Emma Stone: I started therapy for anxiety when I was seven
Emma Stone has revealed she started therapy for anxiety when she was seven years old.
In an interview on The Late Show With Stephen Colbert, she talked about having panic attacks and being an "anxious child". Stone, 28, brought along a drawing she made in therapy aged nine, and talked about how acting has helped her feel less anxious. "I still have anxiety to this day but not panic attacks," she said. The actress, who stars in her upcoming film Battle of the Sexes - about the 1973 tennis match between champions Billie Jean King and Bobby Riggs - has spoken about having anxiety in the past. As a child she believed she would never be able to leave her native Arizona, but by age 15 she was able to move to Hollywood. She explained her drawing, saying: "So I was nine and in therapy at that time, this is me with anxiety who is a little green monster. "I was a very, very anxious child and I had a lot of panic attacks. I benefited in a big way from therapy - I started it at seven. "Acting and improvisation helped me so much." This is not the first time Stone has spoken about her problems with anxiety; she was part of a campaign with charity Child Mind Institute in May. In a video made for a charity campaign, she said: "Life goes in stages, and it has always been something that I've lived with and that flares up in big ways at different times in my life. "But sometimes when it's happening, when I'm in a phase of real turmoil or the anxiety is very strong, it feels like the anxiety is never going to end, and it does." Stone says she now lives a more balanced life because she has managed her anxiety with "great therapists and great cognitive behavioural tools". Celebrities who have spoken out about their anxiety Follow us on Facebook, on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts, or on Instagram at bbcnewsents. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.