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Hello. I'm Conrad Bain.

Tonight, in "Arnold",

we will start a two-part special

a very sensitive and important subject.

We ask families, children and parents,

watch the two educational episodes

and discuss the problem presented

which is very worrying for all of us.

Mr. Bike Guy!

Mr. Bike Guy!

Arnold, the "guy's" name is Mr. Horton.

Right!

Mr. Bike Guy!

This series was very uncomfortable for me.

I can't watch her, I don't want to get close to her.

I ask them: "don't include me and leave me out."

Give me a bike, please! Please!

Don't just stand there! Help me flatter!

Dad, I think he could leave his bike in the garage.

Yes father. There are plenty of safe places to cycle in the park

and no matter how far lost they go, they are everywhere!

We have one living in our apartment!

It was a nuisance because...

I was going through that.

And watch what happens in the series,

how was it:

"We're reliving all of that."

I was reliving all that.

Maybe it's best we don't let your father know about the bike.

In truth,

Maybe it would be better if you don't even mention that you came back here

and I gave you this ice cream before dinner.

Why don't we keep this as our little secret, huh?

You know what, Mr. Horton? You are sneaky!

Sneaky?

Yes! I'm starting to respect sneaky people too much!

This happened in my

life, and they didn't know.

You know what, Arnold? I really like you.

I like you very much.

You and I will have a lot of fun.

We met when I was a baby.

I was 14 years old and he was 17 years old.

There was a dance at my school called "Bale dos Amores".

Fred called me, we were

talking on the phone and...

all he said was: "Jan?" And I said: "yes?"

"Do you want to go to the dance with me?" And he put down the phone!

I hate rejection. I can not stand.

And when he got back on the phone, I said, "yes, I will!"

We dated during high school and I

ended up serving in the Armed Forces.

In fact, I proposed to her before I served.

When I came back to stay, there was

a big oak tree in her mother's front yard,

I walked down the street and there was a big

yellow bow with a big bell around the tree, so...

I wanted him to see that I was waiting for him...

and always...

I will wait for him.

And I needed him to know that when he walked down the street.

I loved him and couldn't wait to see him.

I couldn't wait for him to come home.

Fred was born on Easter Sunday.

We brought him home in a bunny outfit with ears.

And Mark was born three years later.

We had a great time as the kids grew up.

They played sports.

Fred played football and baseball.

Mark played football, baseball and football.

We had a boat.

We went camping, fishing.

We watched movies, they

got tired and fell asleep.

Reason to put dye in your hair...

putting on makeup and things like that while they slept.

- They had fun. - Yes. We were blessed.

Mark had a lot of fun...

when he was a boy at school.

Very good dear. He had many friends.

I would wake up and there would be five, seven, eight boys down here.

They decided to spend the night

here and raided the refrigerator.

He had a girlfriend throughout high school

they loved each other very much.

He was very popular, fun...

and he loved high school.

I don't know what took him...

thinking about being a model, but...

- When you are very young... - It was early adolescence

when he started talking about it.

He wanted me to take him to a

modeling agency here in Cincinnati.

We had to say we couldn't pay.

We couldn't afford it.

He wasn't happy. He was disappointed.

But he was fine. I think it was a

dream of his when he was at that age:

12, 13, 14 years old.

So when he got an opportunity,

- I couldn't deny it. - Upon graduating from high school

he went to California.

My grandparents moved away.

From Switzerland.

They took a map and...

They pointed to where they wanted to go.

My grandmother forced my grandfather to move,

and he told me they purposely came to Los Angeles

because he wanted to see the celebrities and stars

that people think they can see here.

I think every little boy dreams of being

famous, being in movies and things like that.

Many of my heroes were actors.

Johnny Depp was...

the biggest one at the time.

Everything he was capable of doing, the personas he could do.

This fascinated me.

Everyone said, when I was growing up:

"Mike should model. Mike should act."

It was great. So, I found a good manager and

did several jobs. Especially for printed matter.

I couldn't stop doing these jobs.

He was excited and excited.

We are from a Midwestern city and that was very new and different

and Mike seemed very excited to do it.

I had a good life growing up.

I started doing operas and things like that

with my grandmother at the Houston Grand Opera.

I remember walking in at

the very end of the opera

holding a sword up.

It was at the very end. I appeared holding a sword.

Everyone stood up, applauded, threw flowers and so on.

The noise was incredible.

The noise from the audience.

That's probably the happiest acting memory I have.

The happiest experience I have.

I became interested in acting and

started acting classes in Houston.

I got an agent.

I don't know where you want to go. I don't know where it comes from, but...

This is California. This is where you get it.

It's here, understand? This is where it all starts.

People kill themselves to get here, you know?

- You are here! Good luck, man! - Thank you very much!

Simply the love for cinema and films.

I grew up on this since I was 5 years old.

I've been to "Gilbert Grape"

I've been in a few other films.

I was in "The Apostle"

with Robert Duvall and Farrah Fawcett.

This tells me about the love of the Savior

who died to set me free.

The audition process was we met with Robert Duvall,

he sat at the piano and "my sister" and I...

We sang some songs with him.

Oh, how I love Jesus!

Oh, how I love Jesus!

Oh, how I love Jesus!

Because He first loved me!

A big round of applause for Jesus!

I know we could change

the sadness in the smiles.

I was always singing.

Since I was 3 years old.

I remember him taking afternoon naps...

and when he woke up, he sang.

We thought he had a great voice,

but then we heard from friends...

and even from strangers.

We went to a restaurant, Evan sang...

and they came to say:

“My God, how cute he is and has a beautiful voice.

He has talent. You should do something with this talent."

I wanted to introduce myself.

I wanted to be part of this in public.

I wanted to be friends with the stars.

Tell everyone that I am...

friend of your celebrities.

There is this lovely creature. There it is, there it is...

with your hair full of bows

and green gloves on his hands.

Are you attracted to...

I guess, being the center of attention.

I asked this kind creature Yes, I asked. Yes, I asked...

if she would walk a little with me on this long lasting night.

I was a star-looking kid.

I was "Mr. Entertainment."

Long blond hair.

Hello! Can I borrow your towel?

- Yes! Clear! - Thanks!

I looked like a stud.

A person your mother warns about.

I looked very young. At 12 years old,

he could act as an 8, 9 or 10 year old.

That's what Los Angeles is looking for, you know?

Like now! I can act...

like I was 25 or 30, for sure!

You made the movie studios a lot of money

and I hope you pocketed a lot.

- Have you been getting along well? - I am.

What do you want to do when you grow up?

It's tough! It's not easy glamor as you think.

My name is Mason Gamble and I'm six and a half years old.

You need to understand, right away, that you will receive millions of "no"

and maybe a "yes". If you're lucky. Perhaps.

He understands? Otherwise, you shouldn't be in this.

Especially as a child, there are doors knocking every day.

Sometimes six times a day.

You can go to auditions for years and not get a job.

And it can be very frustrating, because you

don't see any benefit from what you're doing.

