Leif Garrett’s life took a terrible turn for the worse; have a look at him now.

I believe that the teenage idol Leif Garrett isn’t given enough credit for his musical and performing abilities. He deserved so much more!

During his career, the former teen idol had extreme highs and lows, but his drug addiction, which he used as a crutch, caused him to lose his career.

It might be wise to hold your breath till you meet him at 61 today.

He was such a small baby. Before switching to music in the 1970s, Leif Garrett started out as a child actress and gained popularity among young females.

My mother said that when she and her parents went to the grocery store, she noticed that Leif’s picture was on the cover of every adolescent magazine at the checkout registers.

The five-year-old American singer-actor starred in the 1969 film Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice, which went on to become the sixth highest-grossing film of the year. Hollywood, California, is where he was born.

Following that, the drowsy-eyed, flaxen-haired beauty starred in Walking Tall and its two sequels. He costarred with a number of other teenage idols, including Tom Cruise, Matt Dillon, C. Thomas Howell, and Patrick Swayze, in Francis Ford Coppola’s 1983 film The Outsiders.

Tab Hunter had a covert relationship with a famous actor prior to coming out.

His appearances in the television series Family, The Odd Couple (1974), Wonder Woman (1978), and CHiPs (1979) may also have made him well-known to others.

When he performed renditions of popular songs like Paul Anka’s Put Your Head on My Shoulder, Surfin’ USA (The Beach Boys), and The Wanderer (Dion) on his 1977 first album, Leif Garret, fans went crazy.

Garrett held the world in his hands. When his mostly young female admirers saw the blonde singer with the disheveled hair on tour around the world, they went crazy.

They had to airlift me in by helicopter while I was on a public appearance tour in Sydney, Australia. After that, I got into an armored sedan and drove in the rear door of the theater. Before, I attempted to use a lim there, but the fans nearly overturned it. For them, it must be an adrenaline rush. They simply go crazy. In 1979, Garrett told the New York Daily News, “It’s really strange.”

Despite his songs nearly reaching the top of the charts, he had management issues that made him feel like a “fraud.” For Garrett, the transition to maturity was equally difficult.

“I wish they had given me singing lessons before ever making a record and doing the typical punching in a sentence here or there or words or whatever,” Garret stated in an interview, “but I think I was a good performer from the get-go.”

I Was Looking for Someone to Love is one song in particular that doesn’t even sound like me. I might even argue that I wasn’t even headed in that direction. And that seems like fraud to me. It’s similar to a Milli Vanilli scenario, with the obvious distinction being that mine was frequently mixed with both myself and another person.

Garrett’s career started to deteriorate after he was drunk and high when he crashed a car and sent it hurtling down a slope in North Hollywood, paralyzing his then-close friend Ronald Winkler.

However, it was insufficient for Garret, and his life continued to deteriorate.

Garret reveled in sex, drugs, and rock and roll with Queen’s legendary frontman Freddie Mercury in 1980, which he refers to in his book as “the apex of pinup fame.” Mercury was recording the wildly popular album The Game at the time, which included the hits “Crazy Little Thing Called Love” and “Another One Bites the Dust.” According to Garrett, the band became his buddies and showed him what it was like to be a rock star, complete with girlfriends and drugs.

In an interview with Fox for the release of his memoir, Idol Truth, Garrett said:“I don’t think I was a very mature 16-year-old. I became mature very quickly because I was always surrounded by adults who were drinking and doing coke. I was a child, but being treated as an adult… And all of this was coming out of my pocket.”

He continued: “You know, I probably have the greatest fan base that I could ever imagine for myself. They have stuck with me through thick and thin. And as you know, I’ve gotten myself in plenty of bad situations. There was a lot of bad decision-making. But at the same time, I didn’t have the parental guidance that I should have at that time.”

Garret has been charged with numerous offenses. He left treatment and had several run-ins with the law, including when he attempted to purchase drugs from undercover officers and tried to conceal heroin in his shoe.

Garrett put a lot of effort into trying to climb back to the top, but eventually he went back to his old ways. Garrett was chosen to offer commentary on the comedy program World’s Dumbest, which profiles the “most wonderfully stupid” offenders, as a result of his amusing run-ins with the authorities.

Several famous people with a history of misadventures were also featured on the program, including Todd Bridges, Tonya Harding, Gary Busey, and Danny Bonaduce.

Then Garrett received a major position on the VH1 program Celebrity Rehab with Dr. Drew, which he had no desire to be a part of. Garrett said that the program caused him to relapse for drama, however VH1 categorically refuted this claim.

“They asked to get some footage of me using, and I said, ‘I haven’t been using,'” Garrett stated in an interview with the LA Times. “We really need to get footage of you using,” they stated. In any case, I was persuaded to display them with ease.

“This is insanity and quite honestly I don’t appreciate it,” Garrett said as he left the show after a production counselor called him out, implying that he was still using.

Leif Garrett is lucky to be sober today.

I spent ninety days in the county jail. Before that, I was in court-ordered treatment, and when my mother came to visit, she informed me that she had stage IV lung cancer. “Nobody lives with her, so I’m leaving to take care of her,” I remarked. In order to deal with that, I I did the 90 days, and that was it,” he says.

The former teen star said that he still feels a great deal of gratitude for all of his followers.

Garrett said to Closer, “I’ve saved every picture or letter a young woman sent me, telling me about being on their walls and kissing me good night before they went to bed.” “How flattering, but also somewhat strange and a little embarrassed! I am extremely grateful to [my fans] for allowing me to continue doing what I love and earning a living doing it.