Daisy May Cooper believes she is being haunted by This Country co-star Michael Sleggs

Daisy May and her brother Charlie Cooper, who co-created This Country, were good friends with Sleggs before giving him a role on their show and paid an emotional tribute to him in the show's final season.

Almost five years later, Daisy has written a book called Hexy Bitch detailing her experiences with the supernatural – and said this week: Radio Times that she believes Sleggs is stalking her.

She recalled a “knock on the bedroom door” about a month before the interview, which was preceded by a separate incident in which “the covers were lifted off the bed.”

Cooper continued: “The knocking on the door wasn't normal – there was a rhythm and me and my partner were just looking at each other… I'm sure it was him (Sleggs).”

“If anyone would come back and tell me there is something after death, it would be him. I mean, even the way he left… I made him promise that he would come back, and he would definitely do it because.” He knows it would freak me out, and he would find that hilarious.

During his palliative care, Sleggs had claimed he was visited in his hospital bed by an angel who told him he would have a new body at midnight in seven days – he died a week later at 11.59pm.

The synopsis for Hexy Bitch explains how Daisy “sets out to explore the otherworldly and examine how her own experiences with forces we cannot explain have influenced every part of her life.”

It continues: “Armed with an open mind, unbridled curiosity, and ghost-hunting gear from the Dark Web, she explores haunted houses, interviews experts who claim they can communicate with the other side, and reveals her own spooky side.”

At a screening of the third series of This Country, several months after Sleggs' tragic death, Cooper told those in attendance: “Michael was always something of an outsider in Cirencester.”

She recalled: “He had health problems but he had a wicked sense of humor. He was often a pain in the ass, but we just adored him.”

“Hexy Bitch” by Daisy May Cooper will be released on Thursday, October 24th and is available to pre-order now.

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