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**Jay Shetty** (0:01)
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I think we have to start by getting out of the way that you're a Liverpool fan.

**Millie Bobby Brown** (0:36)
Yes.

**Jay Shetty** (0:36)
And I'm a Manchester United fan.

**Millie Bobby Brown** (0:37)
Yes, I know.

**Jay Shetty** (0:38)
But we're going to have to put that aside.

**Millie Bobby Brown** (0:40)
I've even been able to befriend Steven Gerrard.

**Jay Shetty** (0:43)
Wow, now you're showing off.

**Millie Bobby Brown** (0:44)
I know. There we go.

**Jay Shetty** (0:47)
Hey, it's Jay. I don't know what your day's been like, but I was just thinking about you for a minute. And I hope you're being a little patient with yourself because you deserve it, and yeah, I'll talk to you soon.
Millie Bobby Brown, welcome to On Purpose.

**Millie Bobby Brown** (1:13)
Thank you for having me.

**Jay Shetty** (1:14)
It's so great to have you here. I was just telling you, I've been waiting three years to have you in the seat. So, if it was surreal.

**Millie Bobby Brown** (1:20)
I don't know if I would have been as interesting three years ago.

**Jay Shetty** (1:23)
Well, that's great then, everything always works out.

**Millie Bobby Brown** (1:25)
Exactly.

**Jay Shetty** (1:26)
But when you look at your life today, what would 11 year old Millie be most surprised about, or look at and be shocked about?

**Millie Bobby Brown** (1:34)
I don't know. I was gonna say she'd be shocked how vocal I am about me and my life and the things I believe in, and how vocal I am outwardly about that. But then I actually thinking about it, probably I'm not that shocked about that because I think maybe I inevitably that was always gonna come to be.
Maybe that I have like I travel a lot and I live in a lot of different places. I don't know if I necessarily thought that was gonna happen to me, but it has and I'm very grateful for that.

**Jay Shetty** (2:11)
Going back to that 11-year-old Millie, what's a childhood memory that you have that you think defines who you are today or has had an impact on who you've become today? Is there one that stands out?

**Millie Bobby Brown** (2:20)
I think the moment I shaved my hair off was a pretty like impactful moment. I remember when it was happening, I thought, wow, this is like, this is really like me showing my dedication to my job. Like I was 10 years old, your hair as a girl is told is kind of like what defines you as being kind of a girl and pretty and you know, whatever. And I just didn't care about that. I wanted to do what made me happy. And so for me, that was this job. And so shaving my hair off, I'd say was a pretty defining moment.
Just as like a purse and I was like, and I was 10, so I wasn't thinking that deeply about it. But in the moment, I guess I kind of was when I, I started it and my mom was really like trying to just help me understand, like, you know, no matter what people are going to say about you, what they're going to think, you know, because she's preparing me, she's a logistical person.
She's like, you did this because you wanted to do it and this made you happy. And that really helped me because she prefaced it because it did happen. Like for a year or two after, I definitely, I got bullied in person at a young age for having short hair.
And I think had my mum not prefaced it, maybe it would have hit home harder.

**Jay Shetty** (3:40)
Well, so you're saying that that actually protected you from that bullying that came after you.

**Millie Bobby Brown** (3:43)
Yeah, because my bully was like, really? That's what will happen? And she was like, I know the world, you know? And so she was so right because I had been in many situations where I was made fun of for it. And then I just came back with what my mom and I talked about, which is like, well, I did this because this made me happy and I'm getting to live out my dreams.