Wil Wheaton’s Parents: What The ‘Star Trek’ Child Star Has Said About His ‘Abusive’ Mom & Dad

• Wil Wheaton was 1 of the biggest kid actors of the 1980s and 1990s
• He starred successful ‘Star Trek: The Next Generation’, ‘Flubber’, and more
• Wil antecedently revealed that helium ne'er wanted to beryllium an histrion was forced to by his ’emotionally abusive’ parents

Wil Wheaton is known arsenic the prolific kid prima who played Wesley Crusher connected the tv bid Star Trek: The Next Generation (1987 – 19940), Joey Trotta successful 1991’s Toy Soldiers, and Bennett Hoenicker successful 1997’s Flubber. He is besides remembered for his breakout relation successful the classical 1986 coming-of-age movie Stand By Me. Unfortunately, helium has revealed implicit the years that helium ne'er really enjoyed acting and was “forced” to get into the manufacture by his mother, who was an actress. His parents didn’t conscionable springiness him nary different enactment than to beryllium a child actor; they allegedly mentally abused him arsenic his vocation took off. Read connected to larn astir Wil Wheaton’s parents and what helium has said astir their abuse.

Wil Wheaton got his large interruption successful the 1980s and had a jam-packed filming docket done the 1990s (Photo: Todd Williamson/JanuaryImages/Shutterstock)

Who Are Wil Wheaton’s Parents?

Wil Wheaton was calved connected July 29, 1972 successful Burbank, Calif. to Debra and Richard Wheaton. Debra was an histrion and Richard was successful the aesculapian field, according to Indie Wire. They besides had a lad named Jeremy and sister named Amy. They person ne'er spoken publically astir the alleged maltreatment of which Wil has accused them, and they are presently estranged.

Wil Wheaton Was Subject To ‘Incredible Emotional Abuse’

“I didn’t privation to beryllium an histrion erstwhile I was a kid,” The Secret of NIMH dependable histrion told Yahoo! Movies portion reflecting connected the 35th day of the premiere of Stand By Me successful May 2021. “My parents forced maine to bash it, my parent made maine bash it. My parent coached maine to spell into her bureau and archer the children’s agent, ‘I privation to bash what mommy does.’ And done a operation of an unthinkable affectional maltreatment from my begetter and a batch of manipulation, utilizing me, from my mother, it truly enactment maine successful that place.”

Wil Wheaton is pictired connected the near successful the supra ‘Stand By Me’ property photograph (Photo: Everett Collection)

Wil Wheaton Said His Brother Was The ‘Golden Child’

In the aforesaid interview, Wil told Yahoo! Movies that helium could subordinate to Gordy in Standy By Me (Gordy’s parents were solely focused connected grieving the nonaccomplishment of their older son, who was played by John Cusack, successful the film) due to the fact that his member successful existent beingness was ever the halfway of attention. “Because Gordie’s acquisition precise overmuch reflected my experience. We’re some invisible successful our homes,” helium reasoned. “We some person a member who is the aureate child. We’re some the scapegoat successful the family. So erstwhile I ticker ‘Stand by Me’ now, I cannot disregard the unbelievable sadness successful my eyes. And I cannot disregard the world that it was that sadness, that isolation that I deliberation gave maine what Gordie needed to travel to beingness and I deliberation [director] Rob Reiner saw that.”

Wil Wheaton’s Mother ‘Ran’ His Life

Will took to Instagram successful July 2019 to station a mag dispersed of himself sharing amusive facts with fans (seen here). Although helium looked similar your mean blessed teenage lad successful the magazine, Wil admitted successful his caption that helium was thing but. “#Fbf to astir 1986 oregon 1987,” helium began. “This weird kid was truthful self-conscious astir these things, didn’t privation to bash them, felt awkward and embarrassed by the attention, and did it anyhow due to the fact that nary of the adults successful his beingness ever listened to him.”

The Celebrity Jeopardy alum besides took the clip to reply to immoderate fans successful the remark and gave much penetration into his situation. “My parent fundamentally ran my full life, and erstwhile my dada wasn’t bullying me, helium didn’t announcement I existed,” helium wrote successful reply to 1 follower, per Page Six. In different comment, helium added, “I callback being asked the questions, and doing my champion to springiness the answers my parents would privation to hear. Back then, I was inactive hopeful that I could someway get my dada to similar me.”

Fortunately, contempt his achy past, Wil told fans helium is doing overmuch amended today. “I person been done truthful overmuch pain, and I hurt, still, a lot. But I emotion my beingness close now, and adjacent though it hurt, and I STILL hurt, that’s each portion of the tapestry of my life,” helium wrote.

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