Raven-Symoné Throws Shade at Child Stars, Explains How She Stayed Out of the Tabloids

Former child star is featured on Where Are They Now?

By Lily Harrison Oct 02, 2014 9:20 PMTags
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Raven-Symoné is giving Oprah Winfrey a piece of her mind.

The former child star opens up about how she's maintained a private life away from the media spotlight during this Sunday's Where Are They Now? show on OWN.

"You were a child star, but you managed to stay out of the tabloids," Winfrey began during the rare sit-down chat with the multicolor-haired actress. "How were you able to do that?"

The 28-year-old gave an honest, candid answer while simultaneously throwing serious shade at troubled child stars like Lindsay Lohan and Amanda Bynes, to name a few.

"There's a few answers…My parents taught me to keep my private life private to the best of my ability," she explained.

"They showed me out there all the role models that I could turn into and what I want from myself in the future and seeing all of the statistics [with] child stars going off the edge."

She continued, "And what I've learned? It's unnecessary to go to the world's most popular restaurant when you have a scandal on your head and then get mad when someone is going to take a picture of you. That's your fault, boo boo. Stay in the house."

Oh. Snap.

Her sentiments echo tweets from earlier this year where she vented to fans about keeping her personal life out of the spotlight after posting a cryptic tweet about gay marriage.

"I'm living my PERSONAL life the way I'm happiest. I'm not one, in my 25 year career to disclose who I'm dating. And I shall not start now," she tweeted at the time.

"My sexual orientation is mine, and the person I'm datings to know. I'm not one for a public display of my life."