On the back, in his scribbly, unconfident handwriting, he would say something funny that the dog had done, or tell me he was proud of me.

Her mother and father both went to drama school and worked as actors before transitioning into careers in, respectively, arts administration and stage management. I’d remembered from watching Casualty that you should repeat the person’s first name to keep them conscious. As I was writing it, I thought things like, This is so kind of me and, This is the right thing to do and, It feels good to do the right thing and, How nice of her.She has written two books of monologues and in 2021 she published her first work of non-fiction, Delicacy. It’s American, obviously, and they’ll film an addict who’s in a really desperate state and then the family kind of trick them, or persuade them to go into a room and then the intervention therapist is there and they’re like ‘Guess what, you’re going to rehab now!

To have been in comedy for so long, where everything is steeped in irony, to suddenly be so sincere was hard. I always want to say, yeah, it was — but what’s more difficult is just making a good piece of writing. It took me a few attempts to read this as it was almost too intimate, and the closeness to Wix in age/time frame recognitions almost too raw for where I am in life following a wave of personal loss. The shock was so great for so long, that it filled me right to the top, leaving less room for self- consciousness.It was the combination of brute strength and these massive, soulful, pained eyes – which I still look for in men – that absolutely got me. They promised you a day when you would finally get the love you wanted and deserved if you could reach your goal weight. Eighteen months later, I was eating lasagne in front of Below Deck when I had the thought that I’ve accidentally become more set as a person.