Tara Reid Shares The Real Reason She Left Hollywood

Sadly, along with her newfound fame, the actress lost control of her narrative. As Reid told E! Online, "To sell tabloids, what do you have to have? You have to pick a certain person that you're going to pretty much destroy so they sell tabloids every day. They almost make a cartoon character out of you and they keep going with it."

She added in the revealing new interview, "It was tough, because you went from, 'OK, this is great, this is fun!' to 'Oh my gosh, what are they saying?!' It started hurting my feelings."

By 2018, after "Sharknado 6," Reid consciously uncoupled from Hollywood, explaining to E!, "When I took a break, it was because I needed to for myself. I needed to get reinspired in a certain way. I traveled a lot and worked on myself a lot, to get more confidence in myself where, sometimes, when you've been kind of bullied and put down, it's like you get a bruise and you have to heal that bruise" (via IMDb).

Now, Reid is working on a comeback, with many projects in the works. Ultimately she says, "It's funny because people will bully you and shame you and go, 'Oh, she's never going to come back or she's never going to do this,' and then all of a sudden, as soon as you come back, they go, 'I knew she could do it. I knew she'd come back!'"