Game of Thrones star Maisie Williams reveals her struggle with self-hate since becoming famous
GAME Of Thrones star Maisie Williams has revealed she struggles with feelings of self-hate.
The 22-year-old, Arya Stark in the TV hit, said she finds it impossible to turn a blind eye to negative social media comments.
She added: “I feel myself going down a rabbit hole, you’re almost craving something negative so you can sit in a hole of sadness.
“It got to me a lot because there’s just a constant feed in your back pocket of what people think of you.
“When people are on social media they feel like whatever they write, no-one’s gonna see it, no one’s gonna read it but they do and it will affect them for a really long time.
“I went through a huge period of my life where I’d tell myself every day that I hated myself.
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So many of these problems are really linked to things in your past, as soon as you start digging and start asking yourself bigger questions than: Why do I hate myself? It’s more: Why do you make yourself feel this way?”
Williams said she is “still definitely really struggling to let sadness wash over me without it consuming me”.
“There was a period of time that I was really sad and then I sort of came out of that,” she said.
“It’s now really terrifying that you’re ever gonna slip back into it and I think that’s something that I’m really working on.”
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