The child actor who famously played the young Anakin Skywalker in Star Wars: The Phantom Menace has been arrested after a car chase that ended with him plowing his vehicle into a tree.

Jake Lloyd, now 26, was driving in Charleston, South Carolina, when Sheriff's deputies began pursuing him.

According to deputies, Lloyd began passing cars on the double yellow line and was driving recklessly, at high speeds.

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Jake Lloyd, now 26, was driving in Charleston, South Carolina, when Sheriff's deputies began pursuing him and he plowed his car through a fence and into a wooded area, said police

Lloyd was just 10 years old when he shot to fame in the 1999 Star Wars prequel but he retired soon afterwards saying it had made his childhood a 'living hell'

The chase went on for miles, even continuing in another county, before Lloyd lost control of his car and ran off the road, reports TMZ.

Lloyd's vehicle plowed through a fence and into a wooded area where it struck several trees, said police.

He was arrested for reckless driving, failure to stop, resisting arrest and driving without a license and remained in police custody as of noon EST.

Lloyd was just 10 years old when he shot to instant fame after securing the iconic role of Anakin Skywalker in the highly anticipated, but poorly received, 1999 prequel to the original Star Wars trilogy.

Following his brush with fame, Lloyd quit acting altogether claiming that the role had made his childhood a 'living hell.'

Lloyd, who was arrested for reckless driving, failure to stop, resisting arrest and driving without a license, complained that other children were mean to him after the release of Star Wars: The Phantom Menace

'Other children were really mean to me,' he said in a 2012 interview. 'They would make the sound of the light saber every time they saw me. It was totally mad.'

Lloyd said at one point he was doing around 60 interviews a day.

'My entire school life was really a living hell — and I had to do up to 60 interviews a day.'

Lloyd felt so much anger towards the George Lucas directed film that he destroyed all of his Star Wars memorabilia, and only reprised his role as Anakin for five video games.

'I've learned to hate it when the cameras are pointed at me,' he said.

Lloyd, whose mother is an entertainment agent, also admitted in the interview with Scifitv.com that he doesn't like watching the film anymore and he blames George for that.

'When you have something like that there's a lot of expectations for it to meet the standards of the public and I don't think George did that,' he said.

'For me to go back and watch it now would be kind of creepy.'