Miranda Hart has revealed she was ‘bedridden’ for years after the end of her eponymous comedy as she battled previously undiagnosed Lyme disease.
In a new interview, the actress, 51, who wrapped filming Miranda in 2015, told how she found it difficult to even leave the house and lived a life without “joy” for most of a date after it ended.
Miranda ultimately suffered a “total breakdown” in the midst of her 30-year battle with the disease, which eIt eventually developed into myalgic encephalomyelitis, commonly known as chronic fatigue syndrome.
talking to The timesthe comedian explained: “I lost my joy and I know I hadn’t enjoyed my career the way I knew I could have if I hadn’t been sick.”
“I was housebound and bedridden for years. I had no job, I had no social life. I had no responsibilities or identities.’
Miranda Hart has revealed she was ‘bedridden’ for years after the end of her eponymous comedy as she battled previously undiagnosed Lyme disease.
In a new interview, the actress, 51, who finished filming Miranda (pictured) in 2015, told how she found it difficult to even leave the house and lived a life without “joy” for most of a date after that it ended.
In the years following the end of her acclaimed comedy, Miranda added that she had had a “total breakdown” and hit “rock bottom” before finally learning she had Lyme disease.
He told how, after years of telling doctors that he was “leading a half-life, a very weakened life, but not understanding why,” he told how experts finally connected the dots and linked his symptoms to a period in which he spent time in Virginia when she was a teenager.
While Miranda appeared in the feature film Emma in 2020 and played Miss Hannigan in the West End’s Annie in 2017, she has stayed relatively out of the spotlight over the past 10 years.
She added that while she is not “fully recovered,” she is optimistic about her future and expressed relief that there is now “understanding” of her condition.
She said: ‘I think I’ll get better. I recently went out into the world again. If this were a named condition and that’s how it’s handled, then you could handle it. I think the hardest thing about these types of fatigue-based conditions is the lack of understanding, the lack of ever knowing when there is an end date.’
It comes after Miranda gave rare insight into her long health battle in her new memoir, I Haven’t Been Entirely Honest With You, in which she opens up about her plight and the moment she “collapsed” due to her illness. health.
It comes as Miranda also confirmed she is married, announcing the news about her mystery new husband live on The One Show last night after a flurry of rumours.
While fans know the comedian, 51, as Chummy on Call The Midwife and from her light-hearted comedy of the same name, Miranda admitted behind closed doors that she desperately told doctors: “I feel toxic and poisoned.”
Miranda ultimately suffered a “total breakdown” in the midst of her 30-year battle with the disease, which eventually developed into myalgic encephalomyelitis, commonly known as chronic fatigue syndrome.
“I was housebound and bedridden for years. I had no job, I had no social life. I had no responsibilities or identities.
In the years following the end of her acclaimed comedy, Miranda added that she had a “total breakdown” and had hit “rock bottom” before finally learning she had Lyme disease (pictured in her comedy).
It took 33 years for doctors to discover that Miranda had been battling the bacterial infection, Lyme disease, after initially mislabeling her as agoraphobic, an anxiety disorder characterized by symptoms of anxiety in situations.
She remembers arriving at a doctor’s appointment crying her eyes out after being told she was ‘TATT’ – ‘Tired all the time’ and being told: ‘I just don’t know what to do with you.’
The comedian was officially diagnosed while in lockdown and believes she contracted Lyme disease when she was 14 after battling unpleasant flu-like symptoms in Virginia.
She writes: ‘For me, it was the bewildering neurological symptoms I initially had, at fourteen, from Lyme, that I always found particularly difficult to deal with. And they got considerably worse as I approached my forties. Like fatigue due to the exhaustion of cells. Yes, all delicious.’
Of the moment she received her diagnosis, she adds: “I walked out of that Zoom call, closed my laptop, and sat there, still and horrified. So many emotions that surprised me, but I also immediately felt deep sadness and disappointment; for over three decades I had KNOWN that something was wrong. I remembered all the times I had told different doctors: “I feel toxic and poisoned, or it’s like I have the flu every day but I don’t have a temperature.”
‘(It’s amazing how the body can sometimes literally tell us what’s going on.) I felt the anger rise at times when I was told I must have agoraphobia.
It comes after Miranda gave rare insight into her long-term health battle in her new memoir, I Haven’t Been Entirely Honest With You, in which she opens up about her plight and the moment she “collapsed” due to her bad health.
The comedian was officially diagnosed while in lockdown and believes she contracted Lyme disease when she was 14 after battling unpleasant flu-like symptoms in Virginia.
“I was trying to treat it as such, when it turned out that it was the lack of energy and extreme sensitivity to light and sound that caused my body to collapse when I went out in any type of activity or stimulating environment.”
Miranda says she struggled with how to share the news of her diagnosis with her followers, fearing she would be perceived as “whiny” or “just tired all the time.”
But Lyme disease was wreaking havoc on her body and ended with “endless diagnoses.” In addition, fans soon noticed his absence from television screens.
In 2017 it was revealed that Miranda would not be returning to Call The Midwife, citing a busy work schedule as the reason.
But he later revealed during a stand-up gig in London that he had been suffering from “poor” health.
She said at the time: “I’m not feeling well right now because I was sick last year and couldn’t exercise.”
While fans know the comedian, 51, as Chummy on Call The Midwife, Miranda admitted behind closed doors that she desperately told doctors: “I feel toxic and poisoned.”
Excerpt taken from Miranda’s memoirs I Have Not Been Entirely Honest With You, available Thursday, October 10