Grey's Anatomy actress Camilla Luddington recently revealed that she would get so "ferocious" about choosing a Christmas tree every year that she had to give up the tradition.
Luddington spoke about having a "nervous breakdown" choosing the perfect tree for the holiday and opened up about the stress of it on the November 25 edition of her podcast, Call It What It Is, which she co-hosts with her former Grey's Anatomy co-star Jessica Capshaw.
"I'm ferocious about getting a tree. I like a very specific shape, a very specific needle," she began. "I'm smelling, I'm touching, I'm whispering to it like an insane person. Me picking out a Christmas tree on a Christmas tree lot is a military operation."
She added that she instructs her husband, fellow actor Matthew Alan, to move the tree around so she can see it from every angle.
"So, it honestly was so stressful for me that I ordered a [fake] tree and so now I'm not stressed," Luddington admitted.
The actress described how "that bad boy sits in our very cozy garage," adding, "I would literally be on the floor like I had a nervous breakdown...So now I have a fake tree that looks beautiful."
Capshaw admitted that she might've once had a problem with someone having a fake tree in their house, but that was no longer the case because "current Jessica has evolved."
"Current Jessica would say, 'I think that's actually great, because you're not killing a tree,'" she said on the podcast.
Luddington has had a stressful run of holiday misfortunes and revealed on the same episode that she had given her friends food poisoning one Thanksgiving.
The actress, who plays Dr. Josephine "Jo" Wilson on the ABC medical drama, explained she didn't grow up with Thanksgiving and its traditions as she was born in the United Kingdom. As a result, she did not realize how long the traditional turkey needs to roast in the oven.
"I didn't grow up with it. So, I just got to inherit all of the Friendsgiving traditions around me. And I love cooking the turkey. I say 'cooking,' but really I get it from Whole Foods. I get the one that's precooked because you just shove that bad boy in. You can't go wrong," she said.
"It was like 10 p.m. I'm not even kidding; it was that late. I was like, 'Okay, I'm taking it out. It is what it is. Whatever it has been cooked is cooked and we're all gonna eat it,'" Luddington said. "And I thought, genuinely, there's no way that people are gonna actually get sick."
She added: "I gave food poisoning that year to everyone that had turkey. I'm not kidding. I've never given food poisoning to anybody before, but people were throwing up that night."
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