Hello and welcome to Happy Place, the show that proves that every single one of us has

good days and bad. I'm Fern Cotton and today, whole, my gosh. Today, I'm chatting to

Chennai at Wayne. In the more intense years of being in the spotlight, I was freaking

out inside. I hated it. I hated being in the spotlight, but nobody knew it. I'm a good

masquer. I can mask my fear, my discomfort, and skipping forward to where I am today,

I've decided that I'm like, okay, enough of this fear stuff when you're afraid of something

because sometimes you are. You just gotta face and head on and work through them. That's

it. There's no other way.

Chennai really needs no introduction. She's the best-selling female artist in country music

history. So I'm pretty sure you know exactly who she is. Although, thinking we know her

is exactly why I wanted to have this chat because we can see her absolutely commanding

a stage in some outrageously gorgeous outfits, but we never really know what's going on

behind closed doors. So I'll set the scene for you. I'm a mega Chennai fan. Love to

throughout my teen years have very much appreciated her newer music, a door her new album. I wore

my rhinestone cowboy boots especially for the occasion, even though it was on Zoom. I

was sat in my little shed at the end of the garden. The kids had just finished their

tea. My husband was putting them in the bath. I was feeling a bit sleepy because I'm not

very good working at night time, but for Chennai I'll do anything. I would have done

it for in the morning quite frankly. See how you think I've had. And by the way, for most

of this conversation Chennai's dog, a very cute little ball of fluff called Sapphire,

was sat on her lap. And you can see that if you watch this episode on YouTube. You can

also see what I think is her house in the background. It looks like it. This episode of

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