Princess Diana actress Emma Corrin asked The Crown’s writing team to add the royal’s battle with bulimia into the script.
The star, 24, who joined the cast for the upcoming fourth series, says she felt it was important for the portrayal to be accurate by showing Diana making herself sick.
“I felt that if we were trying to depict bulimia in an honest way, we had to show it,“ she said.
“Otherwise it’s a disservice to anyone who has been through that. Diana was very candid about her experience, I so admire that.
“I don’t buy that anyone has a healthy relationship with food. These days there’s so much pressure, especially with social media, to be a certain way.”
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Emma can relate to the pressure Diana felt to be thin and glamorous at all times.
“Oh, one hundred per cent. I don’t honestly buy that anyone has a healthy relationship with food,” she admitted.
“These days there’s so much pressure on everyone, especially with social media, to be a certain way.”
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Corrin was not even two when Diana died in a car crash on August 31, 1997.
But she says she grew up knowing all about the princess – because her own mother looked like her.
She said: “There was a running joke at my school that she was Diana, that she’d run away and was living a normal life.”
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Emma has no desire to become a royal bride, she said: “I’d run a mile if anyone in the royal family asked me to marry them.
“We know what happened to Diana.”
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Originally from https://www.mirror.co.uk/tv/tv-news/emma-corrin-begged-crown-writers-22984045