“With life throwing this curveball at me, I thought, why me? After having gone through this ordeal for almost two years, I wouldn’t have it any other way,” she added.
She continued, “So, I agreed to do one interview. Obviously, I didn’t look the same. I had high doses of medication to keep me stable. I was forced to. Given a choice, I wouldn’t have come out and announced it.”
The actor revealed, “I was called sympathy queen by the public. My journey as an actor, as a human being, I have evolved so much. Early on in my career, I was anxious and go up (online) looking for nasty articles and what was being written about me. The more people accused me of things, I started to almost question…every thought of mine. They have forced me to become the person that I can be proud of.”
“When people are going through a lot of pain, they need a portal to project it. And social media is that portal I guess. I do really think that,” Samantha Ruth said.