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Miriam Margolyes: "My morale is almost at rock bottom"

Veteran actress Miriam Margolyes reveals that she is struggling to cope during the coronavirus lockdown and is "frightened of dying".

Veteran actress Miriam Margolyes has revealed that she is "frightened" and struggling to cope during the coronavirus lockdown.

The 79-year-old has been isolating by herself for almost 80 days in an effort to avoid catching the disease, which has now killed more than 400,000 people worldwide, including over 40,000 in the UK alone.

"My morale is almost at rock bottom," Margolyes admitted on Louis Theroux's podcast. "I get my pleasures from contact with people, that is what I enjoy and when I'm cut off from people as I have to be at the moment, I don't do very well.

"I read, I watch television a lot, I think a bit, but I wouldn't say that I'm having a very good time.

"I'm frightened, I'm frightened of dying, less frightened than I used to be but I'm frightened of dying of this illness because it's really unpleasant. It's scary, I'm scared. So I'm really not having a good time."

Earlier in lockdown, the notoriously-outspoken Margolyes caused controversy by admitting that she actively wanted Prime Minister Boris Johnson "to die" after he contracted COVID-19.

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