Millie Bobby Brown opens up about online bullying and sexualisation as a child star
nme.comMillie Bobby Brown has opened up about the negative impact that commentary on social media had on her as a child star, eventually forcing her to delete all platforms from her phone.In a new profile with Allure, the Stranger Things star discussed facing online bullying and inappropriate sexualisation for years amid her breakout role as Eleven in the Netflix series – when she was just 12 years old.“It’s really hard to be hated on when you don’t know who you are yet,” Brown told the publication. “It’s like, ‘What do they hate about me? ‘Cause I don’t know who I am.’ It’s almost like, ‘Okay, I’m going to try being this today.’ [And then they say], ‘Oh, no, I hate that.’ ‘Okay.
Forget that. I’m going to try being this today.’ ‘Oh, my God! I hate when you do that.'”She continued: “Then you just start shutting down because you’re like, ‘Who am I meant to be?
Who do they need me to be for them?'” As a result, Brown no longer has social media on her phone, and has deleted all profiles except for Instagram and Facebook, which someone else runs.
She added that she went to therapy to deal with the bullying she had faced online.“I started to grow more, and my family and friends really helped.
