Dan Levy Opens Up About His Fears and Lifelong Struggle With Anxiety

And nevertheless his mom and dad, Deborah Divine and Eugene Levy, were being accepting of his sexuality and encouraged him to be himself, Dan claims he nevertheless concerned about what would come about if he arrived out. “Anxiety of remaining ridiculed. Worry of becoming othered,” he describes. “Anxiety of exposing one thing that I think a large amount of significant college students at the time didn’t have the applications to course of action appropriately, to make it comfy for me.”

He only felt relaxed sufficient to openly discuss his sexuality with other people after his mom “invited” him to come out about lunch when he was 18. 

In retrospect, Eugene suggests, “I would have accomplished factors so substantially in a different way, you know?” The American Pie actor provides that he would’ve tried out to be much more “associated” in Dan’s daily life, but acknowledges Dan wanted to figure things out for himself, indicating, “Not always that we would have gotten any direct answers.”

Eugene adds, “You can only get back what you get back.”