Sarah Lancashire on having ‘brain fog’ amid menopause
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arah Lancashire has revealed she has “brain fog” because of the “most terrible” menopause.
The 58-year-old actress was given the particular recognition gong on the National Television Awards (NTAs) final week for her physique of labor, together with roles in Coronation Street, Last Tango In Halifax, and Happy Valley.
Lancashire advised The Mail on Sunday: “I’m having the most terrible menopause. I’ve got brain fog.
“I was in Sainsbury’s the other day, and I found myself just stood there in the aisle and could not remember what I was there for. It just comes over you all of a sudden.
“I can’t remember things that happened 30 years ago either.”
Previous recipients of the particular recognition award embrace Doctor Who’s David Tennant, comic Sir Lenny Henry, and journalist David Dimbleby.
Lancashire additionally spoke of her struggles with the warmth and needing two followers “pretty much on my face the whole time” on the awards ceremony.
“I brought one of my closest friends with me and his job was to keep an eye out for the cameras and if it looked like they were going to pan across to us, then he’d let me know so I could hide them,” she mentioned.
At London’s O2 on Tuesday, she additionally received the award for greatest drama efficiency for her function as no-nonsense West Yorkshire police sergeant Catherine Cawood in gritty crime drama Happy Valley, which ended earlier this yr after three seasons.
Both collection one and two received Baftas for greatest drama collection and writing, and earned Lancashire a number one actress award for the second collection.
The present, which started in 2014, follows Catherine as she grieves for her daughter, Becky, who took her personal life, and raises her grandson, Ryan, performed by Rhys Connah, born on account of Becky being raped by Tommy Lee Royce (James Norton), who turns into Catherine’s nemesis.