
Bella Ramsey Says This ‘Intense’ Fear Kept Them From Leaving The House For Months
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The "Last of Us" star said their emetophobia made them see “everything outside [as] a threat.”
Bella Ramsey said they once suffered from an “intense” fear of vomiting that left them stuck in their house for months as a teen.
While appearing on the “Louis Theroux Podcast” earlier this week, the “Last of Us” star, now 21, revealed that battling emetophobia, the intense fear of vomiting or seeing others vomit, made them see “everything outside [as] a threat.”
“The concept of having a stomach bug or having norovirus is enough [to activate the phobia],” they explained. “It’s such an all-encompassing fear. It’s the unpredictability…”
The actor said their emetophobia got so intense around age 13 that they felt they “couldn’t leave my house,” adding that “the only safe place in the world was home, and even that wasn’t safe at times in terms of germs.”
The “Game of Thrones” alum, who uses they/them pronouns, said that the phobia caused them to hyperfixate on sickness and to “see germs.”













