Sigrid Thornton’s ADHD bombshell on I’m A Celebrity… Get Me Out Of Here!
Hours after being revealed as an intruder contestant on I’m A Celebrity... Get Me Out Of Here! actor Sigrid Thornton broke down in tears while speaking about a medical diagnosis.
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Sigrid Thornton has broken down while revealing a recent medical diagnosis.
Speaking to fellow contestants in the South African jungle on I’m A Celebrity ... Get Me Out Of Here!, the veteran Australian actor said doctors had diagnosed her with ADHD “about three or four months ago”.
“I’ve always, sorry, this is a source of my shame actually, is not really being able to follow through with the people I care about, not my family but my friends,” Thornton said in the conversation with comedian Geraldine Hickey that will air on tonight’s episode of the Channel 10 reality show.
“Because I’ve had a very busy life for a long, long, long time, because I’ve had a sort of public life as well, there has always been a lot of different strands and demands and I thought, ‘well that is just it, that is all it is’ and I can’t sort of keep up.”
Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder is considered a ‘neurodevelopmental’ disorder that some estimate to impact one in 20 children in the country.
Thornton, 65, is one of our most successful local acting names of the past several decades with film credits including The Man from Snowy River and Snapshot.
On TV, she is known for shows like SeaChange, Prisoner and Wentworth.
Thornton entered the jungle camp on I’m A Celebrity on Sunday night.
Hickey also suffers from ADHD, diagnosed a few years ago.
“It always caused me terrible embarrassment that I couldn’t keep up with all of those demands and I think that was very much to do with AD(HD),” Thornton, who is married to actor Tom Burstall, explained.
“I just had to let things drop but I would let something drop and then I would think about it every single day with guilt. It was a big burden ... you can see, it was a big burden.”
The eleventh season of I’m A Celebrity launched just over a week ago with 13 contestants vying for $100,000 prize money for their individual chosen charities.
They are Shayna Jack, Nicky Buckley, Zach Tuohy, Tina Provis, Max Baledge, Matty Johnson, Dave Hughes, Reggie Bird, Samantha Moitzi and Harrison Reid.
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