Martine McCutcheon has opened up about her life-altering diagnosis, confessing she was initially in "denial". The star struggled to accept her ADD (attention deficit disorder) diagnosis while dealing with the grief of losing her brother. The 48-year-old actress, who also battles ME (chronic fatigue syndrome), found it tough to even leave her bed after her brother Laurence John passed away at 31 in 2022 without any medical explanation.
Martine realised she had ADD when she noticed "different things I struggled with compared to other people". She described her past efforts to fit in as trying to be "spent so much time trying to be a square in a round circle, and it was exhausting", which she found utterly draining, reports the Mirror . According to The Sun, Martine reflected: "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." She added: "I think, thank god people are being kinder and more knowledgeable about ADD and ADHD. People says, oh, everybody's got something these days - but I don't think it's these days.
I think we've always been around but we all blossom in different ways, and we need different things to blossom. And it all made sense." Martine shared her heart-rending struggle, revealing: "At first I went into denial, completely into denial, because my brother had passed away.
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