I was recently made to feel that it’s my mental health that’s the problem and not the system.
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If you could edit your past, what would you change?
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What is the trait you most deplore in others?
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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.”
The Q&A, The Guardian, 27 April 2024 source ↗
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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.
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.
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