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WEDNESDAY star Emma Myers says turning to God changed her life after a frightening season of insomnia and exhaustion.
“I was having the worst time of my entire life,” Myers said on the “Great Company” podcast, according to RELEVANT. “I was not sleeping for days. I’d go to work being awake for three days straight.”
The actress, known to many viewers as Enid Sinclair on Netflix’s WEDNESDAY, described a breaking point that led her to pray. For Movieguide® readers, her comments offer a rare public reminder that spiritual need often becomes clearest when success cannot quiet suffering.
Myers said insomnia runs in her family, but her situation became overwhelming. She reached a moment where she did not know what else to do.
“I was having such a bad time that I was just like, ‘I can’t take this anymore. Please help me, God. I don’t know what to do,’” Myers said.
That prayer, she said, opened the door to a deeper faith. Myers described the change as personal and relational rather than a performance meant to make her appear polished.
“I [didn’t want] to be a part of an organized church, but instead having a relationship with God,” she said. “It’s completely, like, fully just changed me, and I feel I have so much comfort in it.”
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Myers also pushed back on the fear that faith requires someone to clean up every weakness before approaching God. That honesty gives her testimony its strength because many young fans know the pressure to look composed online.
“He meets you where you are,” Myers said. “You do not have to be perfect.”
“I am far from perfect,” she added. “If we had to be perfect, nobody would be worthy of it.”
WEDNESDAY became one of Netflix’s most recognizable young-adult hits, and its gothic humor introduced Myers to a global audience. Public visibility, however, does not remove ordinary human limits.
That is why her comments may encourage families and teenagers who assume celebrities live untouched by anxiety, loneliness or exhaustion. Myers spoke about needing help, asking God for mercy and finding comfort in relationship with Him.
Movieguide® often notes that the entertainment world shapes young imaginations through both stories and stars. When a young actress speaks plainly about God meeting her in weakness, families can use that moment to talk about prayer as dependence rather than image management.
Myers summarized the heart of that discovery in simple terms. “God is like, ‘I love you so much, have a relationship with me,’” she said. “And nothing else matters.”
Her words do not turn a Netflix role into a ministry platform, and families should still evaluate WEDNESDAY on its own content. Yet her testimony gives young viewers a humane counterweight to the idea that fame solves fear.
The most encouraging part may be its simplicity. Myers did not describe perfection; she described a desperate prayer and the comfort of being met by God.
That is a message worth hearing in a celebrity culture that often rewards the appearance of control. Grace begins where image finally fails.
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