Flatter AliveEx-friend friend, Penn Badgleyrevealed how to play the role of Dan Humphrey on “Gossip Girl” affected her relationship with the actress.
The duo began to go out together on the set of the six -season series after hitting it when Badgley was thrown.
The relationship of Blake Lively and Penn Badgley lasted a short period and remained mainly private because of their involvement in the show.
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Penn Badgley opens with his relationship with Blake Lively
Between 2007 and 2010, Badgley and Lively dated during the filming of the successful series “Gossip Girl”, where they played in love with the Dan Humphrey and Serena Van der Woodsen screen.
In a new interview, Badgley revealed that he had found that it was a “struggle” to go out with the actress because of her inability to separate her real identity from her character on the screen as her fame increased.
“It was the struggle,” admitted the star of “You” when he appeared on the Calls his daddy Podcast Wednesday. “What starts to happen when you are in this role for a long time – the aspect of fame by being part, a large part of this – there is not enough separation, I think, for anyone,” he added.
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The actor continued. “You are considered that person, you are called his name on the street. You must also constantly be that person at work.”
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Penn Badgley admitted that he did not have “emotional maturity” to make a distinction
Reflecting more about experience, Badgley admitted that he did not have “emotional maturity to understand how to differentiate himself from his character of” Gossip Girl “when he played the role.
He said it was a question of “self -esteem” because “what people seemed to think of Dan seemed to be what people thought of me”.
Meanwhile, Lively has previously shared a similar feeling of fighting to separate from your character on the screen. At the time, she hinted that this blurred line may have contributed to their breakup after three years together.
“I was wearing the same clothes and was shooting fashion, and I was going out with the same person as my character came out,” said Lively during a retrospective of the program in 2017 published by Vanityby The list.
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She added: “What people were planning on me was that I was Serena.”
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The star of “You” revealed once his relationship with Blake Lively “saved”
Despite the “struggle”, there were advantages of Badgley’s relationship with Lively.
He once described their time together on and off screen as “fun and fast”, although he admitted that there was a “dark current which is at the end of the twenties”.
According to him, being with Lively, who did not drink alcohol, helped keep him away from turning to substances while navigating on the personal struggles he was confronted at the time.
“To be honest, I have never fought with the substance,” said Badgley in an interview with Variety. “Blake did not drink, and I think our relationship saved me from forceing myself to take this path.”
Penn Badgley says his personal difficulties were “nothing less than a spiritual crisis”
During the interview, Badgley also said that the personal difficulties with which he was dealing were “nothing less than a spiritual crisis”.
“Like anyone who experiences a certain degree of renown and wealth,” he added. “I have been presented the universal truth that not only does it not make your life better or easier, but can actually complicate things considerably and make you quite unhappy.”
Years after separation, Vivante and Badgley have since evolved in their romantic life and have had lasting relationships.
Lively is married to Marvel Ryan Reynolds star, with whom she has four children: James, Inez, Betty and Olin.
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On the other hand, Badgley is married to singer Domino Kirke, with whom he shares a son, James. The actor is also a stepfather of Cassius Riley, Kirke’s son, and awaits a set of twins with her.
Blake Lively is involved in a legal battle with the close friend of Penn Badgley, Justin Baldoni
Lively is currently involved in a legal battle with Justin Baldoni, who is close to friends with his ex-girlfriend Badgley.
Lively and Baldoni played leading roles in the romantic drama “it ends with us”, after which she shocked a lot by depositing a trial of sexual harassment and defamation against her co-star.
Since Lively filed the complaint, the duo was locked in a legal back and forth in disorder, Baldoni contraitting the actress and her husband, Reynolds.
Several other people, including the superstar Taylor Swift, were also fired in the fray.
Now Lively and Baldoni are expected to compete in court when the trial begins at the US district court in Manhattan in March 2026.
