Jennifer Aniston attended the Giffoni Film Festival in Italy on Friday, where she cried while speaking to a young fan.
The teenager asked the 47-year-old actress if she ever woke up in the morning not knowing who she was. Aniston replied: “There are not enough fingers and toes in this entire room to count how many times that moment has happened to me.”
She continued to tell the young fan: “We’re all human beings at the end of the day, whether we’re a waitress or a baker or a student or whatever we are, at the end of the day you kind of can hit walls and think I can’t go any farther. Or this is too much. My heart can’t take it or the pain is too great, or am I good enough? Will I survive? And you just have to sort of somehow miraculously overcome. You just go, ‘I can’t, yes I can, yes you can.’”
Aniston accepted a Lifetime Achievement award at the film festival. During her acceptance speech, the actress urged the younger generation to take breaks from social media and that society’s obsession with the importance of image is not good for their general well-being.
She also told the Hollywood Reporter: “I think we need to empower women to not just be about dresses and beauty and selfies. We need to start having conversations and put our phones down and get out of social media, take social media breaks. That’s why we’re not seeing the right stories being told because everyone is stuck in their phones.”