Even when Buffy was on the air, I’m not sure Brendon was exactly a household name, or that he had the fame or money to support much in the way of a sycophantic entourage.
I suspect he just has the same problems with alcohol lots of non-celebrities have.
I have also heard rumors that Charisma Carpenter’s career has suffered because of substance abuse problems. She was a decent comic actor in the Buffy days and a beautiful woman.
She was good on Veronica Mars (still looked gorgeous too) and is currently hosting “Surviving Evil”. Alone in a hotel room for a week, you’ll watch Slice TV if it is the only thing on
Carpenter is also in this Fifty Shades rip-off called Bound; just came out a few weeks ago. With nudity aplenty.
Must see!
How do we know he hasn’t?
Considering her personal history, I would cut her a LOT of slack if she were found to be self-medicating for PTSD. Being attacked by a serial rapist and having your friend shot is not easy to move on from.
I know nothing about her personal history. I do know that unless you are a marquee actor, you don’t necessarily get a lot of slack from producers if your personal problems get in the way of your work.
Good point. Maybe it’s Kelly who is the giant tool. 
I know this is from 4 years ago, but Dawson casting usually results in the reverse. You cast a 25 year old as a high school sophomore, and 20 years later he still looks like a high school sophomore. A guy who looks young at 25 is probably going to have that baby face for the rest of his life.
You cast a 15 year old as a baby-faced high school sophomore and in 3 years he’s 8 inches taller and 80 pounds heavier and needing to shave twice a day.
Then maybe people will give Nicholas Brendon some slack. He just gave an interview where he reveals that he was molested for two years as a child and he suffers from depression because of it.
“I hate this. I hate the way I feel right now. I hate how I’ve come off,” he told the newspaper on March 16. “This isn’t who I am.”
Yet another arrest. The mug shot kind of looks like he knows it’s going to be on TMZ an hour later.
All I could think is that I’m going to see a very similar picture, maybe just a few years older looking, when he dies on some homeless bender.
Holy shit, he looks terrible. You’d barely recognize him.
She might not have had a big success, but she’s worked pretty steadily over the years. She was on that awful Scream Queens show the other night.
She was one of the stars on Defiance also.
Wow. I actually feel badly for the guy. Addiction and insecurity are a horrible combination.
She’s also landed a recurring gig on Hawaii Five-O. But I’d rather see her in a fourth season of Defiance (because I want a fourth season of Defiance).