Stark social media issue for Maisie
BY JULIA HUNT GAME of Thrones star Maisie Williams has told how she struggles with feelings of self-hate.
She added that it has been “impossible to turn a blind eye” to negative comments on social media since becoming famous.
The actress rose to fame playing Arya Stark in the hit fantasy drama in 2011, the year she turned 14.
Speaking to Fearne Cotton on her Happy Place podcast, she said: “When people are on social media, they feel like whatever they write, no one’s going to see it, no one’s going to read it but they do and it will affect them for a really long time.”
Williams said she went through a phase of feeling she hated herself.
Sh added: “It’s something I’m really trying to break free from at the moment.” BY MARTIN BAGOT DEATHS from heart attacks and strokes in under-75s have risen for the first time in half a century.
Improvements in heart and circulatory disease mortality rates have slowed as the population gets older and fatter, analysis shows.
A report by the British Heart Foundation reveals the proportion of younger people dying from these causes is increasing.
Those aged under 75 were also found to now account for almost a third of such deaths.
Heart and circulatory diseases cause a quarter of all deaths in Britain and kill an average of 420 people every day.
People in Scotland are four times more likely to die of heart disease than those in other parts of the UK, the BHF claimed.
Despite recent efforts by the Scottish NHS to tackle the country’s appalling heart disease record, it remains one of the leading causes of death.
Figures from Chest Heart & Stroke Scotland reveal that chest, heart and stroke conditions account for 40 per cent of all adult deaths in Scotland.
Every day, 25 people in Scotland will have a stroke, 30 people will have a heart attack and 46 people will be diagnosed with heart failure, the charity said.
In January, it was reported that heart attack and death rates had increased in Highland, Western Isles and Shetland council areas.
Simon Gillespie, chief executive at the BHF, said: “In the UK, we had made phenomenal progress in reducing the number of people who die of a heart attack or stroke.
“We are deeply concerned by this reversal.”
Latest available data shows 42,384 people aged under 75 suffered deaths caused by heart and circulatory disease, such as heart attacks and strokes, during 2017.
This was up from 41,042 during 2014.