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Todd bridges knows what its like to have a public fall from grace. he was a beloved star from the sitcom "diffrent strokes." ended up a real-life drug dealer and pimp and tells his story of his incredible fall and rise in "killing willis." the life i always wanted. todd, so confession time. >> yes. >> i was born about two months before you and i sort of grew up on "diffrent strokes," in the 70s and 80s. it was one of my favorite shows. >> thank you. >> and reading your book was a kind of -- it w...

He writes about what happened and his return to sobriety in a new book "killing willis." from "different strokes" to the mean streets to the life i always wanted. there you see its cover. by the way, what do we mean by the term in the title "killing willis"? >> because i was trying to kill myself. and because willis is a part of me. i was trying to destroy that whole part of me. >> larry: you were on a suicidal path? >> yeah. >> larry: youre lucky to be alive. >> im not lucky, im blessed to be a...

The tv for him. he took out a lot of aggression on me. he would slap me in the back of the head and say cruel things to me. growing up as a 12-year-old kid, that stuff really hurts. >> larry: how long were you on the show? >> eight years. i was on shows before then. i was on "fish." i was also on "barney miller." i was on -- i did a show with denny thomas. i was in "roots." i was the first black "little house on the prairie." i did 15 episodes of "the waltons." >> larry: child stars have difficu...

Addiction, either youre ready or not. and two things will happen with drug addiction, either youll go insane or youll have death. thats something a practicing druggy has to look forward to. >> larry: whats next? >> im going to do my life story as a feature film, thats one of the things i want to do. im on a show called "dumbest criminals" on smoking gun tv. we talk about criminals who are doing things wrong. im so happy there werent cameras around back when i was doing those kind of things, or i...

About addiction. it was a way to cover up the pain i was going through. and never felt that i would become addicted. but i was wrong. and my brother used to tell me drugs will lead to harder drugs. i didnt believe him. and it did. >> larry: what about all the girls in your life? janet jackson one of them. >> yeah. she is a great person. we -- she was g i loved janet. and she is still the same. i talked to her a few months ago. she is still great. and i love those kind of people in my life. >> la...

Were "keeping them honest" tonight. tonight, what rielle hunter says about her and john edwards affair and why she insist thats john edwards never lied to her, even though he lied to his wife and the entire populationst united states. well also show you the paragraphs posed for. and a sexual abuse scandal closing in on the popes past. some shocking statistics tonight. more than half the priests accused of sexual misdeeds in the past decade were never prosecuted. were "keeping them honest" an...

Would make me addicted. they really didnt explain to us about addiction. it was a way to cover up the pain i was going through. and never felt that i would become addicted. but i was wrong. and my brother used to tell me drugs will lead to harder drugs. i didnt believe him. and it did. >> larry: what about all the girls in your life? janet jackson one of them. >> yeah. she is a great person. we -- she was g i loved janet. and she is still the same. i talked to her a few months ago. she is still ...

I was on "fish." i was also on "barney miller." i was on -- i did a show with denny thomas. i was in "roots." i was the first black "little house on the prairie." i did 15 episodes of "the walt yonz." >> larry: child stars have difficulties later on. >> i would say all kids have difficulties when going through such enormous pain and suffering. i cant really pinpoint and say child stars. it is a very small percentage of us that have had problems. like at sean astin, he didnt have problems. but th...

99, i did nine months in county jail. that is when i was there. i was next to there next to ric ramirez. its all in "killing willis." >> larry: the night stalker? >> the night stalker. i said something to the night stalker one day, i asked him, if you had one thing to do over, what would it be different? and he said, this time it wouldnt be old ladies. >> larry: what about the menendez boys? >> when i would talk to my mom, eric me mendez would get really sad. they really thought they could get o...

Forgiving myself. because i was so angry at myself and so mad at myself for even allowing myself to go through that, i didnt know how to forgive myself. and in "killing willis," it details how a person learns to forgive themselves. because if you cant forgive yourself, you cant forgive anyone else. >> larry: after all of this, whats next for todd bridges? more, when we come back. we love getting our outback dirty. because it seems like the dirtier it gets, the more it shines. the subaru outback�...