Missing’s trauma still lingers
fact that whenever we talked about it, it was when are we going to do it? Then we had kids, so it took a while. I have to say having my children at my wedding was one of the great things – all three children at my wedding. They all made speeches. That was great. It was great to be there. Also the friends Esther and I had at our wedding were our friends – not her friends and my friends. They were friends we made together. It was a very communal thing.’’
Despite his success, Morrissey still recalls his early days scrubbing floors and peeling potatoes in the canteen at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts where he studied.
‘‘What I remember about the canteen was the ladies who worked there. There was a wonderful woman who ran it called Lena, and they looked after me. They were great people; they were really kind and generous – not just to me – but to all the students. I would come in in the morning and they would give me breakfast, a sausage roll or something, then they would give me my lunch free ... I’d go to my bag at the end of the day, and there’d be three or four sandwiches they’d made.
‘‘You’ve got to go through that,’’ he adds after a pause. ‘‘It’s important that you struggle to get what you want, then you appreciate what you have.’’ – TNS
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