<p>Actress Tuppence Middleton is perhaps best known for playing Lucy Branson in Downton Abbey.</p><br><p>She has a little girl with her Swedish husband and divides her time between England and Sweden.</p><br><p>I spoke to Tuppence the week before her memoir Scorpions was published. It’s a highly personal book about living with OCD and it really helped me understand the day to day complexities of dealing with OCD and with emetophobia - the fear of being sick.</p><br><p>We also talked about how OCD has given her a greater empathy for other people, and how it means she is always prepared for the worst case scenario.</p><br><p>Spinning Plates is presented by Sophie Ellis-Bextor, produced by Claire Jones and post-production by Richard Jones.</p><br /><hr><p style='color:grey; font-size:0.75em;'> Hosted on Acast. See <a style='color:grey;' target='_blank' rel='noopener noreferrer' href='https://acast.com/privacy'>acast.com/privacy</a> for more information.</p>