{"id":1849659,"date":"2023-02-16T12:08:14","date_gmt":"2023-02-16T17:08:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1849659"},"modified":"2023-02-16T12:10:38","modified_gmt":"2023-02-16T17:10:38","slug":"penn-badgley-recalls-being-quite-unhappy-with-fame-and-success-says-blake-lively-relationship-saved-him","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/penn-badgley-recalls-being-quite-unhappy-with-fame-and-success-says-blake-lively-relationship-saved-him\/","title":{"rendered":"Penn Badgley Recalls Being \u2018Quite Unhappy\u2019 With Fame And Success, Says Blake Lively Relationship \u2018Saved\u2019 Him"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">32<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fpenn-badgley-recalls-being-quite-unhappy-with-fame-and-success-says-blake-lively-relationship-saved-him%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1849659&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47-->\n<p>Actor <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/celebrities\">Penn Badgley<\/a> recently reflected on becoming famous and how it didn\u2019t make him happy, plus how his ex-girlfriend Blake Lively helped him navigate that difficult time.<\/p>\n<p>Badgley and Lively starred on the hit CW teen drama \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/television\">Gossip Girl<\/a>\u201d In real life, they had an on-again\/off-again relationship. The 36-year old <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/entertainment\">Actor<\/a> Their romance made him famous. \u201cBeyond our relationship, I don\u2019t think anybody was going to be interested in me publicly,\u201d Variety heard the actor tell it during a recent ahref=&#8221;https:\/\/variety.com\/2023\/tv\/features\/penn-badgley-you-season-4-blake-lively-surviving-gossip-girl-1235521142\/&#8221;>interview<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The \u201cYou\u201d Star described star&#8217;s rapid rise to fame as \u201cfun and fast-paced,\u201d But also contains a \u201cdark undercurrent that would bottom out in my later 20s.\u201d Badgley clarified that the issues were not drug-related.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTo be honest, I never struggled with substance,\u201d The publication was informed by him. \u201cBlake didn\u2019t drink, and I think our relationship in some ways saved me from forcing myself to go down that road.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Badgley, however, described inner turmoil as \u201cnothing short of a spiritual crisis.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLike anybody who experiences some degree of fame and wealth, I was presented with the universal truth that not only does it not make your life better or easier, it actually can greatly complicate things, and make you quite unhappy,\u201d Variety heard from him.<\/p>\n<p>The actor then went on to share some of those feelings.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI was never anything that I would define as suicidal at all, but I was certainly in a despair,\u201d Badgley continued. \u201cIt had to do with \u2018Do I matter? Do I matter? Does anything matter?\u2019 These questions do inform how we feel. The answer that I came upon was \u2018Yes.\u2019 I think we all have to come to that. I don\u2019t know how you could come to \u2018No\u2019 and be happy, so we all have to come to that \u2018Yes\u2019 somehow. Probably repeatedly.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Eventually, the actor embraced the Bah\u00e1\u2019i faith, a monotheistic religion developed in Iran and parts of the Middle East. Badgley then described how his new faith had changed his outlook.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI was thinking a lot about social change, social action, social transformation \u2014 but also my own transformation, my own change,\u201d he said, describing the tenets of Bah\u00e1\u2019i as \u201cthe most committed pathway from individual transformation to social transformation.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI thought to myself, \u2018If I really want to participate in the betterment of the world, I think that I should become a Baha\u2019i,\u2019\u201d He said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Actor Penn Badgley recently reflected on becoming famous and how it didn\u2019t make him happy, plus how his ex-girlfriend Blake Lively helped him navigate that difficult time. Badgley and Lively starred together on the hit CW teen drama \u201cGossip Girl\u201d and had an on-again, off-again relationship in real life. 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