- 05 Apr 2013, 18:34
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Dana Plato is known mostly for her role as Kimberly on Diff'rent Strokes and for her troubled life. Dana Plato began working in the industry from a very early age, and by the time she got to Diff'rent Strokes at age 14 was already abusing alcohol and hard drugs. She was dismissed from Diff'rent Strokes in 1984 for an unplanned pregnancy. After Diff'rent Strokes, Plato hit hard times. She got breast implants and posed in playboy and could only find work in B-movies. Then she couldn't even get those and wound up working in a dry cleaners and robbed a video store at gun point. After that she began working in softcore porn.
A day before her death she went on the Howard Stern Show and talked about how she was clean and working to come back. The next day she OD'd on painkillers in her and her fiance's RV, parked outside her fiance's mother's house. That was in 1999. In May 2010, her son committed suicide as well.
