Hollywood Unfiltered

Let's get into Lindsay Lohan! Mean Girls turned her into the it-girl of a generation, and then the same machine that built her seemed to chew her up and walk away. At her peak she was the most bankable young star in Hollywood, but the relentless schedule, the tabloid pile-ons, and a famously chaotic support system around her created the perfect storm for a very public unraveling. The industry that cashed in on her image was quick to brand her a liability the moment she stumbled, offering scorn instead of help. Looking back, her story reads less like a cautionary tale about one wild starlet and more like an indictment of how Hollywood treats the young women it profits from. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Let's get into Ariana Grande, Dan Schneider, and Nickelodeon! Years after playing Cat on Sam & Cat and Victorious, Ariana has spoken about how uncomfortable parts of that child-star experience really were, and it hits differently after everything that's come out about the network. Following the Quiet on Set revelations, fans revisited old clips of Ariana in bizarre, arguably inappropriate bits and asked how any adult let them happen to a teenager. She's described feeling that the environment normalized things it never should have, and that the industry asks kids to hand over far too much before they can understand the cost. This gets into what she's shared, the wider Nickelodeon reckoning, and why so many of those child stars came out hurt. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices