Fearne Cotton

What's been your own sort of journey with having acceptance around the parts of yourself or your life that you don't like?

Is that because I've done that many times?

I know other people will have and people outside of the public eye will have done that on a level.

Are we going, I need to see if there's some shitty comments here because they've seen through the act or we're looking for the bit that...

maybe finds getting feedback difficult or even somebody complaining.

I don't know, it could be a friend having an issue with you or a neighbour's complained about something, whatever it might be.

That can be a tricky or an awkward or very confronting thing to deal with.

I mean, again, when I was doing the publicity for this book, I decided I was by no means forced into this to read some mean tweets about me.

Okay.

And they were quite personal and I was sort of dreading it, but I thought this is going to be an interesting exercise because once I've read them, I've read them and I will realize I'm just sat here still and I'm fine.

So I read them privately at first at home.

I was like, oh,

Christ, that fucking, you know, you're sort of like the blow of it.

And then I did it again on camera and I was one step removed and I was like, okay, I actually can see the funny side of some of these.

And I think there was, it was like exposure therapy.

Like by the end of it, I was like, okay.

It doesn't matter.

It's just someone's passing thought, but they happen to write it down.

I don't need to believe that as fact.

And I think that's the issue.