On Purpose with Jay Shetty

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CAMILA MENDES: "Perfectionism Was Ruining My Life"

Explore episode Jul 27, 2026

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The Anxiety No One Could See

At 37:28 · chapter starts 35:27

Jay asks how perfectionism showed up on the Riverdale set, and Camila opens up fully. The show was old-fashioned network TV at its most demanding: ten months a year, tight daily shooting schedules, zero tolerance for delays. There was no room for human error, and certainly no room for personal crises. If Camila was crying over something personal and got a knock on her trailer door — you're needed on set — her makeup was ruined, the schedule slipped, she became the reason production was behind. The pressure cooker produced panic attacks she'd never had before and hasn't had since. To keep functioning, she was prescribed lorazepam. She hated numbing herself but had no other option. Alongside this, she discloses bulimia she'd carried since high school — something the tight Veronica Lodge costumes made viscerally unavoidable. Feeling bloated and having to wear a midriff-baring miniskirt on camera triggered spirals. She had no space to feel her feelings on set, and the suppression made everything worse.

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