Overview

• In Semi-Well-Adjusted Despite Literally Everything, Stoner recounts unwanted stalkers, an attempted kidnapping scam and discovery of deepfake sexual images targeting them as a child star
• They describe how a fierce eating disorder, fueled by a Hunger Games audition, led them to a medically supervised weight-loss camp and an inpatient rehab stay in 2011
• Stoner reveals that mismanagement by their business team and unauthorized withdrawals by their mother drained their bank account to zero in the mid-2010s despite years of Disney and Nickelodeon work
• They revisit their 2024 Child Star documentary reunion with Demi Lovato, sharing a fuller account of Lovato’s apology and the tour plane incident when Lovato punched a backup dancer
• Building on their memoir’s revelations, Stoner co-founded Movement Genius, created the Artist Wellbeing Essentials toolkit and became a certified mental-health coordinator to bolster protections for today’s child performers