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Ruby Wax: ‘My mind is a s--t show – it’s exhausting’

Jan 18, 2025 | telegraph.co.uk | Ruby Wax

How do famous names spend their precious downtime? In our weekly My Saturday column, celebrities reveal their weekend virtues and vices. This week: Ruby Wax7am My happy place is sleeping. Waking up is the worst time for me because I feel that I’ve done something wrong. But I feel guilty lying there. I’m not one to pop up as soon as I wake up, go for a jog and then read the paper. I hate those people because I think they’re lying to themselves and suppressing what their body really wants.
Mariah Meets Rylan, review: an uninspired trot through the singer’s career

Dec 7, 2024 | telegraph.co.uk | Anita Singh |Ruby Wax

Mariah Carey and Rylan Clark Credit: Lindsey Childs/BBC Studios Some years ago, I attended a showbiz awards ceremony and found myself seated at the next table to Mariah Carey. For the entirety of the event, she uttered not a word to her entourage but communicated solely through hand signals, as if speaking was something reserved for mere mortals. When she wanted to use her phone, she mimed waggling her thumbs as if pressing the keys, and a minion would place one reverentially in front of her....
Children’s mental health crisis deepens: severe shortage of psychiatrists to meet growing demand

Nov 28, 2024 | twtr.to | Stephen Fry |Alastair Campbell |Ruby Wax |Jo Brand

Press release 28 November 2024 Print this page Share this page Email this page Analysis from the Royal College of Psychiatrists (RCPsych) finds that the number of children and young people accessing treatment for mental health conditions in England has risen by 27% (from 628,454 to 798,479) in just three years from September 2021 to September 2024.1 Over the same period, Child and Adolescent mental health services (CAMHS) have struggled to recruit enough consultant psychiatrists across...
Children’s mental health crisis deepens: severe shortage of psychiatrists to meet growing demand

Nov 28, 2024 | rcpsych.ac.uk | Stephen Fry |Alastair Campbell |Ruby Wax |Jo Brand

Press release 28 November 2024 Print this page Share this page Email this page Analysis from the Royal College of Psychiatrists (RCPsych) finds that the number of children and young people accessing treatment for mental health conditions in England has risen by 27% (from 628,454 to 798,479) in just three years from September 2021 to September 2024.1 Over the same period, Child and Adolescent mental health services (CAMHS) have struggled to recruit enough consultant psychiatrists across...
Ruby Wax: ‘Donald Trump threw me off his plane’

May 20, 2024 | telegraph.co.uk | Ruby Wax

Ruby Wax: 'People often come up to me and say thank you for talking about mental health' Credit: Andrew Crowley The Best and Worst of is a regular interview in which a celebrity reflects on the highs and lows of their life.
The night OJ Simpson pretended to stab me with a banana, by Ruby Wax

Apr 13, 2024 | thetimes.co.uk | Ruby Wax

Some people are natural born liars. They don’t even know they are lying. OJ Simpson was one of them. I interviewed him for my 1998 BBC documentary series. At 2am, on the top floor of our Hyatt hotel in Los Angeles after a manic 17 hours’ filming, I asked him for the final time whether he was involved in the 1994 murders of his ex-wife, Nicole Brown Simpson, and her friend, Ronald Goldman. I was sure we could get him to confess. But he simply turned to the camera, said “no” and gave a rueful smile.
Kismet Definition & Meaning

Mar 26, 2024 | merriam-webster.com | Ruby Wax

Is it your fate to tie macramé while drinking coffee and eating sherbet in a minaret? That would be an unusual destiny, but if it turns out to be your kismet, you will owe much to Turkish and Arabic. We borrowed kismet from Turkish in the 1800s, but it ultimately comes from the Arabic word qisma, meaning "portion" or "lot." Several other terms in our bizarre opening question (namely, macramé, coffee, sherbet, and minaret) have roots in those languages too.
Ruby Wax - I'm Not as Well as I Thought I Was

Dec 20, 2023 | visitbrighton.com | Ruby Wax

About In 2022, Ruby Wax checked in to a psychiatric institution at a time when trying to stay sane in a completely chaotic world is an all-time challenge, especially if you have struggles with your mental health. I’m Not as Well as I Thought I Was is an honest and insightful read into Ruby’s psyche and explores the impact of trauma on our own mental health and wellbeing.
Ruby Wax: I would be dead if I had not escaped my parents and come to UK

Aug 7, 2023 | kalkinemedia.com | Ruby Wax

Ruby Wax said she had the “drive of a Rottweiler” to leave her parents’ home in the US and – had she not escaped – believes she “would be dead”. The comedian, writer and mental health campaigner, described her childhood as a “lock-in”, watching out of her window “with longing” as other children played with their parents in the park opposite her family home.
Robert Elms - 'I’m Not as Well as I Thought I Was' - BBC Sounds

May 14, 2023 | bbc.co.uk | Ruby Wax

Author Ruby Wax on her new book 'I’m Not as Well as I Thought I Was'. Read more