'I was living the life and my dreams were coming true, and all that was happening. 'I would berate myself for it,' he wrote. Wearing dresses became not only mentally, but physically painful to the point where Page could barely function. 'But that’s mixed with: I wish people would understand that that sh*t literally did almost kill me.'
Oh, f*** you, you’re famous, and you have money, and you had to wear a dress, boo-hoo. 'But when Juno was blowing up - this sounds strange to people, and I get that people don’t understand. 'I can't pinpoint a 'worst' day,' Page later said. 'During awards-season time, I was closeted, dressed in heels and the whole look - I wasn’t okay, and I didn’t know how to talk about that with anyone,' the 35-year-old wrote in a new article for Esquire, for which he appears on the June 2022 cover. But it was at the height of the film's popularity that Page, who has since come out as transgender, was struggling with his identity the most.