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How to Be Real With Your Kids

Modern Love

27-03-2024 • 30 mins

Penn Badgley has made a career out of playing deeply troubled characters. From his role as Joe Goldberg on the Netflix series “You” to Dan Humphrey on “Gossip Girl,Badgley has shown many times over how obsession and delusion can destroy love.

In his personal life, though, Badgley says he’s not doing too much brooding. He’s a father and a stepfather, and he opens up about the importance of being vulnerable with his kids. Badgley reads “Watching Them Watching Meby Dean E. Murphy, an essay about a father who can no longer hide his emotions from his sons after they all experience a devastating loss.

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