You most likely know Peter Gallagher from starring as everybody’s favourite TV dad, Sandy Cohen, on The O.C.
Nicely, his fatherly instincts transcend what we have seen on TV, and in a current interview, he shared that he has at all times felt “protecting” of Mischa Barton, who was solely 16 when she started starring within the sequence.
In 2007, Mischa was arrested in LA for drunk driving, marijuana possession, and driving and not using a license. She was hospitalized in 2009 and saved beneath an involuntary psychiatric maintain.
Lately, Mischa has been extraordinarily open about her mistreatment in Hollywood and the way she felt “sexualized” at a younger age. Through the 2000s, she additionally grew to become a goal for paparazzi, which led her to develop PTSD.
Chatting with the Impartial, Peter mentioned, “I’ve at all times felt very protecting of her. First fame is poisonous. First fame can kill you.”
“She was 16 years previous when she began working with us, so simply the truth that she’s nonetheless alive, I’m simply so grateful.”
Mischa exited the sequence after three seasons, and has spoken candidly concerning the trauma she confronted throughout her time within the highlight. “You’ll be able to go to remedy day by day for the remainder of your life. However there’s simply a specific amount of trauma [from] all that I went via, significantly in my early 20s, that simply would not go away in a single day,” she instructed the Sunday Instances final yr.
Learn Peter’s full interview right here.