Actress reveals anxiety woes

Claire Foy admits she has struggled with crippling anxiety for years, with her career only worsening her condition. The actress, who recently won an Emmy for her role as Queen Elizabeth II in the Netflix series The Crown, confessed she doubted her ability and had negative thoughts. “The thing about it is, it’s not related to anything that would seem logical,” she told the Guardian’s Weekend magazine. “It’s purely about that feeling in the pit of your stomach, and the feeling that you can’t, because you’re ‘this’ or you’re ‘that.’ It’s my mind working at a thousand beats a second, and running away with a thought.” Foy developed anxiety after her parents separated when she was eight.