Mum Says My Memoir Is A Lie Podcast
1) Chapter 22: you will become an anti-cool girl
The final episode! Rosie spent a lifetime struggling to understand why she wasn't a cool kid, constantly wondering just what she was missing. From her early days trying to hide her poo pants from her ...Show More
2) Chapter 21: you will learn how to be a functioning adult, and realise you don't care about being a functioning adult
When you're twenty-seven years old and realise that you have no clue how to post a letter, it's obvious something has gone very wrong somewhere along the line.<br> <br>Now that Rosie was out there liv...Show More
3) Chapter 20: someone will play Jenga with your face and their penis, and you will consider it a sexual revolution
If Lisa thought there was ever going to be an episode from Rosie's book 'The Anti-Cool Girl' that was going to make her squirm, this is it. This one is about Rosie's more adult escapades: the time she...Show More
4) Chapter 19: you will gain ninety kilos, and it will be the best thing that has ever happened to you
After her time in the mental institution, Rosie had never had a healthier sense of self-worth in her entire life. She was learning how to be her own saviour, how to feel comfortable being single and h...Show More
5) Chapter 18: you will watch your mum attempt suicide, and realise that she's the only one who understands you
Just like when Rosie was little, something about Mum calling her 'darling' calmed her down. After spending almost a month in a mental home, that's exactly what Rosie needed. And Lisa understood that. ...Show More
6) Chapter 17: you will end up in a mental institution
When a guy wearing nothing but a bedsheet as a toga pushes in front of you in the dinner line so he can get better dibs on the custard, you know you've hit rock bottom. Rosie was twenty-four, and was ...Show More
7) Chapter 16: your second set of parents will abandon you. damn.
Through her time at boarding school and then at drama school, Rosie had been looked after by her uncle and aunt. Then one day, they asked her to leave. Rosie wondered if it was because they found out ...Show More
8) Chapter 15: you will go to a very crappy drama school and do a very crappy naked scene
Rosie knew that she would chicken out. She knew it all the way through the rehearsal and all day before the first performance. It was 2006 and it was Rosie's second year at a very crappy drama schoo...Show More
9) Chapter 14: you will lose your virginity, followed by your mind
The lucky boy was Josh - a day student from the College - who Rosie had started dating during her final few weeks there. After a few false starts, Rosie's path of self-discovery was on. It was also a ...Show More
10) Chapter 13: you will try to fit in at a very exclusive private boarding school - and fail spectacularly
The next chapter of Rosie's life saw her living with her Uncle Ben, who enrolled her in a very fancy boarding school. At first glance, this was an amazing turn of events: from a life of constantly m...Show More