Speaker 2
It's very unsure, Bess, to have been with the same person all of your adult life. Yeah. More or
Speaker 1
less. Yeah. My life is incredibly unshobe is that? Sure.
Speaker 2
And maybe that's the secret of your success. But because you've been with Sarah that whole time, has she been, I mean, does she go on that journey with you or do you do one part of your life and she does, you
Speaker 1
know, you see some sort of partners who you can feel that they think or it should be me or right, you know, why does that idiot get all that attention? He's not, he's a clutz, you know, or they really love it. And all of them are legitimate thoughts and there's no doubt that Sarah should think why does that clutz get the attention? But the couple of times she's been really like tongue tied by celebrities. It's like we ended up at dinner at Sandra Bullock's house once and she sat next to her and just went absolutely numb. Right. She couldn't, she couldn't, because she comes from a bit of a pop culture upbringing, you know, she was like, so that sort of thing throws her. But mostly she kind of manages her sense of being out of her comfort zone by just going, I just don't care about any of this. So you can, you can put her in a frock and take her out to an opening and she has a really good time and she's beautiful and stuff. But you couldn't design a person more equipped to do what we have done. Right. Like, because it was, I mean, you have your version of this story and we'll talk about it when I interview you on my podcast. But the, but it was a big, big change from not being able to pay the rent to, I mean, Matilda, I started writing Matilda only three years after my first Edinburgh, not even. And Sarah is just like she was genetically designed to give enough of a fuck, but enough not of a fuck. Yeah. And to deal with the stress of it, although in hindsight, I think it was really hard, the first baby in a, in a London winter with no family off onto it. Yeah, sure. 12 weeks later. But, but she is, she's hard to impress, stoical. She loves me. She loved me long before I lost weight and had people looking at me. And she is profoundly aware as I am of how lucky we are. And she's a fucking rock star.