I’m Not as Well as I Thought I Was: The Sunday Times Bestseller

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I’m Not As Well As I Thought I Was will enlighten, entertain and comfort others – but is also self-help for Wax herself. Genevieve Gaunt reads O’Farrell’s novel set in Florence in the 1560s where the teenage Lucrezia, daughter of Cosimo de Medici, is forced into a marriage with her dead sister’s fiance. I did 15 minutes today, before you came, figuring I’ll be in a taxi later… going to get my teeth fixed…” But to sit still and find the “wise” adult who can calm her inner kid is challenging: “You really watch yourself: how agonising it is just to be in your own skin. We're all a little messed up in our own ways, but we should all strive to be as fabulously fearless as Ruby. Well, nobody does pay attention,” she replies, “I can’t get a job on television,” but then, in the same breath, she corrects herself: “I just did one.

He told her that he knew, from her voice, all was not well, which made her feel “that shame we depressives usually feel at some point, like I was being self-indulgent, making the whole thing up for attention.Renowned for her comedy, her fearless approach to tackling mental well-being, and her ability to make audiences laugh and cry in equal measure. Her mother was beautiful, clever and “obsessively” clean: “Even in a five-star hotel, she’d be on her knees, washing out the garbage can. But actually it is hilarious, moving and truthful (she does her own filming without a camera crew for much of it).

And finally – she genuinely almost forgot to mention it (it really is too early in the morning) – she is doing a show based on her book.For those readers who are deep in the darkness of mental illness, I hope my book makes you feel less alone.

Meditation has also helped with the anger she thinks she inherited from him: “I’ve switched that button off. Depression is the black hole of diseases, where you sit helpless as your mind hammers you with accusations,” she notes. She was raised in Evanston, Illinois, where her father, “driven by that immigrant spirit”, became a sausage manufacturer. Had her parents been able to speak about any of it, it would have made a huge difference to her: “I’d have understood why they were so outraged and crazy. She conducted her interview with Goldie Hawn in bed but when she interviewed Donald Trump in 2000, he had no intention of becoming, even briefly, her new bestie.I’d go to my room, a safe place where nobody can get me, and where I can see the door knob – because I have a fear of being locked in.