EastEnders icon Martine McCutcheon has bravely come forward with a life-altering revelation, confessing she has been living in "complete denial". The beloved BBC star shared her personal ordeal during the second instalment of the new podcast 'A Gentle Start: The Showercast' by Timotei. The star, famed for her roles in EastEnders and Love Actually, has emotionally disclosed how her undisclosed health battle has taken its toll on her professional life.
The actress, renowned for her part in Love Actually, admitted to falling into "complete denial" upon learning of her ADD (attention deficit disorder) diagnosis amidst the grief of losing her brother. She expressed her feelings, saying: "I always felt there were certain things that I looked at differently, different things I struggled with compared to other people, but different things I found so easy, and I realised, when I got my ADD diagnosis, that I had spent so much time trying to be a square in a round circle, and it was exhausting." "It was so draining.
It was just so hard. And in a way, I feel like I wasn't meant to find out, as sad as it was, because I did lose a lot of things in my life. I did struggle with a lot of things that I don't think I would have done necessarily.
" "I think that if I'd have known before those four years ago that I had ADD, I don't know if I would have been able to have coped with it the way that I do now. I think, thank god people are being kinder and more knowledgeable about ADD and ADHD. People.