My friend Fritha Goodey wouldn’t have committed suicide.
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You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
I wouldn’t live so long in France. After eight years, I came back to London.
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That moment in Bilbao in 2020, when I tried to cross the street and did a pirouette and suffered a dreadful break in my right leg, which means now I have 10 screws and a band in it.
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When my son was about three years old and I was working at the National Theatre. I remember cycling from Twickenham, and thinking, “This is the golden age: I’ll never be happier or more content than this.”
Pressing uniforms in a laundry. I was 14. I lied about my age and said I was 16, even though I probably looked about 12.
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