When I thought maybe I've just got a few weeks, I thought God this is what they mean by the reckoning. I've got to sort all this stuff out in days. Is it possible to sort out all those things in your past that you'd prefer not to have done? ... But actually by going through the process we've gone through, I think we have. And it's a real blessing to have this time do that.

I’d be happier being myself younger.

I would not leave my teenage children to follow an unworthy love. It lasted a month and scarred the family for ever.

Moments of vanity, carelessness and unkindness.

Called me the N-word.

A really bad habit of eating sweets before I go to sleep.

In order to raise money to pay for myself to go to the National Youth Theatre, I performed a medley of my drama school speeches and some songs for my entire school. Considering I can’t sing, this was terrible. I did U Remind Me by Usher and Hey There Delilah by the Plain White T’s. They paid £2 each – basically, to laugh at me.

In 2016, the moment my agent rang me to tell me I’d got the part of Hamlet for the RSC. While I was on the phone, I looked to my left and turned to the right, and a bus whizzed by and the wing mirror was so close to me that it knocked my hat off.

After losing my mum still managing to finish drama school, because that was really difficult. I lost her in the first year.

I find it difficult to sit still.