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You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
I like to think that my friends, my auntie and my mum are up there having a big party and that I could join them.
The Q&A, The Guardian, 27 April 2024 source ↗
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Earthly life is merely the infancy of our soul. What comes after physical death is, I imagine, like returning home.
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Working in McDonald’s when I was 16. It was about 90p an hour. Because I was always late, they made me “trash walk” the length of Kentish Town high street and pick up the McDonald’s rubbish.
Not getting into drama school when I was 17. In those days, the first thing people said was, “Where did you train?”
Losing my memory and not being able to work.
A radio presenter said I had yellow teeth – to my face. When I was 45, a manager in LA said I was too old to work in Hollywood; and then she rang my agent and said, “Can you tell your client never to wear that perfume again because it made me feel sick.”
As somebody who loved people, was always curious, a loyal friend, a mother, wife, always positive and authentic.
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