Sheridan Smith ‘almost died’ after suffering five seizures following ‘humiliating’ Graham Norton dig
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Sheridan Smith has recounted how she almost died after Graham Norton humiliated her by mocking her at an awards ceremony.
The 39 year old was rushed to hospital when she stopped breathing after suffering five seizures following the Bafta TV Awards in 2016.
Graham, 57, made a joke about Sheridan's West End show Funny Girl, which had been postponed due to "technical difficulties".
However, it was widely rumoured at the time that production had actually stopped due to Sheridan's drinking habits, with the star reportedly "slurring lines" during the show.
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Opening the awards ceremony that year, Graham said: "Let's get started because, of course, the sooner we begin, the sooner we can have a couple of drinks… or as they say in theatrical circles, a couple of glasses of technical difficulties."
Sheridan has now opened up on the humiliation she felt in her new ITV documentary, Becoming Mum.
She says: "Graham Norton was hosting and made a joke, basically at my expense, about me being a drunk.
"I was so humiliated, you know, it's a room full of your peers. And people you want to work with, or have worked with.
"That night for me was like the final straw, before my brain totally went off the deep end."
She continued: "What people didn’t realise was that I'd become addicted to anti-anxiety tablets.
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"That night, I took myself off to a hotel on my own. In my crazy mind I thought, 'I don't wanna be in rehab — I'll do it myself' so I went there and I just stopped my tablets.
"What I didn’t realise is, that if you stop the tablets abruptly, you seizure. And, to cut a long story short, I got seizures five times and got rushed into A&E.
"Weirdly, a friend of mine rang me and she came to the hotel. It's a miracle that she did.
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"It was like someone was looking out for me. She's the one who got me breathing again."
Opening up on the origins of her anxiety, Sheridan said of her time as Fanny Brice in Funny Girl: "I was going to different psychiatrists, getting different diagnoses.
"I then started self-medicating, drinking a lot and it was like a vicious circle. I could just see my whole life unravelling."
Sheridan Smith: Becoming Mum airs 1 September at 9pm on ITV
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