Child Stars: Blessed or Messed?
 
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Fergie
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By Deborah Netburn, Times Staff writer

Fergie


Stacy Ferguson joined the cast of “Kids Incorporated” in 1984 when she was 9 and stuck around for six seasons. Fast-forward twenty years later and she has a successful solo career, a gig promoting Candies, and a spot in the inexplicably successful band Black Eyed Peas. But there was a meth addiction in the intervening years that she blamed on her time as a child actor.

Bottom line: She’s rich now, but she’s earned it.