Millie Bobby Brown Opens Up About 'Soul-Breaking' Bullying She Still Experiences Today

Stranger Things star Millie Bobby Brown is working to help end bullying – partly because it also happened to her.


The 15-year-old star, who portrays Eleven in the massively popular Netflix series, was crowned Unicef's youngest Goodwill Ambassador in 2018 after the work she's done in the past with anti-bullying campaigns. Unfortunately, her support for those going through complicated situations where bullying is involved came from a very personalized place, as Brown noticed herself dealing with it at an earlier age.





"I was bullied at school back in England. I actually switched schools because of it, it congregated a lot of anxiety and issues that I still deal with today," she shared in a new Glamour interview where she and fellow actor Orlando Bloom discussed what it means to her to be an activist.


“I have dealt with situations both in real life and online that are soul-breaking and yes it genuinely hurts reading some of the things people have said,” she continued. "Being in this industry we have become so aware of negativity and it’s made me appreciate the passion so much more. People receive so much love on social media and then only concentrate on the hate."


Brown has continued to use her platform as a crucial way to speak out on the issues that matter to her, as she used her Preference TV Actress Award acceptance speech from the 2018 Kids' Choice Awards to speak out about crimes committed with guns, honoring the victims of the Parkland school shootings with a special T-shirt. She also discussed out about bullying throughout the 2018 MTV Movie & TV Awards.


Shortly subsequently, Brown accepted the role of Unicef's youngest-ever Goodwill Ambassador on World Children's Day, vowing to "speak out for the millions of children whose voices have been silenced for far also long."


"Young people’s lives are more and more under pressure," she told Bloom, speaking on what trim like to carry out throughout the role. "First of all, I'd like to create ensure that children are protected from violence and exploitation. I also aspire to combat the negativity on social media – I have experienced it – it’s like an infection. It’s negative hate that is genuinely so horrifying to me."


Brown will be making her big-screen debut in Godzilla: King of the Monsters on May 31, 2019.