This is the moment behind which I could forget every other moment that has passed.

As for the stage fright, it never goes away. When I'm waiting in the wings to go on, it's agony every single time but I stay focused and I know that once I'm on stage it'll be fine; I'll be in my happy little bubble.

I'd been a housewife and mother to our son Thomas Jefferson, and I was looking for a new career. So when my agent called and said a producer named Paul Elliott from E&B productions, the biggest panto company in the country at the time, wanted to meet me I agreed.

The idea of doing theatre always terrified me because I get terrible stage fright. In the early 1970s I was offered a panto but the thought of going on stage was just too mortifying.

I dieted all the time in the Sixties, but we had no idea what dieting meant - we thought it meant not eating anything.

I would make a poor vegetarian because I adore meat.

I have always worked and I would say I'm generous with money - if somebody needed anything I would always give it to them.