Elijah Wood says there's a secret pedophile ring in Hollywood and child actors are 'prey'

[Janelle2002 3,865]

Elijah Wood says there's a secret pedophile ring in Hollywood and child actors are 'prey'

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Jason Guerrasio Mon, May 23 8:35 AM PDT

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Elijah Wood.

Elijah Wood has been in the entertainment business most of his life.

Having started out doing local modeling and commercial work in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, he moved out to Los Angeles with his family as an 8-year-old in the mid-1980s, where he got work on the Paula Abdul music video Forever Your Girl and gained acclaim in the 90s movie Avalon.

Though it seems like a glamorous way to be brought up, Wood, now 35, is revealing for the first time that Hollywood is dealing with a child sexual-abuse epidemic.

In a revealing piece about the Lord of the Rings star for The Sunday Times, Wood is quoted saying child actors are regularly preyed upon by vipers in Hollywood.

Wood told The Times that he never went to parties where that kind of thing was going on, because his mother, Debra, protected him from interacting with people who could take advantage of him.

But he did note: Ive been led down dark paths to realize that these things are probably still happening.

Wood is not the first former child star over the years to make this claim.

In 2011, Corey Feldman told ABCs Nightline that he has been a victim of sexual abuse by men in Hollywood.

I can tell you that the No. 1 problem in Hollywood was and is and always will be pedophilia, he said. Thats the biggest problem for children in this industry Its the big secret.

Last year, the documentary An Open Secret delved into accusations of a pedophile ring in Hollywood. It put a spotlight on accusations by adults who said they were abused by men in the film industry when they were child actors.

A large portion of the movie explores the convicted sex offenders who owned and operated the late-'90s multimedia company Digital Entertainment Network.

Though it was directed by Oscar-nominated filmmaker Amy Berg, the film had a very small theatrical release.

Wood, who has seen An Open Secret, said in the Times story that the film only scratches the surface. I feel there was much more to this story than it articulates.

People with parasitic interests will see you as their prey, Wood said of child actors who know little about the business and want to find a way to succeed. What upsets me about these situations is that the victims cant speak as loudly as the people in power.

https://www.yahoo.com/finance/news/elijah-wood-says-theres-secret-153514255.html

[Jacque67 7,328]

Noel Coward knew....

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Lt7FvKkgl7o&autoplay=1#

[Janelle2002 3,865]

Got to listen at home can't listen at work. I guess some parents think the fame is worth putting their kids at jeopardy

[ExPatty 502]

And yet he names exactly nobody, which means he's either talking out of his butt or he's too interested in making millions more to shame anybody.