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 actress and her siblings moved from New York to the Dominican Republic, their father's birthplace alongwith their mother, after his death.