{"id":2431316,"date":"2026-05-25T13:18:13","date_gmt":"2026-05-25T13:18:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2431316"},"modified":"2026-05-25T13:18:13","modified_gmt":"2026-05-25T13:18:13","slug":"game-of-thrones-hannah-murray-had-psychotic-episode-during-time-in-wellness-cult-was-rushed-to-hospital","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/game-of-thrones-hannah-murray-had-psychotic-episode-during-time-in-wellness-cult-was-rushed-to-hospital\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cGame of Thrones\u201d&#8217; Hannah Murray had psychotic episode during time in wellness cult, was rushed to hospital"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div data-article-body=\"true\">\n<h3 class=\"mb-4 text-lg font-bold\">Key points<\/h3>\n<ul class=\"mb-4\">\n<li class=\"ml-4 list-disc\">\n<div class=\"\">\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><em>Game of Thrones<\/em> star Hannah Murray opened up about her time in a wellness cult after an experience with an &#8220;energy healer.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li class=\"ml-4 list-disc\">\n<div class=\"\">\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">She said that In her worst moment she had a psychotic episode that felt like &#8220;giving birth through my skull&#8221; and was rushed to the hospital.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li class=\"ml-4 list-disc\">\n<div class=\"\">\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Murray chronicles her traumatic experience with the cult in her upcoming book, <em>The Make-Believe: A Memoir of Magic and Madness<\/em>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Hannah Murray is reflecting on her traumatic time spent living in a cult.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The English actress, best known for portraying Gilly in <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/ew.com\/game-of-thrones\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"elm:link;elmt:article_link;slk:Game of Thrones;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;Game of Thrones&quot;}\" class=\"link \"><em>Game of Thrones<\/em><\/a>, detailed being drawn into a wellness cult in her late 20s in a new interview on Saturday in support of her upcoming book, <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.penguinrandomhouse.com\/books\/797253\/the-make-believe-by-hannah-murray\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"elm:link;elmt:article_link;slk:The Make-Believe: A Memoir of Magic and Madness;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;The Make-Believe&quot;}\" class=\"link \"><em>The Make-Believe: A Memoir of Magic and Madness<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">&#8220;It&#8217;s easy to go, &#8216;Well, that would never happen to me,&#8217; but we do ourselves a disservice when we start saying that, because you don&#8217;t know,&#8221; Murray <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/film\/2026\/may\/23\/hannah-murray-interview-wellness-cult-sectioned\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"elm:link;elmt:article_link;slk:told The Guardian;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;told The Guardian&quot;}\" class=\"link \">told <em>The Guardian<\/em><\/a> of her intense experience. &#8220;I had no idea I was going to go through any of the things in the book. I would&#8217;ve assumed I couldn&#8217;t, that I was safe. I was well educated, from a middle-class family; everything should have been fine. I thought, &#8216;I&#8217;m smart. I make good choices.&#8217; Well, I made terrible choices.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">She added, &#8220;It&#8217;s important to understand why people do these things, rather than going, &#8216;Oh, they must be idiots.&#8217; Or, &#8216;How stupid could you be?'&#8221;<\/p>\n<figure class=\"relative mb-4\">\n<div class=\"relative\"><button aria-label=\"View larger image\" class=\"group absolute bottom-0 size-full\" data-ylk=\"elm:expand;itc:1;sec:image-lightbox;slk:lightbox-open;\"><span class=\"absolute bottom-3 right-3 rounded-full bg-primary p-3 opacity-100 shadow-elevation-3 transition-opacity duration-300 group-hover:block group-hover:opacity-100 md:p-[17px] lg:bottom-6 lg:right-6 lg:bg-primary\/90 lg:p-5 lg:opacity-0 lg:shadow-none\"><svg xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"24\" height=\"24\" viewbox=\"0 0 24 24\" aria-hidden=\"true\" focusable=\"false\" class=\"flex-none size-4 -scale-x-100 text-primary lg:size-6 [&amp;_path]:fill-current\"><path fill=\"currentColor\" d=\"M3.1 3.1V11h1.8V6.314l5.392 5.393 1.415-1.414L6.313 4.9H11V3.1zm17.8 17.8V13h-1.8v4.686l-5.393-5.393-1.415 1.414 5.393 5.393H13v1.8z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/button><dialog aria-label=\"Modal Dialog\" aria-modal=\"true\" class=\"fixed bottom-0 left-0 right-0 top-0 z-4 size-full max-h-none max-w-none bg-primary hidden\"\/><\/div><figcaption class=\"relative text-sm mt-1 pr-2.5\">\n<p><i>Hannah Murray on &#8216;Game of Thrones&#8217;<br \/>Credit: Helen Sloan\/HBO<\/i><\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Murray explained that she was originally drawn to an &#8220;energy healer,&#8221; whom the article refers to as Grace, who helped her process the difficulty of shooting 2017&#8217;s <em>Detroit<\/em> though a $150 &#8220;healing&#8221; session. The session was a positive one, which led Murray to a mystical class that in turn led to more classes with more members of the organization. &#8220;I wanted to go further and further, as far as you could go,&#8221; the actress said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">She eventually met the man at the top of the group, whom the article refers to as Steve. &#8220;He exuded power in a way I had never known anyone to exude it,&#8221; she said. &#8220;Magical power \u2026 I knew I was in the presence of a magician.