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The tragedy of Edward Furlong: From teen romance with his own teacher to decades of hard living, how Terminator 2 star with the world at his feet lost everything... and why he was 'destined for drug addiction'
As John Connor he was mankind's last hope, a messianic figure charged with freeing humanity from the vice-like grip of robotic tyranny in a post-apocalyptic, war-ravaged world.
Aged just 13, Furlong had no acting credits to his name when he was cast as a wayward, teenage Connor alongside Arnold Schwarzenegger's iconic T-800 Terminator - a killing machine transported from the year 2029 to protect our future leader from peril. Despite an auspicious start, the young actor's career nosedived following the 1998 release of hard-hitting drama American History X, in which he played high-school student Danny alongside Ed Norton's reformed racist skinhead, Derek Vinyard. Furlong (pictured left in Terminator 2, and right with Jeff Bridges in 1993's American Heart) said his descent into substance abuse began as he felt like he didn't fit in or know how to manage his money as a famous child actor
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