If you are watching this DVD, you must be looking for information

about starting a career in entertainment,

if you are a child or teenager.

Now there are a lot of entrepreneurs in the mix.

When I arrived in the city as a child entrepreneur, I was the only one!

Nobody did that. They never heard of it.

They looked at me as if I were crazy.

Many old agents in the field wouldn't even talk to me.

I was a terrible person if I showed up with the kids.

It took a while to understand that...

Kids need entrepreneurs, just like everyone else.

I am one of the founding members of the

Screen Actors Guild Young Performer Committee,

which is now SAG AFTRA.

I was chairman of the Committee in the past.

Now I'm just a field soldier.

Children, for the most part, are willing to listen.

They are ready to absorb things.

They have not yet developed

any preconceived ideas

about who they are and how they will get somewhere.

We try to advise them...

which direction to follow and, in doing so, you

will also be entrepreneurship for your parents.

When parents enter the entertainment business it

is typically because their children asked them to,

because it is their son's dream or because someone

approached them and told them that their son,

In some way, it serves the industry.

They have no idea how the medium actually works.

Many kids I knew were emancipated because

they wanted the studios to see them as adults

and didn't need to pay a set teacher

having parents in the set and so on. It's easier to get hired.

The actor is responsible...

for his photo and resume.

I get irritated when the actor arrives and says:

"My mother is with them in the waiting room."

Your mother should never have your photo and resume,

unless she got them from the printer.

At 8 years old, you are responsible

for your own career.

The internet changed everything for us.

We were very surprised to

learn that photos of our children

were being sold on eBay.

Just regular headshots.

Nothing erotic or erratic.

Our children were not famous at all.

They worked, but they didn't care if anyone

cared that photos of them were sold on eBay.

However, it was clear that they were

sold and were being sold for a lot of money.

And you ask yourself: who wants a photo of my son for 300 dollars?

Plus a printed photo that we send for free.

We started an investigation process

and started by putting together a matrix

the photographers, salespeople and what each one did.

We were very shocked to learn

that they were very close to us.

Very, very close.

My cousin Darian worked all the time.

He participated in about 50 auditions...

over a period of two months or so.

It looked like he was really going to...

be successful.

All this happened because of his cousin.

He had already signed a contract with his manager.

My parents and my sister came and said:

"Darian is doing great with

Marty and you should see it."

Martin Weiss, better known as Marty,

was a businessman in

Hollywood for probably 15 years.

He managed child actors.

Boys and girls, but mostly boys.

Marty had a close relationship with his clients.

They spent the night with him at home regularly;

he had acting parties with clients, regularly.

He took them all to Trick or Treat on Halloween

together and he dressed up as a dinosaur, a shark,

or something like the Grinch.

He was very aggressive as a businessman.

Honestly, he was really good.

Clients got auditions. They got work.

He said I needed to sing some songs

and make them look really good.

You will meet a producer, sign a record deal;

you can...

star in Disney Channel programs.

What kid doesn't want that, right?

It happened very quickly.

I remember him signing a contract with Marty when he was 9 years old.

Actually, I didn't think

Honestly, nothing much would happen.

Our next artist

began his singing career less than 1 year ago

and has already caught the attention of important people in the industry.

I remember I was at the Young Artist Awards.

He was excited. He got ready and...

he was a little nervous.

So do we!

Maybe we were more nervous than he was.

For us, it was very exciting

and we were very proud of Evan

and there was the impression... At least, I

had the impression that it was for Evan too.

When he was singing, he acted naturally.

Marty called me one day...

and said, "Evan, surprise!

You'll be in a Burger King commercial."

It was exciting because I had never

done a commercial or been in one.

Great to see your son on TV for the first time.

"There's Evan!"

That. We were very proud.

Marty really...

You did a lot for Evan.

My parents dropped my brother and

I off at my aunt's house we met Marty,

he took my cousins, my brother and me...

and we went to play basketball in the park.

He was actually nice.

He told jokes.

He was very immature. We were immature at the time.

He would tell jokes about sex

and I thought he had no problem.

My cousin and him already seemed to be friends

and there was no filter.

They said what they wanted.

As far as we knew, he was...

a nice guy, and over the years he became

more or less, part of the family.

Marty came every weekend,

every holiday, every Christmas...

and every birthday.

We were playing basketball and...

He kept telling weird jokes like:

"Evan, do you know what a blowjob is?"

It made me feel like I didn't fit in because

I didn't know some of these terms yet.

I had...

11 years.

We learned that Marty had no family, he was alone...

and he became a kind of...

I don't know if the word would be

"adopted", but he became part of the family.

Later that night...

He said, "Why don't we talk about music?"

I was in the front passenger seat.

He drove and we talked about things like...

I said the artists I liked and...

Marty suddenly

He said, "Have you ever...

Have you seen an older man's penis?"

And I kept thinking...

"Wow. That's kind of weird."

I didn't mean to be disrespectful...

and get out of the car.

What was I going to do? I was in

the middle of nowhere with this guy.

I replied: "No. I've never seen...

an older man's penis."

AND...

we went out, walked and arrived at a park.

There was a tree...

he pushed me against the tree and said:

"I'll show you what a blowjob is."

- Thanks, Marty! - You are welcome!

Cool!

- Right! - Thanks, Marty!

- The pleasure is mine! - Cool!

I kept saying, "No, no."

He pulled down my pants...

It is...

I didn't know what to do after that.

I should...

tell someone? Because he was really cool.

Everyone liked him.

And I considered it as if nothing had happened.

I can just delete this.

Let it go. No problem.

Around November 2009 I

became aware of this problem

of child abuse in Hollywood.

There are children...

who are aspiring actors.

Because of these aspirations, they

end up being easy targets for someone.

In some cases, there are parents who ignore common

precautions and allow their children to open up to adults,

when parents would normally be attentive.

Any actor is vulnerable in this position.

Actors pose...

in the hands of teachers,

agents, businesspeople, publicists

and give them complete trust.

Sometimes you have to wake up very early for auditions.

That's when...

Michael Harrah approached me and said:

"You can stay at my house with

the other guys who are there."

He had three guys in his house. They were customers.

Many of the kids I worked with

wouldn't have the slightest chance

to take advantage, being in this field,

if they had moved their families here.

There were 10, 9 year old boys

to 16, 17 years old.

But even so, I thought it was very strange, you know?

Someone let their 10 year old son go live...

at the time, I think he was in his 50s.

I understand the possibility

of things being misinterpreted

and I tried to be very aware of that.

It doesn't matter how closely you work with someone

and, in fact, we work closely with clients in these situations,

There still needs to be a professional boundary where it says:

"We don't go beyond it."

We care about strangers. Don't leave your child with strangers.

Everyone is inclined to think

that a pedophile is a type of rapist,

But that's not how they operate.

They use a process called grooming

which is a slow and painstaking way

of convincing children and parents to trust them.

- She's the official photographer! - That!

With a beautiful smile!

The criminal, in these types of situations,

has an ideal layer.

It's their environment. They are creating

or constructing a reality for themselves

that accommodates their patterns of sexual desire.

