About this episode

Lukas Gage discusses his tumultuous upbringing, experiences in Hollywood, and personal growth through mental health challenges.

Lukas Gage (I Wrote This For Attention, Voicemails for Isabelle, and The White Lotus) is an actor and author. Lukas joins Armchair Expert to discuss growing up in a chaotic family in San Diego, surviving a brutal hate crime as a teenager, and being sent to a troubled teen wilderness program. Lukas and Dax talk about navigating Hollywood as a closeted actor, the surreal experience of getting married on The Kardashians, and Conor McGregor fracturing a disc in his back while filming Road House. Lukas explains how a BPD diagnosis changed the way he understood himself, how shame and secrecy can distort identity, and what it means to stop performing for other people's approval. Check Allstate first for a quote that could save you hundreds: https://www.allstate.com/ See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info .

People in this episode

Host: Dax Shepard

Guest: Lukas Gage

Topics covered

• chaotic family upbringing
• hate crime survival
• Hollywood challenges
• mental health
• identity
• self-acceptance

Keywords

• Lukas Gage
• Dax Shepard
• Hollywood
• BPD diagnosis
• hate crime
• identity
• self-approval
• The Kardashians
• Conor McGregor

Sponsors

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Mentioned in this episode

Books & works: I Wrote This For Attention, Voicemails for Isabelle, The White Lotus, Road House

Places: San Diego

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