Annie Murphy Details Severe Battle with Depression

Annie Murphy is speaking very candidly about her battle with depression.

While promoting her new series Kevin Can F–k Himself, the 34-year-old Emmy winner opened up about her severe battle with depression, which got really bad at the beginning of the COVID-19 lockdown after she moved back to her family home in Canada.

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“My mom was like, ‘You’re crying 12 times a day hysterically, to the point where your teeth are chattering. That’s not normal,’” Annie recalled to The Zoe Report, noting that she subsequently saw a therapist who diagnosed her with depression. “I was like, ‘Damn it, I’m depressed.’”

“A lot of people are going to think that I sound like I’m playing a tiny violin for myself,” Annie continued. “‘Oh, you’re rich and famous. Why the f–k are you sad? You have nothing to be sad about.’ But I’m not going to post photos of me covered in my own snot, lying on the floor, unable to get up. I don’t want people to have to see that.”

Annie shared how the lockdown went into effect on the same day she was supposed to start filming Kevin Can F–k Himself, which was on March 12, 2020.

“As excited as I was to get this huge part on [Kevin Can F**k Himself], I do not think if I had gone to work when I was supposed to go to work, I would have been able to do my job,” Annie said.

Annie went on to say that once she started taking antidepressants and started seeing a therapist regularly, she was able to get to a more stable mental state.

“I do not cry every single day on the floor 12 times. I am able to focus on other things in my life,” Annie said. “Now, honestly, if a friend’s like, ‘I’m having a really hard time,’ I’m like, ‘Get on drugs. Get on drugs!’ You don’t have to be on drugs for the whole time.”

Annie additionally credits antidepressants as something that “truly saved my life” because it helped her to become “a functional human being.”

In another recent interview, Annie explained why she took the role in Kevin Can F–k Himself after starring as Alexis Rose on Schitt’s Creek.