Todd Bridges played the adorable older brother Willis on the classic sitcom Diff’rent Strokes , but you may not know that Bridges — to a certain degree — continued playing Willis after the show went off the air, despite his best efforts. The title of his new autobigraphy Killing Willis: From Diff’rent Strokes to the Mean Streets to the Life I Always Wanted signifies his struggle to cope with his identity and so, so much more. After years of well-documented drug abuse (both using and selling) and hard-fought recovery, Bridges talks to Movieline about surviving, the plights of his costars Gary Coleman and Dana Plato, and his father who didn’t believe him when he said his publicist molested him at age 12.
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Todd Bridges on His New Memoir Killing Willis, Media Lies, and Revisiting His Darkest Moments
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