LOUISE THOMPSON: THIS WAS THE BEST AND WORST DAY OF MY LIFE

Great Company with Jamie Laing

Jampot

Personal Journals, Business, Entrepreneurship, Society & Culture

4.6 • 636 Ratings

🗓️ 4 June 2024

⏱️ 72 minutes

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Summary

TW: This episode contains graphic descriptions of birth loss, trauma and PTSD

Life-threatening haemorrhages, almost dying on the operating table, and suffering with post natal depression, I sit down with my old friend, Louise Thompson to simply ask: How are you?

Since growing up together on Made in Chelsea, Louise’s life drastically changed in November 2021, when she gave birth to her son, Leo, in a complicated emergency C-section [09.20] - a day she called the ‘best and worst day of my life’. Louise opens up to me about the moment she thought she had died [28.01] and the devastating fallout, both physically and emotionally following that time.

This interview is raw and open, but shows the strength of human resilience, and the love and admiration between old friends whose lives have taken turns they’d never have foreseen.

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0:00.0	Before we begin, a quick content warning that this episode contains discussions of birth loss, trauma and PTSD, which some listeners might find upsetting.
0:08.7	Hello, everyone. My name is Jamie Lang, and this is Great Company.
0:17.5	Hello. Should we set it together?
0:19.9	Hello.
0:21.1	Was I deeper? Do it again? Hello. There we go together? Hello. Was I deeper?
0:22.2	Do it again?
0:23.3	Hello.
0:24.1	There we go. That was nice.
0:25.0	I was trying to do it at your tone.
0:26.4	Hey everyone. Welcome back to Great Company podcast. I'm your host, Jamie, and you are.
0:32.2	The producer, Jemima.
0:34.4	Yeah. And Jemima, very excitingly, guys, has just got glasses.
0:38.3	Oh yeah.
0:39.3	I have.
0:40.3	Not wearing them right now.
0:41.3	They're not wearing them right now.
0:42.3	They're me a bit dizzy.
0:43.3	But do you know what this year I have got glasses and an asthma pump?
0:45.3	Do you want to take my lunch money?
0:47.3	Yeah, I might do actually after that.
0:50.3	Yeah, what's happened?
0:51.3	That's what happens when you turn 31. Can I also just say, I went to
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