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When were you most embarrassed?Originally asked
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A gazillion years ago I was in Gucci with Melanie Blatt, and I attempted to sit down on a chair that wasn’t there. I did a full-on stuntwoman backward roll, landed in a ball of the floor and laughed so hard I wet myself. Everybody in the shop moved to a different section.
The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 1 June 2024 source ↗
Being an actor is inherently embarrassing. You have to embrace it.
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?”
One time I got so drunk in the Soho theatre in London that I fell asleep in the disabled toilet for two hours. People still call the toilet Rosie’s Bedroom.
Signing away the rights to my life story to a major motion-picture company for a sum that I have since been told was way below the market rate.
As a great mother, wife and songwriter.
An ambulance driver.
When my children were small and used to play together, be creative, and were just in that innocent bubble.
Some of those late nights.
Not scrolling on my phone as much as I do.
That things change.
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