Louise Redknapp: “I don’t feel good enough” Coping with loneliness and low self-esteem
Happy Place
Fearne Cotton
4.6 • 15.2K Ratings
🗓️ 17 March 2025
⏱️ 67 minutes
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Summary
Is it a compliment to be called ‘nice’? Singer Louise Redknapp isn’t so sure. She’s always been the good girl, but she’s ready to embrace – and express – different facets of her character now.
In this chat with Fearne, Louise explains that being in a 90s girlband, and being married to a sports star, forced her to be shiny and polished at all times. That led to a crippling fear about saying or doing the wrong thing, but she’s learning to trust her own gut instinct.
Fearne and Louise chat about how never knowing her dad, and becoming a mother herself, have impacted her confidence and identity. Plus, can gratitude combat overwhelm?
Louise's fifth studio album, Confessions, will be released on May 23rd.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, a massive welcome to Happy Place with me, Fern Cotton. This is the show that reminds you to trust your gut. |
| 0:08.9 | Today, I'm chatting to Louise Rednapp. I'm not an arsele. So am I a nice person to work with or to, am I a good mate? |
| 0:17.1 | Am I there for you 100%? But the bits that I feel have always gone unnoticed is my ambition, |
| 0:24.1 | my drive to keep on bettering myself and doing well, to get up every time the chips have been |
| 0:28.6 | down and believe you me over the last few years, I have taken a full whack of abuse. |
| 0:34.9 | I could have just carried on, been in the corner and I was like, I'm just not going to |
| 0:39.0 | stand for this. I am going to carry on doing what I love. I just want to carry on growing. |
| 0:43.9 | Right. Spring is on the way. The blossom in my tree in my garden is sprout. Sprouting. Is that what |
| 0:48.7 | blossom? Does it sprout? Does it blossom? It's blossomed. And not only that, this is big news, guys. |
| 0:53.9 | Get ready. George the tortoise is out of hibernation. He's out. |
| 0:58.5 | So George is now, we think he's 56. So I don't have to hibernate him. He hibernates himself. I just put a big bag of soil in the garden and then he burrows under it. Someone's now going to give me shit an email going, that's not the appropriate way. |
| 1:11.4 | I was told by the previous owners, that's what he does. So I'm just going with before you email, |
| 1:16.1 | don't waste your time. Don't email me. Okay, full stop. He goes into the big man of soil. And then |
| 1:20.8 | whenever he fancied it, he just pops out. So last weekend, George is just roaming around the garden. It was great excitement. Me and the kids were |
| 1:27.8 | absolutely freaking out. We have warmed him up in the house. He has had his first few meals of lettuce |
| 1:33.7 | and kale and he's done his first shit and let me tell you after not shitting for four months. |
| 1:39.6 | Crikey. The cleanup operation was immense. But we are all overjoyed because we miss George when he's hibernating. |
| 1:47.0 | Not only that, it's spring. I think when George comes out, we can officially say he's out, out, guys, it's spring. |
| 1:54.4 | So I hope you're feeling springy and sprung. And if you've not done a shit for four months, that you've done one too. |
| 2:00.2 | So, okay, let's talk about Louise. |
| 2:02.8 | I'm not going to try and create some sort of tenuous link. |
| 2:04.9 | There's no point. |
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