Miley’s Weed, Demi’ Cocaine and Jonas Brothers’ Lies: Extra Confessions

An extra has reportedly spilled “secrets” on their child star co-horts. They are the worst kept secrets, but according to an anonymous source who has worked on multiple Disney/Nickelodeon shows as well as a few movies, most of the rumors you hear are pretty accurate.

The extra participated in Reddit’s uber-popular IAmA thread. The poster is verified by the site’s mods and then readers get to ask questions in which the poster answers. This particular background star worked on many sets from2006-2010. Most questions centered around the current tween stars…
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Miley Cyrus and Smokes Pot, A LOT– “Miley was never as bad as anyone made her out to be, I don’t think. I certainly wasn’t her best friend or anything, but she always seemed like a pretty genuine teenager. I remember hearing from people who worked on Hannah Montana that she fought with her family nonstop. In terms of drugs, it was fairly well-known that she was (and remains) a big stoner, and of course she started drinking fairly young (15/16 – not like Drew Barrymore young) and by the time she was 17, she was smoking cigarettes fairly often, but I never really heard about her getting into hard drugs. I did have a friend who went on a date with her a few years ago, and he said that she seemed really awkward and kept trying to use her net worth to impress him – saying stuff like, “Yeah, you know, I’m worth [X amount of money] now” and things like that.”

Demi Lovato’s Cocaine Problem – “The adults in charge knew, but didn’t want to do anything about it because she was so over scheduled (Camp Rock, Sonny with a Chance, her music career, all the extraneous junk she was obligated to do), so they let her do essentially anything she wanted and kept the press away by distracting them with Miley’s “scandals” (which were all pretty tame compared to what Demi was doing, honestly). Her mother did nothing. Demi was her cash cow and she wasn’t going to screw that up. That mom is as bad as Dina Lohan – constantly texting, ignoring her kids, selling Demi’s relationship gossip to blogs in order to make some quick cash. She wouldn’t travel with Madison (her younger daughter who plays Eva Longoria’s kid on Desperate Housewives) and never visited her on the set.

As for Demi’s recent rehab stint… call me cynical, but I’m still 50/50 split on whether it was legitimate or just a PR stunt in order to A. get her off her Disney show (which never had phenomenal ratings) and B. give her then-floundering recording career a boost by giving her something to “overcome.” In any case… it certainly wasn’t just an eating disorder that she was “treated” for. It was coke. And possibly heroin, but I never saw that with my own eyes.”

Jonas Brothers‘ Purity Rings are for Show – “Massive f**king tools. All three of them. Not to get too into detail (because this is one that could actually give me away), but yeah, no, they let their success go to their heads way too quickly. None of those guys had any business wearing a promise ring, hahaha. (And I’m not anti-sex, don’t get me wrong! I’m just anti-having-sex-with-older-women-and-lying-about-it-to-seem-like-good-Christians.) Joe was probably the worst of the three.”

Jennette McCurdy is Actually Human – “Jennette McCurdy from iCarly has never been anything but sweet to me. We worked together on a Nick promo in 2009, and a few months ago I visited a friend on the set of her show and she remembered my name, which was surprising. In general, the kids on Nick shows all seem to be much less screwed-up than the ones at Disney – there’s less pressure to become a brand over there, which translates to fewer irons on the fire and more time to focus on being a regular, nice human being.

Selena Gomez is Super Sweet/Super Thin – “Selena’s a nice girl. Never heard anything particularly scandalous about her. She used to pop in and visit at Suite Life when she was on set but not actively working at WOWP. She’s tiny (INSANELY thin!) in person and a lot more silly/less reserved IRL than I think she comes across in interviews.”

Justin Beiber is an Arrogant A-Hole – “Oh, god, the Bieber story! Okay, so to keep it short – he was the guest on a certain network morning show. Shows up late, comes in with a HUGE ASS ENTOURAGE, smacks one of the crew guys in the stomach and says “Suck it in, bro,” gets on the cameraman’s ass because he doesn’t like the way they’re setting up a shot, and then leaves a mess in the greenroom. I’ve also heard accounts of him locking a particular SNL writer (name rhymes with Ron Julaney) in a dressing room when he was the musical guest on that show, but I can’t confirm that anecdote myself.”