Madelaine Petsch

But I was given the option if I wanted a sick day.

You haven't taken one this semester.

Do you want to stay at home?

Like there's a lot of trust involved.

And I think that made me a very trusting person, which also has been tough for me in a city like L.A.

Yeah.

So there's a lot of like tough in lots of different cities as an adult.

You know, I think there's been really great positives that have made me like really chase and crave autonomy in my career as a woman in Hollywood.

And there's also been things that

I think when you're a kid and you learn anything your parents love, you're going to naturally go away from.

So there's parts of me where it's like in my personal life, I don't want to make decisions.

I'll call my friends and be like, where do you want to go to dinner?

I'm not making a decision.

someone else to make the decision yeah i think um you know in a lot of ways i was very blessed by that because i for the most part didn't really rebel against decision but there was a period of time in my life where i was like very rebellious when i moved to la and i had no discipline and no format and no no like real structure to my life um but i think that was like a necessary evil for me to conquer to then decide what version of myself i want to be right

My mom created a dialogue with me where, like, nothing was wrong.

I could tell her everything.

There was never any judgment.

And it was always, like, very safe.

It was almost like having a built-in therapist.

She would, like, remove bias sometimes, honestly.