Wednesday's Jenna Ortega Wants a "Darker" Season 2

Jenna Ortega doesn't request idiosyncratic to support connected dancing.

The Wednesday star, 20, recently got candid astir her dating life, revealing that she's single.

"I astir don't adjacent find myself interested," Ortega said connected the March 6 occurrence of Dax Shepard's Armchair Expert podcast, "but I deliberation a large portion of it is self-esteem. Like, I don't deliberation I'm acceptable to beryllium that susceptible oregon trusting with someone." 

But that's not to accidental she hasn't fixed dating a changeable successful the past. "I was successful a narration for a mates of years," she continued, "but I stopped erstwhile things got excessively hectic."

As the histrion enactment it, "it had thing to do" with the idiosyncratic she was seeing but alternatively she felt similar she couldn't negociate some a narration and the demands of her career.

"If there's 1 happening I'm going to absorption on, which is astir apt thing I request to change," Ortega said, "it's gonna beryllium my work."

This isn't the lone clip Ortega has expressed these sentiments.

"Maybe I americium excessively obsessed with my work, but the thought of relationships stresses maine out," the Yes Day alum told ELLE for its April screen story, released March 7. "And besides being that susceptible with idiosyncratic and having to get to cognize idiosyncratic that good and having idiosyncratic spot you for each that you are...My encephalon knows that I don't request to deliberation astir that close now."

Indeed, vulnerability is thing Ortega said she's inactive trying to navigate successful general.

"I americium truthful fearful of disappointing the radical successful my life, oregon adjacent radical successful public," she added. "I privation to unrecorded up to people's expectations, which is thing that I request to get over, but I'm besides frightened that, I don't know, possibly idiosyncratic volition get to cognize maine excessively good and recognize that I'm not each that." 

She adjacent admitted it tin beryllium hard for her to instrumentality compliments. "The benignant words that I perceive that they accidental astir maine done different radical are unbelievable to me," she shared. "I consciousness similar conscionable the radical successful my beingness spot maine successful a mode that I don't truly spot myself."