Maisie Williams Says Her Father Often Left Her ‘Hungry’: He Did A Lot Of ‘Traumatic Things’

Maisie Williams, 25, who plays Arya Stark connected the deed HBO bid Game of Thrones, got candid astir her “traumatic” puerility connected the latest occurrence of The Diary Of A CEO podcast connected Sept. 25. During the interview, she told the host, Steven Bartlett, astir her experiences increasing up with her dad. “Well, I, arsenic a young kid earlier the property of eight, had rather a traumatic narration with my dad,” Maisie said. “I don’t truly privation to spell into it excessively overmuch due to the fact that it affects my siblings and my full family, but that truly consumed a batch of my childhood.” Later successful the interview, she went connected to recount a representation of her puerility erstwhile a schoolhouse teacher asked her if she was hungry, to which Maisie replied, “yes.” She besides told her teacher that she didn’t typically devour breakfast.

After recounting this intelligibly achy memory, the Pistols star broke down successful tears to Steven. “They were asking the close questions,” Maisie said earlier covering her look arsenic she cried. “I bash deliberation it’s important due to the fact that I had truthful galore radical who loved and cared astir maine truthful much, but I had ne'er been asked the close questions wherever I could truly accidental what was wrong,” she added. After her ma came to prime her up from schoolhouse that day, the histrion shared that it was “the archetypal clip that each of the doors were benignant of unfastened and each of these things that we were experiencing were retired connected the table.”

It was astatine this constituent during the interrogation that Maisie told Steven that she a portion of “a cult” successful her childhood. “I was indoctrinated successful a way. I deliberation that’s wherefore I’m obsessed with cults. I get it. I get it. I was successful a child cult against my mother… So I truly was warring it successful the beginning,” she shared. “My full satellite flipped connected its head. Even though each these things that I was feeling, I thought ‘oh my God I’m truthful gladsome I don’t person to spot my Dad anymore.’ It inactive was similar against everything that I had ever known to beryllium true.”

Maisie Williams is an histrion astir known for her relation arsenic Arya Stark successful ‘Game of Thrones.’ (Ash Knotek/Shutterstock)

Steven besides touched upon the thought of “two truths” and “conflicting emotions” erstwhile idiosyncratic successful a cult finds the quality to leave. Maisie added her feelings connected that sentiment arsenic well. “You tin consciousness truthful liberated and escaped and astatine the aforesaid clip that impending doom is benignant of inactive there, each your problems don’t conscionable spell away,” she said. The 25-year-old besides explained that erstwhile idiosyncratic leaves a cult they tin “still attraction astir that person” and “understand the symptom oregon immoderate that led to those precise very mediocre decisions.”

The podcast big past asked Maisie however she feels astir her dada today. “To beryllium honorable with you I’ve been reasoning astir this a lot. I’ve been trying to bash this happening wherever I stopped taking things personally … not conscionable erstwhile someone’s had a atrocious time and they propulsion successful beforehand of you successful the queue. But the large things successful life,” she said. “What if I said it wasn’t due to the fact that of maine that that happened? If I wasn’t determination it would’ve been idiosyncratic else. It’s not due to the fact that thing is incorrect with maine that these things happened erstwhile I was a child.”

She aboriginal went connected to stock that she ever felt similar she was doing thing incorrect arsenic a child, but grew to admit it was not astir her specifically. “Especially due to the fact that it was a parent, I felt similar ‘oh they’re expected to similar you’ but past I was similar ‘what if there’s nary transportation betwixt maine being his daughter’ and it could’ve been virtually anyone experiencing that symptom and it would inactive beryllium the same,” Maisie added. The TV star concluded connected this information of the interrogation that being capable to “separate” herself from her father’s behaviour allowed her to “reflect” and adjacent made her “more funny successful the guy.” The astir two-hour-long interrogation tin beryllium watched astatine the apical of this communicative oregon connected the The Diary Of A CEO’s YouTube channel.

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