I am so thrilled and actually very starstruck to be joined by the one and only Joanna Lumley on today’s episode. I grew up watching her on Absolutely Fabulous, have admired her work with the Gurkhas, and have been fascinated by her unconventional upbringing and theatrical career. It was an honour to speak to Joanna about her incredibly colourful life: her career ups and downs, the pressure she faced growing up and her attitude towards mental health in the modern world. Whilst Joanna’s view might be one you don’t necessarily agree with, we can’t deny that mental health has become a huge buzzword in society. There’s an epidemic of influencers that are speaking on mental health’s behalf with little understanding and I do think it’s very important we properly educate ourselves about mental health as well as how complicated and nuanced so much of it is rather than just jumping on the bandwagon.

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Joanna Lumley on her experience of suffering a complete nervous breakdown