[post_page_title]Then – Johnny Whitaker[/post_page_title]
Johnny Whitaker spent the better part of the 70s acting in shows such as General Hospital and Family Affair. He also grabbed a movie role in the cult-classic musical Tom Sawyer, alongside Jodie Foster. After Tom Sawyer, Johnny worked as a missionary for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints and attended Brigham University in Utah. In 1999, Whitaker was honored with the Young Artist Former Child Star Lifetime Achievement Award at the 20th Annual Youth in Film Awards Ceremony.
[post_page_title]Now – Johnny Whitaker[/post_page_title]
After his wife of 4 years left him for his best friend in 1988, Johnny battled drug abuse issues until he kicked the habit entirely due to an intervention. Of his addiction and failed marriage he stated, “that was what I called the precipitous event which caused me to lose faith in God and faith in myself and whatever else and kind of went to the dark side, Luke Skywalker. I started hanging out in bars and smoking marijuana and then going from marijuana to cocaine and methamphetamine and smoking heroin and losing three cars, four apartments, five jobs and a company that I’d started and ran into the ground.”