The predator looks at this as a way...

to chart a path for the person's life.

Create a personal relationship with

the child and be there to bond with them.

Stand up, guys. Clap. He won.

Is the guy!

Typically, a predator preys on

many children at the same time

and there are different levels in the grooming process

because the predator knows, like a tiger in the jungle,

that he won't catch all the rabbits.

He just needs to catch the weakest ones.

We went back and started

trying to make a kind of compiled

to try to determine how widespread this problem is.

Marty was well known in the community.

He had friends who were

buying and selling photos on eBay.

We began to see that some of

these sellers were convicted abusers.

We learned that he was involved with

another convicted abuser, Bob Villard,

who sold photos on eBay.

Bob Villard was a very prominent

publicist in the 80s in Hollywood.

I met Bob Villard casually, as someone in the

industry, and he was a publicist a few times

for clients I had.

He looked after big names like

Tobey Maguire and Leonardo DiCaprio.

He was well known as a publicist.

Bob Villard was also a photographer.

I met Bob Villard as a publicist who was a

great photographer, brought exposure and so on,

and that's who I trusted, through Michael Harrah.

He was one of the biggest sellers on eBay.

It became obvious to us that Bob

Villard was selling photos of poses he took.

If you spent a weekend

there, he felt very comfortable

to try to touch you when you had a few beers

or it was always nice to have the beers

for him to try to touch me.

We always recognized his photo style

because he always left the kids shirtless,

always got the angle from top to bottom

so that the children looked up as if they were

looking at the predator in an abusive situation.

Bob Villard was a businessman, publicist.

He had contacts.

I say the number one problem in Hollywood

It was, is, and always will be pedophilia!

There was a circle of older men,

and they have their power

or connections with great powers

who surrounded themselves around groups of boys.

- And this on a large scale? - Yes.

I was surrounded by them.

They were everywhere, like vultures.

For us, this connected a lot of people.

To find out the connections that got

kids hooked, we start to look at patterns.

One of Bob Villard's favorites was Brock Pierce.

He was the kind of kid in the casual photos

being sold by Bob Villard's seller on eBay.

Brock, in the photos, was young.

He looked to be 13, 14 years old.

Brock Pierce, in turn, was linked

to Marc Collins-Rector and Chad Shackley.

We saw that they had a company called DEN.

Looking at it from above, it even

seems logical for a child actor to grow up

and use the money you perhaps earned

as a child and start an internet company.

When we started to realize what this really was,

it became a much bigger thing.

NEW YORK

I was a New York police

detective, I went to law school,

I was a stockbroker and then I went back to writing.

I've uncovered big cases over the years.

I was very happy to reveal great cases.

At the end of the 90s I learned

about the Internet Bubble.

And it was extraordinary. Many people lost fortunes.

One of the companies was Digital Entertainment Network

It came to me by chance and I read a little about it.

And I thought it would be a good story.

In the 80s, it was MTV that captured

the attention of young people around the world.

However, young people are going online.

A company called Digital Entertainment Network

believes he has the chance to become the new sensation.

They create television programming,

exclusively for the internet.

The internet makes DEN different

from other internet companies that came before.

It's a fusion of the marketing power of Madison Avenue...

with Silicon Valley technology

and Hollywood entertainment.

They aimed programming mainly at young people.

It was a totally new concept.

Most young people these days don't see themselves reflected on television.

We create content targeted to your needs

your wishes, your desires.

We are creating a new form of entertainment to meet

the global young audience.

Can you get a sponge to remove Marc's light?

Right there. There is a little light below the eye.

Right.

Makeup!

Marc Collins-Rector, somehow,

in his talking points at the beginning, which were...

practically brothels,

came to know Chad Shackley.

You should be on camera.

- I am already. - You know what I meant.

At the time, he was a boy of about 15 years old

and Collins-Rector was much older.

Marc Collins-Rector has moved

to be close to Chad Shackley.

Then they started, so to speak, dating.

At one point, Chad moved in with Marc Collins-Rector.

Chad and I developed Concentric Network Corporation

which is one of the first internet providers.

Then they brought in Brock Pierce.

How Brock Pierce ended up in all

this is what everyone is wondering.

A friend of ours introduced us to Brock Pierce.

At the time, Brock was doing

his first independent film.

He had been an actor for many years, and together the three of us

we finished what became DEN.

Everyone poured money into them.

David Geffen put in $250,000.

Bryan Singer put in 50 grand.

Michael Huffington put like 5 million into it.

There must have been more than 150 million put into this.

15 years later, 150 million is still a large amount.

If someone asks me something, I give the answer.

Is it Jay? Come on, Jay! Direct me on camera!

He was intense. Everyone told me

he was very theatrical, very dramatic.

He had...

perverse means to get what he wanted.

Reflect on this:

He picks up a 15 year old boy

from his parents, to live with him.

This is Chad.

Most of us would be afraid if we

accepted it, whether male or female.

We would be terrified to talk about the hypothesis,

fearing that we would end up with handcuffs.

There's definitely something in this drug that you can cut 55 sec

- that made me, right? - Yes.

They had a great idea. The idea was...

make your own films and put them on the internet.

That's what Netflix does now.

Of course fifteen years later.

The problem was that...

the internet and computers were not capable of this.

Meanwhile, they were paying people,

filming and they were a big studio.

I was called to audition for

the Royal Standard program.

I'm 14 years old and I started acting when I was around 5 years old.

NICK S., 14 YEARS OLD Behind the scenes at Royal Standard

I really liked it, so...

It's a fun thing.

So, I went to DEN and...

I had an audition and met him.

I met Marc Collins-Rector and other people there.

Everyone seemed impressed:

"This is the guy for the role. The boy for the role."

This had never happened.

Being in the spotlight like that.

I thought he was cool. That he was a good guy.

I thought he was cool, you know?

How do I feel working on the Royal Standard set?

Excellent! The team is wonderful!

It's a lot of fun to work on green screen.

I still learn more martial arts than I already know.

It is very fun. It is wonderful.

We are in the basement of my house.

This is where Mark basically lived for a few years.

He spent most of his time here.

He was like a hermit down here.

This was where he hid.

I was looking for some documentation.

Mike asked me to look for some of Mark's documentation.

Mark had a copy and Mike had a copy.

I came and found these documents. I found Mark's testimonies.

Mark says:

"I met Michael Egan in 1999

when I moved to Los Angeles."

He called us and said he was

working for a company called DEN.

I knew he was very happy.

It was a big step for him.

Mike was with him at the time.

I already knew Marc Collins-Rector, Chad Shackley and Brock Pierce.

It was at graduation at our private school.

There were few people in my class.

Scott Shackley was Chad's younger brother.

So I was introduced to them and they gave me

a job as an actor at DEN in a series.

It is good?

- What are your favorite hobbies? - My favorite hobbies?

One of the first series they did was Chad's World.

It was about a boy moving in with older men.

It was a real example of art imitating life.

Their life.

Welcome to your new world, Chad!

