Actress feels 'lighter' after ADHD and autism diagnosis

A Welsh actress says a "huge weight has been lifted off my shoulders" after being diagnosed with autism and ADHD.

Kimberley Nixon, star of Channel 4's Fresh Meat, developed perinatal obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD), after giving birth to her son during the 2020 pandemic.

She said her worries about her baby's well-being escalated into intense anxiety, with symptoms lasting around two and a half years.

As she began to recover, other lifelong patterns started to make sense, prompting her to seek a diagnosis.

In Thursday's interview, Nixon also spoke about her latest role in the ITV series Shardlake.

She plays the character Joan in the four-part drama, which is based on CJ Sansom's historical mystery novels.

The first season adapts the book Dissolution.

The story follows lawyer Matthew Shardlake as he investigates a murder at a remote monastery during the reign of Henry VIII.

Nixon, a graduate of the Royal Welsh College of Music & Drama, said the series was filmed in Budapest and it felt like "a little Hungarian Welsh college reunion", as fellow cast members Arthur Hughes and Anthony Boyle also trained at the same institution.