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Jameela Jamil has criticised claims she has Munchausen’s syndrome, following a series of viral Instagram posts that suggested she has been lying about past injuries and illnesses.
According to the NHS, munchausen's is a psychological disorder that sees people deliberately pretend to be ill or product symptoms of an illness they don’t actually have.
“Their main intention is to assume the “sick role” so that people care for them and they are the centre of attention,” the NHS states.
Earlier this week, an Instagram Story highlight from a user went viral on social media with slides thatt featured past quotes from Jamil alongside captions that claimed the accounts contradicted one another.
Among the incidents pointed out were a car accident Jamil said she experienced after being chased by a bee, which was later referred to as a “swarm of bees” in a separate interview.
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“Doing something that is productive is a great way to alleviate emotional stress. Get your mind doing something that is productive.”
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Getty
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"The only thing wrong with me was that I thought there was something wrong with me."
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“Be able to delegate, because there are some things that you just can’t do by yourself.”
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“Do not judge me by my successes, judge me by how many times I fell down and got back up again.”
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"And once the storm is over you won’t remember how you made it through, how you managed to survive. You won’t even be sure, in fact, whether the storm is really over. But one thing is certain. When you come out of the storm you won’t be the same person who walked in. That’s what this storm’s all about.”
Getty
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“You Are Never Too Old To Set Another Goal Or To Dream A New Dream.”
Rex Features
17/24 17. Audery Hepburn
“Nothing is impossible, the word itself says 'I'm possible'.”
Getty
18/24 18. Ella Fitzgerald
“Just don't give up trying to do what you really want to do. Where there is love and inspiration, I don't think you can go wrong.”
Getty
19/24 19. Billy Porter
“For me, life is about being positive and hopeful, choosing to be joyful, choosing to be encouraging, choosing to be empowering.”
Getty
20/24 20. Betty White
“It's your outlook on life that counts. If you take yourself lightly and don't take yourself too seriously, pretty soon you can find the humor in our everyday lives. And sometimes it can be a lifesaver.”
Getty Images
21/24 21. Drew Barrymore
"Life is very interesting… in the end, some of your greatest pains, become your greatest strengths.”
Getty
22/24 22. Jane Fonda
“It’s never too late – never too late to start over, never too late to be happy.”
Getty
23/24 23. Jennifer Aniston
“There are no regrets in life. Just lessons.”
Getty
24/24 24. Beyonce Knowles
"The reality is: sometimes you lose. And you’re never too good to lose. You’re never too big to lose. You’re never too smart to lose. It happens"
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Elsewhere, another story highlighted a separate accident Jamil had while filming with Olly Murs, and alleged that the presenter did not actually suffer from a broken nose, elbow or concussion as suggested in a number of conversations about the incident.
In another separate Story highlight titled “Munchausen’, the Instagram user also suggested that Jamil suffers from Munchausen’s syndrome.
After receiving a number of tweets about the accusations, the Good Place star has now issued a response in which she calls the social media user an “unhinged idiot”.
“First I’m lying about my sexuality, now I’m now being accused of munchausens?” she tweeted on Wednesday morning, also referencing the criticism she faced last week after coming out as queer.
“By an unhinged idiot who didn’t even [realise] in all her ‘research’ that my car accident injury stories are ‘different’ because they were about TWO SEPARATE CAR ACCIDENTS 13 years apart? You can keep it.”
In a separate tweet, Jamil continued: “Man, if as many people spent their time and energy helping others/fighting injustice as they do dragging and slandering people on the internet the world would be in such good shape.”
The 33-year-old later added that she was not afraid of “dumb internet conspiracy theories” and called on the user to “keep them coming”.
“I’m gonna keep helping people with eating disorders, and changing laws and global policies to protect kids and their mental health and there’s NOTHING you can do about it,” she wrote.
Jamil also responded to individual Twitter users, who highlighted specific points of the viral Instagram Story.
When one person questioned how Jamil was able to eat peanut butter-filled nuggets despite claiming she had a peanut allergy, the presenter claimed that many of her food allergies had “cleared up”.
“Mercury poisoning in my twenties. Had 11 fillings removed and my stomach lining was damaged for a decade,” Jamil wrote.
“Got loads of weird food allergies that cleared up as I healed my gut. Next question.”
Later, another Twitter user asked if she really suffered from a broken elbow and tooth after the accident involving Murs.
“Sure. Have you ever heard of adrenaline? I was able to keep filming for an hour after the accident,” Jamil explained.
“I didn’t know at the time I was concussed. I was in shock. I felt no pain. And stuck my tooth in with adhesive. I still have the cracked tooth. I never replaced it. Next question.”
Jamil’s defensive tweets come days after the star revealed she felt “overwhelmed” after coming out due to criticism over her judge role on upcoming show Legendary.
Speaking about the news, the actor admitted she chose a bad time to make her announcement.
“Well. Last week was a perfect clusterf***,” she wrote on Instagram.
“The sequence of events was insane, a misunderstanding was left uncorrected for too long, and misinformation spread too far, too fast, then my timing was bad, and in a moment of distress and pain, personal things were blurted out because when you have a secret for decades and you’re traumatised, it always feels like it might just f**king burst out of you at any given moment, even the most inappropriate and unfortunate ones.”