Our! You guys sorted everything out for me!

In fact, they even filmed Chad's World at their house:

The M&C mansion.

You have your TV, telephone, VCR, stereo

and your own jacuzzi at your disposal.

Oh yes! I think I can live here!

That was...

the realization of a dream.

"On or about September 1999, Michael Egan and I

we were invited to a party."

We were on what they called the M&C Estate:

The home of Marc Collins-Rector and Chad Shackley.

"We got there and Michael introduced me

to Collins-Rector, Chad and Brock.

Marc Collins-Rector showed me the house,

the back yard and the guest houses.

We visited all of it.”

There was no spending limit at the M&C Estate.

The pool was unbelievable. There was a swim-up bar in it.

I remember lunch being served by a butler and the chef

would come and take us lunch from the swim-up pool bar.

Literally, it was like going to Disney for the first time.

It was like, "This is amazing!"

This house can definitely give you an advantage.

Bring some girls! They would love this place!

It seems good!

Before I went to the house, Scott said, "My house is different.

The dynamics in my house are not the same as in any other.”

I need to tell you: they are gay.

Fine by me!

Marc, of course, was the leader.

It was as if Marc was the husband and

Chad was the female figure, the wife, and...

I don't know how, in a normal

context, we fit Brock into this scenario.

- Do you want my eyes? - Look at the lens.

- For lens. - Tell her...

- Right! - ...and for the public.

If I stayed up late at night I would

see people getting into the jacuzzi

with Chad, Brock, Marc or all three at once.

Once, with him naked and everyone naked getting into the jacuzzi.

And I saw these different things and asked myself:

"What the hell is happening?"

There was a rule about swimming naked after dark.

So, anyone present, no matter the person, had

to go skinny dipping after dark or something.

You know what's going on, so you don't want to look.

It's like seeing the sun in an eclipse, you know?

You want to look, but you don't, you know?

But...

It was obvious that they weren't having sex in the jacuzzi for everyone to

see, but it was clear to me that something was happening, just for that reason.

The posture, you know?

But I just remember...

asking myself, "What's going on? It's weird.

But I'm in a heated Olympic-size swimming pool and doing laps."

He understands? Who cares, understand?

AND...

It was definitely weird. For sure.

What excites you most about DEN?

The most exciting things about DEN are...

the people who work here, who create content

who make the show happen.

We're a cool bunch.

"Brock Pierce told me they would

to a party in the Hollywood Hills.

There were lots of drugs and lots of teenage boys

aged 14, 15.

Anyone who clashed with him would not enter that place.

I don't remember his name.

A boy who was at the Royal Standard.

He was younger. Even more than me.

And I remember, once, Marc at the auditions.

They went to auditions to choose the ones they wanted.

And I remember this younger boy.

A blond boy. I don't remember his name,

but I remember Marc eagerly going after him.

Do I remember the first time? Yes I recall.

He picked me up at the studios,

He took me to his house and...

along the way, he asked

me if I liked boys or girls.

I said I liked girls.

And he was fine with it:

"The secret to picking up girls is...

put a sock in your underwear to

make your 'package' look bigger."

So when we got to the house,

He took a sock, straightened it and said:

"It's like this, understand?"

At one point he said:

"You know what? Why don't you take off your clothes?

Take off your clothes and let me see what you look like.”

I don't know why I took it off, but I

took it off, and he looked at me and said:

"Yes yes".

That night he dressed me

in someone else's clothes

and he wanted to take me out to dinner...

It is...

I went with a sock in my underwear that night.

He took me to his house.

He had a home cinema.

We entered the cinema. I don't remember how he caught me.

He started doing what he was doing to me.

I do not remember.

In my memory I'm just...

sitting there and...

terrified, at first.

We were sitting and watching something and he...

he talked to me, while he did and said:

"There's nothing to worry about.

Do not be afraid. It's totally normal."

I remember being scared

and I remember him saying:

"Come on! Think of a girl you really like.

Think of a girl you really like."

Royal Standard is a good series at the moment.

And I hope that when I grow up, I make a lot of films.

Trying to climb the career ladder and...

I hope to get into a good series at some point,

or internet series, which I'm doing.

And that.

We know that in child abuse,

power dynamics are rampant.

There is an adult who chases

the child, who manipulates him.

They tell me, in interviews, that they fear professional

reprisals and fear that they will never work again.

He showed me porn and said they were clients...

having sex with their managers.

60 year old men having

sex with 14 year old clients.

He told me it was normal and that it happens all the time:

"That's what you need to do.

Everyone does it. Everyone who would manage children."

And he constantly told me: "You'll like it!"

AND...

At one point, I believed him!

He said, “We can call a guy.

He will be pleased to meet you."

And he showed important people

who would be mad at me if I told anyone.

There is an additional

element in which these children

They hope to achieve a professional goal.

This fact creates extra weight on the child.

She or he being abused would make

reporting difficult in this circumstance.

"Marc Collins-Rector started telling me

how much money he had, how powerful he was in the environment,

all the things he could do for me

and that if I screwed him,

I would never work in Hollywood."

The sad part

is that they can weaken you emotionally forever.

Man, I would never have imagined that Mr. Horton was

You know. Gay.

He's not, Willis!

This is the common fallacy about child molesters.

They are not gay and are only interested in boys and girls,

- and not in adults. - I'm only 9 years old.

Should I be listening to all this?

I felt so ashamed and guilty behind this secret...

that I held him for so long...

And then I thought that everyone...

You start to think that all homosexuals are pedophiles:

"This guy is gay. He's a pedophile.

If I stay alert, he'll try to catch me or something."

People need to understand this clearly:

These people are predators.

They go after young boys and

they do it for their own reasons.

So, it has nothing to do with being gay.

This happens because they are bad people

and, particularly, they choose bad people

that they know they will be victims.

They are predators. That's what they are.

At first, everything was a bed of

roses, and then things started to change.

Slowly,

he was different on the phone.

Then I realized that something was wrong.

Something wasn't going right, because...

I know when he's not "one hundred percent" Mark.

Suddenly he wasn't so happy, and suddenly

Suddenly he wanted to go home.

I never knew why that was.

Hello!

Ben Savage visits Marc Collins-Rector's house

- Hello my dear. - How are you?

- Right. Lets go in? - Your friend is here!

- Who? - Mr. Huffington.

Fantastic.

- Have you ever been to this house? - Yes!

- It's incredible! - But I never came to a party!

- Have you already come? - Yes!

- Good ones? - Lots of!

How crazy are they?

They often threw big parties.

Neighbors complained about the sidewalk being blocked.

There were valets who were there...

and this street was full of cars.

Everyone was induced to drink, drink, drink.

I had never had a drink in my life until I was at

M & C Estate. I don't even remember every drink.

At 14, that wasn't at the top of my list.

"There was an after-party. Michael Egan, Brock Pierce,

Chad Shackley and Marc Collins-Rector were present.

They made drugs available to us,

including Quaalude, Valium, Soma...

Vicodin, Demerol, Marijuana, Ecstasy and more.

