[Who wants to bet the kid had a blood stream full of Xanax. She probably meant to kill the kid and drown herself.
What a dope.]
Showbiz is a tough game. For young actors who strike gold early on, career progression is often the reverse of the way things are for other professions - a (often literal) cocaine high, followed by a descent into irrelevance. My impression is that actors whose plug away for decades before making it big (e.g. Jon Hamm of Mad Men) handle the ups and downs better, since they’ve gone through the downs for most of their careers.