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\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n Erin Moriarty<\/strong><\/a> is opening up about her Graves\u2019 disease diagnosis and the devastating impact it had on her life in a deeply personal new essay.<\/p>\n The 31-year-old The Boys<\/em> star wrote an emotional essay for Time<\/a><\/em>, published on Thursday (May 21), in which Erin<\/strong> detailed discovering \u201cthe heartbreaking way that a medically confused woman is rarely considered credible.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cMy memory was failing me. My body felt unfamiliar. My emotional presence, something I had always protected and valued fiercely as an actor, became increasingly difficult to access,\u201d she wrote.<\/p>\n Erin<\/strong> said her symptoms became significantly more noticeable in September 2023. She was \u201csleeping through every alarm\u201d and often felt so exhausted that she was incapacitated.<\/p>\n \u201cOn weekends, I would sleep 19 hours (or more) straight. The mood swings I had experienced years earlier intensified. My hands and feet became so weak and numb that walking began to feel dangerous. I developed heart palpitations and persistent urinary pain,\u201d Erin<\/strong> wrote.<\/p>\n The Jessica Jones<\/em> actress explained that she was filming the final season of The Boys<\/em> while her neurologist searched for answers. Erin <\/strong>said she struggled to learn \u201ceven simple lines\u201d because of worsening short-term memory issues and symptoms of \u201ccognitive decline.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cI was going through the physical hell of chronic illness on a public stage,\u201d Erin <\/strong>continued. \u201cDoing it in private is emotionally damaging enough, but to have my physical symptoms be speculated about, trivialized, and dismissed was devastating.\u201d<\/p>\n Erin <\/strong>finally received her Graves\u2019 disease diagnosis<\/a> in May 2025 and said the moment helped her begin rebuilding her life because it \u201cgave shape to the chaos.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cIt gave language to suffering that had gone on for years. It gave me an answer,\u201d Erin <\/strong>shared.<\/p>\n While Erin<\/strong>\u2019s physical health slowly began improving, her mental health continued to suffer. The actress revealed she was hospitalized \u201cfollowing a severe mental-health crisis\u201d in August 2025.<\/p>\n \u201cI had been hormonally dysregulated, cognitively impaired, and psychologically untethered for so long that recovery didn\u2019t bring me peace,\u201d she added.<\/p>\n \u201cIt brought me clarity,\u201d Erin <\/strong>continued. \u201cAnd for me, clarity arrived carrying grief. Grief for the time I could not get back. For what this illness had taken from me professionally, creatively, relationally, psychologically. I spent at least two years of my life physically present but mentally unreachable. My grief hit me so hard that there was a moment I was unsure I could carry it.\u201d<\/p>\n At the end of her essay, Erin <\/strong>urged others to pay attention to their symptoms, hoping her experience could help someone else find answers sooner.<\/p>\n \u201cI hope the transparency surrounding my symptoms can help even one person catch their illness earlier than I caught mine. The body speaks long before it screams. Listen to yourself before your body is forced to scream loud enough for the world to hear it, too,\u201d she concluded.<\/p>\n Posted To:Erin Moriarty<\/a> The Boys<\/a><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n