Brock Pierce and Marc Collins-Rector

They tried to force me to take the drugs, and I refused.

Afterwards, they offered me cocktails and I accepted.

I believe they drugged my cocktail with Ecstasy."

If you stayed at the mansion...

late at night, I needed to get into the jacuzzi naked

during the festivals.

And the parties weren't just for young people to have fun.

They were also to attract investors.

And there were a lot of investors

who got into the jacuzzi with the kids.

One of those who was there was Bryan Singer.

Bryan Singer liked one of the young men

so much that he wrote a character for him

in Bryan Singer's film: X-Men.

The character was written just for him.

He was in the jacuzzi.

"I felt very disoriented, dazed and confused.

Collins-Rector told me

that I could sleep in his bed,

but if I went to his bed, I needed to be naked.

Collins-Rector went from caring and compassionate

to energetic and threatening.

I said I wouldn't sleep with him,

and he replied:

'So don't worry about going to work tomorrow morning.'

I went to sit on the couch.

At one point, I blacked out and, when I woke up,

I found myself in Marc's bed, completely naked,

with my clothes on the floor.

Collins-Rector was in bed and he was naked too...

with his arms around me.

I don't know all the things that were done to me.

However, I know that Collins-Rector drugged and abused me.

Immediately, I got out of bed, got dressed and went downstairs.

I saw Michael Egan sleeping on the couch.

I woke him up and told him I wanted to get out of that place."

I think the best description of this is pedophile ring.

That was it.

Did all investors know what was happening?

Probably not. Many suspected? Clear.

Hello! I'm Bryan Singer! You're watching Rawleywood...

at www.den.net.

Bryan Singer is a well-known Hollywood director.

He directed great films:

"The suspects",

"X-Men" and "X-Men 2".

So, there are ways to recognize his work.

What many people wouldn't recognize are some strange connections

that seems to link him to that world.

Brian Peck was convicted of child abuse.

Worked for him on "X-Men"

and did the film's commentary with Bryan Singer.

Hello. My name is Bryan Singer and I'm the director of X-Men.

I'm the other Brian. Brian Peck.

I'm not the director of X-Men.

I asked Brian if he could help me

because I'm a little uncomfortable doing these things alone.

You will see something really cool now.

First, it's Stan Lee selling hot dogs.

My friend Gary Goddard

It's the guy walking sideways with a checkered shirt.

And the guy eating the hot dog is you!

The fat guy in the Hawaiian shirt eating a hot dog.

Hello! That's me!

Thanks! I appear on the scene a lot!

It really appears! In fact, he's so posed

that people don't even notice Stan Lee.

I think what attracted me most was the idea that it was...

of anyone who feels excluded,

who feels that they suffer prejudice.

It's about a group of reluctant superheroes.

Their powers manifest at puberty

and they wake up one day and they're different

most people around.

And shows how they learn to hug

the extraordinary abilities, what is unique about them,

and help defend the world that may be doomed.

The people I talked to who invested money in it completely

denied that anything strange was going on there.

And was,

to me it was like a house for the blind.

Look: if you see young people naked...

in a jacuzzi, when having dinner or

having dinner with naked young people

or young people with inappropriate clothes for a dinner,

if you weren't deaf, dumb and blind, you would say:

"This isn't cool! Something's wrong here!"

This is not naivety.

These guys are very smart.

Hollywood has no system to protect anyone.

And children are last on their list.

I can guarantee you.

At a SAG meeting

we also served on the Young Performers committee

which is the national committee of SAG.

And a father took an article from L.A. Teams

that described the arrest of Bob

Villard and that the Los Angeles police

was looking for more of Villard's victims.

Because of this, I asked SAG

to think about the idea of ​​distributing this

article, spreading an alert or something to the members

which seemed to be a security thing and

maybe we should let everyone know, and...

Michael Harrah had a very strange reaction that day.

He strongly opposed

SAG getting involved in this.

Harrah didn't think SAG should step forward, even

though the Los Angeles police asked for more victims.

So, SAG didn't come forward

and didn't spread the news that day.

I don't think we hide them.

I would think that we wanted,

not to hide, but one would want to protect the child

whose identity would be revealed the more it was said.

A situation like this...

never helps anyone.

And the sooner we get this under control, the better.

But the less the child needs to live with...

the stigma of this having happened, I think it's better for them.

Not only in terms of career, but personally.

This is why people don't report it.

Because they know that even if they believe in them

they fear something will happen to their children's careers.

There are people who don't want this to come to light.

The studios work to ensure that this is not publicized too much.

Brian Peck went to Nickelodeon

and prepared in almost all programs.

It was on one of these shows where he became

friends with a very well-known child actor.

This child was...

abused by Brian Peck.

She filed criminal charges against Brian Peck

and Brian Peck, almost

immediately, admitted guilt.

Clearly he didn't want the investigation to continue or

clearly the studio didn't want the investigation to continue.

The victim chose to remain anonymous throughout the process

to be able to continue working.

No one has ever heard of a child

making a report at the time of the abuse,

when you are still a minor, and continue working.

I don't know of a single example where this happened.

So, a child who wants to speak out and talk about what

happened to him, in addition to telling his family,

I would definitely have to give up my career.

It's very sad that this is the case, but that's the reality.

This is the worst part of all:

He still works on a children's program,

he's still here and he was convicted.

He is not someone to have rumors or complaints about.

There are, in fact, convictions...

and he's still here.

I feel safe saying that every

convicted predator I know of

He had many more victims than the one who condemned him.

We are definitely talking about the tip of the iceberg.

I'm not sure that we will ever see the iceberg

in full because I think there are so many factors

pushing this iceberg deeper into the water.

I think sexual abuse doesn't get more attention

because it's an uncomfortable subject.

We don't want to talk about it. Its ugly.

It reveals things about our culture that we don't want to know.

But, not talking about him,

let's not identify it as the big problem that it is.

Many child molesters

have defensive arguments

that it was neither painful nor harmful and the child liked it.

Many of them use this language.

But the problem with that is...

many of the children grow up

and interpret that experience of

manipulation, exploitation and abuse

by a trusted authority figure.

And that's when the psychological time bomb explodes.

I ended up in the hospital for a while

starting to go crazy and thinking people were going to come get me.

And I was very...

suicidal.

I fantasized about suicide quite often.

I had a BB gun that I fantasized about

using it to kill me.

I remember sitting in my room crying my eyes out

sitting in the corner with the gun

and saying, "why is this happening to me?"

You could say I threw it all away

and I let Los Angeles suck me in.

I started using drugs and got involved

with a lot of people I shouldn't have.

When I suffered, I drank.

Drink, drink, drink.

I didn't know who to blame, what to blame

and completely hated everything about anyone.

I tried to put what happened to me

when I was 12 as far away as I could.

I needed to use more and more because I didn't want

to feel anymore, I wanted to be completely numb

of everything I was feeling.

And that was cocaine!

And he used it more and more.

I just used more, more and more.

And one day, when it all came

back, I was already a complete addict.

