Things have seemingly gotten more difficult for Schafer since the start of Donald Trump’s administration.

“And I was shocked.

This sort of difficulty is tragically something Schafer has faced throughout her life.

Hunter Schafer arrives for the Euphoria FYC Party Los Angeles in April 2022

“I was really starting to fade when I was approaching puberty,” Schafer shared with the publication.

“And I think it became obvious to the people around me.

Thankfully that was enough to get the help I needed to start transitioning.

Hunter Schafer at the Film Independent Spirit Awards in August 2020

Depression has been something I’ve wrestled with.

It never really goes away.

You just figure out how to live with it, live a life with it.

Hunter Schafer at the Kinds Of Kindness Red Carpet at the 77th annual Cannes Film Festival in Cannes, France, in May 2024

And I’m on meds now, which are great.”

“Part of surviving [that] experience was just, like, getting through s***.

Letting it rest, and not addressing it.

Dominic Fike and Hunter Schafer attend the 2022 Vanity Fair Oscar Party

They later made their red carpet couple debut at the Vanity Fair Oscars afterparty that same year.

He told Zane Lowe onApple Music, “I’m just done being in relationships right now.”

I got cheated on for the first time.”

Angus Cloud and Hunter Schafer attend the Euphoria season 2 photo call in Los Angeles in January 2022

We gotta go our own separate ways.”

for now i just wanna say: Angus was a sunshine.

It’s really surreal."