Anne Hathaway Says She Battled Depression
Anne Hathaway says she suffered from anxiety and depression in her teens, but that she rejected medication and instead worked through her troubles.
“I said to Mom the other day, ‘Do you remember that girl? She has now gone, gone to sleep. She has said her piece and she is gone,’ ” Hathaway, 24, tells Britain’s Tatler magazine. “But then I thought, ‘I so remember her, only she is no longer part of me.’ ”
She continues, “I am sorry she was hurting for so long. It’s all so negatively narcissistic to be so consumed with self.”
Next up, Hathaway will star as Jane Austen in the movie Becoming Jane. Why play the legendary author? Because of one of her idols, Emma Thompson. “I was having doubts,” she says. “But then I met Emma, who asked me what I was doing. I couldn’t tell her I was not going to play Jane Austen. So I just did it.”
Hathaway, who’s been dating real estate developer Raffaello Follieri, 27, for three years, lives in New York City – because she can’t live in Los Angeles. “I am too pale and I don’t drive,” she says.
July 10th, 2007 at 3:18 pm
would be nice if all of us could reject our meds–I did that i’d be dead
September 4th, 2007 at 8:27 am
A very inspiring story. I do believe it helps to know that someone considered as successful as Anne also has had her demons in the past. Depression is such a common afflcition for many people who then suffer in silence.
January 8th, 2008 at 7:24 pm
There are so many different degrees of depression. For some people alternative medicine works, for others a change in lifestyle and then there are others who do need prescription drugs. My sister suffers from Clinical Depression and has tried so many options but the only one that worked was drugs.
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