Naomi Watts felt "very lonely and scared" when she began to go into early menopause.
The 56-year-old actress- who has Sasha, 17, and 16-year-old Kai with her former partner Liev Schreiber - had been desperately trying to conceive when some blood tests discovered that she was heading into premature ovarian failure, and just "retreated into her shame" when her friends failed to understand.