Verity Went, from the Midlands, woke up with a Geordie accent after suffering from severe migraines and was diagnosed with two rare conditions - and people cannot believe it Get the latest top news stories sent straight to your inbox with our daily newsletter We have more newsletters Get the latest top news stories sent straight to your inbox with our daily newsletter We have more newsletters A woman was left "absolutely terrified" after waking up with a completely different accent . Verity Went, from the Midlands, had never been to the North East, so imagine her shock when she woke up speaking with a Geordie accent. She confessed that people "laugh in her face" and dub her a "liar", but there is a real, worrying reason for the change.
The 27-year-old Staffordshire woman says she didn't recognise herself when she started speaking - and would even subconsciously adopt Geordie dialects like calling her mother 'mam' instead of 'mum'. Verity was already suffering with terrible migraines - which left her "blacking out", vomiting, having seizures, and partly paralysed. "People just think I'm faking it, but I'm not.
I didn't ask for this to happen to me," she told YouTube's Truly TV . In 2022, Verity was diagnosed with functional neurologic disorder (FND - the name given to 'medically unexplained' symptoms that appear to be caused by problems in the nervous system, but which are not caused by a physical neurological disease or disorder). She was also diagnosed with foreign accent sy.