Ronan Farrow

Prosperous.

Right, a kind of fancy suburban family.

His mother is a dermatologist, very well connected.

His father is a kind of housing activist.

He often, and particularly on the sexuality question,

He'll even cop to the lack of reflection.

He's in the piece saying, well, yes, I got beat up this time.

I don't want to talk about it because I think people will see it as me playing for sympathy and being manipulative.

So he's internalized some of these critiques.

And also he sincerely, in that moment and later when we were fact-checking this piece, just really emphasized, I want to be dismissive of that.

This did not define me.

And when I would ask him some of these questions, you know, what is your experience of this?

Have you grappled with this in therapy, for instance?

Do you do therapy?

You know, he recites a lot of the kind of conventional West Coast wisdom about, like, breath work and said he has tried and liked therapy vaguely.

But it was very clear that amidst this stratospheric rise and a lot of these difficulties and this...

would be for most of us, I think, painful criticism, there has not been a process of really looking inward.

Of reckoning.

That is my take, having, you know, asked him these questions.

He sort of is breezily dismissive.