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Actress Daisy Ridley has spoken for the first time about being diagnosed with Graves’ disease, an autoimmune condition that mainly affects young and middle-aged women.
Ridley, 32, known for playing Rey in the later Star Wars films, initially put symptoms including a racing heart rate, weight loss, fatigue and hand tremors down to the effects of making a recent film.
“I thought, well, I’ve just played a really stressful role, presumably that’s why I feel poorly,” she told Women’s Health.
But she was then diagnosed after a doctor suggested it could be Graves’, which he told her often makes people feel “tired but wired”….