WATCH: Ronan Farrow gives a remarkably candid LMU Undergraduate Commencement

As if didn’t already have mad respect for Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and bestselling author Ronan Farrow.

Last weekend, he addressed the Class of 2018 at Loyola Marymount University’s Undergraduate Commencement and candidly shared how perilous things got for him professionally as he worked on his Harvey Weinstein story. Trying to do work you believe in before the moment of impact led to some extraordinarily tough days where it almost all fall apart.

‘I was heartbroken and I was scared an I had no idea if I was doing the right thing.’

He was. And now he’s one of the brightest stars in journalism.