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Chad Michael Murray is opening up about his personal struggle with anxiety at the height of his fame.
In the 2000s, Murray starred in the following films: gilmore girls and One Tree Hill and, cinderella story Starring Lindsay Lohan and Jamie Lee Curtis Freaky Friday. new the cut According to the profile, the actor said at the time that he was “much more fragile than I have ever worn.”
“Everyone starts saying, ‘Yeah,'” he said. “But I was walking around really heartbroken.”
He recalled the moment when he was 23 and couldn’t leave his hotel room for an event in Miami. “I felt like the world was closing in on me. I was having an anxiety attack,” he explained. the cut That was the beginning of Murray’s experience. Agoraphobia, or the fear of getting into a place or situation from which it might be difficult to escape, which he currently manages to live with. The timing coincided with his divorce. One Tree Hill Co-star Sophia Bush. The former couple married in April 2005, but divorced five months later.
Murray revealed that he found himself at a crossroads in his career when he turned 25. “I woke up feeling unsettled. I didn’t like the direction my life was going in,” he said. After a deeply religious childhood, the actor decided to turn to religion again after abandoning it in Hollywood.
“I went to church and got a cross tattooed on my left wrist. I decided to let my faith move me,” he recalled. Murray believes that the combination of therapy and religion not only contributed to his personal growth, but also led him to turn to hobbies such as painting and reading, which led to his interest in writing. .
Murray published a graphic novel everlast in 2011 new york times Bestselling author Heather Graham writes romantic thriller american drifter He told the magazine that he plans to write a third novel “soon.”
