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Standard Issue Podcast

SIM Ep 738 Chops 252: Melissa Johns has no shame

Standard Issue Podcast

Standard Issue

Society & Culture

4.71.1K Ratings

🗓️ 12 June 2022

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

Having private photographs you sent to your boyfriend hacked from your iCloud and spread around the internet is most people's idea of hell. When it happened to actor Melissa Johns, she knew there was only one way through it. She chats to Hannah about intrusion, body image, shame, disability and turning the whole thing into a one-woman show, Snatched.  Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/standardissuespodcast. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

I'm recording this on Friday, but I already know what I'm going to be doing at the weekend,

0:21.8

which is hiding from everyone because I refuse to catch COVID before my holiday.

0:27.6

Hope Sunday is a bit more exciting than that.

0:30.8

And one of the things that should perk up your day is this coming interview

0:35.1

in which I speak to actor Melissa Johns about what happened to her

0:39.5

when her eye cloud was hacked, photographs she didn't want in the public domain

0:43.7

went into the public domain, and how she coped with that.

0:46.9

The result is a one-woman show, snatched, which starts a national tour this week in Liverpool.

0:52.9

I'm not going to waste your time telling you about what we chat about

0:55.6

because that is but moments away. Instead, I'm going to absolutely not waste your time telling you

1:02.0

what's coming up in next week's podcast. Mickey is going to be chatting to

1:06.0

writer of the moment, Leyla Motley, about her debut novel Nightcrawling,

1:10.2

which she wrote age just 17. Wow! And I'm going to be talking to

1:16.6

actor Shenade Matthews about the Madhouse, which opens in the West End this week

1:21.3

and stars Shenade, Bill Pullman and David Harbour.

1:25.1

Also, wow! If you don't want to miss out on those or indeed any interviews that we do,

1:30.9

you know what to do. And if you don't, it's press subscribe wherever it is you listen to your podcasts.

1:40.0

Hi, Hannah here. I am joined by Melissa Johns. Hello, Melissa. Thank you for joining us.

1:46.9

Hello. It's nice for us to chat because we've tried to set this up a couple of times and you've

1:50.6

been too busy. So is it nice to finally get this done? Yeah, it's been a hectic old time.

1:57.2

To the point where I sort of get bored of hearing myself say that, I think we've accidentally

2:01.9

glamorised the idea of being busy at the moment. We're always saying, aren't we? I'm just so busy

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