![]() She has been invited to appear in a number of reality shows and claims she recently turned down Dancing With The Stars, the U.S. (She says film etiquette does not allow her to say what they were, out of respect to whoever did take the part.) She says she has been offered three lead film roles in the past few years, but has turned them down. It is ten years since she appeared on the big screen, and the last time she acted was playing Ophelia in a touring production of Hamlet in 2003, but the movers and shakers of Tinseltown are trying to lure her back into the movies. No one feels the bitter irony of still being sought after more than Emily herself. In a way, perhaps it would be easier if Hollywood had given up on her. I do believe we are architects of our destinies, but with me somewhere along the line something came loose.' I want to get better, I want to work again. It's frustrating, but I am trying to be positive. 'Sometimes I get up in the night and watch TV, or I'll go on the internet or put my head under the pillow. Not sleeping makes you irritable: you feel so tired all the time. 'I've been to a sleep clinic, I've had cognitive therapy and I've tried valerian root, a herbal remedy. 'I keep taking them because of the 5 per cent chance they may work and I'll get a night's rest. I must have the constitution of a rhinoceros.Īt the London premiere in 1987 for 'Wish you were Here' I've been taking sleeping pills from the start, but they don't work. ![]() My doctor doesn't know how I function on so little sleep. 'I can't work because to act you need to be able to learn your lines and I can't do that at the moment. My memory has been affected, I'm not as mentally agile as I would be if I were sleeping properly. 'When you don't sleep, your faculties are not as sharp as they would normally be. 'I was back on track, raring to go and then the insomnia kicked in,' says Emily. She was on low-dose anti-anxiety medication and was responding well. What makes this latest setback so frustrating for her is that, two years ago, she was finally starting to feel well again. The luminous talent that catapulted her to fame more than 20 years ago remains, but she is unable to harness it. Various psychiatrists have been puzzled by her. Her first role: The wayward Lynda in Wish You Were Here There have been various diagnoses, among them mild schizophrenia, Tourette's syndrome, obsessive compulsive disorder and attention deficit disorder. She stalled.Įmily has suffered from mental illness on and off for 20 years. She has concluded that she was destined to be a movie star, but that at some point a component of some sort fell away from the path she was travelling along. In those hours before the dawn she thinks sometimes about what has gone wrong in her life. ![]() Emily, 38, has had more time than she would like to analyse her situation during long nights in her bed, staring into the darkness, waiting for the sleep that does not come. She had just had yet another sleepless night.įor the past two years, she has been suffering from chronic insomnia. I was upset, but my mum said I should laugh it off, and I sort of did.'Īctually, although she wasn't dressed in a ballgown, Emily did look dishevelled. 'I didn't think it was fair to take that shot of me. 'What should I have worn - a ballgown and tiara? And as for that mattress, the neighbours were refurbishing their flat and had just put it out there. Dishevelled: Emily Lloyd walks her dog from her flat in East LondonĮmily says she would like to know what attire might have been more appropriate to take her Staffordshire bull terrier, Randolph, for a walk.
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