Ulrika Jonsson has never felt more anxious than she does during the Covid-19 pandemic.
The 52-year-old TV presenter and mother-of-four admitted she is deeply worried about the coronavirus and said her daughter Bo, 19 – who has a congenital heart condition – has returned to the family home to self-isolate for 12 weeks as she is particularly vulnerable.
Writing in her column for The Sun newspaper, Ulrika said: "I’m not going to lie. I don’t think I’ve felt so anxious in all my 52 years.
"As someone who suffers from anxiety but until last week was doing really rather well, I now feel like I am free-falling into an abyss of bewilderment, angst and despair. I exaggerate not."
Ulrika admitted she is desperately worried about Bo.
She wrote: "I have a 19-year-old daughter with a congenital heart condition who is supposed to self-isolate for 12 weeks, to protect both herself and our beloved NHS.
"I say ‘supposedly’ because it is to start at the weekend, Boris Johnson says. Bo has asked me: ‘Why not now, Mum?’"
"On Sunday, she came home distraught from her university -which has since shut its doors."
However, she also confessed that adjusting to her new living situation has not been easy.
She said: "It felt wonderful to have her home and ‘safe’ (whatever that means) but I can’t deny there was a pinch in my stomach when I realised what lay before me.
"I pray for her good health, along with all my family . . . and everyone else, of course. But by Monday I was already wondering if I might actually murder her.
"Apart from her bed, her phone and Netflix, she apparently has nothing in her life.
"We are forced to exist in close proximity to each other — without actually touching — and she is already bored out of her teenage skull."
Ulrika Jonsson’s Covid-19 anxiety
