15 January 2013
Keira Knightley caught pleurisy, but ignored it as she thought she had just hurt a rib.
The actress was struck by the lung problem last year, characterised by a pain when sufferers breathe, but thought she had just hurt one of her ribs.
She said: "You do period films and you get some sort of weird archaic disease. And I didn't realise, so I went on for another month. I just stupidly never went to a doctor."
"I was rehearsing for this play and then I found in rehearsals it got so bad that I couldn't stand up any more."
"And they said: 'Please, can you go to the doctor?' "
The 27-year-old star has since turned to yoga to help keep her limber, but that has also resulted in a few injuries.
She told the Australian edition of Harper's Bazaar magazine: "My body at the end of last year was breaking and I thought, 'I've really got to try and do something'.
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2 comments:
I'm so sorry for her! She's such a brilliant actress! I hope she will get fine soon :(
Sad to say but if she ate properly she probably would not have had this illness
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