From stripping at parties to suicidal thoughts — Juliet Bravo star’s bipolar struggle: Fearful of being stigmatised, she hid her condition for decades. Now actress Anna Carteret makes a courageous admission...
Actress Anna Carteret still gets stopped in the street by fans who remember her
She starred in 1980s TV show Juliet Bravo, which was a groundbreaking series
Yet she was often in mental and emotional turmoil off-screen, due to her bipolar
Here, the 76-year-old publicly speaks about her condition for the very first tim

Actress Anna Carteret still gets stopped in the street by those who remember her fondly from the Eighties police drama Juliet Bravo. It was a groundbreaking series, one of the first to feature a female police chief.

Anna had the lead role, as the no-nonsense inspector Kate Longton. But while she presented a tough, take-charge exterior on-screen, she was often in mental and emotional turmoil off-screen, due to the bipolar disorder that has plagued her since she was a teenager.

For Anna it means that her mood swings between dizzying highs and crashing lows.

‘At my worst if I was on a high, I’d do anything — strip naked at a party, jump into a swimming pool with my clothes on, and get into car crashes because I was driving too fast,’ says Anna, 76, who has never publicly spoken about her condition before.# Juliet Bravo#actress Anna Carteret#

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