Well, when I was little, about eight years old, I had a traumatic relationship with my father. I don’t want to get too involved in this topic because it affects my brothers and my whole family. But those circumstances consumed a good part of my childhood.”
He did not want to go into details about the abusive and denigrating bond that his mother would have been a victim of, but the actress Maisie Williams, known for playing Arya Stark in ‘Game of Thrones’, has made it very clear that her childhood was “ traumatic” due to her father’s behavior and the negligent role he would have played in her upbringing and in many other aspects.
On her way through the podcast ‘Diary of a CEO’, the English interpreter could not help but break into tears at certain moments of the talk, remembering that her childhood was markedly marked by the toxic relationship she had with her father, of who came to defend the indefensible because of the love she professed for him, her immaturity and the fact that she was “indoctrinated” during the first decade of her life.
“Well, when I was little, about eight years old, I had a traumatic relationship with my father. I don’t want to get too involved in this topic because it affects my brothers and my whole family. But those circumstances consumed a good part of my childhood. Every time I think about it, it really is hard for me to sleep ”, she has assured about the effect that these adversities have today, when the actress is already 25 years old.
Although she finally decided to break all ties with her father, such a task was not easy for her because of the mixed feelings caused by the lack of a good paternal reference. It was during a school day when all the alarms went off about the problems that the little girl was going through: “The teacher asked me if I had had breakfast that morning, I answered no and she asked me if she ate breakfast most mornings. And I told him no. She was asking me the right questions. One day, my mother came to school to pick me up and all the doors opened there. But I kept fighting, defending that nothing was wrong. She just said that everyone wanted to separate me from my father, ”she recounted.