I have this maxim that no one in public life can hide anything. There are so many people around celebrities who don’t always have their best interests at heart — and so many opportunities to let things slip up while they’re in the spotlight — that it simply becomes a matter of putting the puzzle pieces together.
Which is one of the reasons why people who do so are labeled as dangerous conspiracy theorists.
Now, I don’t know how any sentient being can look at Winona Ryder — especially in the past 15 years or so — and not recognize the painfully-obvious symptoms of acute, deep-seated trauma. Then again, a lot of people do, and lot of them don’t care (or find it amusing) because she’s part of a Hollywood system increasingly seen as irredeemably corrupt.
But her "part" may be as a victim of that system.
Winona has been admirably candid about her mental health struggles - and certain childhood traumas, like suffering bullying - but might there be other issues that remain unspoken? Maybe this calls for both deductive and inductive reasoning.
Let's start here: we’ve looked at a number of details from Winona Ryder’s life and career that seem a bit, well, concerning.
Growing up in a commune with laissez-faire parenting, a well-documented recipe for disaster.
Her family friends included MKULTRA asset Timothy Leary, and NA/MB-L/A activist (and George Soros’ closest confidante) Allen Ginsberg.
Calling Catcher in the Rye her “bible” as a kid. Like John Lennon’s assassin Mark David Chapman, Ryder once claimed she wanted her name changed to Holden Caulfield.
Enrolling in a “gifted youth” program at the American Conservatory Theater at the age of 12.
Winona also seemed to have stumbled inadvertently into one of Hollywood’s most enduring scandals when she made her screen debut in Lucas:
Charlie Sheen is being accused of raping Corey Haim over 30 years ago. In a report from The National Enquirer published Wednesday, Sheen — who revealed in 2015 that he is living with HIV — was 19 when he allegedly sexually assaulted 13-year-old Haim on set of the 1986 film Lucas...
In all fairness, Charlie Sheen has vehemently denied these accusations. On the other hand, he’s Charlie Sheen.
Following her debut in Lucas, remember that Winona was cast as a child bride — the underaged lover of older men — in several different films early in her career.
And then remember that she dated former Monkee Michael Nesmith, 30 years her senior.
Then there’s this “blind item revealed,” from CDAN…
A barely legal teen (incorrect, she was 15 - CK) when she made this monster hit, she says she would only do a sequel if this A-list mostly television actor is not in it. He would not stop hitting on her and she hated seeing any call sheet where they had to film.
Winona Ryder/Alec Baldwin/Beetlejuice
Now, I’m not sure about this, not having heard similar rumors elsewhere. Baldwin is a lot of bad things, but I’ve never gotten the sense he’s a short-eyes. This could just be someone taking shots at Baldwin, who is not a well-liked man in Hollywood.
But who can even say anymore?
Still, it didn't take long for Winona to be declared as Hollywood's hottest “It Girl” as soon as she reached her majority, with her waif-like beauty and her big, soulful eyes getting her tagged as “the new Audrey Hepburn.”
Winona ended up paired with a string of rising young stars, most of them several years older, in keeping with her child-bride image.
It’s just that looking back at the list - and all that’s transpired in the past thirty years - it almost starts to feel like some of these were assignments, rather than romances…
