Penn Badgley Recalled The “Struggle” Of Being On “Gossip Girl,” And His Comments Are Super Honest

“There is not enough separation, I think, for anybody,” Penn added. “You’re seen as this person, you’re called their name out on the street. You also constantly have to be that person at work, and I was 20. I was 21, 22, so I didn’t have the emotional maturity to understand, to differentiate myself just in terms of self-worth.”

“What people seemed to think of Dan seemed to be what people thought of me,” he said.