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That I couldn’t bridge the gap with my parents before they died. My mother died 10 years ago of Alzheimer’s, and my father died two years ago. He left when I was 11 and we got back in touch when I was 22.
I try not to have disappointments, because a lot of the bad things that happen in life teach you things.
Not going to uni and getting my English degree.
Not winning Celebrity MasterChef. I am still gutted, despite many months of pretending to be fine with it.
A barrister, a vet or a singer.
Procrastination.
It was a double-edged sword, but being a major-label artist, I felt like a commodity, a thing to be sold.
In the first lockdown. Obviously, there was terrible grief and sadness and fear around, but there was also this reclaiming for nature. I was constantly at my allotment with the big kids and my husband.
A shimmering bioluminescence that lights up each cell.
Trusting some men.
Cuba Gooding Jr, Tim Robbins, Richard Wilson, Patricia Hodge, Emily Watson, Robson Green
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