Lawrence Locker

But she says that's where it ends.

Let's talk about people's personality types and what kinds of personalities might be drawn to worship a celebrity a little bit more than the average person.

What is vulnerable narcissism?

I feel like I know what those two words are.

But what do psychologists mean when they say someone is a vulnerable narcissist?

Okay, well, let's slam these two concepts together.

Someone who has or scores high in vulnerable narcissism and someone who worships a celebrity in an unhealthy level.

Parasocial relationships.

That's when we feel like we know someone who's famous, even though they have no idea who we are.

Talk to me about how those two things collide, celebrity worship and vulnerable narcissism.

Is that illusion that you have a relationship with a celebrity?

Is that the main ingredient here that can make things go so wrong?

This feeling like they're your friend?

Yeah.

Are we at a time where this sort of thing is at an all time high because of social media?

We just didn't have a way to like be in contact or feel like we connected with our celebrity people that we worship.

Maybe like 20 years ago, we might've seen them on TV when we went into the movies, but not like on our feed all the time.

Who knows?

If you're listening, Ed Sheeran, please write back, my friend.

But look, celebrity worship, or at least, sorry, celebrity fandom is mostly harmless fun for people.