Scarlett Moffatt appeared on This Morning on Tuesday, July 19 to talk about her upcoming documentary, Britain's Tourette's Mystery: Scarlett Moffatt Investigates. During a chat with presenters Dermot O'Leary and Alison Hammond, the Gogglebox star, 31, opened up about her own experiences with Tourette's.
She revealed: "I had tics when I was younger so when I was 11 I had facial tics, especially with my eyes then they just went on their own." Scarlett has previously gone on record to state her belief that her tics were the result of suffering Bell's palsy after she was hit by a car. You can read more about that here.
"I remember how lonely I felt at the time and during lockdown, I kept getting articles saying the rise in tics in teenagers was going crazy," said Scarlett, who found fame on Channel 4's Gogglebox. Talking about her own experiences, she added: "You can suppress them, that's what I was doing at school, but when I got home they'd all come out all at once."
In the new documentary, that airs on Channel 4, the TV personality meets people with a range of different people living with Tourette's. She told Dermot and Alison that she needed a "thick skin" to be able to get through the show.
According to Scarlett, following her documentary debut, she has a "newfound respect for Louis Theroux". "It was difficult asking difficult questions but you have to."
Having to face her own past with Tourette's was challenging for Scarlett. She told the This Morning hosts: "I started really worrying if I was susceptible [to picking the tics up again] but what I thought was 'some of these people have four million followers but not all their followers have tics' but if you're with your friends you do pick up certain things for yourself."
Despite this, she said that she'd be open to the idea of presenting future documentary series. A lover of all things supernatural, Scarlett would be keen to do one on ghosts and the afterlife. For more 'ghostly' stories, read here for the moment an apparition interrupted James May on his new Amazon Prime documentary.
Britain's Tourette's Mystery: Scarlett Moffatt Investigates airs on Channel 4 at 10pm on Tuesday, July 19. It will be available straight afterwards on All4.
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