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Judd Nelson

My Brat Pack buddies and I didn't exactly handle celebrity very well. Success at an early age is far more difficult to handle than failure.

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Judd Nelson is saying that he and his friends from the Brat Pack struggled with how to deal with being famous when they were young. He believes that becoming successful early in life is harder to manage emotionally than going through tough times or failing.

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