ talked about her early years in Hollywood and how pervasive ‘predators’ took advantage of her.
Molly Ringwald Exposes Pervasive Hollywood Culture
The actress opened up about her experience in Hollywood as a young actress, and the exploitative nature of the industry which, she recalls, she felt having taken advantage of.
Ringwald, who has been an icon of 1980s teen films entered the industry when she was just three, talked about how she wouldn’t want her daughter to follow her footsteps and join the industry because of how pervasive it is.
“I was taken advantage of,” Ringwald said on ‘WTF‘ podcast. “You can’t be a young actress in Hollywood and not have predators around.” The actress added that she was “definitely in questionable situations” as a young actor, but she relied on her “incredible survival instinct and a pretty big superego” to “figure out a way to protect myself” from predators in the industry.
She also added that she didn’t much of a social life in the industry as she said, “I never really felt like I was part of a community when I was in Hollywood, just because I was so young, really. I wasn’t into going out to clubs. I feel like I’m more social now than I was then. I was just too young.”
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What Is Molly Ringwald Doing Now?
Ringwald was last seen on Dahmer – Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story in 2022 and later on made her debut at New York Fashion Week, walking for Batsheva. Apart from that she has mostly stayed away from acting and have been known to be focusing on her family.
She has three kids as of now, who she shares with her husband Panio Gianopoulos. Twins Adele and Roman are fourteen years old and her eldest daughter Mathilda, is 20 years old and is all set to follow in her mother’s footsteps to become an actress.
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