by Lauren GarafanoBuzzFeedBuzzFeed StaffI'm an Associate Editor on BuzzFeed's Pop Culture team who spends my days fangirling over all my favorite TV shows and movies. This post deals with sensitive topics like child abuse, sexual assault, and substance abuse. Read with caution and take care of yourself ❤️. 1. In her memoir, Bottom of the Pyramid, Nia Sioux shared several inappropriate comments allegedly made by her dance teacher, Abby Lee Miller. One encounter, Nia recalls, is Abby criticising her hair, which was in braids at the time. "Abby told me that I needed to fix my hair because it looked awful," Nia wrote. "She said - on camera, no less - 'It's like a log coming out of the side of her head.'' And in another instance that wasn't caught on camera, Nia claims Abby asked, "Don't you just wish you had white-girl hair?" Imeh Akpanudosen / Getty Images Nia also wrote of several instances where Abby allegedly made rude comments about Nia's body. "She would say, 'Well, you know your people have flat feet,'" Nia wrote. "This struck me as ignorant; I know plenty of Black dancers with perfectly arched feet! Yet, despite the fact that she actually believed this ridiculous generalization was true, she'd threaten punishment for my perceived shortcoming. 'If you don't point that foot,' she'd warn, 'I'm gonna come out there and break it.'""Comments came directly from Abby and trickled down to some of the girls and their moms, criticizing my thighs, my butt, and even my muscular legs," she added. "At one point in Season 6, Abby talked about the size of my thighs in the dressing room," she continued. "She implied that I was fat because I was not working hard enough. This was just one of many comments Abby made to create an illusion that I was lazy or just not strong as a dancer. Viewers and some of my castmates ate that up without question." 2. In their book, Semi-Well-Adjusted Despite Literally Everything, Alyson Stoner wrote about how money "went straight through" them. Later on in their career, they realized that there were several discrepancies in their bank account. An account that should have been over $1 million was actually at $0. Their mother had taken "several thousand" dollars from the account over the years. "With toppling up-front expenses, it felt like money moved straight through me," they wrote. "The more I earned, the more people took, and the more things cost." Albert L. Ortega / WireImage "A partial list of expenses could include a $3,000-$12,000 monthly retainer for a publicist; a $6,000-$10,000 monthly retainer for a fashion stylist and glam team (unfortunately mandatory for the quantity and high-profile nature of events); $2,000 in monthly voice lessons; $500 in monthly dance training; $500 for updated headshots; $75 per audition for acting coaching (and I went on an average of three to four auditions per week); and so on," they wrote, also explaining that their team "took approximately 35 percent in commissions" and "another 35 percent" went to taxes." 3. In her memoir, True You, Janet Jackson recalled being told she "needed to slim down" as a 10-year-old starring on the sitcom Good Times. At the time, she'd also started going through puberty and was asked to "bind [her] breasts." Michael Ochs Archives / Getty Images "In 1977, at age 10, I was cast on the TV sitcom Good Times. My character was Penny, an abused child in desperate need of love," she wrote. "I really didn't want to do the show. I didn't want to be away from my family. And being on television only added to my negative feelings about my body."She continued: "Before production began, I was told two things: I was fat and needed to slim down, and because I was beginning to develop, I needed to bind my breasts. In both cases the message was devastating - my body was wrong. The message was also clear - to be successful, I had to change the way I looked.""'It means we need to tie down your breasts so you appear flat-chested,' the wardrobe woman explained," she wrote. "So, each day of shooting, I went through the ordeal of having wide strips of gauze tied across my chest to hide the natural shape of my breasts. It was uncomfortable and humiliating." 4. In her memoir, unSweetined, Jodie Sweetin recalled dealing with her drug and alcohol addiction as a teenager. She revealed that she was "high as a kite" after snorting meth in a bathroom stall during the 2004 premiere of Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen's movie New York Minute. She also said in 1996 she had gotten so drunk at Candace Cameron Bure's wedding that she vomited and had to be carried out. Ron Galella, Ltd. / Ron Galella Collection via Getty Images She wrote, "I was pulling off the deceit. It was hard for people to believe I was doing that much drugs. I look at photos from that event, and I didn't even look strung out!"Then, speaking about the wedding she added, "I probably had two bottles of wine, and I was only 14. That first drink gave me the self-confidence I had been searching for my