Bella Thorne struggled to cope with the pressures of child stardom.

The 28-year-old actress - who lost her dad when she was just nine - admits that she struggled to cope with pressure of fame during her younger years.

During an appearance on the Call Her Daddy podcast, Bella - who originally began working as a child actress to help support her family - shared: "The feeling of going home was literally just wanting to be good at something.

"Felt like I tried so hard to be good at all the things in my life and it was just never enough.

"I try and take some of that pressure off myself now, but it's kind of like, you know, beaten into me in that way, hard to just get away from it, to retrain the brain in new thoughts. I just wanted to be good and I just never was actually good."

As a child actress, Bella was well aware that her family - including her mom and her siblings - were financially dependent on her.

The actress - who starred on Shake It Up, the hit Disney series, between 2010 and 2013 - explained: "When we moved to LA, my father died shortly after when I was nine and he did not leave us with anything or life insurance or anything like that, so my mom was in, I don't even know how she did it.

"Four kids and nothing, and a house in her name that she didn't sign for and foreclosure and he died in a motorcycle accident, so it was quite sudden, and it was just really bad for a long time.

"My mom was working. She was also trying to take us to every audition that she could and you've got four kids all with auditions, all on opposite sides of the town and just kind of running herself ragged as well as us just knowing all the time what was gonna happen if we didn't get that job.

"It was a way to, I think, learn how to work and yet it's one of the things I'm most thankful for at the same time."