A brutal take-down on the TV talent show led Emily Wilson into therapy. A decade later, she has turned her grim experience into award-winning standup
“It was the biggest moment of my life when we got up on stage to sing,” she says. “And, in short, the judges loved Austin, but hated me. And made no secret of it.” For a teenager, it was soul-destroying. “So much was going through my brain,” remembers Wilson.
The image Wilson paints is of a child having her innocence ripped from her. “Even now I want to tell you, ‘No, I’m fine,’” Wilson says, “to try to downplay it. But yes, it broke me.” At college in New York, Wilson found standup. It suited her perfectly. “I got to control the narrative,” she says, “and make fun of myself before anyone else did.” Without thatexperience, Wilson doesn’t think comedy would have appealed. “It pushed me into a nihilistic place of how I look at myself and life,” she says, “and made my funny bones stronger.”It’s this story – and what came next – that Wilson tells in her musical comedy show,.
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