Lucas mentioned the interval in his new documentary, “Freeze.”
In Freeze, a newly launched documentary on YouTube following the resumption of his actions, NCT member Lucas spoke overtly and actually about his well-being throughout his prolonged hiatus.
Throughout the first a part of his documentary, Lucas sat down for a meal along with his supervisor, the place the 2 talked in regards to the time interval after the controversy that noticed him withdraw from NCT. “I hadn’t gone out for six months straight,” Lucas recalled, along with his supervisor including, “You have been so burdened at the moment.”

Lucas went on to say that he stayed in his room for round half a yr with no want to do something. “I had plenty of ideas,” he advised the digicam in an apart, revealing that the hiatus took a toll on his well-being. “My hair stored falling out,” stated Lucas, explaining that each time he ran his fingers by means of his hair, it was pulled out in clumps. On high of that, Lucas said that he couldn’t eat correctly “as a result of I had no urge for food.”

Alongside bodily signs of stress, Lucas additionally opened up in regards to the emotions he had following throughout the six-month interval, together with the “horrible ideas” that went by means of his thoughts.
I had horrible ideas. I used to be so sorry I needed to die, as a result of actually, it was all my fault. Had I not accomplished that, this wouldn’t have occurred.
— Lucas
Recalling the time from his personal viewpoint, Lucas’s supervisor said that he was “a bit nervous” and “a bit pissed off too.” With Lucas’s hair rising longer regardless of the thinning, his supervisor stated he determined to make use of the chance to get him out of the home, seemingly breaking him out of his time spent indoors.

Your hair bought too lengthy, however you stated you didn’t wish to go to the identical store, so I assumed I ought to take you to a spot that’s crowded as an alternative. I needed to convey you out into the surface world.
— Lucas’s supervisor
The supervisor continued to say that he talked quite a bit with Lucas throughout the six months, together with about how busy Lucas’s life in NCT was. Concurring, Lucas stated, “I’ve been busy on a regular basis. I solely centered on my work. I didn’t know what was taking place exterior.”

Whereas staying inside on a regular basis (and dealing on a regular basis), in some unspecified time in the future, I exploded. I don’t know methods to describe it; it simply felt like I used to be exploding.
— Lucas
“That was once I gave up on myself,” he stated. Regardless of the darkish ideas and tough occasions the pair mentioned throughout his hiatus, Lucas described their connection positively. Talking frankly, Lucas advised his supervisor, “Truthfully, you aren’t only a supervisor to me. You’re my pal.”

That’s once I realized, I forgot a very powerful folks in my life and those that are the nicest to me. That was what got here to my thoughts.
— Lucas