Matilda Star Mara Wilson Says She Was Sexualized & Contacted By Men As A Child Actor
16.05.2023 - 00:41
/ perezhilton.com
Mara Wilson is ready to open up about the most troubling parts of childhood stardom.
As a child star, Mara was one of the biggest in the ’90s — starring in Mrs. Doubtfire, Miracle on 34th Street, and of course in the title role of Matilda from the heartwarming Danny DeVito film adaptation.
The now 35-year-old has previously been outspoken about the rampant sexualization of children — especially young girls — in Hollywood. In 2021, in fact, she opened up to The New York Times in an opinion piece and said she and Britney Spears “learned the same lesson” when it came to how the entertainment industry works with kids:
Just awful…
And now, in her new memoir Good Girls Don’t, Mara is laying her experiences out once again. While speaking to The Guardian on Monday, she said after the sudden death of her mother Suzie Wilson in 1996, things got more “inappropriate” between her and certain adults in the entertainment industry — and some “sketchy” things happened:
Mara said when her mom was alive, she didn’t have any trouble making “her concerns known,” but after Suzie’s passing is when she discovered some troubling things on the internet:
Many sites online had photoshopped her adolescent face onto that of NSFW pictures of grown women. Just disgusting. Being only a preteen and seeing something like that had to be beyond horrifying!
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She argued:
The former child star explained how even though the film sets themselves weren’t necessarily awful for her, she did witness a lot of inappropriate things:
The problem is, she had a job like all the adults — so immediately she was being treated like an adult, which was sometimes more inappropriate than others:
Rocketing to stardom so