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I'm fiercely independent, but I'm also terrified of being alone.

I was really scared to stay home alone when I was kid, and I would freak out whenever there was a noise after my parents left.

I've always had a huge fear of dying or becoming ill. The thing I'm most afraid of, though, is being alone, which I think a lot of performers fear. It's why we seek the limelight - so we're not alone, were adored. We're loved, so people want to be around us. The fear of being alone drives my life.

When I was younger, I was afraid to be myself.

When I was a kid, I was afraid of other kids.

My whole life I've had the fear that I was going to be abandoned.

I was afraid of not living up to what people expected me to be.

I've been absolutely terrified every moment of my life - and I've never let it keep me from doing a single thing I wanted to do.

The first several years of my life were used to upload incredible amounts of fear, and I just became afraid of everything. I was afraid of my parents, afraid of my classmates, afraid of the streets of Washington, D.C. I would flinch at every gesture.