And then it was time to go back to work on the second season of The Flight Attendant.
“Going through my divorce, it was really a super dark time,” Cuoco told Variety. “I just didn’t know how to deal with it. I was throwing myself into work to deny my depression, and how upset I was. Unfortunately, the character was so depressed that it wasn’t helping me! I was really, really, really struggling. A lot of tears.”
In fact, the episode she submitted this year to highlight her season two performance for Emmy consideration featured an intense scene that drew heavily from her own emotional state at the time. Which wasn’t necessarily a healthy thing, though she was nominated.
Used to powering through as if everything was fine, this time she couldn’t fake it. “I’ve been very open about it, because I think for the first time, I wanted people to know that things just aren’t always what they seem,” she said. “And things aren’t always so perfect. One month in, I had an intervention on myself in my trailer—all my producers were in there. And I said, ‘I need help.'”
