Before landing her breakout role on Derry Girls, Nicola struggled with her mental health as well as her finances. "I couldn't get out of bed. I felt like I failed at everything. I felt like I had nothing, and I had let my family down," she told Glamour UK. "You think all these terrible things about yourself and that was made worse because I had taken out a loan and I just kept thinking about being in financial debt."
According to Nicola, coming out of her depression was a long and difficult process. "There wasn't one thing that turned it around for me — I got myself out of that stage very slowly," she continued. "It was my family being amazing and my sister literally pulling me out of bed and making me go for a run. Stuff like that gave me a sense of purpose again and that there is always a light at the end of the tunnel."
