Bill Maher telling Bella Thorne she can’t have anxiety because she ‘doesn’t know what the f**k is going on in the world’ has, obviously, not gone down well

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Bella Thorne’s mental health issues were not really valid due to her generation not knowing what is ‘going on in the world’ may just shoot to the top of the book of ‘bad takes’ this week.Ah yes, another day another Boomer suggesting the kids have no clue.Thorne was a guest on 66-year-old Maher’s Club Random podcast earlier this week and seemed to take issue with the 24-year-old actress and author’s explanation around her mental health, which in part stemmed from traumas she’s been pretty open about in the past.He began: ‘What is it with you kids and anxiety?

What is causing all the anxiety?’Oh, you know, just *gestures at the world*.Thorne attempted to explain it may have something to do with the ‘constant bad, bad, bad everywhere you look,’ but Maher argued such a thing was a ‘disingenuous argument’ and that her generation ‘doesn’t know what’s going on in the world.’He said, in classic ‘man yells at cloud’ style: ‘So how can you be that f**king concerned about what’s going on in the world?‘I know what’s going on in the world!

I should have the anxiety! I follow it, you kids don’t follow it. You don’t know what the f**k is going on in the world! What are you upset about?’Thorne insisted while we might not know ‘100% of the full story’, her generation definitely knows what’s going on, adding: ‘We’re seeing it, we’re hearing it and we’re vocal about it.’Maher added later in the podcast: ‘I think a lot of the people who are the most anxious have the most privileged lives.‘Look at your life!

Everybody wants it. Everybody wants to be you.’Ah yes, that old chestnut.Thorne responded: ‘I don’t know, I think that’s a very narrow kind of mindset in the way of trauma.‘Everyone really has their trauma.