Tragic Details About Jennifer Aniston....

From the outside looking in, Jennifer Aniston seemingly has it all. Beauty, fame, wealth — all the things that anyone would associate with the star of one of the world’s most successful TV shows, who famously earned $1 million per episode when “Friends” was at its peak. And while Aniston does indeed possess all those attributes, it’s only part of the story.

In fact, scratching the surface uncovers a very different reality: a wounded child still bruised by issues brought about by a difficult relationship with her parents, who’s also experienced failure in her career (she starred in no less than four failed TV shows before “Friends”), yet soldiered on to pave her own way. That could be a part of why fans have connected so solidly with Aniston, and continue to do so.

While she has gone on to flourish in her four decades in show business, it’s also true that Aniston’s success has come at a cost. The victories she has achieved have been tinged with no shortage of sorrow.

Her fear of being underwater originates from a childhood incident

An accident from Jennifer Aniston’s childhood still resonates with her; one that has left her with a severe phobia that she has yet to overcome and possibly never will. “I drove my tricycle into a swimming pool when I was five,” she explained in an interview with Extra. “And I didn’t let go. And I sunk to the bottom … I was not a bright child.” Luckily, one of Aniston’s brothers was there and saw what had happened. Acting quickly, he dove in and pulled her to safety.

Decades later, the trauma from that frightening incident continued to stick with her. “I can’t go underwater and no one will believe me,” she explained in an interview with E! News. “I honestly can’t.”

The lingering effects of that childhood experience came into play when Aniston was filming her 2014 feature, “Cake.” In the film, Aniston’s character deals with lingering trauma from a horrific accident, which she addresses by undergoing water therapy. In those scenes, the script called for her to submerge herself underwater in a swimming pool — something she found exceedingly difficult to accomplish. As Aniston told Extra, she held weights in her hands for the scene, in which she’s supposed to descend to the bottom of the pool. “I just couldn’t,” she admitted. “It took 30-some-odd takes for me to finally get any kind of take that you saw me sort of going down.”

She felt ‘unsafe’ as a child

Jennifer Aniston’s childhood wasn’t a particularly happy one. This, she explained during a conversation with fellow actor Sandra Bullock for Interview, was largely due to the fractious relationship between her parents, actors John Aniston (of “Days of Our Lives” fame) and Nancy Dow. Asked by Bullock to reveal what keeps her so positive even when things don’t turn out the way she’d hoped, Aniston credited that particular facet of her personality to her parents’ fraught marriage.

“It comes from growing up in a household that was destabilized and felt unsafe,” she divulged. “Watching adults being unkind to each other, and witnessing certain things about human behavior that made me think: ‘I don’t want to do that. I don’t want to be that. I don’t want to experience this feeling I’m having in my body right now. I don’t want anyone else that I ever come in contact with ever to feel that,'” she opened up about her parents’ up-and-down relationship.

Aniston eventually came to the conclusion that she would do everything in her power to break that cycle to not replicate, consciously or unconsciously, the behavior she’d witnessed as a child. “You can either be angry or be a martyr, or you can say, ‘You’ve got lemons? Let’s make lemonade,'” she explained.

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