OHMYGOSSIP — Karen Blick turned to crystal healing therapy to help her cope with her ‘Emmerdale’ rape storyline.
The actress – who has played Lydia Dingle since 2016 – had to film a number of harrowing scenes for the upcoming plot which will see Lydia get attacked by ex boyfriend Craig Reed, played by Ben Addis.
As quoted by the Daily Star newspaper’s Hot TV column, she said: “I’ve got a lovely friend who’s a crystal healing therapist and she contacted me a couple of weeks before we started filming and said, ‘Can I help you? Can I help you look after your energy?’
“I’m really open-minded about things like this and I thought, ‘Well it can’t hurt. I’ll give it a go.’
“She gave me some crystals to carry around with me and to keep in my dressing room.”
Karen admitted she saw a benefit to the “useful ritual” when it came to dealing with the “negative” feelings around the storyline, which is set to start next month on ITV.
She added: “I found it was a useful ritual to absorb some of the negative energy and some of the thoughts, feelings, emotions around this story.”
And she also turned to other “healthy, productive” methods to help her cope, including hypnotherapy and yoga, and ensure she wasn’t taking her work home with her.
She said: “On the advice of professionals that I’ve spoken to, I had some hypnotherapy.
“I started a daily yoga practice so I could kind of get rid of anything that might have been physically staying with me at the end of the day.
“I was keen to find healthy, productive coping mechanisms. I made sure that I was in a good, strong, physical, psychological place in order to tackle this story.”
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