Motherhood Quote by Linda Blair

A child asking for the ordeal to stop, then immediately being yanked back into it by a phone call: Linda Blair compresses an entire show-business tragedy into a bleak punchline. The line break between “I’d had enough of it” and “right about the time” does the real work. It’s the snap of the trap closing. She’s not describing fame as a gift; she’s describing it as timing you can’t outrun.

The intent feels twofold: to reclaim authorship over a narrative that’s been told about her for decades, and to expose how industrial the machinery is. “Possible for this to end” isn’t teenage melodrama; it’s a kid naming burnout before the culture had a word for it. Then comes the cruel coincidence of “The Exorcist” interview, a reminder that the public doesn’t consume the person, it consumes the role. Blair’s career becomes a loop: the film that made her also becomes the apparatus that keeps calling.

The subtext is sharper: even her most vulnerable moment is met, not with quiet, but with content. The interview request reads like the system’s reflex - monetize the wound, extend the brand, keep the face attached to the myth. By framing it as an “Exorcist” interview, not a general press obligation, she signals the specific curse: she isn’t allowed to age into another identity.

Culturally, it lands as an early, unvarnished account of what we now call child-star exploitation, delivered with the weary clarity of someone who’s had to narrate her own possession story for strangers.