In his 2022 memoir, “Radical Love: Learning to Accept Yourself and Others,” Zachary Levi opened up about his painful past, including his traumatic childhood, and how he suffered from low self-esteem, anxiety and depression for years. Speaking to Elizabeth Vargas on her Heart of the Matter podcast, he said, “I didn’t realize that I was struggling with these things until I was 37, about five years ago, and I had a complete mental breakdown.”
After growing up in a household rife with “lots and lots of unhealthy, toxic behavior,” Levi picked up a few bad habits to help him ease his pain. “I was running to lots of other things, whether it was sex or drugs or booze or things to distract me from, to numb myself from the pain that I was running away from most of my life.” In the book, via CBN News, Levi noted he felt like he wasn’t living up to his own expectations for himself. “Ultimately, like most of my life, I felt like a failure,” he wrote.
In 2017, he finally hit rock bottom. “I would say if suicide was climbing a ten-rung ladder, I was at rung nine.” Levi admitted to Vargas that wasn’t the first time he had those thoughts, but after moving to Austin, he didn’t have a support network in place. These days, he focuses on prayer, meditation, and the power of positive thinking. “Our minds are so powerful, but they are so easily, so easily hijacked,” he said.
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