Game of Thrones: Maisie Williams reveals her struggle with self-hate since becoming famous

Game of Thrones star Maisie Williams says she’s found it impossible to ignore negative comments since becoming famous.

Game of Thrones star Maisie Williams has revealed she struggles with feelings of self-hate.

The 22-year-old, who plays Arya Stark in the TV show, says she finds it impossible to turn a blind eye to negative social media comments, The Sun reports.

“I feel myself going down a rabbit hole, you’re almost craving something negative so you can sit in a hole of sadness,” she said.

“It got to me a lot because there’s just a constant feed in your back pocket of what people think of you.

Maisie Williams was getting paid $215,000 per episode for Game of Thrones.

“When people are on social media, they feel like whatever they write no-one’s gonna see it, no one’s gonna read it, but they do, and it will affect them for a really long time.

“I went through a huge period of my life where I’d tell myself every day that I hated myself. So many of these problems are really linked to things in your past — as soon as you start digging and start asking yourself bigger questions than: Why do I hate myself? It’s more: Why do you make yourself feel this way?”

Maisie Williams is besties with her Game of Thrones co-star, Sophie Turner.

Williams said she was “still definitely really struggling to let sadness wash over me without it consuming me”.

“There was a period of time that I was really sad, and then I sort of came out of that,” she said.

“It’s now really terrifying that you’re ever gonna slip back into it, and I think that’s something that I’m really working on.”

Rory McCann as Sandor ‘The Hound’ Clegane and Maisie Williams as Arya Stark.

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