Gillian Anderson recently sat down for an interview with The Guardian, where she opened up about her mental health. Here's what she had to say:
On hiring a history tutor due to memory issues:
“No, I’d thought let me start with a couple of things that I don’t actually know that much about, or I can’t remember that much about, which was the first and second world wars. But it was a disaster. Because I have no memory. I took notes, blah, blah, blah, but couldn’t remember a thing he taught me. Nothing. I’m not even sure, if you’d asked me the next day, I could have told you what I’d learned. You know, even my favourite books, I couldn’t tell you what they were about. It’s always been that way.”
On her ability to remember lines, despite her memory issues:
“But of course that’s terrifying for me, thinking, well, what if this problem that exists in the rest of my life shows up in that respect, too? Then I’d be buggered.”
On co-writing the book We: A Manifesto For Women Everywhere:
“I have struggled with self-esteem myself, and in looking at the ways that I have dealt with overcoming those things, I started to think that maybe some of it might be potentially useful for other people of all ages.”
On her own mental health struggles:
“There were times when it was really bad. There have been times in my life where I haven’t wanted to leave the house."
On what drives her to work:
“Well, the bigger-picture part is that I’m responsible for quite a lot of people financially, so it’s that. But it’s also a little bit of fear of what happens when one slows down. When I think about an empty period of time, fear comes up. I’m quite good at being on my own, so it’s not necessarily fear of myself, but probably fear of facing those things like: why do I drive myself so hard?”
Read the full interview at The Guardian.
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