Exclusive Clip: Milo Manheim Opens Up About Living with Anxiety
Apr 1, 2025
Little Shop of Horrors star Milo Manheim is sharing some of his personal experiences as a performer working and living in New York City. Watch the exclusive clip “I've Never Said This Before with Tommy DiDario' before the full episode drops on April 1.
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I thought of multiple things that I've never said before
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But one of those things was just like I have anxiety. I have pretty bad anxiety
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And I feel like in this world, especially in this industry, you're always putting out the good parts of yourself
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I'm a very go lucky, happy guy, very positive and very grateful
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However, you know, we all got our problems. We all got our things that we overthink. And I think it's unfair to not, you know, at least be open that those exist
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I think it can be dangerous when you're just seeing all the perfect stuff. of, you know? So I, that was one of the things. I have multiple things that never said before
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but I think it's important just to let people know, like, we all have those anxieties, you know
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I think any good artist or any good, you know, in whatever job is conscious about the work they're
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doing, you know, and you just want to think about it positively and forward rather than something
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that gets you stagnant and in your head. For sure. And anxiety can be so crippling, right? So it's like
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learning how to work around that. Totally. The audiences here are so loving, though
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And, you know, I've been, you know, social media is such a weird place because I feel
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like a lot of people say things. They don't even really believe online. And here, it's like all these people bought tickets. They're coming here because they want to
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see the show. They want to love it. And I sometimes you think the audience is like a comment
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section, you know, and they're going to judge you that harshly. But that's, that's not the case. You know, it's so loving here. And it kind of goes with the, the rhythm of New York. Like
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it easy here to put life outward and and you know perform for the audience and spread it this way rather than always looking inward And I think there you know good parts about that as well Go through a lot of therapy a lot of looking inward But it just nice to it honestly in such a chaotic city it very relaxing somehow I think when it comes to just like life I realizing how much I value routine
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I have ADD and I think that sometimes in film, it's so, you know, different every day
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You're waking up at a different time every day. And I didn't realize how much that actually can throw me off
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And here, having your schedule, you know, be pretty much the same every day
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you get into a rhythm that makes life easier in general. And I thought that maybe, you know
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getting a cup of copy with a friend before a show would stress me out because I'm like
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I need to be resting my vocal cords right now. But it's like the more you give life
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the more you get from it, I guess, is what I'm realizing over here. And that's what I love so much about New York
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is it's impossible not to be living life. In L.A., it's you really got to plan your days
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and it's easy to miss one and just spend it at home
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But here you just walk outside and stuff is happening. What I've learned as an actor on this stage is, you know
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I think it's really a great thing when you want to improve
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and you want to be better and, you know, every day get better and progress
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But I don't think it's necessarily good when it becomes debilitating and you tell yourself you're not good, you know
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I am here for a reason, and I got to remind myself that sometimes
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and this is another one of the things that I talk about with Liz all the time is like what of these things that we're thinking about are true and we can work on and what are we like we've got this 100% we just like don't feel that way you know so I think there's feelings can be indicators of things you know really happening that need to change or things that are going great but they can also just be random float and thoughts that have no purpose and I think doing this show has helped me
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identify which ones to care about and which ones not to care about
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