There’s no shortage of stories of celebrities gone bad, but when Dana Plato—Diff’rent Strokes’ sweet-as-pie Kimberly—went off the deep end, fans took notice. Her short life became a series of tragic checkmarks of how not to manage a career. There were the drugs, the adult films, the video store hold up, and so much more. The public couldn’t stop watching this fragile life shattering in slow motion right before their very eyes.
