Currently, Williams is attending a performing arts college, a level of schooling in the U.K. between primary education and university. "We can leave school at 16, which is what I chose to do," she explained. It still hasn't been easy for her. "I see a little bit of it, like Why are you here if you're famous? But you've never made it! It's just frustrating! If I were to be like, I don't need to go to college anymore because I have made it in the acting business, my college friends would be like, Oh my god. She's such a bitch. If I go to college and am in Game of Thrones, they're like, Why are you even here? You're famous already. You can't win. You just can't win," she explained wistfully.

Williams seems to constantly be finding herself in these no-win situations when it comes to those outside of the celebrity world understanding where she's coming from. "It's huge in the U.K. if someone's doing well, to put them down," she said. "That's what we do all the time. It's kind of like a cultural thing. If you do something right, you don't congratulate yourself because you're a stuck-up bitch. It's much easier to take criticism in the U.K. than it is to take a compliment because we just don't do that. So obviously, then it is strange when people at school see my Twitter with people going, 'You're perfect!' 'We love you, Maisie!' 'You wear amazing clothes. Oh my god.' And, of course, I know that it's not true and I don't take that opinion to heart because I don't know that person, you know? But to people at school, that's a massive threat and they feel like I'm soaking all that up and just completely loving it, when actually, it doesn't mean anything to me at all.

"If someone says something bad about you, and you do not respect them, then don't listen. But equally, if people tweet me saying how perfect they think I am, I do not know that person, therefore I will not listen to that because they don't know me and they don't have the right to have that opinion of me. And when people say, 'If I'm having a bad day or I feel down about something, I just go to Twitter because it's a really humbling place and people make you feel good about yourself. I'm like, 'I don't think that's right.' Because they don't have the right to have that opinion on you. I don't think Twitter is a platform to build your confidence on at all. Not at all. It's very easy to be like, They're only saying bad things because they don't actually know me and they don't know my side of the story. But actually, they're only saying good things because they only know your side of the story."

Still, Williams was quick to explain that she is "not ungrateful of Twitter comments. Not at all. You say, 'Thank you' and you're polite about it … But we don't know each other," she said.

"That's a lesson in life for everyone, not just the world of fame. This whole segregation between famous people and other people is complete rubbish," Williams said sternly, as an aside. "If you're having a down time at school and people are bullying you, they don't know you. They don't have the right to have an opinion on you."