Rainn Wilson isn’t leaving his issues at “The Office.”
The comedian actor, who performed the hilariously awkward Dwight Schrute on the NBC sitcom, recounted his nightmarish childhood on “The Diary of a CEO” podcast this week. (Watch it beneath.)
Wilson stated he was deserted by his mom as a toddler, whisked away to stay within the jungles of Nicaragua by his father at age 3, after which endured abuse amid a loveless family together with his father and stepmother.
“I experienced a lot of pain in my life, and a lot of suffering with anxiety and depression and addiction,” he instructed host Steven Bartlett. “As I dove into recovery and the therapeutic process, I can pin that squarely on a lot of gross imbalances and trauma that I suffered as a child.”
Pressed by the host to elaborate on the abuse, Wilson declined.
However he put a constructive spin on his bleak upbringing.
“This is the curious thing, I’m grateful for it,” Wilson stated. “Because, you know what, if I had a happy, well-balanced childhood, I don’t know what my career would have been. But it certainly wouldn’t have been an actor. And it certainly wouldn’t have been a successful actor.”
“These confluences of pain and difficulty and abuse and neglect, they caused me a lot of suffering later on, but at the same time they caused me to be driven, to try and be the best version of myself…and they made me funny.”
Wilson just lately mentioned how he felt unfulfilled on the peak of his fame on the beloved sitcom, however his interview right here went in one other revealing course. Quick-forward to 2:20 for the section on Wilson’s childhood:
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