Millie Bobby Brown opens up about anxiety spirals: 'I will never forget the feeling'

Millie Bobby Brown is opening up about anxiety. The 22-year-old actress revealed that a trip to Japan ended up playing a key role in her healing during one of the most difficult anxiety spirals of her life. 

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Brown was featured on "On Purpose," hosted by Jay Shetty, where she discussed her anxiety spirals and how they tend to affect her for windows of time. Brown discussed one of her most intense bouts of anxiety, which lasted three months and began when she and her security staff were chased by an unnamed party for 20 minutes. 

One of the things that helped her reconnect with herself and let go of the anxiety was a trip she took to Kyoto, where she visited some monks during her husband, Jake Bongiovi's birthday. 

“I went to Japan and I sat with these monks and it was the most amazing experience,” she said. “I'm getting teary-eyed talking about it, but it took me out of the cycle. I needed it.”

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“This one amazing gentleman who was like just so calm and almost felt like he saw me,” Brown said. “I was in the height of my anxiety at this point, it was like he knew that I was kind of broken. He was like, ‘We need to meditate.’”

“It was amazing. I will never forget the feeling.”

Brown revealed that she felt so light after the experience that she felt she took over Bongiovi's birthday celebration. “I remember being like, ‘I'm sorry, I feel like it's my birthday,’” she said. “Finally, peace in my heart. And my husband literally said, ‘You radiated this light after.’”

Brown on how her husband is part of her support system

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Throughout the conversation, Brown also revealed how Bongiovi helps her cope with her anxiety, always supporting her no matter her reaction.

“My husband's one of those people, he just never questions,” Brown said. “He's like, ‘What you're telling me, this is your truth. Even if this is your anxiety, you're still feeling it, it's still happening to you.’”

Brown revealed that addressing her anxiety and finding the tools to cope with it played a key role in her feeling ready to become a parent herself. She and Bongiovi are parents of a daughter, whom they adopted last summer.

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