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Luke. It’s hard growing up with a heroin addict, and I treated him in his vulnerability in a way I would never have treated anyone I worked with.
My soon-to-be ex-wife, Amanda. I wish I’d been able to do whatever would have been necessary all the way back to keep us as a unit. Probably the worst thing I did was not tell her how miserable I was, certain that I could turn this around somehow.
Everyone. In advance. Just in case.
I’ve apologised to my son, Thomas, for being absent for quite a lot of his first few years, but, as a working mother and breadwinner, I kind of had to be. I like to think I’ve made up for it.
Realising that if they were drowning, you’d try to save them.
Catastrophising.
When I was in my 30s and taped myself singing. I always thought I had quite a sweet voice – my voice is terrible, I can’t hold a note.
A few years ago in Vermont, when I eloped with Trish to have a civil partnership ceremony.
Anne Enright, Bernadine Evaristo, David Baddiel, Greg James, Ian Rankin, Joanna Scanlan
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