As Badgley—who admitted there was a time when he “didn’t want to be in television”—explained, that darkness stemmed from “nothing short of a spiritual crisis.”
“Like anybody who experiences some degree of fame and wealth,” he stated, “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.”
And he felt lost. “I was never anything that I would define as suicidal at all, but I was certainly in a despair,” Badgley continued. “It had to do with ‘Do I matter? Do I matter? Does anything matter?’ These questions do inform how we feel. The answer that I came upon was ‘Yes.’ I think we all have to come to that. I don’t know how you could come to ‘No’ and be happy, so we all have to come to that ‘Yes’ somehow. Probably repeatedly.”