Rosie Jones: ‘Abuse is hard, but I know I’m being my true authentic self’ | 8
How Do You Cope?
Wondery
5 • 695 Ratings
🗓️ 7 April 2025
⏱️ 60 minutes
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Summary
How do you stay strong when you’re on the receiving end of online hate and abuse?
John sits down with Rosie Jones to discuss the ways that humour and wit have helped her deal with the challenges she’s faced as a comedian and writer with cerebral palsy.
She also talks about her journey into the world of television, and why writing her books about Edie Eckhart, a young girl with cerebral palsy, is the achievement she’s most proud of.
On Thursday in our bonus episode The Gratitude List, Rosie shares the 5 things that she is currently grateful for.
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| 0:00.0 | Wonderry Plus subscribers can listen to episodes of How Do You Cope early and ad-free? |
| 0:04.7 | Join Wondry Plus in the Wondry app or on Apple Podcasts. |
| 0:09.2 | This advert is brought to you by Macmillan Cancer Support, a registered charity. |
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| 0:27.6 | You can browse groups, ask questions to an expert, share your experience, or just see what |
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| 0:49.0 | Hello everyone and welcome to How Do You Cope with me, John Robbins. |
| 0:57.7 | This is the show where I talk to guests about the problems they have faced and how they were able to overcome them. |
| 1:03.7 | And today I'm talking to comedian, writer, actress and very good friend Rosie Jones. |
| 1:09.6 | Rosie started out her comedy career as a writer on shows |
| 1:12.5 | like The Last Leg and 8 out of 10 cats, but realised that she wanted not only to be writing |
| 1:17.7 | the lines, but delivering them too. She took her debut show to Edinburgh in 2018 and has appeared |
| 1:23.7 | on various panel shows, most recently Series 18 of Taskmaster. She's written both |
| 1:28.8 | fiction and non-fiction books for children and has acted in programs like Silent Witness |
| 1:33.3 | Casualty and Call the Midwife. Rosie has a toxic cerebral palsy caused by complications during |
| 1:39.0 | birth, where she didn't breathe for 17 minutes. And despite her great success, she's been on the receiving end of an awful lot of abuse, |
| 1:46.3 | both online and in the real world because of her disability. |
| 1:50.1 | We spoke about her experiences of school |
| 1:52.0 | and how she depicted the experience of a disabled girl in school |
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