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Jennifer Morrison recently opened up about feeling disconnected from herself during the height of her fame\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n
The 47-year-old actress and director reflected on the pressure of her acting career and the changes she made to better understand who she was outside of her work<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n
That realization ultimately led Morrison to explore directing and find a new balance in her career<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
Jennifer Morrison<\/a> opened up about the darker side of achieving the kind of success many performers dream of.<\/p>\n The 47-year-old actress \u2014 known for her roles in House<\/em>, Once Upon a Time<\/em> and How I Met Your Mother<\/em><\/a> \u2014\u00a0recently reflected on the overwhelming demands of fame and how years of dedicating herself to work affected her sense of identity.<\/p>\n During an appearance on the Question Everything<\/em><\/a> podcast<\/a> with host Danielle Robby, Morrison discussed the pressure of constantly being on screen while struggling to make space for herself away from the spotlight.<\/p>\n “I felt like I was starting to dissolve as a person, because I was so committed to the things I was doing, but I had no space to be myself,” Morrison admitted. “I’ve been on, like, 350 episodes of television, and just been able to truly, like, live an insane dream.\u2029But I also could feel this tugging of, like, a true self that just was constantly being pushed away because I was sacrificing to succeed.”<\/p>\n