Carey Mulligan Reveals Postpartum Melancholy Left Her Feeling ‘Very Alone And Scared’

Carey Mulligan is opening as much as reveal that she’s among the many tens of millions of girls to have expertise postpartum melancholy.

In an interview with Individuals, the “She Stated” star mentioned being thrown for a loop after the beginning of her first baby, whom she shares with Mumford & Sons’ Marcus Mumford.

Within the new film, Mulligan performs investigative journalist Megan Twohey, whose investigations into Harvey Weinstein sparked a reckoning in Hollywood. The character is depicted at one level within the movie on maternity depart, grappling with postpartum melancholy, and Mulligan admitted she might undoubtedly relate.

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“One of many components of the script that of hit me initially essentially the most was Megan’s expertise with postnatal melancholy,” Mulligan shared. “I had a really related expertise with my first baby seven years in the past, and felt very alone, and really scared, and likewise very confused by the entire expertise.

In accordance with Mulligan, “it was actually going again to work in some type” — in her case, the 2015 movie “Suffragette” — “that was the factor that acquired me on the highway to discovering myself once more with unbelievable help round me.”

Finally, she’s hopeful that her character’s struggles in “She Stated” and her personal private revelations will assist different girls who additionally discover themselves experiencing postpartum melancholy.

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“I felt like I used to be fully alone when this occurred to me,” she mentioned. “And really, so many individuals have skilled this. Megan has skilled it, and so lots of my pals have, and all of us really feel horrific, like we’re the one one who’s ever been by means of it.”