Overview
- On Monday she told the Happy, Sad, Confused podcast that not attending public school while filming Stranger Things left her with limited peer socialization.
- She said growing up around mainly older men on production crews made her more comfortable with technical talk than the everyday subjects people her age discuss.
- Brown described struggling to respond to fans her own age and called the end of the show difficult, saying she fell into a slight depression after filming wrapped.
- For her mental health she deleted social apps from her phone in 2021 and now hires a manager to run posts while still writing her own captions.
- Her private life and career are shifting at once: she married Jake Bongiovi in May 2024, adopted a daughter last year, and is moving into new high-profile projects.