United Kingdom, Feb. 3 -- Emerald Fennell believes she would've gone "off the rails" as a teenager if she hadn't attended boarding school.

The Wuthering Heights director has recalled going to boarding school aged 13, during which time she was an insomniac, and while she looks back now and thinks it was a "very good idea" for her to leave London and live at school at that time, it could be a "lonely" experience.

Speaking on Ruthie's Table 4 podcast, she said: "I went to boarding school at 13.

"It actually was, I think, probably a very good idea.

"I think I would have gone quite quickly off the rails in London. Even I knew that even as a child.

"So, even though I was homesick and I did love my family, and as an insomniac at boarding sc...