‘Star Wars’ Star Daisy Ridley Reveals Graves Disease Diagnosis – Fans Offer Unwavering Support

‘The Last Jedi’ and ‘The Rise of the Skywalker’ weren’t well-received movies when it comes to fans, especially some aspects of Ridley’s character Rey, who fans believe developed too quickly without any sort of logical explanation. Also, her lineage and expectations related to it were disappointing.

Daisy Ridley previously opened up about how she had difficulties making peace with her new-found fame as well as the pressures of such a massive fandom like Star Wars.

Now it seems that Ridley’s fight will be on several fronts, as the actress revealed for Woman’s Health that she has been diagnosed with Graves disease. During the filming of ‘Young Woman And The Sea,’ Ridley consulted an endocrinologist about symptoms such as fatigue, weight loss, and hand tremors. These symptoms suggested she might have Graves’ Disease. Reflecting on this diagnosis, Ridley commented:

“It was funny, I was like, ‘Oh, I just thought I was annoyed at the world,’ but turns out everything is functioning so quickly, you can’t chill out. It’s the first time I’ve shared that [Graves’]. It was funny, I was like, ‘Oh, I just thought I was annoyed at the world,’ but turns out everything is functioning so quickly, you can’t chill out. […]We all read the stats about women being undiagnosed or underdiagnosed and sort of coming to terms with saying, ‘I really, actually don’t feel good’ and not going, ‘I’m fine, I’m fine, I’m fine, I’m fine.’ It’s just normalized to not feel good. In the grand scheme of things, it’s much less severe than what a lot of people go through. Even if you can deal with it, you shouldn’t have to. If there’s a problem, you shouldn’t have to just [suffer through it].

Graves disease is an autoimmune Thyroid disorder marked with symptoms of overactive Thyroid. The disease is managed through medications, and sometimes even with complete or partial Thyroid removal. Symptoms can range from “relatively easy” to deal with such as tremors and fatigue, to life-threatening symptoms associated with the heart and nervous system. Graves disease is incurable just like its opposite counterpart Hashimoto’s disease but quality of life can return if proper Thyroid hormone levels are kept stable through medications.

The worst part is, that the actress recently commented on one more condition that she was diagnosed with while filming the sequel trilogy:

Oh, God! Essentially, it was a leaky gut. I was just knackered. I’d never travelled that much, or done press junkets, and my body deals with stress in a very physical way, so my gut was manifesting an emotional reaction to travelling around the world, people saying hello to me in the street. And me going, “What’s going on?” And worrying. “Oh s–t, should it be me?” or “Am I good enough?” And I only really felt I was by the third film, The Rise of Skywalker . By then, I felt, “OK, I was chosen for a reason.” But it took a long time. It was super intense.

It’s important to note that some studies have revealed a connection between leaky gut and a wide range of autoimmune disorders.

Fans offered to Ridley an unwavering support on X:

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