Alyson Stoner Talks Camp Rock, Sexuality, Leaving Hollywood and New Memoir

Zach Sang Show

Sangasong, LLC

Tv & Film, Music

4.7 • 658 Ratings

🗓️ 13 August 2025

⏱️ 105 minutes

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Summary

If you’re of a certain age you grew up with Alyson Stoner — the dancer in the Missy Elliot video for ‘Work It,’ the little girl in Mike’s Super Short Show, Cheaper by the Dozen, Camp Rock, Step Up, and so many more. For a time they were a Disney darling… until they weren’t. Behind the scenes Stoner was struggling to grow up and find their place in an industry that they didn’t even have ambitions for in the first place.

Now retrained in mental health and working hard to improve child labor laws, particularly around the unregulated industry of child influencers and kids on movie and TV sets today, Stoner’s memoir, Semi-Well-Adjusted Despite Literally Everything, is a searing, heartbreaking glimpse into their journey through Hollywood over the past two plus decades.

Stoner discusses with candor their disordered eating, coming to terms with identity and sexuality, turning to and then from religion, what it was like working with Demi Lovato and the Jonas Brothers as they turned from child stars to stratospheric brands. From plastic surgery to rehab, family struggles, and the misuse of their earnings by the family member they trusted the most, Stoner has been through the ringer and they talk about it all. Oh and we finally get the truth about the Stoner / Hanna Montana rumor.

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0:00.0	If you thought yesterday's show was bad, wait till you hear this. Leave your thoughts in the comments, please. Zach Sancho. Oh, hello, beautiful human. Happy day to you, and to those you love, Zach Sancho is here, heading right into your ears. Thank you so much for putting us on. It means a lot. Woohoo. Hope you're having a great day. But either way, we're here to get through it.
0:23.1	Right. Yeah.
0:24.8	You're okay? You okay.
0:27.0	Am I okay?
0:27.7	Yeah, no, let's go around the room.
0:28.8	I mean, we're like 10 seconds in and you're asking me if I'm okay.
0:31.1	I'm just wondering.
0:32.1	Are you okay?
0:32.9	I don't know. Kelsey, you okay?
0:35.0	I'm great. Hello there, Allie Gold.
0:34.3	In her hard rock shirt? Yes. Did you go or did you thrift that? I did go this weekend before I went to the Hollywood Bowl. So you bought that? No, you know. Well, this I thrifted. Oh. I have been. You chose to eat dinner at the Hard Rock Cafe in Hollywood? That's brave. I did. Wow. That's kind of crazy.
0:35.3	She wants a disease.
0:36.3	Well, I was fine. chose to eat dinner at the Hard Rock Cafe in Hollywood. That's brave. I did. Wow. That's kind of crazy.
0:55.7	She wants a disease. Well, I was fine because I had just like grilled chicken and some lettuce. Did you
1:01.5	get off the messy menu? No, I got it off of the salad part of the menu. And everyone else had
1:07.6	stomach aches. So, I felt that. Really? Yeah, I went with like six people. Who decides to go there? Um, there was, we were trying to get a reservation before the Jurassic Park film at Hollywood Bowl and we couldn't find one for like that many people. So we were like, F it! Let's go to the hard rock. I love it. I love going to a chain restaurant like that just for fun oh it's such
1:29.1	a good time yeah my fiancee has all the shirts like this is his um he has like a hundred
1:33.6	hard rock shirts that's pretty cool yeah from all over the world that's kind of awesome i respect that
1:38.3	yeah i'm trying to get him to make it into a blanket so i don't have to see him wear them
1:42.7	he's a rock star he is a into a blanket so I don't have to see him wear them.
1:46.9	He's a rock star.
1:48.8	He is a rock star.
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