Catching up with the teen stars of yesterday can be less a pleasant trip down memory lane and more a gloomy revelation of how far that cute kid has fallen. After they have reached the heights of celebrity at an early age, the remainder of a teenstar’s life can turn into a frenzied grasping to keep what they attained at such a young age. It’s a lot of pressure to put on a young adult and the stress often leads to addiction – and then to rehab. At least that’s the case with Sean Kanan, who became famous as the teenaged star of Karate Kid III, and who is now battling an addiction to prescription painkillers.

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