I thought that was the only case there, but it seems not.

I don't know if this makes me feel better or worse.

So many people went through the same thing as me.

He came home and was a

completely different person.

He never talked about going back there again.

After that, he never talked about returning.

He became very introverted.

He didn't trust

where before...

he had no problem trusting people.

He started drinking.

He started drinking more

frequently and hid it from us.

After returning home, he said, "I have to tell you something, Mom."

And I said, "What? What's going on?"

He said, "You know Mike, right?" I said yes".

He said, "He was...

molested."

I said, "Mike what?"

And he said, "What would you do if that happened to me?

What would you do, as a mother? What would you do?"

His drinking problem got so out of control

that even he knew about it. He knew.

He couldn't work. It affected his whole life.

So we need to give him an ultimatum.

We sat with him on the

back porch and said, "Mark...

You need to get help or you’ll need to leave.”

And he admitted:

"I know I'm an alcoholic, I know I need

to stop, but I can't. I don't know how."

I called a hospital and spoke to a nurse

and asked about detoxing him.

What would be needed and how we would do it.

She said:

"No way, let him stop drinking

at once.

It can cause stroke, seizure and heart failure."

But it looks like Mark...

I wanted to do it alone.

He tried to stop drinking altogether.

One day, Fred woke me up and said:

"There's something wrong with Mark."

So, I jumped out of bed...

I went downstairs, and Mark was on the floor.

It was as if he had a cloth, and he said...

that he was cleaning something off the floor and said:

"Dad, I swear to God I'm not drinking.

I swear I'm not."

But there was nothing on the floor.

Fred helped him get up, carried him and sat him on the sofa:

"Buddy, are you okay? What are you..."

- He said... - "I'm not drunk."

"I'm not! I swear to God! I'm not drunk!

I wasn't drinking, Dad. I promise. I swear."

We didn't know what was going on. We simply didn't know.

Half of his body was on the sofa and his head was leaning in the corner.

When he looked at Fred, he said:

"I love you dad".

And Fred replied, "I love you too, man."

He said, "Lean back a little.

When he leaned in, he started... His tongue...

- and he was shaking like that. - Crossed arms.

Squeezing like that and I ran and called emergency.

And Fred was holding his arms

down so he wouldn't get hurt.

And I was on the phone and I said:

"I think he's detoxing from alcohol.

I think he's having withdrawal

and I need an ambulance now.

Right now. He's having convulsions."

The ambulance arrived and Fred sat him down for a bit.

They left, I went into the house, went upstairs and got dressed.

Arriving at the hospital, we entered...

and said, "Mrs. and Mr. Ryan?" And we answered "yes".

"Is Mark Ryan your son?" We said "yes".

"The doctor wants to talk to you."

They took us down the hall to an empty room,

They put us in that room and closed the door.

Then the doctor came in and...

He said, "I have bad news.

"Your son's heart stopped on the way to the hospital."

We go back a decade to try

to find events from that time

and we found twelve separate lawsuits from people

who used the Hollywood dream to prey on children

and they were, basically, in all areas in between.

There is this phenomenon of

crimes potentially being underreported.

Additionally, some of the victims I spoke to

felt stigmatized

felt guilty for the crimes that had occurred

and felt they could not speak about them publicly.

We thought everything was happy, that everything was great.

And then, out of nowhere, one day,

Evan said he wasn't practicing anymore.

And I said, "What? You're kidding me!"

- After everything he's been through. - It was a shock.

I said: "I don't like music anymore.

I don't want to be linked to the industry or anything."

I thought he was in his teenage years...

and puberty.

So I thought maybe that would be normal.

I thought, "I'm not going to live a life like that.

I won't be stuck in life because

of this guy for the rest of my life."

And I needed...

find a way for people to believe in me.

I needed to find a way for my family to believe.

- Hi, Anita! How are you? - I am fine!

Happy birthday, Evan!

I'm getting a massage and it's great!

And I don't care if it looks weird or not!

Right!

It's above the waist! Is not strange!

I had to find an excuse to have him alone

where I could talk to him.

So I thought, "Why don't we...

to McDonald's...

so we can talk in the car?"

I want a snack for children,

Chicken McNuggets with barbecue sauce.

To drink, Diet Coca-Cola with little ice.

- Do you want a milkshake? - Yes. Medium.

- Medium chocolate shake. - No whipped cream.

No whipped cream and no cherry.

I expected us to talk for a long time in

the car, when he stopped somewhere.

When was the first time we met?

The first time we met was when we went to the park.

You were going to the park to play basketball.

And then it became quieter in the car and I was able to record everything.

I remember you asking me

if I had ever done anything with another guy.

Yes. A long time ago.

I was afraid my recorder would make noise or

something would go wrong and he would find out.

And that's when you asked me if I wanted to try it.

- Yes. - And that was when you...

That's when you gave me my first blowjob, right?

You're not recording this, are you?

- No, I'm not. - Thanks!

Look at it this way, Evan:

I would never have done anything to you

if you hadn't shown interest.

Do you know what happened at Penn State University?

Yes.

Those kids didn't want it.

But I didn't want to, at 12 years old.

I wasn't interested. I was so...

I remember that night, you were...

You put your penis out in the car and I was scared.

I did not know what to do

because you asked me if I wanted to touch it.

This was in the car. In the van.

I'm trying to remember. I am trying.

Because that sounds familiar to me.

I just remember being in the car and you asking me questions.

See that was it.

The questions were to determine whether or not it was something you

I really wanted to do it or not. I was...

If I didn't, I wouldn't...

would go far in his career as a musician

like I thought everyone did that.

You told me everyone did

and that it was normal and natural.

"It's the normal thing to do when you're in the middle."

Let's put it like this: That was...

He knows...

I'm sure I said that.

You know, this is a natural function.

The only difference between us and the animals in the animal kingdom

It’s just that we socialize it.

See the animals. The way they do it.

They don't care about anything.

They don't care about age, they don't care...

with sex, sexuality or something else.

If they like it, they go and do it.

And, as human beings,

we put laws, regulations and restrictions on it.

If we were any other animal, it wouldn't matter.

That was...

I froze when he told me.

I wondered how this could happen, you know?

AND...

How could I not realize

this was happening to Evan.

AND...

I don't know. It was so painful.

Very painful.

And of course my first

question to Evan was:

"Did it happen once or how often?"

Hopefully it only happened once and that's it.

But Evan told me...

which happened

several times and during...

many years.

And when I thought, I fainted.

It's so hard.

He seemed like a great guy.

I'm not a violent person, but

I wanted to beat this guy up.

I'am dreaming

with a white Christmas

with Jack and Dixie running.

The first thing that led to DEN's death

was a lawsuit in New Jersey against Marc Collins-Rector,

Chad Shackley and Brock Pierce.

There was a lawsuit filed by a boy

who worked for Marc Collins-Rector.

This was the first allegation of sexual abuse

which became public.

At the time, DEN was going for

a $75 million initial public offering.

Something that made them all very rich.

