{
  "id": 10791960,
  "title": "Penn Badgley Swore Off Sex Scenes. His Wife Says It Was Not Her Idea: ‘He Decided to Do This for Mental Health Reasons’",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/29/penn-badgley-swore-off-sex-scenes-his-wife-says-it-was-not-her-idea",
  "topic": "health",
  "section": "Health & Medicine",
  "published": "2026-09-29T22:06:37.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Variety",
    "slug": "variety",
    "url": "https://variety.com/2026/tv/news/penn-badgley-banned-sex-scenes-wife-mental-health-1236878374/"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "Penn Badgley infamously swore off sex scenes before the production of “You” Season 4, revealing on a viral episode of his “Podcrushed” podcast in Feb. 2013 that he told showrunner Sera Gamble he was no longer interested in filming intimate scenes on camera. The actor then told Variety later that same month that “it’s important […]",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 1,
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  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}