“It was bad, bad. Awful, actually,” Cooke told Observer Magazine.
“It was a big old lovely cocktail. Being homesick and not knowing it, having not stopped since I was 18, being on my own for large swathes of time.”
The Soft Voice producer-star said she was “very good at hiding” her depression, which was worsened by the double shock of Brexit and election of President Donald Trump.
Olivia’s mental health did not improve when she moved to Vancouver to film her role as Norman Bate’s girlfriend Emma Decody on A&E’s Bates Motel for five seasons spanning 2013–2017.
“I’m so grateful for that job, but I had a really tough time on it, Cooke admitted.
“The way the schedule worked, we all had different storylines, so a lot of my time was spent in this apartment in Vancouver, working once every two weeks.”
Olivia admitted she never watched Game of Thrones before being cast as Lady Alicent Hightower in George R. R. Martin and Ryan Condal’s $200M-budget prequel, House of Dragon.
“I resist things that are popular, but to my own detriment, because it’s really f***ing good,” Cooke gushed.
It comes as the stunner revealed she was so lonely in lockdown she used Instagram as a dating app.
The actress admitted she slid into the DMs of several H๏τ actors but they all ignored her.
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Olivia, who previously dated former EastEnder star Ben Hardy, said: “I was living on my own in lockdown and found myself going crazy.
“I got Instagram to DM people like a dating app. I got no replies, I was going for stratospherically famous people. I was so naive, I ᴀssumed they’d see it.”
