Maisie Williams — or as many of us know her, Arya Stark, has revealed that all that glitters is not gold. There's a dark side to being famous.
Maisie Williams — or as many of us know her, Arya Stark, has revealed that all that glitters is not gold. There's a dark side to being famous.
There may be a ton of perks to being in the limelight, but there's a catch — it may cost you your mental health.
Sophie Turner has also given us a glimpse at how her mental health has been affected by being on GoT.
She also shared that issues with mental health run in her family.
"I think it was a combination of social media [being] on the rise at that time and also my friends were going to university, and I wasn't going to university," she revealed to Dr. Phil.
"It was just a lot of weight comments," she said.
"I used to get a lot of comments about my skin and my weight and how I wasn't a good actress."
"I had no motivation to do anything or go out," she admitted. "Even with my best friends; I wouldn't want to see them; I wouldn't want to go out and eat with them."
"It would just affect me creatively, and I couldn't be true to the character because I was so worried about Sophie," she said.
She recently revealed in a podcast that she would let the negative criticisms get to her and it caused her to start hating herself.
She then revealed that even while she was with her friends, she would feel anxious — overanalyzing herself and reading into small details, blowing them out of proportion.
"And thinking about all the stupid things I’ve said in my life and all the people who’ve looked at me a certain way.”
“This is why people go insane; I get it now,” she said.
“It gets to a point where you’re almost craving something negative so you can sit in a hole of sadness, and it’s really bizarre the way it starts to consume you.”
“Honestly, I want a normal life with people that I love and people I know are true and care about me,” she said.
“I don’t want any of this crazy, crazy world because it’s not worth it," she said.