Tina Brown

I mean, he...

He was so sustaining to me.

So, you know, it's tough.

You know, you go to things on your own and you've got no one to come back and scream with laughter about, you know, the pretentiousness of the evening that you've just had, which is what I would do with him.

So, yeah, no, I miss him enormously, as do the children.

But, I mean, knowing that he was older meant I knew that this moment would come.

And when it did, it was still much more agonizing than I ever thought it would be.

Yeah, I mean, you know, it's certainly true that Georgie's... He actually recently moved out to his own little apartment just around the corner, which is really sweet.

I mean, it means I see him just as much, but, you know, we have to walk a block.

I definitely think that when you're part of the community of parents whose children are not going to be, you know, who are not talking about, you know, going to Harvard and all the rest of it, it does give you a really different outlook on the world.

And...

I think that Georgie has made me much more connected to people who, you know, everything isn't so perfect.

And the pain of seeing people, for instance, you know, who don't have any resources, contacts, whatever, to make the situation easier is, you know, I think about it all the time.

I mean, it's hard enough having a child with these kind of issues when you do have resources and, you know, you do have enough income to be able to

bring in people to help and support and so forth.

If you don't, I, you know, it's unbearable.

And these are, never discuss these problems.

I mean, it's never a cool cause, if you like, to talk about these issues.

But behind the closed doors of millions of houses and apartments, there are, you know, frankly, sort of desperate mothers, and it usually is the mother who does not know what to do without the fact they now have an adult living with them who they're going to have to support probably for the

I mean, if I had cloned myself three times over with time, you know, I would spend most of my time on that problem because I just think it's one of the great silent issues of our times right now.