WHAT MUM MEANS TO ME…

KATE WINSLET ‘Every woman has a mother and every woman will have an issue with things she did or didn’t do. It just depends on how you choose to process the lessons that you learned from her.’ KATE HUDSON ‘I’ve always had a really super relationship with her [actress Goldie Hawn]. I talk about everything. I’ve never felt I’ve had to hide anything from her. She has always been my confidante.’ DREW BARRYMORE ‘My relationship with my mother is so complicated. It’s the hardest subject in my life. I’ve always felt guilt, empathy and utter sensitivity. But we can’t be in each other’s lives at this point.’ DAVINA MCCALL ‘When my mother died I felt a sense of relief. I imagined her in the hospital bed. All I kept saying was, “I forgive you. I forgive you. I forgive you.”’

JOAN COLLINS ‘My mother was a domestic goddess and Mother Earth figure, was sweet and placid, just how the perfect wife was supposed to be – and I was determined not to be.’ BARBARA TAYLOR BRADFORD ‘My mother made me what I am. She gave me the desire to excel. She taught me to read before I was four and gave me an education I couldn’t get at school. The day I left home, she wrote in her diary that the sunshine had gone out of her life.’ SAM RODDICK ‘I was dyslexic at school and did terribly. But thanks to my mum [Body Shop founder Anita Roddick], I was always confident. She was first and foremost a teacher. She believed in my intelligence, so I did too.’ BARBRA STREISAND ‘My mother meant well. She loved me as best she could. She never praised me to my face but I feel she praised me to other people. I was always trying to prove to her that I was worthy of being somebody.’