Shailene Woodley says her “debilitating” health condition often leaves her feeling “isolated and alone”. The ‘Big Little Lies’ star suffers from a condition she has never publicly named and very rarely speaks about, but in a new interview she admitted battling the illness has impacted her mental health, as it has forced her to turn down projects she really wanted to take part in.
She explained: “It was pretty debilitating. I said no to a lot of projects, not because I wanted to but because I physically couldn’t participate in them.
And I definitely suffered a lot more than I had to because I didn’t take care of myself. “The self-inflicted pressure of not wanting to be helped or taken care of created more physical unrest throughout those.