Pitch Perfect star Anna Camp describes being ‘extremely sick’ with coronavirus

Actor blames the decision to forgo wearing a protecting face mask ‘one time’

Anna Camp, the actor best known for her role in Pitch Perfect, has revealed she contracted coronavirus last month.

Announcing the diagnosis on Instagram, she warned fans of the necessity of wearing a protective facial mask, saying that she became infected with the virus after forgoing wearing a mask in public “one time”.

“I have since tested negative,” wrote Camp, ”but I was extremely sick for over three weeks and still have lingering symptoms.

“I was incredibly safe. I wore a mask. I used hand sanitiser. One time, when the world was starting to open up, I decided to forgo wearing my mask in public. One. Time. And I ended up getting it. I believe it may have been because of that one time.”

Pitch Perfect, released in 2012, saw Camp play the uptight leader of an all-female a cappella group. She reprised the role in the film’s two sequels, and has also appeared in TV series including Mad Men and True Blood.

In her Instagram post, Camp also tried to dissuade people of the notion that contracting coronavirus is “like having the flu”.

She wrote: “The panic of contracting a virus that is basically untreatable and is so new that no one knows the long term irreparable damage it does to your immune system is unbelievably stressful.”

”I’m lucky. Because I didn’t die. But people are [dying]. Please wear ur mask. It can happen any time. And it can happen to anyone. Even that one time you feel safe.”

Camp reported that her symptoms included a loss of taste and smell, dizziness, “extreme fatigue”, impacted sinuses, upset stomach, nausea, vomiting, and fever, many of which persist a month after first coming down with the virus.