By the time dessert arrives I am usually so drunk, I can't remember what I'm serving.

By the time dessert arrives I am usually so drunk, I can't remember what I'm serving.

I never weigh myself, but the brutal truth of television is that they don't employ old people or fat people.

Depressions are very cyclical, they happen once every five years. When I was on TV, yes I was effervescent, you can't fake it. It [depression] comes like the pox.

Nannies love working in our house because they never know who's gonna walk through the door.

[With depression] you get a real sense of shame, because your friends go, 'Oh come on, show me the lump, show me the x-rays,' and of course you've got nothing to show.

Mum used to hide love letters from my boyfriends and put me down. Now I understand that she was a Polish immigrant forced to settle in Chicago. She was jealous of the freedom life gave me.