Brian Cox

And I had three elder sisters.

I was the youngest.

And a kind of crazy brother who used to go off and disappear.

And he was nine years older than me.

And I was the baby.

And my dad died.

And then my mom had a series of...

terrible nervous breakdowns, which resulted in her having electric shock treatment, which, I mean, she lost about 60 pounds in weight.

I mean, she was unrecognized.

I mean, she was a little overweight to start with, but she was underweight.

So I had no parents for most of my, I had my sisters,

And I didn't realize it, but it was the best thing that ever happened to me.

It's a tragedy, in one sense, losing your mom and losing your dad.

Certainly, it was heartbroken.

But I was liberated.

No fucker was telling me what to do.

No fucker was, no parent was giving me... How old were you?

Well, she died much later, but my mom went into almost immediately.

She had a huge breakdown and she was just hopeless.

And also we were sending my youngest sister, actually my youngest of my oldest sisters, you know, she's 12 years older than me.