MOVIE STAR –
Jan. 19, 2026 – The Testament of Ann Lee actress recently opened up about her struggles with the condition during an interview with Vogue, sharing that she was formally diagnosed with “really extreme” obsessive-compulsive disorder when she was just 19. By that point, Seyfried had enjoyed her breakthrough as Karen Smith in the iconic 2004 comedy Mean Girls, and her schedule got busier, including a recurring role as Lilly Kane on Veronica Mars and a main role in Big Love, the Bill Paxton-fronted drama about a fundamentalist Mormon household in contemporary Utah. “I was living in Marina del Rey at the time, shooting Big Love and my mom had to take a sabbatical from work in Pennsylvania to live with me for a month,” Seyfried said of that period. “I got my brain scans, and that’s when I got on medication — which to this day, I’m on every night.” Seyfried said that despite her condition, she was largely unfazed by professional rejection, noting, “It’s the nature of the beast.” But she did have to make an effort to avoid triggering factors that other young stars were frequently embracing, such as “drinking too much alcohol, or doing any drugs at all, or staying out too late.”
