Another actress once said to me, “I’ve told you huge lies to make you feel good about yourself.” I’m not going to say who.
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Belinda Carlisle
American singer
“You sing like a goat.” When I did my French album [Voila], this French woman – a supposed friend – said to my face: “It’s fantastic but, how come you sound like a chèvre?” It was like someone had hit me in the stomach.
Go back to where you came from.
This was said about me in a Radio 1 focus group: “I don’t pay my licence fee to hear scummy northerners.”
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View profile →Comforting, uplifting, all consuming.
To still be working.
My rational brain doing battle with my emotional brain.
My ex-wife, for the way I behaved towards the end of our marriage.
I’m getting closer all the time.
Realising what I wanted to do as a career – aged about 22.
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