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Millie Bobby Brown<\/a> has a monk to thank for helping her overcome a three-month anxiety<\/a> attack.<\/p>\n The Stranger Things<\/em><\/a>actress, 22, opened up about how she was able to move past a “traumatizing” experience during a trip to Japan on the Monday, July 13, episode of the On Purpose With Jay Shetty<\/em><\/a> podcast.<\/p>\n Brown revealed that after being “chased” by people in public, she felt like she “shut down” with anxiety for three months.<\/p>\n “It was a really traumatizing 20 minutes. It was very intense, very scary<\/a>,” she recalled. “I feel like I shut down, and I shut down for three months. In that moment, something switched in my mind.”<\/p>\n It was only when Brown took a trip to Japan with husband Jake Bongiovi<\/a>, 24, that she found an unexpected release. The Enola Holmes 3 <\/em>actress said she met “one amazing Japanese gentleman” at a Kyoto retreat inhabited by monks, who “was just so calm and almost felt like he saw me.”<\/p>\n “I was in the height of my anxiety at this point. He knew that I was kind of broken,” she recalled, adding, “He was like, ‘We need to meditate,’ and I was like, ‘OK.'”<\/p>\n She continued, “We meditated in this garden for five minutes. I meditated with 50 people. It was not just us\u2014it was a bunch of tourists like us. And it was amazing, and I will never forget the feeling.”<\/p>\n While it was Bongiovi’s birthday<\/a>, Brown said she felt like she was the one who had received “the biggest gift of all,” which was “peace<\/a> in [her] heart.”<\/p>\n “My husband literally said, ‘You radiated this light after,'” she remembered. “It was exactly what I needed.”<\/p>\n Looking back on the encounter with the monk, Brown said, “I’m a believer in divine intervention, and I think that was a moment where God was like, ‘You need to take a break and sit there and figure out what’s going on in your head.’ I think that healed me<\/a> in a lot of ways.”<\/p>\n This story was originally published by <\/em>Parade<\/em><\/a> on Jul 14, 2026, where it first appeared in the <\/em>News<\/em><\/a> section. 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