Coronation Street star Jamie Kenna suffered a breakdown after a panic attack whilst swimming in the middle of the ocean. The actor, who plays Fiz Stape’s rejected husband Phill Whittaker, now hopes speaking about his ordeal that triggered difficult mental health struggles, will encourage others to open up too.
A keen open water swimmer, his problems began in 2011 after he got into difficulties while in a rough sea. He swam too far out and found himself having a panic attack after he began struggling and swallowed a lot of water, the Mirror reports.
Before that, he said he thought he was 'invincible', but that the ordeal 'opened a can of worms'. He added that he became aware of his 'own mortality' which triggered anxiety and panic attacks, the first of which he suffered in 2014 while appearing in the play War Horse in London.
