Millie Bobby Brown makes sad admission about how Stranger Things affected her life after joining cast aged 11

Millie Bobby Brown has opened up in a new interview about the more negative aspects to being a child star.

The actor, who is now 20, first appeared in Stranger Things at the age of just 11.

With the show’s final season still to release, Brown has spent her entire life in the spotlight, booking small parts in NCIS, Modern Family, and Grey’s Anatomy prior to her role as Eleven.

She was just 11 years old when she joined the cast (Netflix)

The Netflix show was, of course, life-changing, becoming one of the streamer’s most successful series ever, and season four being the most viewed show by hours watched in the streaming platform's history.

Despite this though, Brown has stated that appearing on the show had a truly sad effect on her young life.

She spoke to Vanity Fair in a new cover story ahead of the release of The Electric State, a new $320 million Netflix blockbuster she stars in alongside Chris Pratt.

In this, she said that growing up famous on the set of Stranger Things affected her ‘social development’.

The interviewer, Suzy Exposito, wrote: “Brown considers herself an extrovert but keeps to a small circle of friends.

The actor revealed how difficult it was to grow up on sets at age 11 (Arturo Holmes via Getty Images)

“She says that growing up in a bubble with her Stranger Things castmates limited her social development.

“They were schooled privately on set.

“They played games together between shoots.

“But then COVID isolated them even further, and eventually they grew into their respective acting careers.”

Bobby Brown went on to say she ‘doesn’t have many friends’ due to who she is, going on to add: “I didn’t go to school, so I don’t have the best social skills when it comes to people my own age and friendships.

“I struggle with that quite a bit. I missed out on a few things. But I’m working through them.”

Sadly, this is not the only admission in the article that will leave readers with a great deal of sympathy for the actor.

The Stranger Things star has spoken out in the past about the effect that being sexualised at a young age had on her, and how the whole cast dealt with inappropriate behaviour from adults when they were just kids.

Brown also spoke of how she was sexualised when she was still underage (Jun Sato via Getty Images)

The interviewer recounts a story in which, at the age of 13, a papparazi photographer snuck on to a closed set and took ‘invasive, voyeuristic shots’ of the child.

She said when discussing the experience: “I didn’t have nothing [on underneath].

“It wasn’t too much, but it was enough for it not to be okay.

“I think, just in general, there should be more laws with the media in terms of paparazzi, in terms of exploitation.”

Bobbie Brown stated that by 18, she felt constantly sexualised online by fans who were invasive of her privacy, leading to her deleting social media.

She said: “I was like, ‘Oh my goodness, this is making me feel horrible about myself’.

“I deleted it because I was becoming way too obsessed with the idea of becoming someone else.”

The actor now lives on a farm with her Husband Jake Bongiovi, and will star in the final season of Stranger Things, which is expected to release sometime in the back half of 2025 or early 2026.