Millie Bobby Brown has shared a strikingly personal theory about who she may have been in a past life, saying she believes she was once a male soldier who died in a particularly gruesome way.
The actor made the comment during a joint interview with her Enola Holmes 3 co-star Louis Partridge for Capital Buzz, as the pair promoted the third film in the Netflix mystery franchise, which premiered on July 1, 2026.
In the conversation, Brown and Partridge veered away from the film itself and into spirituality, death and reincarnation. Brown said she has a very specific idea of who she may have been before, and that her theory is tied to a birthmark on her lower back.
“Oh, I actually know exactly who I was,” Brown told a visibly stunned Partridge.
She said she believes certain birthmarks can reflect the way a person died in another lifetime, and pointed to the mark on her back as evidence for her own theory.
According to Brown, she believes the mark suggests she was killed by a sword thrust through her spine during wartime, leaving her paralyzed before death.
“In war, some, well, I don’t know if this happened a lot or not, but… to kill people but make them have a painful death, they would put swords up people’s spines,” she elaborated.
“So they were completely paralyzed, but they would obviously kind of die, and that’s how I think I died. So I think I might have been a soldier.”
Brown then took the idea a step further with a joke about the identity she imagines for that former self.
“I was definitely a man,” Brown asserted, before adding with a smile: “Hopefully a closeted gay man.”
Partridge, however, made it clear he does not share her view and said he does not believe in reincarnation or past lives.
“Okay, well, that ends that then,” Brown deadpanned in response, quickly wrapping up the playful debate.
Later, when asked what she thinks happens after death, Brown gave a much more straightforward answer.
“You go to heaven,” she stated simply. “That’s what I believe.”
The moment quickly drew attention online, with viewers reacting to Brown’s vivid explanation and the confidence with which she laid out her theory. It also arrived during a busy period for the actor, who has been front and center in the Enola Holmes 3 rollout as the franchise returns with another case for Enola and Tewkesbury.