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“I found the hardest thing was everyone saying, ‘Your life’s going to change.’
I go on the Tube, I’m not harassed all the time.
People are super-cool,” Ridley said.
In 2016, Ridley spoke out about her own experiences with both endometriosis and PCOS.
“At 15 I was diagnosed with endometriosis.
and my skin was THE WORST.
It felt nice to say.
Who cast me anyway?
Don’t they know real women haves [sic] curves?”
I’m a ‘real woman’ like every other women in this world."
Unfortunately, Daisy Ridley ran into issues again with online trolls in August 2016.
My body was just f***ed up.
I got tests done and it turned out my body was taking in no nutrients.
I was just like a little skeleton and I was just so tired.
I was becoming a ghost."
I’m coping fine.
Everything’s fine.'
And I was fine, for the most part.
In her aforementioned chat with GQ, Ridley opened up about filming those scenes.
“It was definitely difficult,” she said.
“It was emotional doing it, because you’re also weirdly picturing her.
You’re not picturing how the scene is going to be.
It’s really sad.
And it’s going to be really sad.
While Ridley never spoke about it with Mark Hamill “I would never presume.
“I just wanted to ask Billie how she was doing,” Ridley said.
I started screaming and he ran away.
But I can remember the utter fear that came over me.
I had to have some therapy after that, it really scared me.”
However, the actor explained that she still wouldn’t change anything about her involvement with the franchise.
I’ll always have it, and we’re all bonded by this incredible thing.”
I was grieving."
“The privilege I have how?
No, genuinely, how?”
“Well no, because, no.
… Also, I went to a boarding school for performing arts, which was different.
I’m not saying what you’re saying is wrong.
I’ve just never been asked that before, so I’m like, oh.
I don’t think so,” she explained.
DespiteRidley having a close relationship with her co-star Boyega, this comparison would be the blunder everyone talked about.
Right on cue, X erupted into criticism of the actor and her inability to recognize her privilege.
She said, “There weren’t that many offers coming in.
I remember finishing and thinking, ‘Oh, it’s quiet and strange.'”
Once these restrictions were lifted, returning to “normal” life proved to be challenging for many.
“I’m not the most social person,” she said.
“I find social interactions a lot of times quite difficult, unless there’s a reason.
Work meetings are fine.
If there’s a purpose, I’m fine.
But otherwise, I’ve always found social interactions difficult.
And coming out of the pandemic, there was this one dinner.
I thought, ‘This is really, really hard to just be with people.'”
“This is not a role in a movie.
This is a religion for people.
It changes things on a level that is inconceivable,” she recalled the director telling her early on.
And he was right.
However, once she recounted her symptoms to a doctor, Ridley learned more about her diagnosis.
She continued, “I didn’t realize how bad I felt before.
Then I looked back and thought, ‘How did I do that?’
It’s just normalized to not feel good.”
At first, Ridley was annoyed to receive the diagnosis because she had taken such good care of herself.
