Daniel Radcliffe’s girlfriend was left “very confused” by text message inquiries about the actor’s health after he was falsely reported to have contracted Covid-19.
The Harry Potter star hit headlines in early March when a tweet from a fake BBC Twitter account went viral, suggesting the Brit had been diagnosed with the coronavirus, supposedly making him the first known celebrity to suffer from the illness.
Radcliffe’s representatives subsequently shot down the reports and assured fans the claim was “not true”, but the actor’s longtime girlfriend, Erin Darke, had no idea about the disease drama because she was on a plane as it all unfolded online. “As soon as the plane landed, I turned my phone on and I had all these texts like, ‘Tell me the