Millie Bobby Brown, 19, still asks her parents to watch her
Millie Bobby Brown has revealed she still asks her parents to accompany her to work even though she’s 19.
The Stranger Things Star began working as a professional actress at the age of nine and said she is so close to her mother and father that she still asks them to work with her since she grew up.
Brown told Lorraine: “My parents are the best thing ever. I’m best friends with them.”
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“When I turned 18, I said, ‘You’re still coming, right?’ I always needed a companion and said, “I still need you.”
“So they accompany me everywhere and are an important part of my life because they are the reason I am where I am today.”
The “Enola Holmes” star is engaged to Jake Bongiovi, 21, the son of rock singer Jon Bon Jovi.
Of her upcoming wedding, she said, “It’s really, really exciting.”
Brown said Bongiovi shared her desire to have a separate personal life alongside her fame.
She said: “This is really important because it’s something that my parents, my family and my fiancé value.”
She added of her fiancé: “There are a lot of insights [into fame] exactly there.
The actress, who has published a novel based on stories her grandmother told her about World War II, also revealed that her parents encouraged her to go back to school and study even though she was 12 years old achieved worldwide fame as Eleven in “Stranger Things”.
She said: “I am a UNICEF ambassador and I take this role very seriously. And that’s why I wanted to go back to school, just to learn more about economic and cultural issues, just like, you know.” I want to look at this information from a broader perspective so that I can really bring something to the role.
“I think that’s something my parents instilled in me too, because I think they said: If you’re passionate about it, you have to know about it. And that applies to everything I do.”
The Godzilla star was born in Spain to British parents and moved to America with her family when she was eight, after living in Bournemouth for several years.
In 2020, she lost her grandmother Ruth to Alzheimer’s disease.
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Brown said of compiling her debut novel, Nineteen Steps, based on her grandmother’s experiences, “It was really healing.”
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