Hollyoaks actress, Emma Rigby has revealed that she found her recent anorexia storylines very draining to film.

The 18 year old, who plays Hannah Ashworth in the show, recently won a British Soap Award for Best Actress, but reveals that the massive plot and storyline took a lot of her behind the scenes.

Emma told New! magazine: “I just threw myself into it, really. I didn’t want it to be unrealistic or disrespectful to people who suffer from the illness and I didn’t want to glamorise it, either.

“There was a time when I was feeling really, really tired at work and it was really upsetting. But afterwards, I’d have the support of my family.

“Actors who weren’t in scenes with me would come up to me during the day and say, ‘Oh my God! You look awful.’ I had so many people saying I looked awful, I started to feel really tired and depressed.”