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Millie Bobby Brown Says Growing Up on Stranger Things Left Her Short on Social Skills

Her June 29 podcast interview explains how a decade on set shaped her social life, mental-health choices and approach to work.

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.