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MY CRAZY STORY
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ABOUT THE EPISODE
Audrey always dreamt of a normal childhood, but because of his father she never had the chance for it.
SCRIPT
Hey! My name is Audrey. And to understand my story...first you gotta understand my dad.
When my dad was younger, he was sort of famous. Not Brad Pitt level famous, but he had parts in a couple of TV shows, and he released a few songs as a musician that got into the top 100 chart. He never got the starring role, and his songs never made it into the top 50, but he kept trying. That is, until he met my Mom and they had me. I was an accident, but when Mom found out she was pregnant, Dad proposed…and the rest is history! When I was born, he started working for an IT company, but he never gave up his dreams of fame and fortune.
I’ll be the first to admit, I was a cute baby. I had soft, chubby cheeks and golden curls, even when I was only a couple of weeks old. I think that’s what gave Dad the idea that I could be a star. The first thing he auditioned me for was a diaper commercial…it’s such a weird thought! A baby, in an audition. Anyway, they must have thought I was cute too, because I got the part, and my 10 seconds of fame. We still have a tape of the commercial somewhere – all I do is giggle at the camera and crawl around happily in my diapers. I find it kind of embarrassing now, but it’s a fun fact to share during ice breakers.
Anyway, Dad really got the bug after that. He was spending his nights scrolling through castings and sending my pictures out. He was emailing all the producers he knew and asking around whether they needed a baby for their next project, and I was getting jobs! I got pretty used to being in front of a camera by the time I was a toddler. It was just little commercials and modeling jobs for a couple years, up until I auditioned for a role on a family sitcom. The part was for the youngest daughter of the family – a silly, goofy, but charming little girl. I went through the whole audition process, and one night my family received a call...I got the role!
Filming was crazy intense. I was five, and should have been starting kindergarten, but because I had to be on set for so long every day, I had a tutor homeschool me instead. It was pretty cool, though, because all the kids on set treated me like I was their little sister, and the adults treated me like I was their kid. I actually got really good at hanging out with people who were older than me – the downside, though, was that I didn’t really know any kids my own age.
Our first season was getting amazing reviews, so as soon as we had finished filming season 1, we were signed on for season 2. People started to recognize me on the street as that cute little kid on TV. Dad encouraged me to chat with them and take selfies with them if they asked, but Mom was always uncomfortable with her little girl talking to strangers. And that’s the way my life went for years. I worked, I got tutored on set, I worked, and I went home. I was always the only person my age, so there was nobody to do little kid stuff with, or even do homework or projects with.
Thinking back, I never really had a best friend my own age. And I never got to really take it easy and be a kid. I was either on set working, or I was studying, or I was at home, which usually meant practicing my lines, eating and sleeping. I think subconsciously I really started to miss growing up like a normal kid - even though I didn’t even know what that would be like. It’s just that deep inside I had this craving that I couldn’t satisfy, and I felt like something was wrong.
I don’t exactly remember how it started, but my cute, carefree personality started to change too. I stopped being so comfortable in crowds of new people; instead, they made me feel anxious. My heart would pound. Sometimes it was so loud I could hear it in my ears.
I started trying to avoid the meet and greets. I would lie and pretend I had a stomachache, or a headache, or a fever. Sometimes it worked (if Mom was there) but mostly it didn’t (If Dad was there). Dad would sigh, look me up and down, and tell me that I was just tired. “You gotta get out there, champ!” he’d say, patting me on the shoulder. But then, more and more, Dad wasn’t even there, it was my manager who’d be pushing me.
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KEYWORDS:
Celebrity, Child, Stage, Camera, Show business, Commercials
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