Sharon Horgan has said she “lost her mind completely” and developed anxiety while filming her TV comedy Divorce. The Irish actress and comedienne, 50, created and was executive producer for the HBO series, which premiered in 2016 and starred Sarah Jessica Parker and Thomas Haden Church as a middle-aged divorcing couple.
Appearing on Desert Island Discs, Horgan told how spending five months in Brooklyn, New York, away from her then-husband Jeremy Rainbird and two daughters, took a toll on her mental health.
She said: “I lost my mind completely and I got OCD from it. I developed anxiety. “I would lie in bed at night and I would feel my heart going and I would think: ‘Oh, I am about to have a heart attack’. “It was only afterwards that I