Kim Cattrall recently spoke to the Radio Times about suffering from debilitating insomnia. The publication quotes her as follows, when talking about having to pull out of the London play Linda two weeks before it opened, as reprinted by The Guardian:
“I didn’t understand the debilitating consequence of having no sleep. It becomes a tsunami. I was in a void. I didn’t want to let down the audience, the theatre, playwright or the actors. “Letting go of all that was the hardest part but I realised the work that I really needed to do was more important than the play – it was work or my sanity...I have my own voice on social media, where I can say: ‘If you’re interested in what really happened, the whole story is more complex than being disease of the week’, than someone saying, ‘I have this battle’...Coming back to the US, I hadn’t slept for 48 hours and had to wait six hours to get my 18-year-old cat through customs. When the customers officer said: ‘So how much is your cat worth?’ I couldn’t stop laughing hysterically."
On starting cognitive behavior therapy to help with the insomnia:
“It’s like putting on a pair of sneakers and going into your past to get a new perspective. And I was gentle with myself. So last Christmas wasn’t about friends and relations; it was a monastic experience of trying to delve.”
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