Millie Bobby Brown Believes She Was a Sword-Slain Closeted Gay Soldier in a Past Life

If you live by the sword, you die by the sword — and that was certainly the case for (a past closeted version of) Millie Bobby Brown. While speaking to Capital Buzz for the release of her new film Enola Holmes 3, the Stranger Things alumna shared that she believed in past lives and added that, in one of her previous trips on this earthly plane, she was a closeted gay soldier who was slain by the cold, unforgiving steel of a sword.“I died … basically, I have a birthmark on my lower back, very bottom of my spine, which is meant to be the way you died in a past life,” she said. (In some folk spiritual traditions and writings, people believe that birthmarks are clues about our past lives.) “Swords, to kill people, but make them have a painful death, they would put swords up people’s spines, so they were completely paralyzed, but they would obviously die. That’s how I think I died, so I think I might have been a soldier." After a beat, Brown added, “And I was definitely a man … hopefully a closeted gay man.”Reader, this is a lot to unpack. Not only have I learned a lot about birthmarks, this reveal adds an interesting twist to our understanding of Brown, who in the past was the subject of a meme about her (non-existent) homophobia. When she was only 14 years old, Brown was subjected to a false meme trend that implied that she was anti-LGBTQ+ and often included pictures of her with overlaid homophobic text. Per Vox, the trend began when a troll account posted a false story about Brown being Islamophobic — also not true — which then spun off into a meme about her homophobia. As Vox noted, the memes were designed to read as false, to evoke a strong reaction and to spur more crass jokes about Brown, and they eventually led the actress to delete her social media accounts.In real life, the actress is a proud ally. In an interview earlier this year with Out, Brown called LGBTQ+ Pride Month her “favorite month” and said that she was going to celebrate