ITV Coronation Street star Samia Longchambon breaks silence over hidden health battle and says 'honest truth'

ITV Coronation Street star Samia Longchambon has broken her silence over a secret and hidden health struggle. Samia, who plays Maria Connor, has detailed her anxiety struggle with a behind-the-scenes snap from the set of the ongoing ITV favourite.

Samia, who is famed for playing Maria Windass in the ITV soap, spoke out on Monday (April 15). Samia wrote "I always pick my fingers until they hurt when I'm overthinking." The mum-of-two continued: "I do it without realising... When my gingers look like this I know I need to slow my thoughts down... #anxiety 'honesttruth #monkeymind." Samia, 41, also added a GIF which read: "Mental Health Matters," before adding: "Need to do my nails asap [as soon as possible]."

"Everyone who knows me has always known I'm quite an anxious person," she told Loose Women during an interview back in August 2021. "I'm known for being a bit of a worrier and being really cautious with everything.

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"I've had anxiety since I was a child and when I was a child, my mum took me to the doctors and the doctor first diagnosed asthma because I couldn't get a deep breath. So they ended up giving me inhalers when I was about 11 thinking that it was asthma but it wasn't, it was anxiety."

Speaking to Lorraine Kelly on the ITV daytime talk show back in 2022, Samia revealed she has had cognitive behavioral therapy over the years, and that it has worked for her. "Last year I did a course in it myself, I got a diploma in it, just a foundation diploma so I could take it a lot further, but I just thought it would be fun to learn from the therapist’s angle how it all works, and go behind-the-scenes of the therapy in a way, and try and help myself with it as well," she explained.

She continued: "It’s great, it just gives you a different way of looking at things, whereas normally you might catastrophize them, I certainly do anyway, just go from like nought to 100. It gives you a different way to deal with it and to slow your thoughts down a little bit."