dana plato did it because she needed to. money, and she needed the exposure. >> narrator: instead of leading to calls from major studios, dana's pictorial led to calls from the adult film industry. fed up with hollywood, plato fled l.a. determined to make a fresh start. >> brown: by the time dana was 25, she really decided that she wanted to get her life back together, so she decides that she's going to go to vegas and try to get her name and herand face back out there, but she had absolutely no luck. so she ended up working for a dry-cleaning service for $5.75 an hour. >> narrator: alone in vegas, addicted to pills, and unable to pay the rent, plato became desperate. >> brown: dana hit her absolute lowest point in 1991. she was in really dire straits, and she decides to rob a video store. the thing is, she was a member of the video store, and she has a famous face. so the store clerk calls 911 saying, "hey, i think kimberly from "diff'rent strokes" just tried to rob us." >> anchor: police were called to the scene and were c