in the fame department after Gossip Girl first premiered in the mid-aughts. Obviously, this was only heightened after tabloids caught wind of his .
Stressful as this period was, Badgley said that dating Lively may have saved him from going down a destructive path. Plenty of young stars from this era have been open about dealing with substance abuse (, , , etc.), but Badgley said in an interview with that he never really did.
And he gives Lively some credit for that. “To be honest, I never struggled with substance,” the You actor said. “Blake didn’t drink, and I think our relationship in some ways saved me from forcing myself to go down that road.”Badgley isn't completely inexperienced when it comes to drugs.
In a 2020 "Actors on Actors" interview, his former Gossip Girl costar Chace Crawford asked if he'd researched LSD to prepare for a scene in You in which his character Joe takes the hallucinogenic drug. “In my early twenties, I did plenty of research,” he quipped.But instead of leaning into drug-use when dealing with a dark period, he told Variety he tried traveling, Buddhism, and, “a lot of physical techniques, from breathing to meditation.” Eventually, Penn Badgley said in the article, he found the Baha’i faith. “I thought to myself, ‘If I really want to participate in the betterment of the world, I think that I should become a Baha’i.'”Who knew the troublemaking teens on Gossip Girl were so responsible in real life?By Elizabeth LoganBy Abby GardnerBy Kathleen WalshBy Elizabeth LoganMore from GlamourSee More Stories© 2023 Condé Nast.
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