Actor Rhys Ifans has ditched plans to get into wild swimming in lockdown after getting stuck in his new wetsuit.
The 53-year-old star had panic attacks as he tried to get out of the suit, which was so tight he felt “vacuum-packed”.
He said: “I was on my own in the house and it took me about an hour and a half to get out of it.
"The thing was so tight around my neck, it was like being born.
“It was the trauma. I was being pushed, I was trying to get out of this tiny hole, I was red, and then I was trying to hook the zip onto the door handle.”
He ended up thinking he would have to “go to the local pub” for help to get the suit off.
Chatting on the Rob Brydon podcast, he joked that if he had died in the wetsuit people would have forever said of him: “The Gimp they used to call him.”
Rhys, who played Spike in Notting Hill, said he had given up on wild swimming.
He said: “Walking is my new thing.”
He also revealed that he lived in squats for four years while he was in London at drama school.
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