The year was 1985 and 18-year-old actress Claudia Wells was making her big-screen debut as Jennifer Parker, Marty Mcfly’s girlfriend in Stephen Spielberg’s blockbuster classic Back to the Future. Claudia tells CBN, “I’m excited, I finally got a movie! Because it got down to me and two other girls, and Michael J. Fox, I was excited about him because he’s so cute.” While the movie catapulted her to international fame, Claudia would soon fade into obscurity… By the time 1982 rolled around, two years later, little had changed for the budding star. Only now, she became bulimic, taking up to 60 laxatives a day. It was then she was cast in the tv series, “Herbie the Love Bug,” starring Dean Jones. Claudia became friends with the late actor and his wife Lori. “He talked to me about the hole that was inside of me, and if I don’t fill it with God, and if I don’t fill it with Jesus Christ, it’ll get filled with men and drugs and problems,” said Claudia. “So, I said the sinner’s prayer with Dean at lunch one day and I became saved. Not really understanding anything that that meant, but God heard me…