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Murray noted that she felt predisposed to believe in magic because of her love for the <em>Harry Potter<\/em> series as a child. &#8220;The most appealing thing was the idea that you might discover this whole magical world just under the surface of our world. As a kid, I desperately wanted that to be true,&#8221; she said. &#8220;When I was going through psychosis, my brain was a cocktail of those stories, this idea that I had discovered the truth, which was that I had this incredible destiny. I was going to save the world. I could fly.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">She added that she felt strange sexual overtones in the organization, though those feelings were never consummated.\u00a0&#8220;My own experience felt highly eroticized, without anything explicitly physical happening. There was just this charge to the energy in the room. I think there often is in these hierarchical spiritual organizations.&#8221; When she suggested that the organization was some sort of &#8220;sex cult&#8221; to one of its teachers, they replied, &#8220;That\u2019s hilarious. No, [Steve is] just really good at breaking down your ego and so a lot of sexual stuff might come up.&#8221;<\/p>\n<figure class=\"relative mb-4\">\n<div class=\"relative\"><img alt=\"Hannah Murray in 2019Credit: Jeff Kravitz\/FilmMagic\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"960\" height=\"640\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"rounded-lg\" style=\"color:transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/s.yimg.com\/ny\/api\/res\/1.2\/AADXJBVMk5Imke9voGNCuw--\/YXBwaWQ9aGlnaGxhbmRlcjt3PTk2MDtoPTY0MDtjZj13ZWJw\/https:\/\/media.zenfs.com\/en\/entertainment_weekly_785\/07b0e4962033c2c000751b05b3156aa7\"\/><button aria-label=\"View larger image\" class=\"group absolute bottom-0 size-full\" data-ylk=\"elm:expand;itc:1;sec:image-lightbox;slk:lightbox-open;\"><span class=\"absolute bottom-3 right-3 rounded-full bg-primary p-3 opacity-100 shadow-elevation-3 transition-opacity duration-300 group-hover:block group-hover:opacity-100 md:p-[17px] lg:bottom-6 lg:right-6 lg:bg-primary\/90 lg:p-5 lg:opacity-0 lg:shadow-none\"><svg xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"24\" height=\"24\" viewbox=\"0 0 24 24\" aria-hidden=\"true\" focusable=\"false\" class=\"flex-none size-4 -scale-x-100 text-primary lg:size-6 [&amp;_path]:fill-current\"><path fill=\"currentColor\" d=\"M3.1 3.1V11h1.8V6.314l5.392 5.393 1.415-1.414L6.313 4.9H11V3.1zm17.8 17.8V13h-1.8v4.686l-5.393-5.393-1.415 1.414 5.393 5.393H13v1.8z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/button><dialog aria-label=\"Modal Dialog\" aria-modal=\"true\" class=\"fixed bottom-0 left-0 right-0 top-0 z-4 size-full max-h-none max-w-none bg-primary hidden\"\/><\/div><figcaption class=\"relative text-sm mt-1 pr-2.5\">\n<p><i>Hannah Murray in 2019<br \/>Credit: Jeff Kravitz\/FilmMagic<\/i><\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The worst moment came when she was attending a five-day course in a London hotel. She was talking at &#8220;a million miles a second,&#8221; seeing signs and symbols everywhere, and feeling incredibly happy. One night, Murray found herself hallucinating and hearing Steve&#8217;s voice in her head. She recalled taking refuge in a locked bathroom and experiencing a painful psychotic episode in which she felt like she was &#8220;giving birth through my skull.&#8221; Members of the organization then surrounded the stall with bronze tools, chanting, &#8220;Be gone, evil spirit in Hannah.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Someone eventually called for help, and after she was pinned to the floor by a group of men in uniform, she was rushed\u00a0to Gordon hospital in Bloomsbury, London, where she was detained for 28 days under the Mental Health Act.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><strong><em>Get your daily dose of entertainment news, celebrity updates, and what to watch with our<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/ew.com\/ew-dispatch-newsletter-11812417\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"elm:link;elmt:article_link;slk:EW Dispatch newsletter;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;EW Dispatch newsletter&quot;}\" class=\"link \">EW Dispatch newsletter<\/a>.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Murray was later diagnosed with bipolar disorder and has now retired from acting. &#8220;I hear so much, &#8216;We need to talk more about mental health,'&#8221; she said in the interview. &#8220;What they mean is, like, anxiety and depression. We&#8217;re all happy to talk about that. But there&#8217;s such a taboo around the idea of people who are sectioned. They are beyond the pale.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">&#8220;It felt really important to say, &#8216;I went through this,'&#8221; she added. &#8220;Lots of people go through this. That doesn&#8217;t mean they are bad or f&#8212;ed up forever.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><em>The Make-Believe: A Memoir of Magic and Madness<\/em> is out June 23.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Read the original article on <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/ew.com\/game-of-thrones-hannah-murray-psychotic-episode-in-wellness-cult-rushed-to-hospital-11982943\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"elm:link;elmt:article_link;slk:Entertainment Weekly;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;Entertainment Weekly&quot;}\" class=\"link \">Entertainment Weekly<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.yahoo.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Key points Game of Thrones star Hannah Murray opened up about her time in a wellness cult after an experience with an &#8220;energy healer.&#8221; She said that In her worst moment she had a psychotic episode that felt like &#8220;giving birth through my skull&#8221; and was rushed to the hospital. 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