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Sally Wainwright

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
548 total appearances

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unPAUSED with Dr. Mary Claire Haver
Sally Wainwright on Riot Women, Identity Theft of Menopause, and Writing Real Female Characters

It happens quite quickly in the show.

unPAUSED with Dr. Mary Claire Haver
Sally Wainwright on Riot Women, Identity Theft of Menopause, and Writing Real Female Characters

It's six weeks.

unPAUSED with Dr. Mary Claire Haver
Sally Wainwright on Riot Women, Identity Theft of Menopause, and Writing Real Female Characters

And I know it's different for everybody how soon it does actually start to kick in.

unPAUSED with Dr. Mary Claire Haver
Sally Wainwright on Riot Women, Identity Theft of Menopause, and Writing Real Female Characters

But it certainly made a big difference to me.

unPAUSED with Dr. Mary Claire Haver
Sally Wainwright on Riot Women, Identity Theft of Menopause, and Writing Real Female Characters

It certainly affected the joylessness.

unPAUSED with Dr. Mary Claire Haver
Sally Wainwright on Riot Women, Identity Theft of Menopause, and Writing Real Female Characters

That kind of really disappeared quickly.

unPAUSED with Dr. Mary Claire Haver
Sally Wainwright on Riot Women, Identity Theft of Menopause, and Writing Real Female Characters

and the lack of motivation, the lack of feeling like you just don't really wanna do anything.

unPAUSED with Dr. Mary Claire Haver
Sally Wainwright on Riot Women, Identity Theft of Menopause, and Writing Real Female Characters

Yeah, I think a few people have, again, it's just talking about it and people knowing that these things are part of the menopause.

unPAUSED with Dr. Mary Claire Haver
Sally Wainwright on Riot Women, Identity Theft of Menopause, and Writing Real Female Characters

I think that's what the response is.

unPAUSED with Dr. Mary Claire Haver
Sally Wainwright on Riot Women, Identity Theft of Menopause, and Writing Real Female Characters

There's so many messages on Instagram and that kind of thing.

unPAUSED with Dr. Mary Claire Haver
Sally Wainwright on Riot Women, Identity Theft of Menopause, and Writing Real Female Characters

The BBC have had more letters about this than... I saw our exec from the BBC last week and she said normally when people write to the BBC it's to complain.

unPAUSED with Dr. Mary Claire Haver
Sally Wainwright on Riot Women, Identity Theft of Menopause, and Writing Real Female Characters

So it's been kind of refreshing for them to get a whole bunch of letters that are saying, well done.

unPAUSED with Dr. Mary Claire Haver
Sally Wainwright on Riot Women, Identity Theft of Menopause, and Writing Real Female Characters

Thank you.

unPAUSED with Dr. Mary Claire Haver
Sally Wainwright on Riot Women, Identity Theft of Menopause, and Writing Real Female Characters

No, my dad died 25 years ago.

unPAUSED with Dr. Mary Claire Haver
Sally Wainwright on Riot Women, Identity Theft of Menopause, and Writing Real Female Characters

Okay.

unPAUSED with Dr. Mary Claire Haver
Sally Wainwright on Riot Women, Identity Theft of Menopause, and Writing Real Female Characters

And he had quite early onset.

unPAUSED with Dr. Mary Claire Haver
Sally Wainwright on Riot Women, Identity Theft of Menopause, and Writing Real Female Characters

Well, he was 73 when he died.

unPAUSED with Dr. Mary Claire Haver
Sally Wainwright on Riot Women, Identity Theft of Menopause, and Writing Real Female Characters

And then my mom was 93.

unPAUSED with Dr. Mary Claire Haver
Sally Wainwright on Riot Women, Identity Theft of Menopause, and Writing Real Female Characters

Wow.

unPAUSED with Dr. Mary Claire Haver
Sally Wainwright on Riot Women, Identity Theft of Menopause, and Writing Real Female Characters

So my dad's dementia was...