Happy Valley star Sarah Lancashire has revealed she has "brain fog" due to "the most terrible menopause".
Lancashire told The Mail on Sunday: "I'm having the most terrible menopause. I've got brain fog.
"I was in Sainsbury's the other day, and I found myself just stood there in the aisle and could not remember what I was there for. It just comes over you all of a sudden.
"I can't remember things that happened 30 years ago either."
The 58-year-old actress was given the Special Recognition Award at the UK's National Television Awards (NTAs) last week for her body of work, including roles in Coronation Street, Last Tango in Halifax, and Happy Valley.
At London's O2 last Tuesday, Lancashire also won the award for Best Drama Performance for her role as the no-nonsense West Yorkshire police sergeant Catherine Cawood in the gritty crime drama Happy Valley, which ended earlier this year after three seasons.
Lancashire told The Mail on Sunday of her struggles with the heat and needing two fans "pretty much on my face the whole time" at the awards ceremony.
"I brought one of my closest friends with me and his job was to keep an eye out for the cameras and if it looked like they were going to pan across to us, then he'd let me know so I could hide them," she said.
Happy Valley is available on the RTÉ Player.
Source: Press Association
