The Tragic Story Of Tara Reid

With so much negative press for Tara Reid’s career in the early 2000s, the reality was that it was on life support. Rather than accept that fact, Reid tried to resuscitate it with a new reality: reality television. Reid took her show on the road in 2005 with the short-lived “Taradise,” an E! docuseries that featured Reid jet-setting off to exotic locales like Italy, France, and Greece, where she dined and danced the night away, cavorting and club-hopping her way to cancellation after just one season. The show featured some spectacularly alcohol-fueled, cringe-worthy moments and ultimately did Reid’s reputation more harm than good. As she told BuzzFeed, “That’s where, really, I think the party girl image came,” she said. 

Reid didn’t see “Taradise” as a trainwreck waiting to happen, telling BuzzFeed, “I didn’t realize that would actually hurt me. I thought it would be fun.” Hindsight, however, is 20/20, and looking back in an interview with Time, she said it seemed like she had nothing left to lose. “If I was staying home and I’m not gonna get the meetings anyway, then what’s gonna happen?” Reid says of her past. “You feel like you’re in jail. You’re not going to get the parts. You’re trying to be on your best behavior and no one respects it. So you might as well just travel the world, meet new people, have fun.”