Why It's Important Princess Diana's Bulimia Is Shown Properly, And Sensitively, On The Crown

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It's not going to make for easy viewing, but as actress Emma Corrin said, simply alluding to the eating disorder wouldn't be the right thing to do

Finally, after what feels like forever, the much-anticipated fourth season of The Crown is dropping on Netflix next month. The next season is set to cover Diana and Charles' rocky relationship - and we'll also meet Gillian Anderson's Margaret Thatcher for the first time. Charles will continued to be played by Josh O'Connor, but in the next instalment we'll meet Diana, played by newcomer Emma Corrin.

Recognising you have bulimia is not an easy thing to admit to yourself, let alone talk about, but Diana did speak about the illness candidly, and bravely, while she was alive - adding further argument as to why her story needs to be told. In an interview with journalist Martin Bashir in 1995, Diana described the eating disorder as giving her 'a feeling of comfort' and a 'symptom of what was going on' in her tumultuous marriage to Charles.

I know that I also didn't seek help because I always struggled with believing I was ill. Nobody else knew either. Unlike one of the devastating symptoms of other eating disorders like anorexia, I wasn't dangerously underweight when I was at the worst of the illness. When you look perfectly normal to everyone else, it's easy to delude yourself into thinking you're OK. Even though you're vomiting three, four or five times a day.

 

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