Tyler Blackburn: Healing, Self-Worth, and Asking for Help
The Squeeze
Taylor Lautner
4.6 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 11 March 2026
⏱️ 62 minutes
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Summary
In this week’s episode, Tay sits down with actor and singer Tyler Blackburn! Tyler reflects on how he first got started in acting, the audition process that led to his role on Pretty Little Liars, and what it was like navigating sudden fame and attention from the show. He opens up about growing up being bullied, his struggles with body image, and the journey of coming out with his sexuality. Tyler also shares about the dark place he found himself in last year, what ultimately brought him to that breaking point, and the moment he realized he needed to ask his family for help. He also talks about how his definition of self-worth today looks very different than it did ten years ago, what it takes to learn to love and celebrate himself again, and what he’s most proud of in himself today!
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| 0:30.6 | podcast is a dear media production i'm nothing i don't have those things i'm nothing i'm already |
| 0:35.2 | nothing and it caused a true spiral. |
| 0:38.0 | What got you to that breaking point? Was there something that kind of triggered it or were you just like, I'm done? |
| 0:43.6 | It's a little bit of a layered story. After a couple of years, I started really manifesting physical problems. |
| 0:49.4 | And so I started having health issues, gut health issues, crazy vertigo. And then I found out my spine was broken. |
| 0:56.2 | I don't know how. I had to have full spine surgery. |
| 0:58.6 | I was trying all these different avenues. Nothing was happening. |
| 1:01.1 | My love life was tumultuous. I felt really alone. I was really cruel to myself. |
| 1:06.5 | I look at it almost now, like me as a spiritual being, was trying to, like, wake me up. |
| 1:12.6 | And it got really wild. |
| 1:13.7 | And I realized that I wasn't making the kind of money I had been making. |
| 1:17.2 | If I don't have the money and the nice things, what do I have? |
| 1:21.1 | Yeah. |
| 1:21.5 | Who am I? |
| 1:22.2 | Last year, I had to ask for help from my family and friends in a way that I was not comfortable with. |
| 1:33.3 | I don't think I could have gotten through that time |
| 1:36.3 | without my family, my friends. |
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