How Former Child-star Alyson Stoner became "Broke And Famous" | The REAL Story with Dr. Phil
The Dr. Phil Podcast
Dr. Phil McGraw
4.3 • 13.5K Ratings
🗓️ 30 August 2025
⏱️ 11 minutes
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Money means nothing if you can't hold on to it. And a former childhood star said she learned that the hard way.. If millionaires need to be financially educated then how much more do the rest of us?
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| 0:00.0 | I think we would all agree that most of us would jump at the opportunity to be rich and famous. |
| 0:08.0 | Now, Michael Jordan said, I've been rich and I've been famous. |
| 0:11.8 | I'll take rich. |
| 0:13.1 | And what he was talking about is it's better to just be quietly rich and go on your way. |
| 0:20.1 | And I'm the first to admit that having money is |
| 0:24.4 | certainly preferable. I've been poor. I know how to do poor. It doesn't scare me or bother me |
| 0:30.1 | because I've been really poor. But the real story that we're talking about today is all the |
| 0:36.5 | money in the world means nothing if you can't |
| 0:40.7 | hold on to it. |
| 0:41.8 | There's an old saying, it ain't what you make, it's what you keep. |
| 0:46.0 | And a former childhood star said she learned that the hard way. |
| 0:50.5 | Let's look at some headlines. |
| 0:51.7 | Ex-Disney star, Allison Stoner left with zero after mom |
| 0:57.4 | withdrew thousands. Another headline, former Disney child star woke up to zero dollars in bank account |
| 1:04.3 | after nearly 20 years in showbiz. Allison Stoner is committing to honesty in New Memoir. |
| 1:13.6 | Now, some of you may be thinking, oh, boo-hoo. |
| 1:16.5 | Oh, boo-hoo. |
| 1:18.9 | 20 years being a star, and you don't have any good show for it. |
| 1:22.7 | Well, let me tell you, being a star, what you typically see are the parts where it's bright lights and a red carpet |
| 1:33.1 | or something like that. But when you're on a show like Allison has been, that's a ton of work. |
| 1:40.3 | Action. |
| 1:41.2 | It's long days. It's sometimes 30, 40 takes, standing on your feet, lots of repetition. |
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