You often hear people expressing fears around spiders, injections, or even dogs, but one woman has shocked others by admitting she has a crippling phobia of peas.
Maddy Alexander-Grout, 39, said that her debilitating fear of the popular vegetable comes from being force-fed them at school, and has said her "terror" at the sight of them causes her to have panic attack-like symptoms.
She even claims that her phobia "stunted her childhood" as she didn't want to go round to her friend's houses in case peas were on the menu.
