Maisie Williams (“Game of Thrones”) talks about her traumatic childhood

Maisie Williams, the actress who played Game of Thrones’ Arya Stark for eight seasons, visited Steven Bartlett’s podcast “The Diary Of A CEO” and There he talked about the traumatic relationship he had with his father and the abuse he endured during his childhood. Although she didn’t want to give too many details to protect her family, she explained during the interview that her parents separated when she was only four months old and that she later found out that what her mother had done was “escape” of the.

He was around 8 when he began to realize that something was not normal, that his home was not like that of the rest of the children around him: “For as long as I can remember I have been having trouble sleeping and I think a lot of traumatic things have happened that I didn’t realize were wrong then.”. Also remember to look at your schoolmates and think “Why do they seem not to understand things like pain, terror or fear? … Where does joy come from? How, when is it my turn?” It was a teacher who started asking him the right questions as if he had breakfast or if he ever had breakfast, until then Williams thought her mother “I was trying to get away from my father”but now she realizes it was in some sort of child cult that indoctrinated her against her: “It basically turned upside down in my head and even though I heard things like ‘Oh my God, I’m so glad I don’t have to see my dad again’, it contradicted everything I knew was true at the same time.” . describes it as “mental manipulation”.

accept the past

Williams no longer maintains a relationship with her father and continues to work to accept the past and deal with the trauma, managing not to blame for being abused: “These bad things didn’t happen to me as a child because of me”he says, even if he has come to think about it, “I thought there was something inherently wrong with me, or with us, because we were always doing a lot of wrong things, that’s why we were mistreated.” When his teacher called his mother and changed his custody, he went to live with her in official protection homes where they were supposed to. “juggle” always have food on the table. That situation changed dramatically when she was cast in the HBO series at age 12 and all of her financial woes ended. She also acknowledges that she feels privileged because she, she says, “I’ll never know what it’s like to struggle to find a job or not be able to pay rent, but I also know that while money can help make a lot of problems go away, it’s not enough to take away the pain.”.

While none of his later works have had a level of impact similar to that of ‘Game of Thrones’, it’s not that it has stopped: he had starring roles in “The New Mutants” and “The Owners”, and starred in the ‘Two Weeks to Live’ and ‘Gen: Lock’ series as well as playing Pamela Rooke, also known as Jordan, in the ‘Pistol’ series directed by Danny Boyle.