Bella Ramsey

Bella Ramsey said they once suffered from an “intense” fear of vomiting that left them stuck in their house for months as a teen.

While appearing on the The Louis Theroux Podcast this week, the Last Of Us star revealed that battling emetophobia (an intense fear of vomiting or seeing others vomit), made them see “everything outside [as] a threat.”

“The concept of having a stomach bug or having norovirus is enough [to activate the phobia],” they explained. “It’s such an all-encompassing fear. It’s the unpredictability…”

Bella said their emetophobia got so intense around the age of 13 that they felt they “couldn’t leave” the house” adding that “the only safe place in the world was home, and even that wasn’t safe at times in terms of germs”.

The Game Of Thrones alum said that the phobia caused them to hyperfixate on sickness and to “see germs”.

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