Former 'Diff'rent Strokes' Star Todd Bridges Talks About 'Killing Willis'
Actor Todd Bridges came to the show to talk more about his new memior Killing Willis: From Diff'rent Strokes to the Mean Streets to the Life I Always Wanted.
A San Francisco native, Bridges, 44, is best known for his role as Willis Jackson on the television series Diff'rent Strokes. After becoming the first African-American child star of the late '80s, Bridges is finally opening up about his life before and after Diff'rent Strokes. The incredible reversals of fortune brought on by fame and the precipitous. His discrimination from police to his drug addiction that nearly consumed him; the criminal charges that almost earned him a life sentence.
Killing Willis: From Diff'rent Strokes to the Mean Streets to the Life I Always Wanted is available in bookstores now.
Written by LaTeisha Clay
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