Comedian and author Ruby Wax wasn’t planning to write about her mental ill-health, but the resultant memoir has become a bestseller.
: I always named Bill Gates as the hardest person I ever interviewed. I had 45 minutes with him for a TV show, and could barely get a thing out of him until I raised the one subject that I had been forbidden to raise, which was the late Steve Jobs, and when I did, he smiled for the first time. Who was your most difficult interview?: Bill Gates! I couldn’t get anything out of him either. I also did an interview with him on a private gig, not on TV, and he never answered a single question.
”. Your book is filled with your extraordinary journey in your search for meaning, and then entering the world of depression, meeting very strange people in strange situations…: Yes, a lot of people wanted to say, especially after COVID lockdown, “let’s see what’s out there”. And I did that journey, and while on it, I happened to have a disease that kicked in for the first time in 12 years. So it’s not with me all the time. I wasn’t planning on writing about depression.
, but it’s dark too. I mean, it’s dark because mental illness hurts like hell, and it’s not to be taken lightly. But, you know, I mean, I’m not going to write a book that was all about poor me, would you buy it?says you have “a miraculous ability to write about depression without being depressing.” What was your approach to writing about such a depressing subject in such a manner?: Well, Carrie Fisher used to do it too, and she’s my goddess.
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