There are some who, outraged, have dismissed it as ‘soft porn’. Rose admits it was a ‘huge concern’ how viewers might react to the disturbing sexual element of the drama. Let’s just say that what happens next does not make for comfortable family viewing. Revolted by the imaginary orgy in her head, involving both her parents, Marnie flees to London to seek answers to whatever is wrong with her. The drama’s heroine, 24-year-old Marnie - the character inspired by Rose - is giving a speech at her parents’ surprise wedding anniversary party when it all goes horribly wrong.įrom nowhere, unwanted images of the guests stripped of their clothes and sexual inhibition flood her brain as she desperately glugs champagne in an attempt to block them out.
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For Rose, bringing the condition out into the open has been a healing, if uncomfortable, experience.Ĭertainly the six-part TV series scene opener is not easily forgotten. Pure O refers to a form of OCD in which obsessions manifest as intrusive, unwanted, inappropriate thoughts, impulses or mental images - often acts considered taboo, be they sexual, violent or murderous - without the outward signs of compulsion such as hand-washing or checking, which are commonly associated with the disorder.įor sufferers it can be a nightmarish, secretive existence, filled with self-loathing and doubt. It is now the inspiration behind C4’s controversial new comedy drama, Pure. That tale was first told in Rose’s remarkably honest and darkly comic 2015 memoir Pure, about her experience of living with Pure Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD). I feel very lucky that I was able to come back from the brink and live to tell the tale.’ It takes over your life and a lot of people like me feel they can’t carry on. When I was 15 it was literally from the moment I opened my eyes to the moment I went to sleep. ‘It feels like a torture - that’s exactly what it is,’ says Rose, a 33-year-old writer. Picture a landscape where the most innocent of objects or situations triggers an inappropriate or disgusting sexual thought when you look at someone’s face, or cliffs at the seaside, all you see are genitalia.