'Game of Thrones' Star Hannah Murray Says Wellness Cult Led to Her Psychotic Breakdown
The retired actress says the experience cost her thousands of dollars and ended with a 28-day stay and bipolar diagnosis.
- Actress Hannah Murray experienced a psychotic episode during a five-day wellness course in London, running on minimal sleep while seeing signs and hallucinating diagrams on people's necks. She was hospitalized for 28 days and diagnosed with bipolar disorder.
- An energy healer named Grace offered Murray a healing session after she confided about fame and career pressures, then invited her to costly classes. Murray sought a 'magic wand or silver bullet' to fix herself, finding the wellness industry's promise 'seductive and addictive.'
- Murray told The Guardian, 'I made terrible choices,' despite her education and middle-class background. The bipolar diagnosis brought her 'relief to understand my emotional landscape through that lens,' she said.
- Today, Murray avoids the wellness industry entirely, stating she wouldn't enter a crystal shop and finds 'even the tame stuff quite distressing' in her ongoing recovery.
- Murray's forthcoming memoir 'The Make-Believe: A Memoir of Magic and Madness,' releasing next month, details her unnamed wellness cult experience and explores how the industry's pervasiveness makes vulnerable people susceptible to exploitation.
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Members of the cult wore symbolic necklaces and dressed in skirts.
Game of Thrones actress Hannah Murray has spoken out about a psychotic episode she experienced after joining a wellness cult and how it later led to her being diagnosed with bipolar disorder. The 36-year-old British actress, who played Gilly in the hit HBO series, spoke about her experience in an interview with The Guardian published on Saturday. She opens up about the subject in her book, The Make-Believe: A Memoir of Magic and Madness, which i…
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