{"id":10139,"date":"2026-07-19T02:26:30","date_gmt":"2026-07-18T21:26:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/?p=10139"},"modified":"2026-07-19T02:26:30","modified_gmt":"2026-07-18T21:26:30","slug":"why-jim-parsons-was-miserable-during-big-bang-theory-fame","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/?p=10139","title":{"rendered":"Why Jim Parsons Was &#8220;Miserable&#8221; During Big Bang Theory Fame"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><script>\r\n  atOptions = {\r\n    'key' : '644b717812d811d6a1c1fc5b6ccd6fa6',\r\n    'format' : 'iframe',\r\n    'height' : 90,\r\n    'width' : 728,\r\n    'params' : {}\r\n  };\r\n<\/script>\r\n<script src=\"https:\/\/www.highperformanceformat.com\/644b717812d811d6a1c1fc5b6ccd6fa6\/invoke.js\"><\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-testid=\"segment-text-only\">\n<p>And if Parsons\u2014who starred on <em>The<\/em> <em>Big Bang Theory <\/em>from 2007 to 2019\u2014was given the opportunity now, he said he &#8220;wouldn&#8217;t do that again&#8221; and not &#8220;for any amount of money.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It was stressful and miserable at times,&#8221; he admitted. &#8220;I made myself miserable.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>While the <em>Hollywood<\/em> star noted that his behavior partially &#8220;translated&#8221; into a dedicated work ethic, there was a larger inner battle at play.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It was really just obsessive behavior basically,&#8221; Parsons told podcast host<strong> Jon Dean<\/strong>. &#8220;Yes, I was disciplined. Yes, I had a good work ethic, but a lot of it was because it was kind of OCD in nature.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>As he recalled, &#8220;I had a list of things basically in my head that I had to get done in order to be comfortable and know that I could do my job right, which I don\u2019t think was true.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>And Parsons admitted his behavior negatively impacted his personal life, sharing, &#8220;I missed tons of life.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<script async=\"async\" data-cfasync=\"false\" src=\"https:\/\/pl30214220.effectivecpmnetwork.com\/9ab3d4df8a7e1a6171e16ddbf732cc19\/invoke.js\"><\/script>\r\n<div id=\"container-9ab3d4df8a7e1a6171e16ddbf732cc19\"><\/div>\r\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>And if Parsons\u2014who starred on The Big Bang Theory from 2007 to 2019\u2014was given the opportunity now, he said he &#8220;wouldn&#8217;t do that again&#8221; and not &#8220;for any amount of money.&#8221; &#8220;It was stressful and miserable at times,&#8221; he admitted. &#8220;I made myself miserable.&#8221; While the Hollywood star noted that his behavior partially &#8220;translated&#8221; into&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10140,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/akns-images.eonline.com\/eol_images\/Entire_Site\/20260718\/d92ed088-62c7-4d95-a278-c55ca6e9ef16_1784399974.jpg?fit=around%7C1200:1200&output-quality=90&crop=1200:1200;center,top","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10139","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pics-news"],"brizy_media":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10139","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10139"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10139\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/10140"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10139"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10139"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10139"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}