Hannah Murray, the actress who played Gilly on Game of Thrones is opening up on a rather dark chapter of her life, one that is darker and stranger than anything the writers put on the page during her time on the show. In her debut memoir, The Make-Believe, Murray finally opens up about how a promising acting career became the backdrop for a psychological unraveling one engineered, in part, by a shadowy wellness organisation that promised magic and delivered madness.The memoir recounts Murray's experiences of being drawn into a wellness cult at the age of twenty-seven, a period that ultimately led to her suffering a mental breakdown and being sectioned. She had just finished filming scenes for the seventh season of Game of Thrones, when her involvement with this group began.Game of Thrones star Hannah Murray opens up on "terrifying" experience involving a wellness cult View this post on Instagram Instagram PostAccording to her book, she joined a group that felt increasingly cult-like. She participated in a week-long course that cut her off from family and friends anf offered secret knowledge, elaborate rituals and the seductive promise of transformation, all from a leader who told her that magic was real.In a promotional video for the book, Hannah Murray described the experience as a journey of "spiritual awakening that turned into a mental breakdown" as she shared on Instagram,“When I was 27 years old, I was an actor starring in the HBO fantasy drama Game of Thrones. But my life behind the scenes was where things were truly fantastical. Truly unbelievable. Truly terrifying. In my memoir The Make-Believe, I want to tell my story of magic and madness. Of a spiritual awakening that turned into a mental breakdown. I want to take readers on the journey I went on – a journey to the edges of reality into a seductive and dangerous world where magic seems possible.”The result of that descent was severe. Murray suffered a psychotic break, was sectioned, and was later given a diagnosis of bipolar disorder. What once seemed like a path toward wellness had become a medical emergency. The book's full title, The Make-Believe: A Memoir of Magic and Madness, signals its dual focus on the world of professional performance and the world of manufactured belief and the weird ways those two things intersected fatally in Hannah Murray's life. In her own words: "I lost my mind. I lost my self. I got them back. But they are different."