Chrissie Swan

And his grandfather, who sadly passed away at the beginning of this year, was born in Alexandria in Egypt.

And I'm the first to admit that is a lot more interesting than, you know, than a lady from Ireland.

Yeah, and, you know, I have been a good girl because, you know, I'm terrified of ever getting in trouble.

And Maxine, the EP of Who Do You Think You Are, who is a woman not to be messed with, she said, you can't tell anybody what happened.

You know, you can't tell anyone.

So when I came home and the kids were like, what did you find out?

I was like...

What struck me most of all in Mary's story was that

God, it must have been so hard.

Everything must have been a struggle.

And I was like, that's why photos of women at that time were all like this.

Because the pipes were frozen.

They stank.

There was no refrigeration.

You know, it took days to get from here to the milk bar.

Do you know what I mean?

It was just so inconvenient.

And I don't know if I can reveal where I went, but I've never been colder in my life.

And I was in a, you know, a Kathmandu ski jacket that I'd bought a week earlier because I was told, you know, it might get cold.

And I was just like walking around these fields and these tiny cobblestone churches where –