Welsh singer-songwriter Charlotte Church opens up about her childhood career as she chats to actress Kathy Burke in the second part of Channel 4 documentary, Growing Up. During the interview, the 37-year-old, who hails from Cardiff, discusses how she was thrust into the spotlight as a schoolgirl.
“I was 12 and then everything went totally bananas. For the first two years, it was a perfect little fairy story,” Charlotte tells Kathy in the documentary, which airs on Thursday, March 9. She then talks about how the media took particular interest in her during her teenage years.
Speaking about coming of age, Charlotte says: “Your first experience of snogging and having a fumble, then eventually sex. That’s huge in terms of who you think you are and how you interact with the world and who you fall in love with and who breaks your heart.”
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Elsewhere in the interview, mum-of-three Charlotte reveals how she was considered “fair game” by the media when she reached 16. She opens up about a comment that radio DJ Chris Moyles made, claiming that he wanted to "lead her through the forest of sexuality now she had reached 16" - read more about that here.
Charlotte and Kathy then discuss how life is different for younger people today. “Is it harder being a young person today than when you were growing up in the late nineties and noughties?” asks Kathy and Charlotte replies: “Coming of age is harder now. I think there’s much more stuff and everything’s faster.
“Everything is really confusing so I think that young people have got a hell of a task in trying to reach a healthy adulthood, now more so than any generation before.” Kathy Burke: Growing Old airs on Channel 4 at 10pm on Thursday, March 9. For more showbiz and television stories get our newsletter here.
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