""All that is is people just being like, 'No, actually you're wrong about that; no, actually there's something you haven't perceived in that actually; no, you're actually stupid,'" he says. "It's like, 'My God, guys, it's a YouTube short of a man doing a backflip.'""
""It was a pretty deeply moving experience," says Badgley of writing his chapters, which range from his years as a child actor in Hollywood through to his breakup with his teenage girlfriend who later died due to the impact of alcoholism. "I learned a lot just as a writer. I mean, I had to. I have a great work ethic when I'm on set. I'm very professional and can work kind of ceaselessly for long, long, long hours, months on end, years on end. This is the kind of work I hadn't done.""
""I gained 20 pounds," he says. "I've since lost it, but it was a cold, cold winter. My wife then got pregnant with twins and had tough symptoms in her first trimester. She was so nauseous, and our child care had fallen out for our 5-year-old. It was a tough convergence of many things.""
Penn Badgley no longer uses X, describing the platform as full of hostile nitpicking on trivial content. His portrayals as Dan Humphrey and Joe Goldberg have defined aspects of millennial television and provoked questions about attraction to violent protagonists. Badgley co-hosts the Podcrushed podcast with Nava Kavelin and Sophie Ansari, focusing on middle-school drama, and released a debut book collecting essays about adolescence. Writing the essays proved deeply moving and educational, covering his child-actor years and a painful teenage breakup that ended in death related to alcoholism. The creative process coincided with personal challenges, yet books remained grounding.
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