United Kingdom, March 7 -- Elijah Wood's mom was prepared to end his child stardom if it "ruined" him.

Debra Krause prioritised raising Elijah as a "good human" over his acting work - which began aged eight when he appeared in 63-year-old singer Paula Abdul's music video for her 1988 track, Forever Your Girl.

Asked how he coped as a successful child star, Elijah - who went on to appear in Back to the Future Part II, Forever Young, and The Ice Storm as a youngster - told The Times newspaper: "The person I credit is my mother. She was more concerned with raising a good human rather than how my career was going, and would have taken me out of the industry if she thought it might ruin her child.

"And I don't know how people who have overni...