You describe your childhood as painful.

I have something that you said that what was the most painful part about it?

12.

You know, when you're a kid, it's being locked in a room and told that they have to memorize a record before they can come out and get food or before they can, you know, play with a toy or function at all in any way.

Um, and then they finally come out.

And if they don't get it right, then they get smacked and put back in that room.

Or, you know, let's say you have to memorize the script and it's the same thing.

If you don't come out with the script word for word and backwards and forwards, then you know you don't get dinner or you don't get to go to bed until you've done this.

You know you can't go to school tomorrow if you don't have your lines down.

You know you have to get out of school tomorrow because you've got auditions, so we're gonna pick you up earlier.

You know there's no functionality.

There's no normality.

There's no common through line on anything in the developmental stages.

So when you've broken it down that severely to the point where there's no rational family unit or function for a child, you know raising Children and the most stable environment is about continuity.

It's about giving them repetition so that they know every day they're gonna wake up in a stable environment that they're loved.

They're taking care of.

They don't have to worry.

They're going to get the food they need, the education they need to sleep.

They need the love they need.

We got none of that.

None of that.

So there's no one thing from my childhood.

I had a screwed up childhood, and I don't wish it on anybody.

Nobody should have to live like that.

No child should be a slave and not have the right to make their own decisions and do what they want and become what they want in this life.

Because life is about freedom of choice, you know.

So anytime we're bound and gagged and told, this is what you must do and you don't have a say in the matter, that's not okay.

But that said as it went, it was what it was.

I developed many gifts as a result of it.

And I like him, you know, very blessed to have many successful films.

And I'm very even more blessed to still have Ah, a good career and and make a living, you know?

And here I am, what for?

Almost five decades later, Still doing it and still have great fan base, and God bless everybody.

So I you know, I think it turned into a positive.

Do you think that being a child star, though, like, helped or hurt these issues that you dealt with which issues like your child?

Well, I wouldn't.

And I don't think I would have had any of those issues.

My parents didn't put me into that because then, you know, if she was abusive, you know, like any other abuse of household, it just you would have been abusive.

But you at least, would have had, you know, the normal structure of life because you'd go to school or, you know, whatever.

But, you know, we didn't have that so many times.

I had to miss school or many times I wasn't able to like I couldn't join like a baseball team, you know, and go do what other kids do, or I couldn't get bar mitzvahed because I'm Jewish and that's what Jewish kids do.

You go to Hebrew school, you get bar mitzvahed.

I couldn't do that.

So there was nothing that I could do because everything we stop because I had auditions, auditions, auditions I was working was on location or whatever.

You know, my first memory is going to work for the first time.

That's my first memory.

However you three know, So I don't have any memory or any recollection of anything before that.

And is that right to do to a child?

Oh, no, there's not.

So the point is, is that obviously I've had the opportunity to raise a child and, you know, with lots of love and give him all the balance and all the consistency and the regular family stuff that kid needs, and that's felt amazing.

That's been an amazing reward to my heart, into my soul and, uh, and have a beautiful wife to share that with.

You know, I feel very blessed today, and I feel very grateful that I've made it through the traumas and, um, the hardships and the horrors that I've been through And that's why I'm here to try and raise awareness and show people like, Look, there's a lot of bad things going on out there, and these things can be avoided on the way they could be avoided is a by not putting your kid into an industry that you and your kid don't understand fully before you go there, you know, if you want your kid to have every opportunity in life, take him to drama school.

Take him to music school.

You know, uh, have him in theater workshops, put him in school plays all that stuff is fine.

Total whole reason weekend.

And you know what?

Even if you wanna have a small career where they do a commercial here, they do a commercial there.

They get the experience from it.

That's fine, too.

But when you start making your kid a superstar to the point that they don't have a chance at a real life, that's where it becomes abuse.

And that's where it becomes the parentsfault.

And furthermore, beyond that, when it comes to the laws and the regulations, what happens within the entertainment industry right now?

You know, Frances Fisher just got an opportunity to be part of the board over it zag, and she's a dear friend of mine.

And we're gonna be working together to try and help change some of the rules and regulations when it comes to kids on the set, because the thing is is like there's obvious stuff that can be fixed, such as No person on the set should ever have access to a child to where they will take them in their car away from the set and without supervision of the parent of the Guardian.

That should never happen.

Not for five minutes, and it happens every day.

Happens all the time in our industry.

Okay?

Staying over the manager's house tonight, staying over the publicist house tonight.

How many people don't realize that it's the managers and the publicist that we're doing this crab most of the time.

You know what I'm saying?

Logic.

It's just logic.

So if everybody started thinking like, let's put some guidelines, some rules and regulations in our industry to protect these kids, guess what?

It doesn't happen anymore.

Real simple.