I needed therapy after success of Mary Poppins, reveals Julie
DAME Julie Andrews has revealed that she needed therapy following the success of Mary Poppins.
She even locked away the best actress Oscar she won for portraying the magical nanny in her first Hollywood film in 1964.
The 84-year-old said: ‘l kept the Oscar in the attic for a very long time because I thought I’d been given it as a “Welcome to Hollywood” and I didn’t feel worthy of it.’
On The Graham Norton Show last night, she added: ‘So much early success sent me into therapy and analysis. I learnt you have to do it right and honour the films you are making. It’s a huge gift, but a lot of obligation.’
Previously Dame Julie has said that therapy ‘saved my life’ after her first marriage to Tony Walton broke up ‘and my head was so full of clutter and garbage’. The Sound Of Music star also told Norton that she was ‘very lucky’ not to have had any unpleasant episodes with men in her career thanks to her second marriage to movie director Blake Edwards.
‘I married soon after arriving in Hollywood and it protected me from ever getting into that predicament,’ she said.
At the Venice Film Festival in September, Dame Julie admitted she had a miserable time filming the beginning of The Sound Of Music in a mountain meadow in Germany.
‘It was so beautiful there... but it rained, rained, rained,’ she said. The actress told how the camera was mounted on a helicopter and she was knocked flat several times by the down draught from the rotor blades.