Sydney Sweeney Shares Secret to Staying Grounded and Humbled

Sydney Sweeney, known for her role in “Euphoria” and ” Anyone but You,” emphasizes that fame hasn’t changed her. The Hollywood star says she maintains strong connections with childhood friends, many of whom are not in the entertainment industry.

“I have a really amazing friend group where there are a few who are in this industry, but most of them are not,” she told Cosmopolitan. “You get to step out of what I call ‘the bubble,’ and you see what’s important in life. You see reality, and it grounds and humbles you.”

During the interview, she expressed how spending time at her lake house in Northern Idaho grounds her and allows her to focus on what truly matters in life. “Most of my friends are still my childhood friends, and that’s why most of them aren’t in the industry, because I didn’t grow up in it,” she added. “It’s very much just going back to my roots.”

Sweeney explained, “I go home all the time. What’s so beautiful about the Pacific Northwest is everything that you can do outdoors. . . . There are so many mountains and lakes.” Sweeney acknowledged being a “workaholic,” finding it challenging to take time off, but values her personal life and prefers to keep it private, highlighting the importance of separating her public persona from her personal experiences.

“It’s a very different feeling for me,” she said. “I am a workaholic. I love to work and I love juggling a million things at the same time. It was almost like a challenge to myself, to take a step back and allow myself to go into vacation mode. And it’s been hard! My friends would hide my phone while I’d be trying to call my team so we could talk scripts and work!”

“I think that it’s really important to keep my personal life personal,” she concluded. “I became an actor because I loved playing characters. I loved creating stories and jumping in and learning everything that I could about other people. I never really thought that people would be interested in Sydney. I thought that they’d want to see my character, and so I want to keep it about the work.”