

The paparazzi finds out where she is and leak the story so she sneaks to Eli's house to apologize for lying, both about her father and about not being Claudia. Everything was going great until Debbie tries to blackmail Morgan. Morgan goes to the fair with Eli and Morgan begins liking him more. Morgan's best friend from when she was in Hollywood, Marissa, comes to visit her in Indiana, where they go to a club. Eli asks Morgan on a date (partly out of pity) to the fair and she happily accepts. Eli is worried, as Morgan drastically exaggerated and added several negative details about her supposed "father", telling Morgan to alert him if he shows up. The next day when Eli comes over to tutor Morgan and she, wanting desperately to capture Eli's attention, makes up a story about her father, borrowing a plot from one of her movies. Soon she drinks a bottle of vodka that she found in the cupboard.

After this discovery she comes to the misguided theory that Sam wanted her to leave Hollywood so he could marry her mom. Instead of her mother, she gets her new stepfather on the phone. When she gets home, she calls her mother for help. Morgan is upset so she leaves early, without telling Emily. Emily invites Morgan to a sleepover where Debbie, who likes Eli, tells her to stay away from him. Morgan takes a liking to Emily, Eli's sister, and they become good friends. Eli introduces Claudia to his sister and her friends. She initially does not fit in with anyone, until she meets Eli and they became friends. With a new appearance and no money, Morgan enters a suburban high school with a bad attitude. Morgan is camouflaged into Claudia Miller and given a new hairstyle, and suddenly, Morgan, albeit unwillingly, blends in with her peers who do not own televisions or read magazines. After she collapses outside of a Hollywood nightclub, Morgan's mother sends her to live in the wilds of Fort Wayne, Indiana, with her Aunt Trudy. Teenage actress Morgan Carter is a Hollywood princess, until the day that her hard-partying ways get the best of her. It premiered on August 9, 2008, on Lifetime. The film stars Joanna "JoJo" Levesque and Valerie Bertinelli. True Confessions of a Hollywood Starlet is a 2008 American comedy-drama television film directed by Tim Matheson, based on the young adult novel of the same name by author Lola Douglas.
