“I wasn’t okay, and I didn’t know how to talk about that with anyone.”
Elliot Pagehas opened up about some of the darker days of navigating fame as a closeted actor.
“I would berate myself for it.
Elliot Page.Mike Coppola/Getty Images
I was living the life and my dreams were coming true, and all that was happening.
“I struggled with food,” he continues.
“Intense depression, anxiety, severe panic attacks.
I couldn’t function.”
“And they took me in a big rush to one of those fancy stores on Bloor Street.
They had me wear a dress, and .
.that was that.And then all theJunopress, all the photo shoots Michael Cera was in slacks and sneakers.
I look back at the photos, and I’m like .
Page acknowledges the significance of teenage girls responding to the character of Juno.
“It related to my queerness and my transness,” Page writes.
So you’re benefiting greatly from this character that connected with people, and then you do that.
It’s gross.”
“I wish I could go back and experience it now,” he adds.
“As me.”
Read Page’s full essay forEsquirehere.
