Being A Teenage Star Was The Darkest Period Of My Life – Keke Palmer

Keke Palmer

Hollywood actress Keke Palmer has said that being famous as a teenager was the darkest period of her life. She recently had her say during an interview with Whoopi Goldberg during the Tribeca Festival’s Storytellers series, and fans have been reacting.

Reflecting on her struggles with fame during her teen years, Keke revealed that she felt isolated and numb regularly because even her family members could not relate to her.

The moviestar added that the more she tried to get people to know the real her, the more they saw her acting a character.

Her words, “I remember it was just nobody could relate to me, and the thing about my family is my family has always been so awesome. But there was a period where we were all being traumatized by fame, and they had a more relatable experience to the trauma of the fame than I did, right?… because I was the star. They were the people in the star shadow.

I just was so sad, you guys. I really was so sad, you know. I was so sad that I wished I could feel the pain of it because it was not physical. It was so deep in my soul and in my heart that I felt numb or something like that because it was like no way to get it out of me, you know what I mean?

I just decided that nobody really wants to get to know me and the more that I try to get people to know the real me, the more that they just talk to this character, the more that they just want me to be happy and smiling.

If I show any complexity of my emotions, or I show that I’m a kid, I show that I’m sad, I show that I’m down, I show that I’m tired, that I’m exhausted from these things, they just get mad at me, and I don’t want my family to lose everything.

That was the day that Keke Palmer was truly born as I promised to protect my inner self.

And inside I just knew like that sensitive character, that person that gets tired, that gets, you know, down, that feels low, that nobody wants to hear it, so you keep it to yourself. It was kind of like you don’t deserve type of vibe, you know what I mean? Because I felt that was the only way to protect myself. That was the lowest, and it went so far that I forgot that I did it. I forgot that I locked that key up.”

WOW.