Martine McCutcheon shares life changing diagnosis and admits she was in 'denial'

Martine McCutcheon's brother Laurence John passed away with "no medical explanation" at the age of 31 back in 2022

Martine McCutcheon has shared her life changing diagnosis and admits she was in "denial".

The actress said she didn't believe it when she was told she had ADD (attention deficit disorder) as she tried to cope with her brother's death. The 48-year-old, who also has ME (chronic fatigue syndrome) was finding it difficult to get out of bed after her brother Laurence John died with "no medical explanation" at the age of 31 in 2022.

Martine received her ADD diagnosis when she said that she noticed there were "different things I struggled with compared to other people". When she finally found out what she had, she said she had "spent so much time trying to be a square in a round circle, and it was exhausting".

The Sun reported that she said: "I did struggle with a lot of things that I don't think I would have done necessarily. I think that if I'd have known before those four years ago that I had ADD, I don't know if I would have been able to have coped with it the way that I do now.

"I think, thank god people are being kinder and more knowledgeable about ADD and ADHD. People says, oh, everybody's got something these days - but I don't think it's these days. I think we've always been around but we all blossom in different ways, and we need different things to blossom. And it all made sense.

"At first I went into I went into denial, completely into denial, because my brother had passed away. I've been diagnosed with ME, and I just thought, I can't take this diagnosis on and whatever it means. I need to just keep going at life the way that I am."

Martine added: "And in a way, I was kind of right. And then when I did finally look at it, I cried, I cried, cried and cried, I grieved, and it was just for if only I'd known how different things could have been, how much more with ease I would have been able to have done things."

Martine says she now lives a slower paced life after her diagnosis and splitting from her husband Jack McManus after 18 years together earlier this year. She said she takes thing slower as has faith that the right things will come to her. She explained that she has found that sometime people are "so busy" being distracted by some things that we them "miss the key opportunities".

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