Actor Zachary Levi recently opened up about how God delivered him from several personal struggles in his life, including depression and suicide. “My particular upbringing and the way that it molded me and shaped me brought me to a lot of these ends, I completely fell apart. I was surrounded by darkness and had nothing but lies being spewed into my ear,” he said.

In his newly released book, Radical Love: Learning to Accept Yourself and Others, Levi gave a detailed look at his mental health journey, including his struggles with depression, anxiety, and suicide. “I really came to the point where I didn’t want to live and I didn’t know what to do,” he noted.

Regarding the title of his book, Radical Love, Levi explained that the term is rooted in Jesus’ teachings on loving people as they are, including one’s enemies. He stressed that “actual love is a radical practice.”

“Jesus was saying to love your enemy and pray for your persecutor. This is something that nobody seemingly does,” Levi said. “And Christ talks about, to love those who already love you isn’t really love … love is to radically accept someone else exactly as they are, exactly where they’re from.”

“These are our enemies, these are our persecutors, but we don’t take the time to acknowledge that they are still also a child of God, that they are still a miracle that is across from us, whether that’s across the aisle, across the faith, across whatever you might find,” the actor continued.

“If we have any chance of making it into a future that is not just really sad and really full of hate and anger and fear, we’ve got to radically accept where people are in their lives,” he said.

Actor Zachary Levi underwent treatment and also found healing through a woman who helped him learn to love himself and strengthen his faith; several years later, he shared that he has been “incredibly redeemed.”

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