Game of Thrones' Maisie Williams Recalls Her "Traumatic" Childhood

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Maisie Williams is speaking retired astir her past. 

The Game of Thrones star discussed her "traumatic" puerility and however her upbringing affected her arsenic she grew up. The 25-year-old histrion recounted harrowing moments from her adolescence that person stuck with her passim her life.

"I don't privation to spell into it excessively overmuch due to the fact that it affects my siblings and my full family," Maisie said during a Sept. 26 podcast occurrence of The Diary of a CEO. "But, like, that truly consumed a batch of my childhood."

She added, "Ever since I tin remember, I've truly struggled sleeping."

The prima went connected to stock that portion "a batch of the traumatic things" were happening during her childhood, but astatine the time, she "didn't recognize that they were wrong."

Maisie noted that she has since struggled with her individuality and mental health arsenic a result. As an adult, she's present been capable travel to presumption with the information astir her past. 

"To beryllium honest, I person been reasoning astir this a lot," she explained. "It's not due to the fact that of maine that these atrocious things happened erstwhile I was a child."

She admitted, "I thought it was. I done determination was thing inherently incorrect with me, that it could beryllium anyone experiencing the pain."

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Previously, the histrion has been unfastened astir her intelligence health journey, and however fame astatine an early property impacted her wellbeing. She archetypal started acting successful 2011 erstwhile she was formed successful Game of Thrones from ages 12-22.

"It's conscionable a changeless provender successful your backmost pouch of what radical deliberation of you," she said in a 2019 podcast occurrence of Happy Place. "And I deliberation we'd each similar to accidental that we would crook a unsighted oculus and wouldn't care, but it's intolerable to do."

Maisie besides shared successful that occurrence that she was learning to absorption connected herself to scope a consciousness of happiness. 

"It sounds truly hippy-dippy and similar look wrong you to find peace, but it is true," she said astatine the time. "At the extremity of your day, you're making yourself consciousness this mode for a reason."

She is presently filming The New Look, a TV bid that volition research the emergence of manner decorator Christian Dior.

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