COLFER:  I think fame is great until the day comes when you are afraid to leave your house alone, and then the day when your name is used as an adjective in a negative form.

MORGAN: It’s interesting, that. It’s that culture, isn’t it? Of envy, resentment of people’s success. That goes with the territory, doesn’t it?

COLFER: That’s — yes, absolutely.

MORGAN: Do you think you’re — are you equipped to deal with all this?

COLFER: Sometimes. Sometimes not. Sometimes I do get very overwhelmed with it, and sometimes — I’m quite frightened by it, to be honest.

MORGAN: It is scary.

COLFER: It is scary. It’s very scary. And there really is a whole other world that people don’t see. They always see in front of the camera. They never really see the behind-the-scenes stuff. But —

MORGAN: And what’s behind-the-scenes stuff with you?

COLFER: You know, like the security risks and the security issues that are very frightening that people don’t know about, because I don’t want them to know about. But —

MORGAN: What’s the scariest thing that’s happened to you?

COLFER: I was at a movie theater once, and I was by myself, stupidly, and I was semi-mobbed. But it got very physical, and people were pulling at me and grabbing at me. And I had to call the police. And the next day, I was covered in bruises because people got so physical with me.

MORGAN: Wow.

COLFER: Yes.

MORGAN: As it was going on, what were you thinking?

COLFER: Not much. I kind of — I went to my happy place. But —

MORGAN: I would go to my unhappy place if that was happening.

COLFER: No, I definitely had to go to my happy place.

MORGAN: Were you worried about whether you might even survive this? Was it that —

COLFER: Absolutely. I mean —

MORGAN: It was crazy, right?

COLFER: It’s crazy, but I mean, in — it’s really a mind trip because, on one hand, you’re — you want them to stop. You want it to stop.

But on the other hand, you know that if you — since you are in the public eye, that if you are a raging jerk and say “Get off me, leave me alone,” then you know it’s going to be written about the next day and people are going to say, you know, stuff — there’ll be talk about what a jerk you are, because you said that.

I loved how honest he was in this, especially talking about the parts of his life that people don’t see, and how sometimes he just doesn’t feel equipped to deal with it. He would have to feel that way sometimes. I mean, I feel that way sometimes about my life which involves far less scrutiny and pressure. It’s a mind-trip to imagine what that overwhelmed feeling is like for Chris with all of his projects, his fame, his icon/role model status, etc.