My husband thought I was an imposter

Lives Less Ordinary

BBC

Personal Journals, Documentary, Society & Culture

4.6 • 814 Ratings

🗓️ 3 July 2022

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

Abi Morgan’s husband woke from a coma and didn’t recognise her.

Abi is a playwright and screenwriter based in London, and she'd made a name for herself writing successful and often highly emotional films and TV Series such as The Iron Lady, Shame, and The Split.

In 2019 her life took such a strange and unfamiliar turn, she says it was almost like she'd landed in one of her scripts. Her partner Jacob was ill and put into a medically induced coma. Eight months later, he woke up, and no longer recognised Abi as his wife.

Abi has written a book about her experiences called This Is Not a Pity Memoir.

Presenter: Emily Webb Producer: Harry Graham

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0:00.0	On a winter's night in 1974, a crime took place that would obsess the nation.
0:06.9	It was an extraordinary news story.
0:09.1	The story of an aristocrat, Lord Lucan, who's said to have killed the family Nanny,
0:13.7	mistaking her for his wife, then somehow just disappeared.
0:18.0	One of the great mysteries in English criminal history.
0:20.7	We're still looking for Lucan. It's honestly one of the great mysteries in English criminal history. We're still looking for
0:21.6	Loken. It's honestly one of the most powerful stories of my lifetime. I'm Alex Fondonzlement.
0:27.3	This is The Lukan Obsession. Listen on BBC Sounds.
0:35.4	Well, initially, he was just deeply, suspicious, and you could see he was trying desperately to work out who I was.
0:43.1	He said, you're not Abby Morgan. I don't know how you're fooling everyone.
0:46.2	And I would say, well, where is Abby Morgan? And he went, she's gone.
0:52.7	This is Lives Less Ordinary, an original podcast from the BBC World Service
0:57.8	that explores the most intimate and formative experiences a person can go through
1:02.7	and brings those stories to you.
1:05.7	I'm Emily Webb.
1:08.7	Scroll through Abby Morgan's IMDB, and you will find a list of award-winning films and TV series.
1:15.8	The Iron Lady, the film where Meryl Streep got an Oscar for playing the British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher,
1:21.9	shame, suffragette, the hour, the split.
1:26.2	Abby is a playwright and screenwriter, and recently her life took such a
1:30.3	strange and unfamiliar turn. She says it was almost like she'd landed in one of her scripts. Her
1:36.6	partner Jacob was ill and put into a medically induced coma, and when he woke up, he was not the
1:42.7	man she'd spent decades of her life with.
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