Martine McCutcheon has opened up about her ADD diagnosis

The Love Actually star went into 'total denial' first but admitted people are kinder about her diagnosis these days.

She said life before her diagnosis was exhausting during an interview on the podcast A Gentle Star: The Showercast.

She said, "I always felt there were certain things that I looked at differently, different things I struggled with compared to other people, but different things I found so easy.

"I realised, when I got my ADD diagnosis, that I had spent so much time trying to be a square in a round circle, and it was exhausting."

Martine said everything felt so draining and hard.

"It was so draining. It was just so hard. And in a way, I feel like I wasn't meant to find out, as sad as it was because I did lose a lot of things in my life.

"At first I went into I went into denial, completely into denial"

"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," she admitted.

Martine said she's relieved people are kinder nowadays when it comes to these disorders.

She said people have likely always had these conditions but they're discussed more freely now than ever before.

However, accepting her diagnosis wasn't easy for the actress.

"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."

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