I say that because I was watching the episode where Kimberly is bulemic and I thought in real life Dana Plato had a problem with bulemia. Is that true?

I say that because I was watching the episode where Kimberly is bulemic and I thought in real life Dana Plato had a problem with bulemia. Is that true?

I was wondering this myself when I watched the episode last night. I know she had such a tragic personal life, I wonder if she did suffer from bulimia.

Side note, I think it's sad that that was her last appearance on the series. :(

I was wondering this myself when I watched the episode last night. I know she had such a tragic personal life, I wonder if she did suffer from bulimia.

Side note, I think it's sad that that was her last appearance on the series. :(


That's the episode I try to avoid in syndication

That's the episode I try to avoid in syndication

Why?

Why?


I never liked sad episode topics on any sitcom since I use it for my escape from reality

I never liked sad episode topics on any sitcom since I use it for my escape from reality

Oh, so you didn't like the "after-school specials?" LOL
DS had quite a few of those come to think of it. I think that was some sort of trend in the 80's.

I would be interested around when Dana Plato went "off the deep end", so to speak. This girl really had it made and just threw it all away. She had enough money to live the rest of her life after that series ended. She could have also had other roles, even if they were one off TV guest roles for many years. She could have went to college instead of getting married at 19 and loaded everyday. Sort of rings hallow that she had a "bad life". She was a teen millionaire who sucked her future up her nose.


I would also like to know what became of her ex-husband, Lanny Lambert. He was a rock musician that Plato married when she was around 19 when Strokes was still on the air. What became of Mr. Lambert? Did he become successful as a musician or is he someone living in Hogjowl USA sacking groceries or worse, a junkie living in a gutter somewhere.

I say that because I was watching the episode where Kimberly is bulemic and I thought in real life Dana Plato had a problem with bulemia. Is that true?

I always heard that she was both anorexic and bulemic.

I always heard that she was both anorexic and bulemic.


I saw that on imdb, I think and wondered if it was true.

I saw that on imdb, I think and wondered if it was true.

I think I heard it on either the E! True Hollywood Story for Diff'rent Strokes or the Biography for Dana on A&E.

I think I heard it on either the E! True Hollywood Story for Diff'rent Strokes or the Biography for Dana on A&E.

I think they had an E! True Hollywood Story for Dana Plato not long after she passed away. I remember watching bits and pieces of it a long time ago.

I'm no authority on her but I thought drugs and drinking did her in.

I would be interested around when Dana Plato went "off the deep end", so to speak. This girl really had it made and just threw it all away. She had enough money to live the rest of her life after that series ended. She could have also had other roles, even if they were one off TV guest roles for many years. She could have went to college instead of getting married at 19 and loaded everyday. Sort of rings hallow that she had a "bad life". She was a teen millionaire who sucked her future up her nose.


I would also like to know what became of her ex-husband, Lanny Lambert. He was a rock musician that Plato married when she was around 19 when Strokes was still on the air. What became of Mr. Lambert? Did he become successful as a musician or is he someone living in Hogjowl USA sacking groceries or worse, a junkie living in a gutter somewhere.

It's always easy in retrospect to sit back and judge someone else's actions without ever having walked in their shoes. How, for instance, do you know that you would have handled fame any different than Dana did? Maybe your life experiences, your support system, your genetic makeup, are different enough from hers that that would make your reactions different...is that her fault? Or is that just circumstance and dumb luck?

I'd say the world needs a LOT less finger pointing and a lot more empathy, particularly in this case.

I think they had an E! True Hollywood Story for Dana Plato not long after she passed away. I remember watching bits and pieces of it a long time ago.

Maybe that's where I heard it.

It's always easy in retrospect to sit back and judge someone else's actions without ever having walked in their shoes. How, for instance, do you know that you would have handled fame any different than Dana did? Maybe your life experiences, your support system, your genetic makeup, are different enough from hers that that would make your reactions different...is that her fault? Or is that just circumstance and dumb luck?

I'd say the world needs a LOT less finger pointing and a lot more empathy, particularly in this case.

Very well said. :wave:

I think Dana had problems before Diff'rent Strokes. She had been adopted and always had a problem in the sense of not knowing who she was as a person. Then her adopted mother died when she was very young. I think she spent most of her life feeling unloved. :(

The bulimia episode was one of the few really good ones of the last season.