For Williams, breaking the cycle of self-hatred meant breaking the consuming way that she used social media. “It’s something I’m really trying to break free from at the moment,” she said on the podcast.

When she started to interrogate why she felt the way that she did, she realised that “it was nothing to do with myself.”

Williams explained: “So many of these problems are really linked to things in your past, as soon as you start digging and start asking yourself bigger questions than: why do I hate myself? It’s more ‘Why do you make yourself feel this way?’”

Ensuring that she doesn’t let herself slip back into this negative thought cycle is something Williams works on every single day. “[I am] definitely really struggling to let sadness wash over me without it consuming me,” she explained. “There was a period of time that I was really sad and then I sort of came out of that. It’s now really terrifying [thinking] that you’re ever gonna slip back into it and I think that’s something that I’m really working on.”

The inspiring way Maisie Williams overcame years of crippling “self-hate”