Jordan Peterson Cries When Asked By Piers Morgan ‘What Is the Best Thing’ About Being Jordan Peterson?

Controversial psychologist and right-wing influencer Jordan Peterson got choked-up during an emotional interview with Piers Morgan when asked what appeared to be an innocuous question: “What is the best and worst thing about being Jordan Peterson?”

“The worst?” Peterson asked as he closed his eyes and sighed. After a lengthy pause, he answered, “I’m a bit much, you might say. I’m running in all directions very rapidly, so that can be a bit much. It’s hard on people around me. I’m a bit much, man.”

“What’s the best thing about you?” Morgan prompted.

“The best thing about being me? It’s overwhelming, really. Well, the deep appreciation that people have for what I’ve been doing — it’s stunning, it’s soul-destroying, but it’s amazing,” Peterson replied.

He continued:

But it’s hard to, wrap my head around it. It’s very hard to wrap my head around it. And, especially because it happened to me, you know, well, I didn’t, when I was older than 50. It’s been quite an adjustment. I wouldn’t say it’s one I made. And, it’s an immense responsibility. And I’m not complaining about that. At all. I’d be a fool to complain. An ungrateful fool.

“But it’s, you know, it’s a strange thing to have far more than you could ever imagine,” Peterson said while choking up. “Now, you did it again! You got me again, goddamnit!” Peterson said while wiping tears from his eyes.

Earlier in the interview, Morgan asked Peterson what people should do first when they wake up in the morning, to which Peterson replied: “open their eyes.”

This is the second time Peterson has broken down during an interview with Morgan. A year ago, as Indy100 pointed out, Peterson “became emotional when asked whether he saw himself as a hero to the ‘incel’ community.”

Peterson, a college professor who catapulted to fame on the right thanks to his diatribes against liberals, is now a popular conservative pundit and best-selling author. The New York Times attempted to explain Peterson’s views in 2018: “In Mr. Peterson’s world, order is masculine. Chaos is feminine. And if an overdose of femininity is our new poison, Mr. Peterson knows the cure. Hence his new book’s subtitle: ‘An Antidote to Chaos.'”

Recently, Peterson announced he was founding an online university without accreditation that will help students interact with “sophisticated people.”

Watch the clip above via Fox Nation.