Jameela Jamil denies claims she has Munchausen’s following string of ‘dumb internet conspiracies’

Actor says accusations were made by an 'unhinged idiot'

Jameela Jamil has criticised claims she has Munchausen’s syndrome, following a series of viral Instagram posts that suggested she has been lying about past injuries and illnesses.

According to the NHS, munchausen's is a psychological disorder that sees people deliberately pretend to be ill or product symptoms of an illness they don’t actually have.

“Their main intention is to assume the “sick role” so that people care for them and they are the centre of attention,” the NHS states.

Earlier this week, an Instagram Story highlight from a user went viral on social media with slides thatt featured past quotes from Jamil alongside captions that claimed the accounts contradicted one another.

Among the incidents pointed out were a car accident Jamil said she experienced after being chased by a bee, which was later referred to as a “swarm of bees” in a separate interview.

Elsewhere, another story highlighted a separate accident Jamil had while filming with Olly Murs, and alleged that the presenter did not actually suffer from a broken nose, elbow or concussion as suggested in a number of conversations about the incident.

In another separate Story highlight titled “Munchausen’, the Instagram user also suggested that Jamil suffers from Munchausen’s syndrome.

After receiving a number of tweets about the accusations, the Good Place star has now issued a response in which she calls the social media user an “unhinged idiot”.

“First I’m lying about my sexuality, now I’m now being accused of munchausens?” she tweeted on Wednesday morning, also referencing the criticism she faced last week after coming out as queer.

“By an unhinged idiot who didn’t even [realise] in all her ‘research’ that my car accident injury stories are ‘different’ because they were about TWO SEPARATE CAR ACCIDENTS 13 years apart? You can keep it.”

In a separate tweet, Jamil continued: “Man, if as many people spent their time and energy helping others/fighting injustice as they do dragging and slandering people on the internet the world would be in such good shape.”

The 33-year-old later added that she was not afraid of “dumb internet conspiracy theories” and called on the user to “keep them coming”.

“I’m gonna keep helping people with eating disorders, and changing laws and global policies to protect kids and their mental health and there’s NOTHING you can do about it,” she wrote.

Jamil also responded to individual Twitter users, who highlighted specific points of the viral Instagram Story.

When one person questioned how Jamil was able to eat peanut butter-filled nuggets despite claiming she had a peanut allergy, the presenter claimed that many of her food allergies had “cleared up”.

“Mercury poisoning in my twenties. Had 11 fillings removed and my stomach lining was damaged for a decade,” Jamil wrote.

“Got loads of weird food allergies that cleared up as I healed my gut. Next question.”

Later, another Twitter user asked if she really suffered from a broken elbow and tooth after the accident involving Murs.

“Sure. Have you ever heard of adrenaline? I was able to keep filming for an hour after the accident,” Jamil explained.

“I didn’t know at the time I was concussed. I was in shock. I felt no pain. And stuck my tooth in with adhesive. I still have the cracked tooth. I never replaced it. Next question.”

Jamil’s defensive tweets come days after the star revealed she felt “overwhelmed” after coming out due to criticism over her judge role on upcoming show Legendary.

Speaking about the news, the actor admitted she chose a bad time to make her announcement.

“Well. Last week was a perfect clusterf***,” she wrote on Instagram.

“The sequence of events was insane, a misunderstanding was left uncorrected for too long, and misinformation spread too far, too fast, then my timing was bad, and in a moment of distress and pain, personal things were blurted out because when you have a secret for decades and you’re traumatised, it always feels like it might just f**king burst out of you at any given moment, even the most inappropriate and unfortunate ones.”