Perrie Edwards: Friendship Break Ups, The Cost of Fame and Facing Criticism as a Working Mum
Happy Place
Fearne Cotton
4.6 • 15.2K Ratings
🗓️ 28 October 2024
⏱️ 68 minutes
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Summary
A panic attack can feel like you’re dying from a heart attack; this is something former Little Mix member Perrie Edwards has experienced numerous times over the last few years.
In this chat, Perrie talks about how her anxiety feels like her adult is ‘going offline’, leaving the child in her crying for help, and Fearne shares how she’s managed to stop having panic attacks (for now, at least).
You might be good at advocating for the people you love, but how good are you at advocating for yourself and your own needs? Possibly a bit rubbish? Perrie explains how she’s got better at speaking her mind, as well as getting emotional about how important friendships are to her.
Plus, why do Fearne and Perrie both reckon the term ‘hands-on dad’ can fuck right off...?
Perrie’s new single, You Go Your Way, is out now.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello everyone it's Fern Cotton here and this is happy place the show that leans into the fact that all our brains work completely differently today I'm chatting to Perry Edwards. I went to the hospital and they were like what |
| 0:15.5 | drugs have you taken and I was like nothing I haven't taken anything I'm a |
| 0:19.5 | really good girl I'm clean I don't even drink alcohol hardly but something's happening to my heart like I'm clean, I don't even drink alcohol hardly, but something's happening to my heart. |
| 0:24.7 | Like I'm gonna die and I was having a panic attack. |
| 0:27.8 | I thought I was literally gone insane. |
| 0:29.9 | I even asked my mom if she was gonna put me in a mental institute at one point. |
| 0:33.2 | Like as soon as I feel the tingles in my neck and I feel the anxiety creeping in I |
| 0:36.7 | stop panicking and then I spiral. |
| 0:38.8 | It's hard to rationalize that because my adult just goes offline and then it's just my little child self like |
| 0:43.5 | help me help me what is happening to start things off I'll just let you know that |
| 0:48.2 | it's half term for my kids at the moment so if you do hear someone shouting mum very loudly that's what's going |
| 0:56.7 | on there I'm in a locked room they'll probably be fighting over something, could be something as banal as a biscuit, you never know. |
| 1:07.6 | But I'll be juggling on anyway, do not worry. So today's episode. Now this particular recording fell on a really |
| 1:15.3 | strange and sad day because we'd all woken up to the news that Liam Payne from |
| 1:20.9 | one direction had died which was just horrendous. |
| 1:25.4 | And whether you knew him or didn't know him, |
| 1:28.1 | I didn't really know him. |
| 1:29.5 | I maybe met him a handful of times. |
| 1:31.6 | Whether you knew him or not, I don't think it really matters when someone |
| 1:37.0 | that young dies in such a tragic way. It does really shake you and obviously Perry did know him so we touched on this at the |
| 1:45.8 | start and it led to some really interesting conversation around the pressures of |
| 1:50.8 | fame and the scrutiny of being the public eye and all sorts of stuff like that. |
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