Tuppence Middleton<\/a> feels \u201creally selfish as a parent with OCD\u201d because she struggles to cope when her daughter is ill.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n
Tuppence Middleton has had OCD for 30 years<\/p>\n
The ‘Downton Abbey’ star has been battling obsessive-compulsive disorder – which causes uncontrollable repetitive behaviours and thoughts – for three decades, and she feels a “tremendous amount of guilt” at the measures she takes to get close to her and partner Mans Marlind’s two-year-old child when offering her comfort when she’s unwell, particularly because she doesn’t want to pass her rituals on to the youngster.<\/p>\n
She told MailOnline: “You feel really selfish as a parent with OCD because you want to be there and be able to cuddle them and have their face near you whenever they’re ill …<\/p>\n
“I would be pretty panicky to deal with my child’s sick, and I would use all of those things that I had – the rubber gloves, the bleach and the masks.<\/p>\n
“There’s a tremendous amount of guilt doing that, however, because I don’t want to pass on those behaviours to her.<\/p>\n
\n“But at the same time, that’s your biggest fear to be that close to someone so it’s really complicated as a thought process.”<\/p>\n
\nThe 38-year-old actress also revealed she got “really anxious” when she had an on-screen love interest and would repeatedly question the actors she had to kiss to make sure they were not ill.<\/p>\n
\nShe admitted: “I asked them, even if they looked tired and pale, because it was five in the morning when we were filming, and I was like, ‘Do you feel okay? How do you feel? Is it in your stomach?’<\/p>\n
\n“But now I play less of those love interest roles so it’s less of a problem.”<\/p>\n
\nHowever, the ‘Fisherman’s Friends’ actress now feels comfortable telling co-stars about “this particular anxiety”.<\/p>\n
\nShe said: “But now I feel more able to speak to my co-star and say, I have this particular anxiety and if at any point you or anyone in your family, someone that you are close to, gets a vomiting bug you have to tell me, please, because I have this huge anxiety around it.<\/p>\n
\n“That was really difficult and I found that job quite anxiety-inducing.”<\/p>\n
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