She grew up and said that she was proud of her. “I wanted order so badly. Everyone was like, ‘What a dork!’ and I would say, ‘Well, wouldn’t it be nice to know that one thing was going to be consistent?'”
Ritter was still a demanding perfectionist and would warn his younger siblings about the dangers of not being perfect. Consequences To their actions. “It wasn’t even something that my dad or mom instilled in me, but I did have this sense that people knew who my dad was and I could embarrass him, or I could bring shame upon the family, or whatever,”He shared this on the podcast’s April 8, 2019 episode It’s really famous. “That I could mess up and it wouldn’t just affect me, it would affect him and my mom and make them out to be bad parents. There was a level of ‘I better behave’ at a certain point.”
As for his own familiarly human foibles, including overdoing it enough with alcohol that he was inspired to get sober more than eight years ago, “the recklessness came from being so tightly wound,”He mused about Really Famous Host Kara Mayer Robinson. Looking back, he said: “as I grew up I really had to not only let go of trying to be perfect but also not rail against perfection so hard that I become an awful nightmare.”
