Shailene Woodley "couldn't walk for longer than five minutes at a time" while shooting the 'Divergent' movies. The 32-year-old actress played Beatrice Prior in the sci-fi film trilogy between 2014 and 2016 - but Shailene has now admitted to battling some debilitating physical symptoms on set. The Hollywood star said on the 'She MD' podcast: "I haven’t spoken about what exactly it was because that feels like a personal thing that I don’t need to disclose.
"I was in a position in my early 20s, it got to the point where I was losing my hearing, I couldn’t walk for long periods of time without having to lay down for hours and hours and sleep. Everything I ate hurt my stomach." Shailene recalled going on a "long journey" with her health troubles, as she searched for a solution.
She said: "It was this conflation of issues and diagnoses and different doctors telling me different things. "I come from a very holistic background and studied herbalism so I was really keen on, ‘Alright I’m gonna work with real MDs and I’m gonna work with independent healers.’ And I was just trying to search for some sense of comfort in my own skin.
It was a long journey." Shailene actually took a decade to rediscover her old self. However, the physical issues ultimately took a toll on her mental health.
The actress explained: "Throughout that decade a lot of other things came from feeling so much discomfort physically, which was ‘My gosh, if everything I’m eating hurts my stomach, I’m.