GK Barry opens up about emetophobia while discussing fears on Loose Women

GK Barry revealed she has a rare phobia known as emetophobia, which is a fear of vomit.

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Video transcript

I'm riddled.

Riddled?

With where?

What's your worst one?

I say my main one, is a meta, which is the fear of sick.

So whether it's me being unwell or other people being unwell near me, yeah, the hard stuff.

But I didn't realise that was a thing cos no one actually likes vomit.

No one sits there and enjoys that time.

So I was like, Oh, I don't know what this is.

And then I went to go see someone Cos I was so scared of flying, um and I had no idea why.

And they were like, Were you unwell when you were younger?

So when I was younger, I used to get really bad travel sickness, and it used to make me panic when I would be sick because I didn't know what to do.

And now I just associate that panic with sick and I've had so many traumatic someone threw up on me on a bus.

I hope he's doing well in hell nasty.

Um, but yeah, and then it just made me like I would struggle so much with getting on public transport like I would look at someone, and if they were fidgeting, I'd be like they're gonna vomit