Dawn O’Porter

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662 appearances 3 recordings 3 series first heard Jun 2026 last heard 25 Jun

Dawn O’Porter’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

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The Claire Byrne Show · Dawn O’Porter on her new memoir · 15 Jun 2026 podcast

But I kept having these, in crowds, I would just go into this kind of dream, dizzy state where I would kind of glaze over and almost detach myself completely from what was going on.

And my auntie would have

them as my funny turns and I couldn't control them.

I would just be fine.

And the next minute I was just, I mean, I was just like, I was suddenly really drunk.

And I remember kind of saying to her that it's getting more and more frequent and it's quite weird.

And then I went to brownies one night and my brown owl woman said,

whoever Brown Owl was, said to me, I think you're epileptic.

You're epileptic.

This is epilepsy.

So you can't cycle home.

I'm going to drive you home.

We're going to tell your family that you're epileptic.

So we got driven home.

She announced to my family that I was epileptic.

Went to the doctor the next morning.

Yep, Dawn's epileptic.

Put on epilepsy pills.

And that was that.

And then a few months later, I was like, they weren't suiting me, the pills.

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