Oscar winner Emma Stone has revealed that she has been dealing with anxiety since her childhood.

The actor, said she had been in therapy for anxiety while she was just seven.

“I was a very, very anxious child and I had a lot of panic attacks. I benefited in a big way from therapy – I started it at seven. Acting and improvisation helped me so much,” she said.

Stone said while growing up she never believed that she would be able to leave Arizona but she moved to Hollywood for a career in acting when she was 15.

Stone won the Best Actress Oscar for her role in ‘La La Land’.

Emma Stone, who is currently busy in promoting her upcoming movie ‘Battle of the Sexes,’ has revealed about a real-life ‘battle’ that she has been battling since the age of seven.

While appearing on a talk show, the Oscar-winning actress spoke about living with anxiety from a very young age. Stone was asked by the host to elaborate on the meaning behind a picture she’d drawn when she was 9, which featured the words ‘I’m bigger than my anxiety’.

She replied, “I drew this in therapy. I was a very, very, very anxious child, and I had a lot of panic attacks. I benefited in a big way from therapy. I started at 7.”

She also added, “This is me, I guess, and this is anxiety, a little green monster that looks a little bit like, as someone backstage said, a uterus with some ovaries. I didn’t mean it to be hormonally related in any way, as I said, I was 9.” The ‘La La Land’ actress shared that both her acting and early improvisational work helped her so much with her anxiety.

But her anxiety hasn’t been limited to those days, and her ideas about what’s therapeutic have expanded since then. She noted, “I still have anxiety to this day but not panic attacks.” This is not the first time Emma Stone has talked about her struggles with anxiety, revealing in an interview back in January that it was “just the way I’m wired.”