A new docuseries is drawing major attention after Todd Bridges made very specific and troubling claims about his childhood while working on Diff’rent Strokes.
During a new episode of Hollywood Demons which airs on Investigation Discovery on Monday, April 27, Bridges, 60, recalled having several encounters with Plato on set, saying, “At 12 years old, I was sleeping one time in a room on the set. All of a sudden, someone unzipped my pants down and started giving me a blowjob — and it was Dana.”
Bridges has since questioned Plato’s behavior toward him.
“How would a 12-year-old girl know about that?” he asked. “The only way you would do that to someone else is if you experienced it yourself.”
While reflecting on his relationship with Plato, Bridges claimed she introduced him to his first “threesome, foursome and fivesome.”
“Dana was wild. My first experience with everything was with Dana. It was all Dana,” he said before discussing her issues off screen. “She could never tell us what was going on. We could have really helped her. She never wanted to talk about her feelings.”
The claims are part of a broader conversation in the series about the pressures and hidden struggles faced by child actors in Hollywood.
Diff’rent Strokes aired from 1978 to 1986 and made stars out of its young cast, including Bridges and Gary Coleman. However, many of them later faced personal struggles after growing up in the spotlight.
Plato, who played Kimberly on the show, battled substance abuse and died in 1999 at age 34. Bridges has also spoken publicly about his own past struggles with addiction before getting sober in the early 1990s.
Seems like a lot of perverts out there!
It’s not called “Hollywierd” for nothing……