What the Hell Happened to Edward Furlong?

Quite simply he's a terrible actor. He got lucky getting T2 and parlayed that into a few roles. However he isn't a good actor and paired with crappy life skills and a general greasy appearance, he's lucky to get anything nowadays!

He just turned into a ratbag, the fame and fortune went to his head from too young of an age and he thought he was just above the law and above everyone else...

You all have James Cameron to thank for that.

He and Clint Howard were the only known actors in that movie.

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What really happened is he got ugly. All the drugs and problems could be overlooked by Hollywood, but nobody wants to see an ugly adult that was formerly a cute and famous kid.

90% of young child stars disappear after one or two big roles. Most of them straight up retire, but a sad amount of them grow up getting into legal trouble. Tom Guiry? Brad Renfro? Jake Lloyd? It’s never fun or fair, but it’s not shocking in the slightest.

Drugs, particularly meth and heroin.

Too much too soon at a very young age.

Edward Furlong Reveals He's Four Years Sober

https://www.datalounge.com/thread/31216734-edward-furlong-reveals-he-s-four-years-sober

"Terminator 2: Judgment Day" star Edward Furlong says he's four years sober -- and rocking a new set of teeth -- following years of drug abuse and run ins with the law.

The former child star, now 44, opened up about his descent into addiction while speaking with the Daily Mail, telling the publication he started using at a young age, at a time when he "didn't have too many people looking out for me and I was left to run wild."

He explained that he started with weed, alcohol and shrooms, before he was introduced to cocaine and heroin in his '20s. "When I was high, I had camaraderie with other people. Just drinking and partying. All of a sudden, I felt like I was with people and I fit in somehow. That's how it started," he added.

He said he briefly stopped using heroin after his son with first wife Rachael Bella was born in 2006, but his legal troubles were just getting started. Bella filed for divorce in 2008, before he was accused of exposing his then-6-year-old son to cocaine.

Later, Bella filed a restraining order against him -- which he violated -- before a string of domestic violence allegations involving ex Monica Keena, one of which landed him in jail for 180 days.

While he had some bigger roles in the late '90s and early 2000s -- including "American History X," "Detroit Rock City" and "Before and After" -- his behavior coincided with a career decline, all while his drug abuse was getting worse.

"I was shooting loads and loads of heroin, meth, smoking DMT all the time. That's the way I was all day," he told the Daily Mail. "It's amazing I'm still alive – there were a couple of close calls. I definitely OD'd but that's the cycle, you know. Once you get in there, it's so hard to see a way out. That's what I'd want people to understand – there is a way out but it's hard."