British actress Miranda Hart reveals she was ‘in bed for years’ due to chronic fatigue syndrome

The actress revealed that she developed myalgic encephalomyelitis after contracting Lyme disease on Monday, October 14.

Miranda Hart is opening up about her health journey.

Speaking to the UK outlet The Times in an interview published on Monday, October 14, the British actress – who recently revealed that she married at 51 – said she was “slipped for years” after her undiagnosed Lyme disease progressed to myalgic encephalomyelitis (ME).

Hart, which reduced Selena Gomez to tears The Graham Norton Show on Friday October 11 praising her My mind and me Docuseries as inspirational: She told the channel she was 15 when she first felt unwell before suffering a “total meltdown” after the latest series of her sitcom. Miranda in 2015.

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Hart said the disease “wrecked my immune system,” adding that he had “lost my joy and knows I haven’t enjoyed my career the way I knew I could if I hadn’t been ill”.

“I was housebound and bedridden for years,” he said of the moment his comedy concluded. “I didn’t have a job, I didn’t have a social life. I had no responsibility or identity,” he said The Times.

He also recalled telling medical professionals that he “was leading a middle life, a very weakened life, but without understanding why.”

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According to the Mayo Clinic, MS is described as causing extreme fatigue that lasts at least six months. As Hart said The Times that she has recovered some of her health, the actress added that she “hasn’t fully recovered” and that she has learned “to live with fatigue and horrible symptoms.”

Despite that, he said he believes it will “get better.”

“I’ve only recently come out into the world again,” he said The Times.

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Hart’s comments come after he thanked Gomez, 32, for making his Apple TV+ documentary on The Graham Norton Show.

“When I saw your documentary on Apple (about) your struggles with the disease, I was thinking, ‘Do I share?’ You know, ‘Is it something I should do?’ Because she feels pretty vulnerable,” Hart told an emotional Gomez, 32, of her reaction to the documentary, which dealt with everything from body image issues to to painful lupus flares and Gomez’s ongoing mental health journey.

“I saw (Gómez’s) documentary and I just thought, ‘Absolutely.’ And that’s what kept me writing,” she continued, “So the fact that I’m on this show with you… To witness of someone with pain who suffered from different conditions, but we know what it’s like to have a chronic illness rumbling there, and I know what it’s like in a very different way.”

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