Stone-cold panic EMMA'S TERRIFYING ORDEAL

Don't call her 'Poor Thing' - the star says her disorder is a superpower

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The twenty twenties are turning out to be quite the decade for Emma Stone. In just a few short years, the Cruella star has secretly tied the knot, quietly welcomed a baby daughter – and this month she won her second Golden Globe award for her role in the sci-fiblack comedy Poor Things.

For Emma, her screen success is all the sweeter considering the mental health battles she fought as a child and then again as a young adult.

Emma was just seven when she began suffering from crippling anxiety and panic attacks.

“The first time I had a panic attack, I was sitting in my friend’s house and I thought the house was burning down,” shares Emma, 35. “I called my mum and she brought me home, and for the next three years, it just wouldn’t stop.

“I’d go to the nurse at lunch most days and just wring my hands. I rang my mum and asked her to tell me exactly how the day was going to be… I just needed to know that no one was going to die and nothing was going to change.”

In the end, her parents sent her to therapy, which Emma says helped “in a big way” – and something else helped too: acting.

At the age of 11, she made her stage debut in a production of The Wind in the Willows