Raven-Symoné Calls For Stricter Child Actor Regulations, Background Checks

Raven-Symoné became a child entertainer at just 16 months old, starring in shows like the The Cosby Show at age 3, and leading Disney Channel classics like The Cheetah Girls and That’s So Raven as a teenager. As discussion around child labor laws escalate within entertainment, Raven, now 38, says she was unaware of sexual predators lurking on set and was never asked to take a sexual harassment course as a young entertainer.

“As long as the child comes to set, and they know their lines and they do their marks and there’s no visible bruising on themselves, no one’s checking,” Symone tells Rolling Stone. “And there’s more than just physical abuse out there. I’ve met it, I’ve seen it. I know it.”

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