When things started to leak more and more...

Hidden recording in Marc Collins-Rector's house

Two boys who were victims, Mike E. and Alex B,

entered the house with a camera to collect evidence.

One of the images was the

large amount of prescription bottles

on behalf of Marc Collins-Rector.

Oxycodone was one of them. There was Vicodin, Percocet, Xanax.

And there were many bottles.

Hollywood is a company town.

Marc Collins joined the company in

the city and they got away with the crime.

In this case, of being caught as pedophiles.

And this is what happened.

These guys are very smart.

They were experienced and very successful guys.

I didn't see anyone there who

wasn't worth millions of dollars.

Investigations of the processes began to leak

and Marc Collins-Rector began to panic.

He had a collection of weapons.

Boys told me he would

point guns at them like this.

A shotgun or pistol and said,

"Do you know what I can do?"

And he was serious, according to the young people.

It's terrifying to have someone point a gun at you.

Even more so if you're a kid

and your boss points a gun at you.

It would be scary.

He came home, explained what happened...

I started crying and said:

"That didn't happen to you, did it, Mike? Did it?"

And my son was...

curled up on the floor in the corner,

he started to get agitated and said:

"Mom, I was just a boy. I was just a boy and they threatened me.

I was just a boy."

I knew right away that I needed to involve someone in this.

Police, FBI.

Anyone I needed to

expose these criminals.

They worried about being arrested.

There was an FBI investigation. They knew.

Someone told them they would be interrogated.

And when they found out, they ran away.

I spoke to Scott one day

and I couldn't contact him for a few days

and days later there was nothing there anymore.

Literally, nothing. All empty.

All the way to the source. There was one in the front yard.

Even the font is gone.

They went to different places

in Europe, hoping to avoid arrest.

And then someone reported them in Spain.

Chad and Brock were quickly released, but

Marc was imprisoned for a year and a half

waiting to be extradited to the US.

At one point, he was sent to the US and pleaded

guilty to nine counts of child molestation.

Marc got out of jail relatively quickly,

but was listed as a sex offender.

And, after being released, he made a request that would

allow him to travel to England for medical reasons.

He went and never came back.

In 2007, he applied for a civil

union in the United Kingdom

with an 18 year old boy.

I saw him with the boy.

Him getting in the car with the kid or something.

And it was obvious, looking at the boy, that Marc was harassing him.

This was pretty obvious to me.

In 2011, he renounces his citizenship...

and has been untraceable ever since.

Certainly, those who invested money did not want to sue them.

They just wanted to disappear.

Of course, small investors sued, but those

like Michael Huffington didn't want to sue.

So, I went to the executive editor...

from Details magazine. She loved the story...

She gave her approval and said to do it.

The story was a scandal.

I submitted the story

to my editor and loved it.

It was quickly discovered,

but then...

days later, I receive a call from an

assistant's assistant's assistant, and she said:

"We won't publish it. We'll pay you 25% of

the total and give you half of your expenses."

And I accepted.

But I was so disgusted that I didn't want to write anything else.

It's Hollywood!

People do what they want there!

If you are a big star, a big

director and make a lot of money,

you can do what you want!

Martin Weiss was sued...

on several charges of lewd acts with a child.

He was charged with one count of forced

intercourse with a child under the age of 14.

Two counts of continuous sexual abuse of a minor.

Three counts of sodomy with a minor under 16.

You see Martin entering the courtroom.

He was chained, with shackles...

and with much grayer hair.

It was time for me to go up there and tell people

as Marty looked at me, what happened.

He insisted he wanted to testify.

That was very...

I was very proud of what he did.

I do not need...

of this pain in my heart, being

mad at someone my whole life.

That's another question...

to tell the truth to me,

It is...

say, "Okay.

What you did was horrible."

I don't know.

I just felt like I needed to go beyond that,

I don't need to feel this pain...

is that...

If he can accept...

that what he did was horrible and that it could go beyond that,

I could forgive.

The maximum sentence for the charges

that were brought was around 14 to 16 years.

It is generally uncommon to get a maximum sentence.

He confessed to two counts of lewd acts with a

child and confessed to two counts of sexual abuse.

Then...

It was clear that it didn't just happen once.

And in exchange for confessing to

two charges, which is much more severe,

he was sentenced to five years probation,

365 days in county jail, he needed

to go to sexual abuse therapy,

I needed to stay away from Evan, I

needed to stay away from children

and was registered as a sex

offender for the rest of his life.

He was arrested in December or late

November and was released in June.

6 months.

They almost never comply...

full sentence in county jail.

6 months is a joke.

It's a joke, because of what happened.

In any case, ask a promoter whether or

not he thinks he is completely successful

in protecting the community from any future

crime, it is impossible for us to respond.

I can't say, precisely,

or honestly say...

that I prevented any future crimes.

I wish so. I wish I

could in any case, but...

I can only do...

what the law allows us to do.

Unfortunately, to get bad people

off the streets we need to do better.

It could have been much better.

He could have served a much longer sentence.

On that side, it leaves me disappointed

and it leaves other people disappointed.

He told me that there were other

people he did those things with.

But like I said, I think it's more

important to be able to talk about it

and be free...

of this secret,

than getting justice in the judicial system.

There is a passage in the book where you

introduced Corey to one of his abusers.

- Do you take responsibility? - For sure! Yes!

And he asked me to do it on the show and I did!

This will be a painful process.

The dust settles, the web unravels

and people will know

that we all played our part in this story.

And for which part will you take responsibility?

Last year, we presented and passed a law called

"Child Artist Protection Law".

The law will do two things:

First is to stop abusers from

working with children in Hollywood.

Because, at the moment, that doesn't exist.

Second, it is to require a license for those

who work, with relevance, with child actors,

such as businesspeople, publicists and photographers.

All people we see convicted would need

to have fingerprints, release and license

so the State can track them

and prevent them from continuing to work in the

field if they were caught doing something bad.

I have to confess that I haven't signed this yet...

and I don't know if I should.

I don't know. Will this be effective?

We still need to see.

No one came to tell me:

"Have you signed yet? Why not?"

I think that, in many cases, it is a situation

where someone is not reasoning.

The father trusts when he shouldn't.

No matter how good the occasion

seems, your job is to protect your child.

But I still think...

which is the duty of the agent,

businessman, publicist, whoever,

know what the limit is and not cross it.

- Yes? - Hello! Michael?

- Yes! - Hello! This is Joey!

- Hello, Joey! - How are you?

You what?

- I was thinking about you. - Was I?

Yes, it was.

I was reading an old Hawaiian magazine...

and I was thinking about you.

It's been a while, huh?

Yes. We haven't spoken in a while.

I lost your trail.

Yes and you? What have you done?

I retired.

- And even? - Yes!

I still have some customers who show up,

But it's not what it used to be.

I'm not taking on anyone new.

I say this and then I can accept someone, but...

Have you heard from Bob?

- Bob? - Bob Villard.

Bob Villard!

Last I heard, he was in jail, Joey.

And even? Whereby?

