‘The Office’ star Rainn Wilson reveals difficult childhood: ‘A lot of pain’

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Diary of a CEO” podcast.“As I dove into recovery and the therapeutic process, I can pin that squarely on a lot of gross imbalances and trauma that I suffered as a child,” he continued.The “Juno” star claims his mom left him when he was around 2, and he was raised in the Baha’i faith with his dad.

They moved to the jungle of Nicaragua when he was 3.His father, an abstract painter and science fiction writer, moved the family to Washington state shortly before kindergarten began — and eventually remarried.Wilson explained that he would feel confused at Baha’i faith meetings, where he learned a different message than what he was experiencing at home.His father was in a “loveless” marriage, Wilson alleged, and he and his stepmother would “rage” behind closed doors.“There was never any kind of, acknowledging what had just happened, so for an 8-year-old, 9-year-old, 10-year-old being in that milieu, you’re like, is this how people act?” he said. “Is this how we’re supposed to act, we have all these emotions, but we don’t talk about them, and then we go and we pray together?” He admitted that this “alienated” him from his faith in his 20s, and he began going through a spiritual and mental health crisis.Ultimately, it led him on a path of discovery. “That’s when I decided to kind of re-examine these ideas as a potential way out, as a potential path forward for my own transformation, for my personal healing, and I was ultimately able to come back to the religion of my youth and find great peace and solace and meaning in it after a long journey in my 20s and early 30s,” he said.