Will Friedle, known for his role in “Boy Meets World,” revealed shocking experiences from his childhood acting days.
He shared how he bought cigarettes and porn magazines during auditions in New York City to sell to friends back home.
Friedle also discussed his struggle with anxiety, recalling his first panic attack on set and the impact it had on his life and career.
“I tell people my story, and they think I’m lying, or they think my parents had a serious problem,” Friedle said.
“My manager would pick me up most of the time, and I would walk the streets at 11 years old. I would go to my audition … These stories are awful,” he said.
“I started smoking at a very young age, so I would go, and I would buy my cigarettes. I would buy a couple porn magazines ’cause I knew that I could sell them for way more money to my friends back in Connecticut, so I could jack up the price.”
“So I would stop at the kiosk, they would look at me and say, ‘Well you’re 11, so of course. Here are cigarettes and porn.'”
“I tell my parents these stories now, and they are retroactively mortified that any of this ever happened, but I loved it.”
“I’m in the middle of a take and I have my first panic attack,” he recalled. “They used the take, so I can actually watch my first panic attack ever. I’m the only one who knows it. I thought I was dying.”
“You have to be dying because there is no other explanation for why, all of a sudden, your body and mind is doing this to you.”
“You see one season I’m really, really thin, and then I come back, and I’ve put on like 30 pounds, and it’s because of the medication I had to take.”
“Everything is different. The colors are different; food tastes different; acting is different. You are a different person – human being than you were the nanosecond before you had the panic attack,” he said. “And you’re different then for the rest of your life.”
The revelation sheds light on the challenges and pressures faced by child actors and the long-term effects of anxiety disorders.
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