Penn Badgleyis opening up about how a childhood health scare forever changed his perspective on life and parenthood.

“Just human touch would wake me up.”

“I’m extremely sensitive to touch,” he explained.

Actor Penn Badgley visits the SiriusXM Studios on January 8, 2020 in New York City.

Penn Badgley says his heart and lungs would stop multiple times a day during the first year of his life.Cindy Ord/Getty Images

It has also impacted how he views death.

“Death doesn’t scare me,” he said.

“Thinking of my toddler now, I realize it actually did affect me.

It affected my sense of what life is like, what life is not like,” he said.

Listen to Badgley discuss his health in the podcast above.