The beloved 'Clerks' and 'Mallrats' writer-director has opened up about his experience with intensive therapy and how he hid behind an 'other guy' persona for years amid struggles with his mental health and childhood traumas.
Smith said that the experience was “scary,” resulting in him grappling with suicidal thoughts. “At that moment, I wouldn’t have been averse to not being around any longer. I called a friend and said, ‘I’m in a weird, dark place. I need to go somewhere and get help,'” he recalled.
He shared that all of these forces, and more, shaped his decision to go into directing, a field where he could maintain control and where “nobody’s ever going to do that to me again.” It also led to him throwing himself into his work — so much so that he began to disappear completely into the public persona he names “the other guy.”
“Over time, a lifetime of co-dependency professionally, personally, I gave it all and eventually ran dry until there was no sense of me left,” he continued. “I opened up the other guy about a month ago looking for me, for the authentic Kevin, and I was terrified to find out that I wasn’t there. There was nobody running the show. And I was scared beyond belief.”
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