- Friday, July 3, 2026

Actress Millie Bobby Brown said she believes she lived a past life as a closeted gay soldier who died after being run through with a sword, according to an Entertainment Weekly report

Ms. Brown, 22, best known for her role in “Stranger Things,” shared the theory during a recent interview with her “Enola Holmes 3” co-star, Louis Partridge, produced by the outlet Capital Buzz.

“Oh, I actually know exactly who I was,” she told Mr. Partridge, explaining that a birthmark on her lower back is “obviously meant to be the way that you died in your past life.” 



Ms. Brown went on to describe how she believes the death occurred. She said that in wartime, soldiers were sometimes killed by having swords pushed up through their spines to inflict a slow, paralyzing death, and that she believes this is how she died in a former life as a soldier. 

Ms. Brown said she is confident she was “definitely a man” in that past life, adding, “Hopefully a closeted gay man.” Mr. Partridge, for his part, told her he does not believe in past lives, to which she replied, “OK, well, that ends that then,” according to the report. 

Asked what she thinks happens after death, Ms. Brown said simply, “You go to heaven. That’s what I believe.”

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