Hannah Murray says a 2017 psychotic break led to a 28-day stay at Gordon Hospital in London, a crisis she recounts in her new memoir "The Make-Believe: A Memoir of Magic and Madness."
A $150 healing session after filming "Detroit" drew Murray into an unnamed wellness group, and hallucinations during a 5-day London retreat culminated in her hospitalization.
In the book, the 36-year-old writes that she believed the ward was a palace, thought the group's leader was God, and even drank her own urine as part of what she saw as a ritual.
Family visits and the return of her phone helped her begin questioning the leader, whom she later confronted by text and now describes as running an "evil cult."
Murray told The Guardian she shared the story to challenge blind faith in the wellness industry and the stigma around severe mental illness and psychiatric detention.