{"id":449104,"date":"2026-02-04T20:02:09","date_gmt":"2026-02-04T20:02:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/449104\/"},"modified":"2026-02-04T20:02:09","modified_gmt":"2026-02-04T20:02:09","slug":"claire-foy-the-crown-star-says-she-had-internal-parasites-for-at-least-five-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/449104\/","title":{"rendered":"Claire Foy: \u2018The Crown\u2019 star says she had internal parasites for \u2018at least five years\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph-elevate inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph_elevate\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cml84qqhq000x26nt9huld1uj@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2022\/09\/16\/entertainment\/the-crown-queen-elizabeth-claire-foy-olivia-colman\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Claire Foy<\/a> has revealed that she had to change her diet after finding out that she was housing some unwanted guests.\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph-elevate inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph_elevate\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cml854ftt000v356prx8aylex@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            Speaking on the <a href=\"https:\/\/shows.acast.com\/tablemanners\/episodes\/claire-foy\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">\u201cTable Manners\u201d podcast<\/a> on Wednesday, the \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/cnn.com\/2023\/12\/14\/opinions\/the-crown-season-six-netflix-queen-elizabeth-tony-blair-staples\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The Crown<\/a>\u201d star told hosts Jessie and Lennie Ware that she had given up drinking caffeine, before going on to explain why.\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph-elevate inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph_elevate\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cml84qu2a0000356pjlkjecc9@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            \u201cQuite a few years ago, I had parasites. Gross,\u201d she said.\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph-elevate inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph_elevate\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cml84tccv0005356pidpj9ilb@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            \u201cI kept losing weight and I didn\u2019t know what was going on,\u201d said Foy, 41, who said she thinks she picked up the parasites in Morocco, and had them for \u201cat least five years\u201d before she found out.\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph-elevate inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph_elevate\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cml84tblj0003356p328qpcdh@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            \u201cThey travel as a pair, I got told by the doctor. Gross, absolutely rank. It\u2019s disgusting,\u201d said Foy, who is best known for playing Queen Elizabeth II in the hit Netflix series \u201cThe Crown,\u201d as well as for roles in the BBC dramas \u201cWolf Hall\u201d and \u201cA Very British Scandal.\u201d\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph-elevate inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph_elevate\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cml84xm7i000n356pg4rre2wt@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            She then made changes to her diet to treat the parasites, she said, as she \u201cdidn\u2019t want to take really hardcore antibiotics.\u201d\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph-elevate inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph_elevate\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cml84tccv0007356pvvgu67ce@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            \u201cI took all this little gross stuff, and part of that was giving up caffeine,\u201d she said, admitting that it wasn\u2019t easy to do so, as someone who used to drink \u201cat least 15 cups of tea a day.\u201d\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph-elevate inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph_elevate\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cml84tccv0009356pxi74opzg@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            Foy went on to reveal that she also restricts her diet due to an autoimmune condition.\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph-elevate inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph_elevate\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cml84tccv000a356p92lx54rb@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            \u201cThis is my big secret, I feel like I\u2019m in \u2018The Traitors\u2019 or something, and I\u2019m letting everyone know that I\u2019m related to someone,\u201d she joked.\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph-elevate inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph_elevate\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cml84tccv000b356pyuos5dwa@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            \u201cI don\u2019t actually eat gluten or sugar \u2026 except when I go out for dinner.\u201d\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph-elevate inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph_elevate\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cml85v17o0013356ptf0ex165@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            Foy said that she is \u201cvery strict but I love falling off the wagon when I\u2019m out for dinner,\u201d adding that she isn\u2019t allergic.\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph-elevate inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph_elevate\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cml85v27t0015356plwzddgul@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            \u201cIt doesn\u2019t have an impact on me. It\u2019s just because I have an autoimmune condition, so I should avoid anything which causes more inflammation,\u201d she said.\n    <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Claire Foy has revealed that she had to change her diet after finding out that she was housing&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":449105,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57],"tags":[236,88],"class_list":{"0":"post-449104","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-celebrities","8":"tag-celebrities","9":"tag-entertainment"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/449104","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=449104"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/449104\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/449105"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=449104"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=449104"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=449104"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}