While battling identity, anxiety and mental health issues as a child and young adult, Williams shared that she struggled to accept her relationship with her father, often blaming herself for the way she was treated.

“I was indoctrinated in a way. I think that’s why I’m obsessed with cults. My world flipped,” she said. “To be honest, I have been thinking about this a lot – it’s not because of me that these bad things happened when I was a child. I thought it was. I thought there was something inherently wrong with me.

“It made me more interested in the guy. What could make you mistreat your own children? What happened to you as a kid? Did you pull the legs off bugs? Did you learn all this?”

However, in portraying Stark across eight seasons of GOT, Williams said she found a place for her feelings and emotions in-character. “I’ve known how that feels, and it’s hugely influenced… I get to access all of that confusion and pain in my job, and really feel it in every fibre of my being… it’s all pretend but the emotion is real.. it all just came to the surface,” she told Bartlett.

Maisie Williams breaks down discussing childhood trauma in emotional interview with Steven Bartlett