Christy Carlson Romano is telling the unfiltered version of her story. The 42-year-old actress, best known for“Even Stevens,”“Kim Possible,”and“Cadet Kelly,”appeared on the“Not Skinny But Not Fat”podcast and got honest about her years after Disney, including first trying cocaine at 23 and clubbing hard from age 21 trying to get noticed.
What stands out most is her reason. Romano said the appeal wasn’t the drug itself, it was the reaction she got from doing it in front of people. She described years of chasing attention that never quite arrived the way she hoped, a candid look at what happens when the spotlight moves on.
All of it is detailed in her new memoir,“Once Upon a Trainwreck: The Rise and Fall of a Child Star,”which also includes an awkward Lindsay Lohan encounter from the Hilary Duff feud era. It’s a reminder that the kids we watched grow up on screen were also growing up in real life, often with the whole world watching.
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