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Downton Abbey star reveals mental health battle that makes her fear supermarket self-checkouts and left a stylist refusing to work with her


Explaining her daily rituals, The Downton Abbey star, 37, said her obsessive Compulsive Disorder habits leave her unable to sleep and battling with demons every day.

Actress Tuppence Middleton has told how she opens and closes the door eight times before leaving the house, takes photos of all her electrical appliances on a daily basis and has a fear of supermarket-self checkouts. Actress Tuppence Middleton has told how she opens and closes the door eight times before leaving the house, takes photos of all her electrical appliances on a daily basis and has a fear of supermarket-self checkouts (Seen in 2023) 'I arrived utterly convinced that before the course was finished I would be forced to place both hands on the inside of a toilet bowl and made to lick them clean in order to expose myself to a level of bacteria so high that I would become violently sick and in turn address my fear of vomiting,' she said.

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