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The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett

E224: Lucy Hale Opens Up For The First Time About Eating Disorders, Relationships & Addiction

The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett

FlightStory

Society & Culture, Business, Education

4.613.2K Ratings

🗓️ 23 February 2023

⏱️ 90 minutes

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Summary

Lucy Hale has been on your screen for over half her life. Leaving her home of Memphis, Tennessee at 15 years old Lucy came to LA with dreams of fame, achieving this with her breakout role as Aria on the smash hit Pretty Little Liars and starring in films and TV shows ever since.

This is the biography of Lucy you know, but what you haven’t heard before is that whilst Lucy’s career may have been Pretty, her life outside it was not. Sacrificing some of the most precious years of her life for success, Lucy has had to undergo an inner journey to rediscover herself outside of her work and fame.

In this intimate and honest conversation, Lucy lets listeners into the previous hidden areas of her life. Discussing everything from addiction, eating disorders, the perils of the entertainment industry and arriving at self love and acceptance.


Topics:

  • Early context
  • Acting was my way out
  • Your grandmother
  • Your mother
  • Life between 16-19
  • Your eating disorder
  • Your addiction, getting sober
  • Pretty Little Liars
  • The darkest times
  • Would you have been happier not acting?
  • Relationships
  • Life after Pretty Little Liars
  • What are you still working on
  • The last guest's question



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Transcript

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0:00.0

You have to go to a dark place sometimes to like get to that point.

0:05.0

Ooh.

0:07.2

Um...

0:12.7

We are so excited to have Lucy Hill.

0:15.2

She's been in the spotlight since she was just a kid.

0:17.1

Stars on the hit show, pretty little liars in now.

0:19.2

I'm a movie star.

0:20.1

How much you were expecting.

0:21.6

You might be the first real deep conversation I've had.

0:24.8

It's dark, disgusting, and scary.

0:27.7

I wish I could go back and tell my six-year-old self about a love girl we're gonna go through.

0:32.1

Lucy Hill!

0:33.3

Lucy Hill!

0:35.0

Lucy Hill, everybody.

0:36.2

We have those successes in life.

0:37.7

We have an assumption that it'll fix a bunch of stuff.

0:39.9

What didn't it fix?

0:41.2

I struggled with the eating disorder because society makes it really freaking hard

0:45.6

to like the way you look.

0:47.6

I hated myself so much that I couldn't even give it basic needs like food.

0:51.9

I did not feel worthy of the success or the career or the people in my life

0:57.3

and then the coping mechanisms were like incredibly self-destructive.

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