Millie Bobby Brown has revealed that she apologized to her Stranger Things co-stars after the series ended.
The “Enola Holmes” actress spoke candidly about falling into a “mild depression” after filming the long-running Netflix series during a live taping of Josh Horowitz’s podcast “Happy Sad Confused” in New York City on Wednesday, Variety reported.
“It was very difficult for me,” Brown said. “I never expected something like that to happen from the show. I’m a very lucky person.”
Brown said he tried to “repair” tensions with his co-stars, including David Harbour, Finn Wolfhard, Gaten Matarazzo, Noah Schnapp, Caleb McLaughlin and Winona Ryder.
“I was like, ‘We’re still friends, right? Are you going to stop talking to me?'” she recalled. “I was like, ‘I’m sorry if I offended you,’ and I was just trying to fix everything. ‘It’s been 10 years. I really want to be friends. You’re my brother.'”
“And I was on the beach and I just sat there and cried because it was so beautiful,” she continued. “It was a very difficult time for me.”
Brown, 22, also spoke about the immense impact playing Eleven on Stranger Things has had on her. The show ran for five seasons from 2016 to 2025.
“And no one will be able to figure it out,” she shared. “I started this show when I was 10 years old. This character was who I was, and these people were more than family to my life.”
“Rather than going home and having dinner with my family, I met these people. Saying goodbye after 10 years is very, very emotional, and I will miss Eleven more than anything,” she pointed out.
Brown experienced some friction on the set of Stranger Things, especially with Harbour, who played his adoptive father, Chief Jim Hopper, but the two have since reconciled.
Ahead of the Season 5 premiere last November, the Daily Mail reported that director Brown had filed complaints about Harbor before filming began on the series’ final season.
Harbor reportedly underwent an internal investigation into Brown’s claims, but the outcome of the investigation was unclear. Additionally, Brown reportedly filmed the series finale on set with a personal representative in tow.
Harbor admitted in an interview with Variety earlier this month that there was tension between her and Brown. He likened the show to a family that “occasionally has arguments and disagreements” but always “comes back together.”
Harbor also claimed that other people on the show’s set were “caught up” in the situation, but that things were “okay” after he and Brown “got everyone out of the way and talked it out with each other.”
“Everyone is so afraid to talk about things these days,” he reflected. “People are so scared of being human. It’s a shame, because I don’t know how to survive in this strange media world.”
“But it was completely normal,” he continued, “and we respect each other and always will.”
