In an distinctive sneak peek at “Child Stars Gone Violent” on ID’s Hollywood Demons, premiering tonight, Omenia Alexandria unpacks the second her points regarding the former That’s So Raven star led her to confront him a couple of “bag of crystals” she found — and what he claimed it was.
Already a longtime child actor, Orlando Brown reached a model new stage of stardom when he joined That’s So Raven inside the early 2000s. Nonetheless the infant star has since develop to be rather more well-known for his trouble with the regulation.
Investigation Discovery is unpacking “Child Stars Gone Violent” inside the second episode of its new assortment Hollywood Demons, premiering tonight, along with Brown’s tumultuous years after his peak as a toddler star virtually 20 years up to now.
Alexandria Omena was Brown’s girlfriend on the time. The pair, who share a toddler, had been romantically linked in 2016 when he was arrested in a parking lot and eventually charged with residence battery, obstruction of justice, and two counts of drug possession.
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In TooFab’s distinctive sneak peek on the brand new assortment, Omena particulars the first second her relationship with Brown turned that nook and started transferring in direction of his slew of approved troubles to return again.
In accordance with Omena, her points started to rise when she seen that Brown’s sleep behaviors had been altering.
“I seen he was sweating regularly. I seen that he was on a regular basis very on edge, argumentative,” she said.
Furthermore, Omena “realized how so much weight that he had misplaced and the way in which harmful he regarded.”
That obtained her in quest of options, and that’s when she said she found a “bag of crystals.” With no thought what she’d uncovered, Omena said she confronted Brown with it.
“I’m attempting like, ‘Is that this cocaine? I have no idea. Is that this cocaine?’” she recalled, saying that Brown shot once more, “‘Oh babe! Oh, oh, these are my tablets smashed up. That’s the reason it seems to be like like that. That’s the easiest kind of it. That’s the–“
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At that piont, Omena threw her arms up in exasperation remembering how misplaced and confused she felt inside the second. “What do I do know?” she confessed. “I’ve in no way been put in entrance of these kind of points.”
Even confronted with the proof of a deeper downside he was dealing with that she wasn’t privy to, Omena admitted she didn’t perceive the depths of what was taking place until his habits in direction of her began to get additional erratic and “his violence kind of steadily escalated.”
Moreover inside the episode, Omena particulars her place in what would develop to be his first principal bust in 2016, as coated by Leisure Weekly, sharing that it began with an argument inside the automotive. As he allegedly was “screaming” in her face, Omena said she instructed her navigation system, “Map me to the native and closest police division.”
She then drove straight there, leading to a confrontation as Brown refused to get out of the automotive similtaneously they grew to change into “surrounded by police with weapons, pointed at my automotive.”
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She said, “I watch him attain down in his sock pull out a meth pipe and throw it under his seat.” Nonetheless she wasn’t the one one who observed it, leading to Brown’s arrest, with EW noting the felony criticism for that incident reported by CNN included the allegation he’d struck the woman with whom he was in a relationship — i.e., Omena.
For that incident, Brown was sentenced to three years probation, nonetheless it may present merely the first of many run-ins with the regulation. Later in 2016, Brown was arrested in Las Vegas whereas leaving a lodge acknowledged for alleged prostitution and was found as soon as extra in possession of methamphetamine.
Moreover in 2016, he was arrested for allegedly breaking proper right into a restaurant owned by his childhood pal and attempting to change the locks, lastly found on the roof of the establishment. He lastly entered rehab by the highest of that tumultuous 12 months with urging from household and associates, nonetheless solely stayed for one week.
The actor made a memorable look on Dr. Phil in 2018, whereby he claimed to be sober for 4 years, whereas moreover making false claims that he was the son of Michael Jackson — full title Orlando Brown Prince Michael Jackson Jr. — and that he had 4 youngsters, two he had in no way met.
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After Brown was filmed in 2020 making NSFW claims about an oral intercourse encounter with Nick Cannon, The Masked Singer host said that this “is one different important occasion of after we allow our youthful artists to be prematurely uncovered by this demonic enterprise and unnoticed to fend for themselves.”
The Wild ‘n Out host said that he watched numerous of Brown’s films on the time and observed a collective “cry for help” in them, calling for “precise leaders or robust individuals on this youthful man’s life” to “embrace him and tighten him up so he wouldn’t develop to be one different misplaced sufferer to these Hollywood circumstances.”
Brown’s subsequent arrest bought right here in 2022 on a misdemeanor residence violence price when he allegedly threatened his brother with a hammer and broken-off knife. He was launched from native jail for that incident in February 2023.
On the time of this incident, his brother claimed he’d taken Brown in two weeks sooner than the alleged assault to forestall him from having to remain in a homeless shelter, in step with TMZ.
And easily closing 12 months, per EW, Brown was kicked out of a Los Angeles restaurant after shouting he was “Satan and Lucifer’s son.”
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The logline for ID’s “Child Stars Gone Violent” episode of Hollywood Demons reads, “Throughout the golden interval of ’90s family-friendly TV, child actors weren’t merely stars—that they had been America’s sweethearts. Nonetheless for some, the transition out of the spotlight dragged them down a path of crime, behavior, and violence.”
The newest two-hour installment seems to be like on the struggles of numerous former child stars, along with interviews with Brian Bonsall (Family Ties) and Dee Jay Daniels (The Hughleys) as they “unpack the robust actuality of life after fame.”
It moreover choices producers from Residence Enchancment and That’s So Raven as they take a look on the approved troubles their youthful stars, like Brown and Zachery Ty Bryan, have endured inside the years since their displays ended.
Hollywood Demons: “Child Stars Gone Violent” premieres tonight at 9 p.m. ET on ID.