DEBRA BYRNE - Love Is In The Air (2003)

Debra Byrne - Love Is In The Air (2003)

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00:00Not everything that's written about me isn't true. I think sometimes they're, you know,

00:09grossly exaggerated, but they're not necessarily, you know, not true. But then there are some

00:13things that have been written that are very much not true. When I was having a really

00:18rough time after my second daughter was born and I was very, had severe postnatal depression,

00:27I hadn't turned up to do a Darlene show and, oh God, it was just like the pressure on was

00:32so intense. I opened the door at eight o'clock, no, no, four o'clock in the afternoon. Lauren

00:40was a baby. She was on a rug on the floor. Aja was a two-year-old playing. There were

00:44toys everywhere. This happens in houses, you know. And I've opened the door and they've

00:49just flashed this camera at me. And I wasn't out of it. I wasn't stoned or drunk or off

00:56my face on heroin or anything. I was coming to the fever between four and seven. And,

01:03you know, if you talk to any mum, it's when babies start to cry. It's just that day time.

01:08Anyway, the newspaper had me going like this, looking pretty bad. I did. And they, what

01:16they saw through the door was there was a baby on the floor crying and there were toys

01:20thrown everywhere. And it, I know it broke my heart. That really broke my heart because

01:24I was having a rough time and I thought, oh, thanks guys, you know. Thanks for kicking

01:30when you're down, you know. But in fact, if they'd have opened the door to many neighbourhoods,

01:35neighbourhood homes, they would have found exactly the same picture. So that, that I

01:40always felt was a very low kick. And anyway, other ones. I'm trying to think of something

01:51now because I just went right back. Sorry. I did. I actually just went back into that

01:55room and went, oh, that hurt. It was awful.