Laura Kennedy

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254 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard Jul 2026 last heard 30 Jul

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The Women's Podcast · Best of The Women's Podcast: Grieving an estranged parent · 30 Jul 2026 podcast

And I was so, you know, everyone, everyone had been told my mother at the town talked down about it.

So my father must have hurt at some point.

And I walked past him on the street and he didn't recognize me, which, again, is quite is quite jarring.

You know, I look like him, which I've never particularly enjoyed, but it is what it is.

And I think I was so shocked.

Thanks, that's nice.

You're welcome.

But I said his name out loud.

I think it just came out.

I didn't really want to talk to him, but it just fell out of my head, you know, out of shock.

And I heard kind of... It was such an awkward exchange and he didn't know who I was and I had to tell him and that felt like such a degrading experience somehow.

But he kind of went around afterwards kind of...

boasting about how I'd got into this university.

And I remember afterwards thinking, you complete, excuse the French, but you total bastard.

Like I did it despite how difficult you made it to do.

Not, you know, you claim no, you claim nothing of this.

So when I was 20, I got a phone call to say that he was dying in hospital, that he had liver failure and his sort of alcohol consumption was...

you know, like three bottles of whiskey a day, the kind that a person can't survive.

And so I didn't want to go and see him.

And we, I think because I was young and more impressionable and I felt very strongly that I had nothing to offer him and he had nothing to offer me.

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