In the late 1980s, Cynthia Heimel wrote, “The minute a person becomes a celebrity is the same minute he/she becomes a monster,” and then gave the names of three well-known Hollywood stars she had known before they became famous. They had been “once perfectly pleasant human beings . . . now they have become supreme beings and their wrath is awful.” She went on to say that under the pressure of fame and celebrity all your character flaws and miseries become twice as bad as they were before.
