Shitting myself in New York last November. I was wearing cream trousers. We were going to see my son Matty and his band, the 1975, at Madison Square Garden, and I was walking through the streets, enjoying the sunshine, pretending I was in some kind of video – throwing my hat into the New York sky like Mary Tyler Moore. I saw a couple of people turn and look at me. Now, although I’m not famous in New York, whenever Matty’s there I do get recognised as his mum, so I’m smiling and waving at them. I went back to the hotel room and bent over to get something out of the suitcase, and my husband said: “Do you realise you’ve shat yourself?”
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Denise Welch
b. 1958
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Born in Tynemouth, North Tyneside, Denise Welch, 65, has acted in Byker Grove, Spender, Soldier Soldier, Coronation Street, Waterloo Road and Hollyoaks. She is a regular on TV chatshow Loose Women, and writes about depression in her book, The Unwelcome Visitor. On 4 December, she is in Diana: The Musical at Eventim Apollo, London, and next February she stars with Matthew Kelly in Jim Cartwright’s new play The Gap, at Hope Mill theatre, Manchester. She is married to artist Lincoln Townley, has two sons and a stepson, and lives in Cheshire and London.
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The people I hurt when I was suffering with addiction to alcohol and cocaine.
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