I suppose it's because of some problem with children.

They said they tried to catch him several times and succeeded.

Last I heard, he was caught.

I don't know anything about it. I don't know for how long or anything.

Then no. I haven't heard from him in a long, long time.

I almost forgot about him, actually.

That's the reason I left the industry.

I don't know if you remember that

I cut his lip when I threw an object

and took my way home never to return.

I went through a lot of therapy and...

I don't accept this...

and everything he tried to do.

And only God knows what he did to anyone else.

I don't know and...

I don't know, Joey.

I don't fully believe in these things.

I don't know how horrible they really are.

I just...

I know I will never know the whole story about something.

When I had the chance to talk to someone about this, I said:

“See, this isn’t a terrible thing, unless you think it is.

It's just something that happened to you in your life."

I don't think it's right that someone...

take advantage of someone and I think...

the whole thing is rotten, but

he tried to do it to me and I...

To be honest, I didn't like it...

when you tried to make me sleep in your bed and touch me.

I hated that too.

That was something I wanted and shouldn't have done.

There's no way to undo this, but...

Certainly, it was something I shouldn't have done.

I don't know what Joey

is remembering, but...

I don't remember anything

that made him feel that way.

All I can say is that as a

result of the situation he was in,

not just with me, but with others,

if that was how he saw something,

It certainly wasn't something I intended.

And that's my answer to that.

Are you attracted to young boys?

No. Not particularly.

Much of what happens in this

situation happens almost by accident.

Put it on your head

that someone out there was a child predator,

attacked children, and everything he did...

it was taking the kids to it.

Many of those I was

aware of just fell into it.

Did anyone try anything on you when you were a child actor?

I think so. I am not...

My approach to all this was not...

sexual. She went...

Yes, I think someone did that.

I would have a lot of trouble remembering

anything specific, but it wasn't uncommon,

let's say so.

It's difficult, when you live in a situation,

for the reason that there must be adult supervision,

understand how things will be seen.

And I don't know what else to say about it.

If you are a thief, you are a thief; a lie is a lie.

But, in Hollywood, it is the exception:

"Fine! Whatever! He's a good businessman!"

I'm sure he knew the

whole Bob Villard story.

Hear how much...

he's good at sketching...

the coldness of Hollywood.

"Great to hear from you! I was thinking about Hawaii!

You are calling from Zimbabwe!

Hello! I was thinking of you!"

Serious?

Yes! I saw a magazine in

Zimbabwe and was thinking of you!

Do you really think he saw that? This is false!

Excellent! Lying with every word.

Why...

Whatever, because...

these people from Hollywood, these scoundrels.

Don't even get me started.

Finally, they let us go back to the emergency room

and the doctor said...

he wasn't responding to anything.

They worked on it for about 8 to 10 minutes...

trying to start his heart and keep it...

working.

Being without oxygen for that long is...

probably the worst case scenario.

The doctor said if he didn't respond within 72

hours, he probably wouldn't respond anymore.

My wife and I...

we took it one day at a time and so much happened

since we were boys.

We got married, had kids and...

We just take life one day at a time.

I sat on one side of the bed, Jan sat on the other

and we held his hands.

And it was like...

just hold on...

a piece of me.

In the second day,

a doctor...

practically gave up on him.

"You need to make a decision."

He came up with the

subject of 72 hours and I said:

"72 hours don't mean a damn thing to me."

And after 68 hours and 45 minutes,

Mark's eyes finally responded to the light.

Yes. And he opened his eyes.

- He opened it. - Yes.

There was no chance...

for someone to turn off the machines.

Hello, friend! How is it going?

Yes! Tap here!

Using the other arm, huh!

Fred is my hero...

because he never gives up.

And he drilled that into Mark

and Mark will never give up.

He is the bravest person...

that I have ever met in my life.

Nice to see you!

It's great to see you too! Are you hungry?

- I love you! - I love you too!

Do you want to give me another hug?

He is already a miracle just for being alive!

From the beginning, they told his family:

"He won't make it."

Everyone gave up: "He will never move or eat."

All of it. And look at him now.

I want to cut my hair!

You want?

The colors of the Bengals!

Is not cool?

For the Bengals!

Fred is my hero because he never gives up.

And he inserted that into Mark

and Mark will never give up either.

And through them, I will never give up!

But this is where it comes from. From this guy right here.

Here on the side.

He is the bravest person...

that I have ever met in my life.

You trained him, didn't you?

Yes. It's Ryan Foster.

Did you train him?

He is graduating this year from Charleston.

It says, "Thank you, Coach Mark."

Will you be training next year?

I would like to see Mark back on this field.

Training the boys.

Doing what you know best.

He is a great coach.

I know Mark makes his own decisions

and he made bad choices, he made good choices.

But I know that, as a human being,

Mark is a good person.

When Mark comes out of this...

he will return to this football field

and he will be there with me, training.

After that, God can take me.

But not until then.

This is what I want.

So much damage has already been done.

And now, I think, at the end of the day, I look at

this and realize that I've been trying really hard

keep moving forward, despite everything...

I don't know. I have yet to see

any retribution for these scoundrels.

I never saw anything. See them still on the

pedestals and the same things probably happening.

It could have happened to someone last night. Who knows?

I'm saying there are people

who did this to me and Cory,

who are still working, are still there

and they are the richest and most powerful people in the business

and they don't want me to say what I'm saying now.

What would you say to parents who have the best of intentions

accompanying the children?

Don't think that everything is roses...

You are hurting the entire industry!

I am really sorry! I'm not trying that!

Ultimately, I think the bystanders are

the only group with power in this situation,

because I think there will always be a

steady stream of kids wanting to be famous

and parents pushing their children into this field.

If we don't talk about it, then we are part of the problem

because we are contributing to a culture that normalizes it.

And, by normalizing something, it becomes invisible as a problem.

So, we show these repercussion cases to say:

"These are villains and we are good guys."

And really, I think we're all a little

bad when we don't talk about it.

After all that happened to Marc Collins-Rector,

my life became very dark.

I was never able to have...

a girlfriend or anything.

Right now, I'm still recovering from all that.

I feel like now I've reached a point in my life...

where I am slowly improving.

I moved to Florida about a year ago and I

moved there because of my grandmother.

I want to be there and take care of her.

AND...

I ended up meeting a girl there.

She is my first girlfriend in my life.

So now, my life is my grandmother and my girlfriend.

I'm just trying to get myself back on track,

I'm trying to enjoy life and...

I like.

Finally, I found a place I like, you know?

Dreaming is so important. Do you know why?

Because, if you live on this Earth, you need to

feel something and your dream makes you feel things.

That's the power of dreams, you know?

Dreaming is life.

It's a difficult process...

going through court, the police and so

on, but in the long run, it's all worth it.

Because in the long run, it's not about how

long such a person will be sentenced to prison

or get justice, revenge and all that.

It's more about being able to express

yourself and say:

"This happened to me,

I will move on and not hide it in my mind

for the rest of my life...

and I will possibly one day make a

difference to someone by talking about it."