She's in Los Angeles right now, away from her family. Thankfully, she tells me, she's not alone. "My best friend lives with me and if I didn't have her, I don't know what I would do," she says. "She is like my saviour." The pair of besties has what Petsch calls "an open dialogue." "If either of us are feeling depressed or anxious or anything like that, we just talk about it," she says. "And that really helps that I have that."