“I sent the therapist an email being like, ‘I’m so embarrassed. I’m so sorry. I know I need to control myself,’” she remembered. “And he called me, which he hadn’t done before, and was like, ‘No, I’m so proud of you.’ And that’s when I knew, like, ‘Oh, something has shifted.’”
As she added, “Things ended pretty quickly after.”
So when it came time to decide whether to take on Alice Darling, Anna didn’t want anyone swaying her decision.
“It’s a similar thing where it was like pushing myself off of a cliff and not giving myself the time to go, ‘Is this a good choice?’” she remembered. “Because I just didn’t want somebody to tell me—maybe this is the childhood thing of, like, ‘I don’t want you to tell me it’s bedtime.’ Like, ‘I need to do this. I’m gonna do this.’”
