Actors Who Never Recovered From Their Most Distressing Roles

Linda Blair inThe Exorcist

Linda Blair was only 13 years old when she found herself faced with endless questions about God, possession, faith and Catholicism following the release of The Exorcist in 1973.

"To me, The Exorcist was a work of fiction," she said. "I didn't realize then that it dealt with anything in reality, and so when the press kept asking me about all the devil stuff, it just kept adding to the pressure I was under, and it was just an awful thing to go through as a teenager."

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