Olivia Cooke lays bare mental health struggles

House of the Dragon actress Olivia Cooke laid bare her mental health struggle. 

Speaking with the Observer the actress made a revelation that she had a "full mental breakdown" at age 22.

The 28-year-old said that she suffered feeling lonely while filming the A&E series Bates Motel in Canada.

"I’m so grateful for that job, but I had a really tough time on it,” says Cooke, who played Emma Decody on the Hitchcock-inspired drama, which ran from 2013 to 2017. “The way the schedule worked, we all had different storylines, so a lot of my time was spent in this apartment in Vancouver, working once every two weeks."

That feeling of isolation became a full-fledged depression, she told the publication.

"It was a big old lovely cocktail: being homesick and not knowing it, having not stopped since I was 18, being on my own for large swathes of time," she says of her "full mental breakdown." 

"It was bad, bad. Awful, actually.”

However the Sound of Metal star continued with her acting jobs rather than focus on herself.

"Oh, no, I was working all the way through," said Cooke. 

"I was very good at hiding it. If anything, I was like, let me escape myself."