Miranda Hart Leaves Selena Gomez in Tears After Revealing Singer’s Public Health Battle Gave Her ‘Courage’ to Share Her Own Lyme Disease Diagnosis

Miranda Hart left Selena Gomez close to tears after revealing that the singer’s public health battle inspired her to reveal her own Lyme disease diagnosis.

The pair appeared together on The Graham Norton show, which airs on Friday, with the 51-year-old comedian telling how the 32-year-old singer’s 2022 documentary My Mind & Me gave her the ‘courage to being vulnerable’ and writing about her illness in her new memoir, I haven’t been completely honest with you.

Selena has long been open about her mental health issues – as well as her battle with the autoimmune disease lupus, before revealing in the doc that she thought about taking her own life for several years after battling psychosis, which led to her being diagnosed with bipolar disorder. .

Miranda, who was finally diagnosed with Lyme disease after suffering symptoms for three decades, said: ‘I watched Selina’s documentary and it gave me the courage to be vulnerable and share my feelings about my illness. It kept me writing.’

‘The book is not just about illnesses; it’s about how I learned to live well and free, with joy and meaning, despite my circumstances. Now I feel like I can be in the world as me. I feel completely free, if not completely recovered.’

Miranda Hart, 51 (pictured) left Selena Gomez, 32, close to tears after revealing that the singer’s public health battle inspired her to reveal her own Lyme disease diagnosis during their joint appearance on Friday’s The Graham Norton Show -fair

The comedian shared the singer’s 2022 documentary My Mind & Me gave her the ‘courage to be vulnerable’ and write about her illness in new memoir I Haven’t Been Totally Honest with You

Selena has long been open about her mental health issues – as well as her battle with the autoimmune disease lupus, before revealing in the doc (pictured) that she considered taking her own life for several years after battling the disease. psychosis.

Newlywed Miranda – who was joined by Kevin Kline, Zoe Saldana and Ncuti Gatwa on the couch – also revealed that meeting her husband helped combat the loneliness she felt after being diagnosed with Lyme disease.

She shared: “I had my diagnosis during the pandemic and it was a very lonely time so I decided I didn’t want to be alone anymore so I said this little prayer with about one percent hope but I met someone and got married in July.

In her new memoir, scheduled for release on October 10, Miranda, who has stayed away from the spotlight for almost the last decade, talks about her situation and the moment she “passed out” due to health problems.

Although fans know comedians Chummy from Call The Midwife and from their light-hearted self-titled sitcom, Miranda admitted behind closed doors that she was desperately telling doctors: ‘I feel toxic and poisoned.’

It took doctors 33 years to discover that Miranda was battling the bacterial infection Lyme disease, after initially mislabeling her as agoraphobic – an anxiety disorder characterized by symptoms of anxiety in situations.

She remembers running out of tears at a doctor’s appointment after she was told she was ‘TATT’ – ‘Tired all the time’ and said: ‘I just don’t know what to do with you.’

The comedian officially received her diagnosis during lockdown and believes she contracted Lyme disease at the age of 14 after battling unpleasant flu symptoms in Virginia.

She writes: “For me it was the unnerving neurological symptoms I initially had, aged fourteen, from Lyme, which I always found particularly difficult to deal with. And they got considerably worse when I reached forty. As well as fatigue caused by cellular exhaustion. Yes, everything is lovely.

Miranda, who was finally diagnosed with Lyme disease after suffering symptoms for three decades, said: ‘I watched the Selina documentary and it gave me the courage to be vulnerable.’

‘ (The documentary helped me) share my feelings about my illness. It kept me writing’

The comedian officially received her diagnosis during lockdown and believes she contracted Lyme disease at age 14 after battling flu-like symptoms in Virginia.

The former Disney star was diagnosed with lupus in 2013, before undergoing a kidney transplant at just 24 due to lupus-related organ damage in 2017 (depicted in her documentary).

Of the moment she received her diagnosis, she adds: “I left that Zoom call, closed my laptop and sat there, still and horrified. So many emotions that I was shocked, but I also immediately felt deep sadness and disappointment – for over three decades I KNEW something was wrong. I remembered all the times I told different doctors, “I feel toxic and poisoned, or, it’s like I have the flu every day but I don’t have a fever.”

‘(It’s amazing how the body can sometimes literally tell us what’s going on.) I felt the anger rise as I was told I must have agoraphobia.

“I would try to treat it as such, when at the end of the day, it was the lack of energy and extreme sensitivity to light and sound that made my body collapse when going out for any type of activity or stimulating environment.”

Miranda says she had difficulty knowing how to share the news of her diagnosis with her followers, fearing being seen as ‘complaining’ or ‘just tired all the time’.

But Lyme disease was wreaking havoc on her body and she ended up with “endless diagnoses.” Furthermore, fans soon noticed his absence from TV screens.

Newlywed Miranda – who was joined by Kevin Kline, Zoe Saldana and Ncuti Gatwa on the sofa – also revealed that meeting her husband helped combat the loneliness she felt after being diagnosed with Lyme disease

(LR) Kevin Kline, Zoe Saldana, Selena Gomez, Ncuti Gatwa, Miranda Hart and Rag ‘n’ Bone Man

Earlier this year, Selena told Rolling Stone: ‘Part of me feels like I’m finally in a good place with everything in my life,

She was diagnosed with the autoimmune disease Lupus in 2013 and later revealed her diagnosis to the public in her October 2015 cover story for Billboard.

In 2017, she said she had undergone a kidney transplant at just 24 due to organ damage related to lupus.

Elsewhere on the show Miranda, who was also joined on the sofa by Kevin Kline, Zoe Saldana and Ncuti Gatwa, shared more details about her intimate wedding, revealing that she opted for a ‘Hawaiian’ theme.

Revealing that she got married in July, she explained: ‘It was a very small gathering and for no reason at all it had a Hawaiian theme with inflatable flamingos, coconut bowling and a steel band.’

The Graham Norton Show, BBC One, Friday 11 October, 10:40pm. Also available on BBC iPlayer.