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When were you most embarrassed?Originally asked
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I’ve pooed myself a couple of times.
The Q&A, The Guardian, 11 January 2025 source ↗
Falling flat on my face in Billy Elliot on Boxing Day when I was 14. I fell smack bang at the end of my number. I was mortified.
When I was 11, I went down a water slide and my bottoms didn’t go with me. Everyone saw my bare white butt.
Being on the cover of a magazine at 18 with the slogan: “Did she ruin The Godfather?”
Being misrepresented by a Sun journalist 12 years ago.
I am a massive people-pleaser and it brings me nothing but trouble.
The Mona Lisa – I preferred the frame.
Dying when my children are still young. I know how much it hurt me. I was 30 when my mum died and 39 when my dad died, and even then, that was too young.
Manipulative greed and hate.
Now. Five years ago, I started looking after myself a bit more, emotionally and spiritually, and it’s paid dividends.
It would be my mum. She was a terrible alcoholic and I spent a lot of my time kind of hating her but, in the past five years, I realised why she did what she did and I could forgive.
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