Actress Zoe Saldana has revealed she suffered from Attention Deficit Disorder (ADD) as a teenager and it was with the help of ballet that she learnt to deal with the condition.
The 34-year-old 'Star Trek: Into Darkness' star lost her father, Aridio in a car crash when she was only nine. Following his death she was dragged to ballet lessons by her mother where she learnt to deal with the symptoms of ADD, reported Contactmusic.
"I was ADD. I was suffering. I couldn't hold a thought. But there was something about the piano, the barre, your breath ... And I became the most quiet, just lethal little machine with ballet," Saldana said.
The 'Avatar' star said, "Then for the next ten years, I was dancing. It gave me so much peace, it centered me. Had my mum not had the intuitive wisdom to put me in ballet I think she would have eventually opted to concede to the medication the doctors were suggesting."
The actress and her siblings moved from New York to the Dominican Republic, their father's birthplace alongwith their mother, after his death.
