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Emily Blunt opens up about struggles with stuttering: ‘It’s still something that I contend with’

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E. Kristhoff Cagape

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<p>Emily Blunt opened up about her long-time struggle with stuttering.</p><p>In an interview on the <em>Today</em> show, the actress shared that she has dealt with stuttering since childhood and revealed that the condition runs in her family.</p><p>&quot;It was something I struggled with severely when I was a child. It&#x27;s still something that I contend with under certain environments, moments of stress, fatigue, and pressure. And its neurological, it&#x27;s biological, often hereditary. It runs prominently in my family, so my uncle, my cousin, my grandfather,&quot; she said.</p><p>Emily recalled how difficult it was growing up with the condition, especially in school.</p><p>&quot;As a child, you don&#x27;t understand why you can&#x27;t speak. You know exactly what you want to say. You would love to read your poem out in class, and you just find ways to avoid speaking, and that kind of disfluency is usually kind of misunderstood by people and misidentified as other things,&quot; she recounted.</p><p>The actress admitted that stuttering remains something she continues to deal with, even today.</p><p>&quot;It&#x27;s still something that I contend with. I contend with when I say my own name because you can&#x27;t substitute your name for other words. You find stutterers more often go through this elaborate and verbal gymnastics of substituting words constantly if you feel one coming up that&#x27;s gonna knock you,&quot; she relayed.</p><div><iframe class="instagram-media instagram-media-rendered" id="instagram-embed-1" src="https://www.instagram.com/reel/DXX2LsNj3jk/embed/?cr=1&amp;v=14&amp;wp=675&amp;rd=https%3A%2F%2Fod2-workbench-web.abs-cbn.com&amp;rp=%2F#%7B%22ci%22%3A1%2C%22os%22%3A197675.5%2C%22ls%22%3A3120.9000000059605%2C%22le%22%3A3368.199999988079%7D" allowtransparency="true" allowfullscreen="" frameBorder="0" height="881" data-instgrm-payload-id="instagram-media-payload-1" scrolling="no" style="background:white;max-width:540px;width:calc(100% - 2px);border-radius:3px;border:1px solid rgb(219, 219, 219);box-shadow:none;display:block;margin:0px 0px 12px;min-width:326px;padding:0px"></iframe></div><script async="" src="//www.instagram.com/embed.js"></script><p>Emily also described the emotional toll of living with the condition.</p><p>&quot;I think it&#x27;s emotionally exhausting. I think that we all want to show who we are and I think that&#x27;s the entrapment of it is that you feel like there&#x27;s this sort of impostor in your body that misrepresents who you really are and it&#x27;s really frustrating, and there&#x27;s a helplessness that people can feel and the loneliness, and people just avoid and they start shutting down and they just don&#x27;t speak,&quot; she said.</p><div><br/></div><div><a href="https://www.abs-cbn.com/entertainment/showbiz/movies-series/2025/11/1/emily-blunt-on-reprising-her-role-in-the-devil-wears-prada-sequel-1546"><strong><u>READ: Emily Blunt on reprising her role in ‘The Devil Wears Prada’ sequel: ‘It’s overwhelming, in a good way’</u></strong></a></div><div><br/></div><p>The<em> Devil Wears Prada</em> star then encouraged others experiencing the same struggle to seek support and help.</p><p>&quot;There is help, there is incredible help that you can get at the American Institute of Stuttering when it&#x27;s all about emboldening you emotionally to accept that this is not all of you, this is just part of you,&quot; she stated.</p>

<p>Emily Blunt shares that she has dealt with stuttering since childhood and reveals that the condition runs in her family.</p>

Emily Blunt shares that she has dealt with stuttering since childhood and reveals that the condition runs in her family.