Keira Knightley has admitted that she had to go through ‘many years of therapy’ after starring in Pirates Of The Caribbean.
The actor was just 17-years-old when she appeared as Elizabeth Swann in the first Pirates Of The Caribbean film The Curse of the Black Pearl, and became a global sensation.
And, although it skyrocketed her to unimaginable levels of fame and made her a household name, Keira Knightly, 38, has since confessed that it had quite a ‘traumatic’ impact on her.
Speaking about the fame levels she was dealing with as a teenager, Keira told Variety in a 2016 interview: “I found it pretty horrific. I’m not an extrovert, so I found that level of scrutiny and that level of fame really hard.
“It was an age where you are becoming, you haven’t become, and you need to make mistakes. It’s a very precarious age, particularly for women.
“You’re in some ways still a child. It was traumatic, but it set up the rest of my career.”
Thinking about her own daughter, Keira admitted that she ‘really, really, really’ hopes that she doesn’t get into acting.
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