In an interview with Yahoo Entertainment, David Archuleta opened up about having PTSD from his time on the series. "I think that there's something about reality TV shows that's a very interesting, unique experience, and it has its own kind of PTSD that comes with it," he said.
"You're basically a character on a TV show, and parts of it are worked so that it fits the TV show — but they're using your personal life. So you become this character, but it's with your own name, parts of who you actually are, but other parts that are portrayed in a way that you're not actually. Then everyone feels like they know you, and they know what you are, and they know how to treat you, and have certain expectations ... This was years ago, right? But there's still certain things about us that we still had certain little tics that we're paranoid about certain things. ... Eight, nine, 10, 11 years later, we're still kind of stuck in some of those patterns of thinking."
