Wednesday and A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder star Emma Myers is opening up like never before. In a deeply personal sit-down on Jamie Laing’s Great Company podcast, the 24-year-old actress stepped away from the usual press-tour rhythm of upcoming roles and franchise talk to share a raw, honest look into her personal life, specifically her relationship with faith and religion. It is the kind of conversation that rarely surfaces in a modern Hollywood interview cycle, and Myers met the moment with a candor that has already resonated with listeners.
Myers has seen a meteoric rise over the last few years, going from a homeschooled kid who often felt like the odd one out to one of the most recognizable young performers on Netflix’s roster. But as she told Laing, that success has not shielded her from real and serious struggles. She candidly shared that around the age of 21 she went through a profound stretch of depression coupled with crippling insomnia, a period that left her feeling she could no longer carry the weight on her own. In that moment of complete desperation, she explained, she decided to turn to God.
What followed, in her telling, was not a conversion to a particular church or a sudden embrace of rigid doctrine. For Myers, the spiritual awakening was about a personal connection rather than an institution. She described preferring an individual, private relationship with God over the structures of organized religion, and she spoke about the comfort she found in the idea that God meets you where you are. There was no perfection required, she emphasized, no need to have your life already in order before building that relationship. That judgment-free understanding, she suggested, was exactly what made it possible for her to lean on her faith when she needed it most.
Hearing a rising Gen-Z star speak this openly about belief is genuinely rare, and that is part of what makes the conversation land the way it does. For Myers, faith functions as an anchor. It is what keeps her grounded amid the chaos of blockbuster sets and overnight fame, from the runaway success of Wednesday to her turn alongside Jack Black in the A Minecraft Movie, and it gives her something steady to return to at both the highest and lowest points of a career that continues to accelerate. In an industry that moves at a thousand miles an hour, she has found that the thing keeping her centered is also the most personal thing she has.
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