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Johnson also got candid about other emotions she had to work to control.

\"I feel the most insane anxiety about our world and our planet,\" she admitted. \"My brain moves at a million miles per minute. I have to do a lot of work to purge thoughts and emotions, and I am in a lot of therapy.\"

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