Do you remember Andrew Keegan, teen heartthrob? You’ll have seen him in 10 Things I Hate About You and, if you grew up in the early ’90s, plastered all over the pages of Teen Beat. It was a simpler time – a time before Andrew decided to start an insane cult (which he calls a “community spiritual center”) called Full Circle.
In a new interview he did with New York Magazine, Andrew’s full creepiness was exposed. Here are some highlights:
“Hi, I’m Andrew,” he says, with a sweet, humble smile. “We love you, Andrew!” the group chants back. Keegan bows his head slightly and touches his palms together in a prayer-shaped thank-you gesture. “I love you all too,” he replies. “Today, I’m here to activate high vibes.” The circle nods approvingly and responds in unison: “And so it is.”
He also expresses his sadness (or maybe it’s just the readers who see how fucking sad this is) over his lack of a career:
“I had this girl come up to me not that long ago and say, ‘I used to just love you!’?” he says. “It’s always past tense now. And I’m like, ‘Can’t we just always love each other and everybody in the world?’?”
And if you want to know what services at Full Circle entail, here ya go:
We held hands and, with a small squeeze, passed our “soul medicine” to one another. The woman next to me started sobbing quietly. A muscular young man in yoga pants loose enough to hide a small toddler in each leg played a homemade didgeridoo for the circle and then explained how the Earth regularly sends us invertebrate emissaries. “If a mosquito bites you, that mosquito was meant to bite you,” he explained. “If a fly lands on your arm, it’s there as a messenger.”
Yikes. How the mighty have fallen!