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Emily Blunt’s smooth speeches hid a secret—she’s struggled with a stutter since childhood. The actress revealed how acting helped her find her voice — and how pretending to be someone else gave her the confidence to speak fluently. Turns out, stuttering isn’t just about tripping over words. It’s an actual speech disorder. For Blunt, it wasn’t something that magically disappeared by the time she hit her teens. She fought through it until the age of 14, but even then, the stutter stuck around.
Emily Blunt Turned Her Stutter Into Strength, Using Acting To Find Her Voice
But here’s the kicker—Blunt didn’t just let it slide. Instead, she used her massive platform to raise awareness about stuttering, something that’s rarely talked about in Hollywood. At the Freeing Voices, Changing Lives Gala, the A Quiet Place actress passionately explained how people with a stutter are often misunderstood. “I think it’s very often a disability that people bully and make fun of,” she said. “So I think, to raise awareness about what it’s really about, and that there’s this soft place for you to land in this amazing organization. It’s a big deal for me to be here.”
The stutter wasn’t just a childhood hurdle. It came back with a vengeance when Emily Blunt was pregnant with her kids, Hazel and Violet. But instead of hiding, she took the opportunity to own it. “Once you are a stutterer, you will always be a stutterer,” Blunt admitted. She’s totally right. Once that speech disorder takes hold, it doesn’t just disappear, even in adulthood. Stress, excitement, and public speaking can turn her fluency into a jumbled mess—yet here she is, inspiring us to accept what makes us different.
