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Winona Ryder is reflecting on her infamous 2001 arrest for shoplifting. The Stranger Things actress, 52, admitted the headline-making scandal — where she was charged with taking clothes worth $5,500 without paying from a Saks Fifth Avenue — profoundly affected her Hollywood career. “I checked out,” she revealed of the tumultuous period of her life in a recent interview. “I think I just checked out.” Following the odd incident, Ryder was convicted of grand theft and shoplifting and was sentenced to three years of probation, fines and had to complete community service. In the aftermath, her stat…

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