Ignorance of the facts of life gave me my beloved son, Dickon, but at what cost to both him and me, I cannot hazard a guess.

Shakespeare is where I live. I adore him.

What really interests me is how a woman who has had a bad experience with a man comes through it and gets a new life. I feel you have to be positive. You have to say, 'Look, okay, he's ditched you, but there's life after.'

I've been vegetarian for virtually all of my adult life, and I do adopt a very strict health regime.

Why should anyone be interested in my life? It's the prurience I find so extraordinary. Why, why, oh why should my private life be of any interest to the public? The only people who should be interested are my friends.

I was asked to do 'I'm A Celebrity Get Me Out Of Here,' and I said: 'No thank you.'