Annie Murphy cried "12 times a day" before being diagnosed with depression.
The 'Schitt's Creek' star - who played Alexis Rose on the hit comedy - revealed how she struggled during the pandemic after moving back into her family home in Canada when she went for a planned vacation and filming on new series 'Kevin Can F*** Himself' was delayed.
She told The Zoe Report: "My mom was like, ‘You're crying 12 times a day hysterically, to the point where your teeth are chattering. That's not normal.' "
The 34-year-old star then went to therapist, who diagnosed her with depression and she admitted she was worried about what people would think if they knew.
She added: "I was like, 'Damn it, I'm depressed'. Urgh... A lot of people are going to think that I sound like I'm playing a tiny violin for myself.
“‘Oh, you're rich and famous. Why the f*** 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 - who struggled months earlier when she was on the 'Schitt's Creek' live tour - admitted she wasn't sure if she would have "been able to do [her] job" if filming on 'Kevin Can F*** Himself' had started as planned.
She explained: "[And] as excited as I was to get this huge part on [the show], 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.”
Now, Annie is helped by regular therapy and antidepressants and she admitted they have saved her life.
She said: "I do not cry every single day on the floor 12 times… I am able to focus on other things in my life.
"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, but they truly, truly saved my life in the sense that I was not a functional human being and I was able to be a functional human being.”
