Millie Bobby Brown revealed the biggest \u201clife skill\u201d she missed out on mastering, after spending her entire childhood on the \u201cStranger Things\u201d set.<\/p>\n
\u201cWell, I didn\u2019t go to public school, so maybe a bit of socialization,\u201d the actress, 22, shared on Monday\u2019s episode of the \u201cHappy, Sad, Confused\u201d podcast. <\/a><\/p>\n She explained how her lack of socialization with her own age group growing up has affected her. \u201cSometimes, when fans come up to me, they\u2019ll be like: \u2018Millie!\u2019 And I\u2019ll be like, \u2018Ahh!\u2019 And it\u2019s not because I\u2019ve \u2026 It\u2019s just I don\u2019t know how to react sometimes to people my own age. I have a harder time.\u201d<\/p>\n Millie Bobby Brown revealed an important life skill she missed out on learning, after spending her entire childhood on the \u201cStranger Things\u201d set. Josh Horowitz\/YouTube<\/p>\n Speaking on the \u201cHappy, Sad, Confused\u201d podcast, she admitted \u201csocialization\u201d was a weakness. (She\u2019s seen above in Season 4 of \u201cStranger Things.) \u00a9Netflix\/Courtesy Everett Collection<\/p>\n \u201cI grew up with primarily men on crews \u2014 let\u2019s change that \u2014 men over 40 years old,\u201d Brown explained. \u201cSo I heard a lot of adult talk growing up, and didn\u2019t really talk about the things you\u2019re meant to talk about as a kid.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cYou hear, \u2018Where\u2019s the grip? Let\u2019s grab a ladder,\u2019 you know, that\u2019s your whole conversation,\u201d she added.<\/p>\n \u201cSo I could talk to that person extensively for hours about different lens changes and shots, but I can\u2019t talk to you about, \u2018Oh my god, what bars do you like around this area?!\u2019 I\u2019m like, \u2018I don\u2019t know.\u2019 So I do lack a little bit of that.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cI heard a lot of adult talk growing up, and didn\u2019t really talk about the things you\u2019re meant to talk about as a kid.\u201d (Brown is seen front and center with her \u201cStranger Things\u201d costars.) \u00a9Netflix\/Courtesy Everett Collection \/ Everett Collection<\/p>\n \u201cYou hear, \u2018Where\u2019s the grip? Let\u2019s grab a ladder,\u2019 you know, that\u2019s your whole conversation,\u201d she explained. \u00a9Netflix\/Courtesy Everett Collection<\/p>\n \t\t\t\t\t\t\tWant more celebrity and pop culture news?\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n \n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tStart your day with Page Six Daily.\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n \t\t\t\t\t\tThanks for signing up!\n\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n Brown, however, labeled her husband, Jake Bongiovi, as \u201cthe most social butterfly\u201d and the \u201ccomplete opposite\u201d of her.<\/p>\n \u201cHe went to boarding school and college, so he is like a social butterfly,\u201d she continued. \u201cWhen I met him, I really tried to lean in more to that. So I\u2019m in my social era.\u201d<\/p>\n The \u201cEnola Holmes\u201d star also shared that she deleted her social media accounts from her phone in 2021 and has a manager post for her.<\/p>\n \u201cI couldn\u2019t do it anymore,\u201d Brown said. \u201cSo I needed to hire someone, for my mental health, to take care of it for me.\u201d<\/p>\n Brown said that her husband, Jake Bongiovi, is the \u201copposite\u201d of her and a \u201csocial butterfly.\u201d jakebongiovi\/Instagram<\/p>\n The couple, seen above, married in May 2024 and are parents to an adopted daughter. milliebobbybrown\/Instagram<\/p>\n The \u201cDamsel\u201d star reassured listeners that she still does her own captions, explaining, \u201cI still want to feel connected to my fans \u2026 I don\u2019t want to see what people have to say about it because I don\u2019t care.\u201d<\/p>\n Brown portrayed Eleven, also known as Jane Hopper, in all five seasons of \u201cStranger Things\u201d from 2016 to 2025.<\/p>\n Elsewhere in the podcast, Brown admitted that she fell into \u201ca slight depression\u201d<\/a>\u00a0when filming wrapped.<\/p>\n \u201cIt was very hard for me,\u201d she confessed. \u201cI would not have expected that coming off of the show. I\u2019m a very happy-go-lucky person.\u201d<\/p>\n Brown and Bongiovi have been\u00a0married since May 2024<\/a> and announced that they adopted a daughter last August in a joint statement shared via Instagram. The two have made sure to keep their baby out of the spotlight and have\u00a0yet to share her name publicly<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Millie Bobby Brown revealed the biggest \u201clife skill\u201d she missed out on mastering, after spending her entire childhood…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":770948,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[49,48,362,75,41880,41882,348],"class_list":["post-770947","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-celebrity-news","tag-entertainment","tag-millie-bobby-brown","tag-stranger-things","tag-tv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/770947","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=770947"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/770947\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/770948"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=770947"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=770947"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=770947"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}