IDRIS ELBA SAYS ILLNESS HAD ‘TRAUMATIC’ EFFECT ON HIS MENTAL STATE
Los Angeles: Idris Elba has said having coronavirus had a “traumatic” impact on him mentally.
The actor and his wife Sabrina Dhowre tested positive for COVID-19 early in the outbreak. He says he is now “fully recovered” and feeling “lucky to be alive and thankful for being able to kick” the virus, in an interview with the Radio Times.
But the 47-year-old added that the illness took a toll on him mentally, saying: “I was asymptomatic so I didn’t get the major symptoms everyone else got. Mentally, it hit me very bad, because a lot was unknown about it. I felt very compelled to speak about it, just because it was such an unknown.
“So the mental impact of that on both myself and my wife was pretty traumatic.”