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How a 'Stressful Role' Led to Daisy Ridley's Graves' Disease Diagnosis


Daisy Ridley reveals she was diagnosed with Graves’ disease after blaming symptoms on ‘stressful’ movie role

After filming the movie Magpie, which premiered at the SXSW festival in March, Ridley started to “feel poorly,” but she chalked it up to the “stressful role” she had just finished. Jonny Marlow for Women’s HealthNow, Ridley is using infrared saunas, cryotherapy, getting massages and acupuncture on top of her normal routine. Daisy RidleyJonny Marlow for Women’s HealthRidley told Inverse magazine in January that her anxiety got so bad after The Last Jedi premiered in 2017 that she developed “holes in her stomach wall.” This led to her taking a break from Hollywood before 2019’s The Rise of the Skywalker.

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