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She’s the new queen of the small screen thanks to leading roles in HBO mega-hits “The White Lotus” and “Euphoria” — but Hollywood’s power players didn’t always believe Sydney Sweeney was fit for television.
In a new interview with British GQ, the 24-year-old talked about her teenage years spent struggling to secure gigs, leaving her cash-strapped family living out of a budget motel room.
“A casting director told me once that I will never be on a TV show,” the Spokane, Washington native revealed. “Now, I’m on some of the biggest shows in the world.”
Sweeney is currently starring in the second season of “Euphoria” — HBO’s nine-time Emmy-nominated teen drama.
While the graphic series has been slammed by D.A.RE. for “glorifying” substance abuse, it’s become one of the most talked about shows in the world, with its cast gracing the current cover of New York magazine.
Last year, Sweeney also had a lead role in the limited series “The White Lotus” — which is currently nominated for two Screen Actors Guild Awards.
Meanwhile, the Associated Press named her 2021’s “AP Breakthrough Entertainer of the Year.”
The blonde beauty is riding high on her success, having recently snapped up her first home for $3 million.
It’s a far cry from her dark days a teenager, which were plagued by financial insecurity.
Sweeney told British GQ that her parents were forced to sell her childhood home in Spokane due to “money troubles.” Sweeney, her parents and her younger brother later relocated to Los Angeles so that the actress could break into Hollywood.
But things went from bad to worse, and in 2013, the family were forced to live out of a single Holiday Inn suite on the city’s outskirts for nine months because they unable to afford to rent a home.
Sweeney candidly admitted to British GQ that she woke up in a flood of tears on her 18th birthday because of financial stress.
“I always thought that when I turned 18, I’d have made enough money to buy my parent’s old house back,” Sweeney confessed.
While the star hasn’t bought back the family home, she is enjoying her newfound fortune, splashing her small-screen salary on a Westwood pad last November.
After news of the sale, she told AP: “Being able to be in a house is such an incredible, humbling, amazing accomplishment that I still can’t believe I was able to pull off.”
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